Sentences with phrase «interesting than genre»

As always, more interesting than genre classifications are specifics of procedure, and Tad Wiley, Laurie Fendrich, and Luke Gray have adopted distinct approaches to the central issue of abstract narrative: revision.»

Not exact matches

The story itself is hard to recall, in large part because it was one of the least impressive aspects of a production that was more interested in offering a Mad Magazine - type superhero movie than meekly regurgitating the genre's tropes.

While I wouldn't say that Acceleration of Suguri X Edition has any kind of staying power as a fighting game nor even the content to hold anyone's attention for more than a few hours, at least it is an interesting mix of genres and occasionally a visual treat with flashy, screen - filling attacks.

Depressing, cliche, and quite unwatchable at times, Dear John really doesn't have an interesting story to tell, and despite it being in the romantic genre, the film makes the viewer feel nothing more than annoyance.

This is one film that only relies on jump scares to scare you, and time and time again you find yourself more bored than enjoying yourself due to the fact that it is a poorly constructed horror film that doesn't offer anything remarkable for genre fans looking for something really interesting to watch.

A combination of two very codified genres, the courtroom drama and the small - town homecoming movie, it's better than one would expect from the director of Shanghai Knight and Fred Claus, without being especially interesting in any regard.

Yet Friedkin is less interested in the tenets of the genre than in the idea of pushing the audience to its limits.

The romantic subplot between Gamora and Star - Lord is somewhat undercooked, but all of the above made me root for it in spite of myself, if only because it would be legitimately interesting - and for this genre, (nearly) ground - breaking - to see them pair off, procreate, and be faced with a half - pink / half - green baby of their own, with whom to (hopefully) do slightly better than Ego and Thanos did with them.

Still, for all of its curious logic leaps and redundancy in the genre, Bee Movie proves more than worthwhile by actually being amusing and interesting, and never grossly overbearing.

includes a secondhand anecdote from Schmidt that ultimately equates scare cinema with pornography more convincingly than almost anyone ever has, although for a professed fan in»70s horror, Schmidt's failure to get The Exorcist's year of release correct only confirms that his vested interest in the genre is minimal.

An interesting idea that relies on copying better films in the genre than standing out on its own.

Coogler's attempt at genre revision is part of Marvel indoctrination, so it's less interesting than Zack Snyder's battle with Warner Bros. over artistic expression in the D.C. Comics Universe.

Lip - service is given to the wacko fundies and the pro-science liberals arrayed on opposite sides of the debate, though I can't help but wonder if the interesting movie in Closer to God is a Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - style genre exercise that uses its platform to think rather than moderately thrill.

It doesn't exactly revolutionize the genre, but it's more than refreshing enough to keep your interest.

The artist called the most «Japanese» of Japanese directors, famous for the quiet restraint and rigorous simplicity of his sound films, was a voracious film buff more interested in Hollywood movies than his own national cinema early in his career and he thrived in a great variety of genres.

Hollywood pro William Wellman directed more than 80 films in every genre over the course of four decades, but for my money, he was never more interesting than in the early sound era, where his energy and audacity powered over a dozen short, sharp, street - smart films filled with saucy sexiness and startling violence and mixed with varying measures of social commentary.

Instead, the film is primarily constructed as a valentine to the fantasy genre, showing more interest dreaming up inside movie references than one - liners.

Based on a novel by Ruth Rendell (whose books also inspired Claude Chabrol «s «La Ceremonie» and «The Bridesmaid,» and Pedro Almodovar «s «Live Flesh «-RRB-, it seems to be closer to a melodrama than a thriller, with comparisons already drawn to Douglas Sirk and George Cukor, which marks an interesting departure for the genre - hopping Ozon.

These games had flaws, some more than others, but they did interesting, innovative things with a time - worn genre.

May is going to be an interesting month for the genre because other than the return of Showtime's excellent Penny Dreadful, there are a lot of unknowns seeing a release.

YA seems no longer bound by strict genre lines or pegged below a certain benchmark of quality — Kephart noted that YA novels are taking «more risks than ever with voice, structure [and] form,» and Weiss argued that the generally high quality of YA writing, coupled with increased interest on the part of adults, is facilitating a «leveling of the difference between high and low culture.»

Going indie in genres where the publishers aren't interested (and making more money as an indie than in trad publishing!)

