Sentences with phrase «love interest subplot»

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The problem somewhat lies in misplaced priorities: Phillips and co-writer Scot Armstrong waste too much time on a silly love - interest subplot for Wilson; that time is much better served by the frat - boy idiocies, like Frank beer - bonging himself into streaking.

Lame subplots involving Bobby's sister (Sari Lennick) and gangster brother (Corey Stoll) only get in the way of the more interesting love story, which benefits from Eisenberg and Stewart's excellent chemistry.

I mean, for all the lip service the picture plays to a more liberal worldview, what with its woman doctors, massaging of the nobility of the «Third World,» and punishing jerks with fifteen - hundred dollar raincoats, there's a disturbing moment where, preparing to run from a tidal wave, the main white hero Sam grabs his white love interest (Emmy Rossum), the white hero's romantic subplot's white rival grabs a black peer, and the black homeless comic relief grabs his dog.

The romantic subplot grates, but hey, every superhero needs a love interest (with the possible exception of Castratoman) and the film could have done with being a bit more compact.

Army of One's romantic subplot illustrates why King of Comedy was better off not being weighed down by a half hour of scenes featuring Rupert Pupkin's arbitrary love interest (played by, I du n no, Maria Conchita Alonso) about how, as a woman of a certain age who's been banged around by life a bit, she's lucky to have a good - hearted, if someone eccentric ambitious young show business striver like Pupkin in her life.

Along the way, there is always an interjected subplot of having a love interest, where the couple initially seems to revel in bliss as if nothing could tear their bond apart.

In Hollywood math, the 61 - year - old actress is the perfect age to be a septuagenarian's love interest, which she does in one of the subplots that doesn't particularly go anywhere.

A romantic subplot with Ann - Margret and Arkin simply reminds us that she's been playing love interest to aged cranks since 1993's Grumpy Old Men, while he's been moonlighting as dying granddad since 2006's Little Miss Sunshine.

At some point, our digital love interests, which used to be mainly provided by major developers and relegated to subplots, became the focus of mainstream games.