Sentences with phrase «hit story beats»

Not exact matches

Now that we've officially hit «blizzard season», aka «peak winter status,» my newsfeed is full of stories about how to beat a cold or treat the flu.

Most big studio fantasies take you out for a joy ride only to hit the same exhausted story and franchise - expanding beats.

And yet the plot, co-written with Braff's brother Adam, seems to have been set up to hit all the beats required of an uplifting, finding - your - way story.

There are some wonderfully tense scenes early on, and it does a good job of hitting all the usual beats without feeling too familiar, but «The Infiltrator» would be a lot more engaging if it was afforded the time to explore its story, as well as the players involved, in greater detail.

The film has a lot of ground to cover, but is efficient (for the most part) of hitting exactly the right beats in Zamperini's life story.

It's a bit disappointing watching enemies appear from nowhere, when the filmmakers could have easily created the climax without them, hitting the same crucial story beats.

The main achievement of this gimmicky horror is that it manages to hit all of the essential scary movie beats as the story unfolds in real time on a computer screen.

But on the other side of things, while it isn't an origin story, it actually still manages to hit a lot of the origin story beats that we're used to, just with a slight adjustment to them.

Not quite, but American Made, based on the true story of commercial airline pilot - turned international criminal mastermind Barry Seal, hits a lot of the same beats as Goodfellas, though it misses some it tries to hit, too.

This is the closest the movie gets to finding something deeper than simply going through the motions of the story, although the relationship that develops between Bob (and Kathy) and Roberto (and his wife) isn't convincing enough of a conflict for it to really hit home (More intriguing is a moment of solidarity between Bob and Kathy after a close call — an embrace that goes on for a beat too long).

The story hits many of the beats you expect it to, but it has a few surprises too.

We've got so many story beats we want to hit, we were guessing that would take X number of volumes to do that.

However, Season Three of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend builds its story up to the point where it can unleash a torrent of hard - hitting, painfully honest and emotionally devastating story beats on the audience.

The quantity of gags is both larger but also less refined, which means «Psychopaths» tends to be a movie with a hit / miss ratio that will depend on your tolerance for the film's restlessness, and a story that doesn't really go anywhere and prefers a body count to actual narrative beats.

The expected nature of these beats makes the film less surprising, and thus makes the story less engaging — and that leaves less room for its final emotional beats to hit home.

Rom - coms may be formulaic, hitting specific story, character, and emotional beats with utter and complete predictability, but for some (possibly many) moviegoers there's value, maybe even comfort, in that predictability.

If This Is Us were a series specifically focused on Kate, her emotional needs and desire to have other people notice her for who she is could flower; as it stands, those story beats are mostly hit by having her hang out with Toby.

While it hits many of the same emotional and story beats of the original — this time Dory is the one looking for her parents, leaving Marlin (Albert Brooks) to track her down to a fish rehabilitation center in California — this clever sequel delivers enough memory - loss gags, light parental trauma, and show - stopping, Fast and Furious - style set pieces to keep adults entertained and kids enthralled.

Lady Bird never hits a false note, each beat of the story building one upon the next to produce a melodious coming of age symphony that's absolutely sensational.

Not a huge negative, just what one expects out of an origin story by hitting all of the beats without excelling in any area.

As a book, Stephen King's «Gerald's Game» is the alternately disturbing, grotesque, and absurd story of a woman handcuffed to a bed in a sex - gone - wrong scenario; director Mike Flanagan hits all those beats on cue.

In many ways, the movie plays out like the first Harry Potter film adaptation, a hyper - aggressive checklist of events that must happen to propel the lengthy plot forward as well as hit all the story beats fans of the source material would expect.

This is the type of cinematic history lesson that's both socially relevant and highly entertaining, and although «Hidden Figures» hits a number of familiar beats, there's nothing ordinary about the incredible true story at the heart of it all.

It goes through the motions, hitting all of the expected story beats right on schedule.

There are other stories, though, particularly in the latter half of the book, such as «The River Warta,» that read like workshops for writers, teaching them the mechanics of short stories without the distraction of feeling anything for the characters: You introduce the character this way, hit this beat, give the reader something to chew on right here, and soon you have a workable short story.

The novel only has to hit 10 % average read - through to beat the maximum amount those short stories can earn.

The 5000 beats of a master tearjerker.I exaggerate, but seriously there seems to be a very well tread path in commercial fiction and stories to hitting the key beats, and this category of advice resonated the best with my own style.

On the surface, a story could hit all the right beats, introduce us to deep three - dimensional characters, and force us to turn pages like a fiend long after our bedtime, and yet not add up to a satisfying read.

What they are attempting to do is entirely admirable, and at times they succeed throughout the 3 - hour runtime, especially near the end with a few wonderful sequences and story beats that hit home with a sledgehammer made of feels, finally getting me emotionally engaged in a way that the opening hour couldn't.

But this loop quickly turns boring as you're forced to go through the same rooms time and time again, waiting to finally hit the next story beat or jump scare that will get Thomas to wake up in his next nightmare — only to have to do it all over again.