It's interesting to note how much better the Kindle sales have held up than the downloads — likely the self - fulfilling nature of being on the best - seller list for its genre.

More than any other element of your book, you can let genre trends and reader interests guide your cover design — the cover's job is too sell your book, right?

Using your author page as a base (and posting as your author identity rather than with your personal account), seek to engage with Facebook users who may be interested in your genre.

It helps to have more than one author of a genre to make the party more fun and generate interest.

Certain genres are more likely to have «interesting» premises to me than others.

You made a very interesting point that you should aim to guest post on blogs similar to the book or genre that you write in, than targeting the writing and publishing industry in general.

It might also be interesting to take one genre (because of the amount of data) and use a larger depth to see if indies at the lower end are making more than trad pub authors at the lower end of the rankings (since many of us sit down here too!)

Increased interest in your book over a 48 hour period may be a sign that you've broken through to a larger audience than your genre warrants.

It would also be interesting to see which authors now sell more e-books than bound copies, and whether those figures align with the genre sales figures or not.

Lerner Digital, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, has announced the launch of its Lerner Digital eReader App for Android devices, featuring more than 3,000 available K — 12 ebook titles across many interest areas and genres.

If someone wants to argue that women need to use initials rather than their names for books in genres largely considered the province of male interest such as action - adventure, that's one thing.

Within the genre of indexed annuities, an interest indexed annuity would perhaps be more conservative than an equity indexed annuity with the comparison being the former tying the return to the bond index verses the S&P 500.

He has been fortunate to expand his horizons by working on genres other than the one he was first interested in, but someday he wants to create a game that would honor the memory of the game that first sparked his interest and inspired him to follow this career.

Rather than make a dull genre more interesting, Carnivores retains...

This is more than a bit of an over-simplification, but I think it serves as an interesting visualization into how this genre can weigh the importance of economic management against the importance of unit management.

Now I know these are kind of dead points by now as Greenheart Games has had so much publicity thanks to their DRM that they'll likely sell more copies than they had previously expected, but for the average indie who's not making some ultra clever mirror holding statement (one that only has this kind of impact in this game genre) then creating a broken version of your game may not be in your best interests.

This may just be a guess, but around the point Pokemon became this huge hit in the late 90's and pretty much owned the turn based strategy genre, spawning dozens of hashed out clones, that could be contributed to why turn - based RPG's started to lose their muster a bit in the last generation and why Square Enix has been so fixated on trying to develop new and interesting combat systems with their latest installments, rather than focusing on what they used to do so well, which was create unique, yet cohesive, quest based stories with endearing characters and gameplay that favors using your mind over your thumbs.

I'm not claiming that it's brilliantly written, but this plot twist does not seem like random bad writing to me so much as a symptom of the East - meets - West genre cross-pollination that, in general, makes Bionic Commando more interesting and quirky than your typical Western action game.

To me it seems to epitomize everything that is wrong with the «endless runner» genre of games, and while I think the idea behind the game is interesting, the execution is less than successful.

As a gamer who has no specific genre they enjoy the most it is sometimes my duty to review JRPGs, simply because I have the time and a weird interest for insane and wacky storylines, and who does all of the above better than JRPGs?

I'm less interested in Nintendo creating «new genres» (which I think is just a Nintendo buzz phrase right now) than them creating new franchises.

The game has given the zombie genre a new twist and it has made more than a few gamers interested in the game of cricket.

Making games at the extremes is more useful and interesting than making «just another [genre] game».

The Western European, 19th century setting sometimes produces some interesting environments and enemy designs, but texture quality is generally a lot lower than comparable games in the genre.

Looking at a console generation that has seen a major RPG from the creator of Final Fantasy struggle to achieve a Western release, and one where the once - mighty RPG giant Square - Enix has become more known for Tomb Raider than for their RPG output, it's without a doubt been an interesting ride for the genre.

What made Night Trap so interesting to me and many others two and a half decades ago was the way it used the limitations of the FMV (full - motion video) genre in a clever way, working with the linear nature of video rather than against it.

Mirror's Edge is one of the most intriguing fusions of genres that's come out recently: I keep boring people with shouting about how it's more like a driving game with combos than an FPS, which is probably a really banal and obvious statement, but it's really interesting to me...

It really seems to be a bit of a different take on the survival genre, and I'm honestly finding it a lot more interesting than I thought I would.