Sentences with phrase «flimsy story»

Since the credits only mark the end of the flimsy story, I didn't feel the urge to stop playing because there was so much of what I loved left in the game.

There's a flimsy story to go along with the competitive action in Firewall Zero Hour, but it basically boils down to one team trying to capture a point and the other trying to defend it.

Each character has a flimsy story in the mode, none of which are very interesting, though it's a genuine delight witnessing characters from contrasting games being involved in verbal exchanges with one another.

Graphics are adequate, but often bland, and the flimsy story is presented in cheap - feeling manner.

And while Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is determined to please us enough to ignore the flimsy story, it fails to give the audience what we really want.

Good acting by Kevin Bacon and the goth - tinged direction by writer - director David Koepp (Secret Window, Ghost Town) keeps the flimsy story together.

From the movie's ads, you'd probably expect a cheesy summer cash - in featuring hot babes and a flimsy story played for laughs, but those low expectations will either please viewers hoping for something a cut above poor or disappoint those looking for cheap thrills.

In The Disaster Artist, Sestero relates Wiseau's flimsy story about buying and flipping retail space during his stint living in San Francisco, but Sestero assures the reader that this could not possibly be true.

It's Brad Pitt leading a cast of otherwise expendable characters in an entertaining ride, but with a flimsy story and special effects that actually make the zombies less scary than when they're being played by stumbling extras.

Not exact matches

We're pointing out that the connections you think are so strong are actually pretty flimsy, and, as I keep stressing, it's not difficult to make a new story match an older one.

The gospels were written well after the stories took place, rather flimsy proof of their truth.

An actual rocky cliff that is approximately 2 - stories high... with a flimsy split rail fence as a «barrier».

But the most damning (and probably flimsiest) Hevesi story to surface is «Page Six»'s revelation that Hevesi may have a relationship with Queens City Councilwoman Melinda Katz, a longtime political protégé.

Badeh's loyalists said having discovered that the allegations for which he was detained for more than one month before being charged to court were flimsy, as they were all based on his tenure as Chief of Air Staff, and not the celebrated arms scandal, allegedly committed when he was Chief of Defence Staff, the EFCC may have hatched the $ 1m story so as to keep the Badeh matter alive.

(The report's conclusions were first widely publicized in a November story in Science, and the flimsy basis for the «very high» statement in the 2007 report is detailed here, in a letter to Science by a Canadian expert on glaciers.

It's an important cautionary tale about how willing we are to believe media stories based on the flimsiest of evidence.

Unlike other acne supplements for which the hard evidence is flimsy (milk thistle, indole -3-carbinol), there are no real world stories of benefits to draw on.

The film, however, is a slogging monotony, a structureless, flimsy, rough - shod thing with characters suddenly popping with no narrative motivation and a story that sags and lags like an atrophied nursing home resident.

This is a just plain bad story, peculiar and discordant to the extent it's there at all, but also so flimsy and uninspired as almost to incite contempt, not just disapproval.

Because this is such an admittedly flimsy pretext for an underdog intrigue, the unconventional aspects of the story's interpersonal dynamics come as a relief.

So often, villains in these stories are motivated by «power» or a flimsy nothing, but not so here.

Another style over substance Hong Kong action film that has some pretty exciting fight scenes, but also some very flimsy and annoyingly romanticized back story to fill in between them.

That is to say, The Ring has very little to offer we haven't seen 100 times before, and feels more like a compilation of images, music and story elements that most people find unsettling or eerie, slapped together around a flimsy storyline.

While their introduction forgivably diverts from the flimsy central story, their antics give Tarzan II a sitcom feel.

To Campbell's credit, the film has some impressive action sequences, but it's ultimately the flimsy and derivative story by Robert King, screenwriter for such flops as CUTTHROAT ISLAND and RED CORNER, that handcuffs Campbell with material that could never get off the ground in the first place.

Much of this has to do with the fact that the storyline is a bit more cohesive, no longer showcasing scenes that don't push forward the plot or story, even if they are still hinged by the flimsiest of reasons.

Romances in superhero movies are often dull, flimsy things, but Deadpool 2's love story provides some much - needed ballast for the film's nonstop irreverence.

THE VERDICT: A flimsy, contrived drama, sure — but as Robin Williams» sensitive final lead performance the story gains a weight it scarcely deserves and a resonance nobody ever wanted.

Solace enjoys the basics of a workable crime story, but it becomes so bogged down with its supernatural elements and its flimsy plot that it spins its wheels.

Heder's story often relies on flimsy logic, creating a cringing effect during the investigation whenever someone looks at a newspaper but doesn't see Lu's face.

Removed from the big screen and high - tech theater speakers, the movie seems especially flimsy, a sensory diversion that doesn't have strong enough characters and story to engage you as it should, even on a finely - tuned home theater.

Just as the story is as flimsy and inconsequential as ever, the music — invigorated by the actors» spirited vocal performances — is still able to cast a magical spell.

The main characters are interchangeable, and the set - up story is somewhat flimsy, though it does tie into a larger metagame that reveals itself as you open up the environment.

The game even had the audacity to have a story mode with the flimsiest plot I've ever heard of: Waluigi steals the music from the Mushroom Kingdom so Mario must get it back by dancing.

The story may sound a bit flimsy at first, but hang on, because there's more!

Cutscenes and multiple choice conversations are present too, but the options, coupled with some rather mediocre at best voice acting, are flimsy and do little to provide much insight on the wider story.

The story is only a flimsy excuse to get to the «action».

His habit of tweeting nostalgically about classic franchises in need of a comeback hasn't gone down too badly with fans either, even if it does lead to one too many flimsy «Microsoft boss hints at Shenmue 3 «online news stories.

Although there IS a story connection between the 2 games it's cardboard - flimsy and you don't really need it to enjoy the storyline in 4.

Along with the standard arcade mode, there's actually a Story Mode to the game, which at least provides some flimsy context to the fighting.

The stage sets and key actors ad the story line based loosely on fact made me immediately think of the climate debate which has its own key actors, a flimsy stage set of props that don't bear scrutiny and a story line that, since the hockey stick, only loosely bows to reality.

I get paid to trawl social media for photos of celebrities in bikinis or dicky stickers and write flimsy «travel stories» about their destinations.