Sentences with phrase «little more plot»

Anyway, Serious Sam is one of those cases in which trying to inject even a little more plot just doesn't work.

Serious Sam 3 attempts to introduce a little more plot, taking place before Serious Sam: The First Encounter and explaining how Sam wound up back in time at the start of the first game.

Down By Law — Much like Stranger Than Paradise, Jarmusch's next movie adds a very little more plot, and Tom Waits and Roberto Benigni to John Lurie this time.

Not exact matches

It's a couple more weeks before they're in season here (Chicago) so in the meantime I will be plotting... my husband thought maybe dehydrating the grapes a little at a low temp in the oven before kneading them in to the dough to prevent the runniness?

From the lighting to the little old lady handing out cheese on crackers, everything inside the store has been plotted out to make you buy more, more, more.

If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

NIST scientists estimate that a mobile PLOT unit could make it into the field in about a year, though we hope they do a little more field - testing.

It's essentially a stroll through a fantastically detailed pastel world, in which the plot is little more than an excuse for Miyazaki to dive into a world teeming with colorful (and sometimes prehistoric) life.

Why bother to nattily plot out the film's visual vocabulary when the story itself is treated as little more than ripped - from - the - headlines sensationalism, devoid of nuance and empathy?

The characters are readymade jokes unto themselves, and the plots unfolding around them seem like little more than scenes found on the film's cutting room floor.

The Nut Job 2's episodic plot is little more than a clothesline on which to hang manic action sequences.

The former mostly mixes the usual lip - synch and movie elements, but it also attempts some sort of plot and incorporates specially - shot footage of Jolie in character, so it seems a little more interesting than usual.

It began to feel a little less like life itself and more like a movie when decisions being made felt like plot devices in order to have the happy / sad ending that it went for.

Those who watch it over and over to catch just one more little bit that adds to their understanding of the plot are just as many.

The acting is decent enough to keep you interested and the story is intriguing, but it misses a little something to make it a much better, more developed plot for the film.

The plot may seem at the outset little more than» «Pitch Perfect» for pensioners», and will likely be marketed as such, but «Song For Marion» is by no means a laugh out loud comedy.

Critics Consensus: Suicide Squad boasts a talented cast and a little more humor than previous DCEU efforts, but they aren't enough to save the disappointing end result from a muddled plot, thinly written characters, and choppy directing.

It's nice to see that in the first three episodes of the eight - episode second season, the plots, such as they are, have a little more discipline and focus than they did in season 1.

The script is particularly weak, being more concerned with moving from one joke to the next via predictable plot points than it is about developing the characters and moving our fantasy world on a little bit.

British novelist Mary Stewart's beloved «The Little Broomstick» predates J.K. Rowling's hit Harry Potter series by more than a quarter - century, which means the source material is original, even if its gorgeous big - screen adaptation feels a bit derivative in places — and derivative of not just Rowling's more richly imagined fantasy world, but also Ghibli's own «Kiki's Delivery Service,» which presents a similar plot, in reverse: There, a young witch with a flying broom loses her powers, whereas in this case, young Mary discovers a magical broom that whisks her away to Endor College, where she's celebrated for her newfound abilities.

Critic Consensus: Suicide Squad boasts a talented cast and a little more humor than previous DCEU efforts, but they aren't enough to save the disappointing end result from a muddled plot, thinly written characters, and choppy directing.

He's funny and clearly having fun playing at being off his rocker, but his character ends up being little more than a plot fulcrum.

Grown - up Cosette is bland as can be and nothing more than a pretty little plot device.

We've learned enough about the characters for the show to move on to point at hand and reveal more about the characters little by little while the plot moves forward.

The wafer - thin plot is little more than an excuse to showcase the astonishing achievements of special - effects makeup artists.

Director: Pete Docter Cast: Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, Bob Peterson Plot: An old man decides to finally fulfil a promise he made to his dead wife, a decision that proves a little more tricky than originally planned.

It also uses autism as little more than a plot...

Olympus Has Fallen comes from a long line of dumb action flicks that are more concerned about high body counts and how many rounds of ammunition can be pumped into nameless causalities at high speeds than little things like plot, logic, and character.

