Sentences with phrase «kind of adventure story»

And I think each being its own kind of adventure story and like almost the Indiana Jones mold would be pretty fricking cool.

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Tolkien says it best: «It is the mark of a good fairy - story, of the higher or more complete kind, that however wild its events, however fantastic or terrible the adventures, it can give to child or man that hears it, when the «turn» comes, a catch of the breath, a beat and lifting of the heart, near to (or indeed accompanied by) tears, as keen as that given by any form of literary art... In such stories, when the sudden «turn» comes we get a piercing glimpse of joy, and heart's desire, that for a moment passes outside the frame, rends indeed the very web of story, and lets a gleam come through.»

And he writes the story in the tradition of [a] series of wonderful stories in the»40s by George Gamow that told the story of a physicist who had some wonderful adventures; and in this story, likewise, Guéron takes us on a journey through the wonderful adventures in curved spacetime of an astronaut, and it's kind of like a summer reading for physicists story, I would enjoy it on a beach, myself.

The kind of film that makes you wish they had perfected choose - your - own - adventure technology for movies, one that would allow you to ditch the central character and follow any number of the story's more interesting second bananas.

Although A Monster Calls has elements of fantasy and adventure, the real core of the story is Conor's attempts to cope with the kind of outsized emotions that even adults are ill - equipped to handle: love, loss, and grief.

This sci - fi / fantasy / adventure film has some of the best production design in years, capturing an alternate universe Europe in the»30s and»40s that feels inspired by steampunk and the kind of fantastic stories of adventure seen in the serials of the day.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

I think they should have taken elements of both previous films and then thrown in some new story arcs for a familiar but ultimately new kind of sci - fi adventure.

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

Bagheera sends Mowgli away, back to his own kind against the latter's wishes, and the story is about his adventures getting there, including befriending the lazy bear Baloo (Bill Murray) and running afoul of both Kaa the python (Scarlett Johansson) and orangutan King Louie (Christopher Walken).

Reworking James Thurber's 1939 short story into a wake - up call for middle - aged white men to stop dreaming and start living, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is weakly life - affirming, the kind of empty - headed cinematic platitude that mistakes irresponsibility for adventure and accomplishment for meaning.

Now we finally get an idea of the story at the heart of the film and this looks like the kind of live - action Disney adventure we've been missing, full of originality, amazing visuals and much more.

When you are a child and someone reads a story to you, you like very much how it is told, because it is a kind of adventure; you store all that information.

I remember the first article in Newsweek (2010) that was frankly a long press release gushing over this new organization that wanted to raise literally «a billion dollars» its first year — never mind that it's not actually possible to spend that kind of money wisely or effectively in a new startup — and thinking that the picture they chose to illustrate the story — Michelle Rhee standing in front of a bunch of chalk outlines of kids — was inadvertently an extremely apt representation of what this whole adventure was about.

I must admit that I had never heard of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's race around the globe before picking up Matthew Goodman's Eighty Days — which amazes me because it's the kind of fascinating true - story adventure that novelists wish they could dream up: Two young female journalists departing New York within hours of each other on November 14, 1889, traveling in opposite directions, each alone and attempting to make her way around the world (28,000 miles!)

For one, it's a classic adventure story — the kind that never goes out of style — and Robin Hood himself is the dashing, rakish sort of fellow who always entertains.

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I suspect he's trying to claim that instead of «books» they should be some kind of interactive stories, more along the lines of video games (or maybe «choose your own adventure» books writ large).

It has truly been an adventure of a whole other kind with funny stories, treasure hunts, trial and error, and lessons learned.

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Borders, Bandits, and Baby Wipes is a story about the kind of adventures we all said we'd have one day but never do.

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In general my preferred games are story - driven open world adventures of any kind though I will play anything if I find fun in it.

I don't know if I have any direct advice or comments to offer to our protagonist, per se, but there is one thing that does come to mind in the story of Ni No Kuni II where he will attempt to negotiate with five different kingdoms throughout his adventures and form a contract, and that can be kind of similar to the gaming industry where I often find myself in a position of course where there is the company that makes the game engine, there is the company that has the video codex we use, and there are so many parties involved and you have to unify all that towards one common goal.

The game is obviously taking a new path with Kratos and his son's adventure, but I think it was about time he got a different kind of story.

The sequel picked up where the story of the last left off and gave the same kind of adventure, but it made everything bigger, flashier and arguably more cohesive and engaging.

The core gameplay in Story Mode is the 3D action - adventure type, where players are given quests to complete, but the variety of the quests is — to be kind — rather limited.

Featuring a failed Art Deco utopia, bizarre diving suit - clad monsters and a story that twisted and looped around the player's assumptions, Bioshock introduced a new kind of action adventure game, loaded with meaning, style and adult themes.

The whole of Adventure Ecology is nothing new, people have been doing adventures, people have been doing ecology for a very long time, what I hope is kind of fresh is the way we tell the story.