Sentences with phrase «meandering plot»

The novel follows two separate meandering plot lines and two main characters, both sympathetic young women harboring secrets that connect their fates.

But the drive toward narrative, and an art audience's fascination with stories, has resurfaced in recent years, often in video, but perhaps more evocatively in installations, which invite comparisons with developments in contemporary fiction — shuffled chapters, meandering plot lines, mash - ups of genres, and elusive or unreliable narrators.

I can see why the meandering plot and the overall slacker tone would annoy a lot of people.

When the world rejects them, they decide to make their own movie — and it's a movie so wonderfully awful due to its unintentional hilarious moments, meandering plots and terrible acting.

The meandering plot takes in the pre-production period of an amateur production of Twelfth Night which the title character happens upon by going about her business of selling pirated DVDs.

The meandering plot and generic villain don't help matters, accomplishing in 16 episodes what it could have done in eight.

The kills themselves are fun enough it you can look past the poor practical effects, though they do not make up for the meandering plot and complete lack of sympathetic characters.

Not that the meandering plot deserves much better, as the story tends to wander.

City on Fire has the makings to be a much better film than what it is, but the meandering plotting and lack of focus to it's own themes makes it more of a curiosity than as a truly gripping action - drama.

As cute as those moments are, Meyjes manages to drain any fun out of them as the movie progresses, leaning on them whenever the meandering plot hits a speed bump — and there are plenty of those.

Bell gives us so many richly defined, comical characterizations, that we're willing to forgive the meandering plot line, as we come to like Carol's family, friends and colleagues at work in a way that could make for an entertaining sitcom, were this to be a pilot.

I didn't feel a sense of disappointment for not having fully understood the meandering plot.

Everyone available seemingly wanted to appear in this film and once one sniffs out the marrow of the meandering plot it is easy to see why.

You've entered into a realm of aimless wandering and meandering plots.

Well it has a rambling, meandering plot that consists primarily of Marcus Fenix working out his dad issues and the soldi...

The juxtaposition of absurdist, meandering plotting and fast action is key to how Hotline Miami invades the sensory and pleasure nodes of your brain and roots itself there.