After introducing this scheme, the plot's connections to the series involve little more than places and times.

Were the cut - scenes a little more dramatic, pacy and concise, the plot could be Valkyria Revolution's saving grace — but like a lot of aspects of this game, it ends up being a disappointment.

It looked cute, but I feared this title would amount to little more than a mish - mash of minigames cobbled together by something resembling a plot.

The plot has a whodunnit - and - how - do - we - prove - it element here that is a little more complex than last time, but crucially director Paul King and his co-writer Simon Farnaby once again show a perfect feel for Paddington's humour, strengths and effect on the world.

I do agree with most of your comments, although I was perhaps a little more insulted and disappointed by the formulaic elements, particularly the unsurprising «surprises» that so clumsily and artificially shoved the overburdened plot forward.

And even if the story itself has a nagging predictability, there are some seriously nasty plot turns coming that are more than a little disturbing.

The trailer reveals a little more about the plot, and shows Katniss -LSB-...]

Little is known about the plot, but a short synopsis posted on casting database site suggests that we can look forward to more of the same: «Picking up where the 2007 film left off with the incompetent underboss Kirill thinking that he and his henchman driver Nikolai really have inherited the throne from his crime - lord father, without knowing that Nikolai is actually a clandestine agent working undercover in Russia's federal security service.»

Those, meanwhile, who couldn't give a fig whether the ambitions of a bygone era of journalism are sacrificed on the altar of daytime TV frippery will nonetheless surely warm to the sight of McAdams plotting frantically while wearing little more than knickers.

Were the plot a little more cohesive, I might have felt more like delving into the additional backstory.

Though plenty of the film's scenes possess an honed improv feel much like the extemporaneous riffing of Anchorman, they are also usually more focused — in terms of plotting, there's so little time to waste when the end is nigh.

More Prometheus Plot Revealed: When an official synopsis hits the web, you expect to learn at least a little something about an upcoming film.

Of course, to unlock most of the characters, you need to play the game's «Dream Mode» — a mode that contains no plot and is little more than a series of battles.

Obviously this is an animated film so directors Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath and Conrad Vernon do have the leeway of creating a rather improbable plot, but little children may too realize that giraffes and hippopotamuses can not defy gravity and balance on a tightrope 50 feet (or more) above the ground.

Plenty of film - related goodies for your audio - visual pleasure this week, including Inside Out, Tomorrowland — A World Beyond, and John Wick... Inside Out This latest trailer for Disney Pixar's latest animated feature Inside Out reveals a little more about the plot.

The joke that propels the film is that their poorly - conceived plans amount to little more than one of those online «kill your boss» simulators, and Horrible Bosses occasionally seems to acknowledge its plot as a grossly oversimplified game.

So Cap's starting point and then sort of his proximity to those plot elements was a little more removed, so his role ended up being the size that it was.

There is a point to that race, but it requires more explaining than should be necessary (For a movie based on a video game series with little to no story, there is plenty of plot making up for it here).

While it allows Bronson to be a little less serious than the brooding characters he's better known for, the plot is an utter mess and the rescue attempts (there are several) are nothing more than a string of haplessly assembled action pieces that only serve to illustrate what a terrible rescuer Colton is (as is his sidekick of sorts, played by Randy Quaid).

His mother is Susan (Naomi Watts, far too good here as a character who's little more than a pawn in the plot), who's single and raising Henry and a younger son Peter (Jacob Tremblay) on her own.

Maybe I'm getting used to Disney's handling of many of the Marvel characters, but these guys need to lighten up a little and remind audiences they're supposed to be enjoying a fantasy — not a serious plot that tries to be more relevant by injecting the «terrorist» word into the narrative.

Back when I was in high school, one of my classes had been American Literature, and during the course of reading his short story, «The Cask of Amontillado», our instructor told us of how Edgar Allan Poe believed that every element of a story should push forward the plot in some way; even little details that might otherwise seem inconsequential actually fill in the thematic blanks to make the story a more enriching and engrossing experience for the reader.