Sentences with phrase «middle chapter»

X-Men plays like a so - so middle chapter of an epic series rather than a fitting kickoff.

«We suggest that oxygen was much lower than previously thought during this important middle chapter in Earth history, which likely explains the low abundances and diversity of eukaryotic organisms and the absence of animals,» Lyons said.

It suffers from Middle Chapter Syndrome in a lot of ways, I'm not sure the plot really makes sense, and it ends on completely the wrong last shot.

Like Mr. Schwentke, she hits all the requisite marks in a story that, like so many middle chapters, feels distinctly interstitial.

Nothing ever feels too oppressive, however, with «Kung Fu Panda 2» feeling like the slightly rushed, slightly melancholy middle chapter of a larger saga (the film's cliffhanger ending certainly suggests further adventures of Po and the gang).

Anything with a title like Insurgent should pack more punch than this laborious middle chapter.

Of course, the film is full of familiar characters and cutting - edge computer - animated action scenes, yet at times this two - and - a-half-hour middle chapter lacks urgency and its easy to feel the running time.

Following almost an hour of masterful crime - drama storytelling, Cianfrance subdues into a slower paced middle chapter where we are introduced to law - school graduate turned police officer, Avery Cross (Bradley Cooper).

Without spoiling this pivotal middle chapter, I call your attention to the next morning.

If there's a key to what's wrong with this unduly - bloated middle chapter, it's Legolas, unseen in the book and best kept that way, despite the curious jolt we feel upon noticing that the slightly rumpled and thickened Bloom, in the years since The Return of the King, has aged into a doppelgänger for Jason Isaacs's Malfoy patriarch.

If this second team - up is intended be the «Empire Strikes Back» - level middle chapter to a larger importance yet to come, then, by unwritten sequel rules, the raised stakes of heavy - and - grim - flavored implications are all completely allowed and welcome.

I adored How to Train Your Dragon 2 when I saw it back in June, and while I've cooled on the film a bit since then, I still think it's an excellent sequel and a perfect middle chapter in a trilogy about growing up.

Arriving at just around the moment when the Star Wars revival threatens to switch over from big - ticket sci - fi / fantasy event to humdrum annual clock - in, Rian Johnson's middle chapter appears blithely and wonderfully unconcerned with paying off the supposed mysteries of its predecessor or setting up a grand finale.

Mass Effect 2 was always touted as the dark middle chapter in the sci - fi trilogy, yet the pair offered some comedic interludes in the otherwise doom and gloom storyline; something that will return in the next game and, going by franchise executive producer Casey Hudson's words, things might even get amped up a tad.

While Neptunia VII's middle chapter ends with a converging cast, shifting between small teams during the bulk of the campaign feels like a prolonged exercise in delayed gratification.

While Neptunia VIIR's middle chapter concludes with a congregation of cast members, shifting between small teams during the bulk of the campaign feels like a prolonged exercise in delayed gratification.

Emissary Forks At Perfection (2015 - 2016) is a live simulation middle chapter.

Middle chapters of trilogies are typically the darkest.

These are psychologists, after all, but an editor might have trimmed the endless numbers, graphs, and repetitious anecdotal evidence that inflate their book's middle chapters.

The book is at its best in the middle chapters, which treat the existence and order of the universe as evidence for God and try to show that the existence of evil does not count against God's existence.

These middle chapters stimulate and entertain.

You do not read a novel this way, by reading the middle chapter, and then the end chapter, and then going back and starting at the beginning.

I second Inder - ific's warning about some of those middle chapters.

I found the stories in the middle chapters to go on a little long (but that may be the comedian in me... always waiting for the punch line).

Sometimes when we are excited in a relationship we like to jump to the end before we even get to the middle chapter and miss some crucial screening time.

After a slow start, TWD's second season has found a good balance with its middle chapter.

The middle chapter, the courtroom drama, is expertly done, and aided by fine attorney performances by Denis Moschitto and Johannes Krisch.

The Empire Strikes Back is the middle chapter in the Star Wars saga and ultimately is the darkest and most emotionally driven.

Critics Consensus: While still slightly hamstrung by «middle chapter» narrative problems and its formidable length, The Desolation of Smaug represents a more confident, exciting second chapter for the Hobbit series.

The Empire Strikes Back acts as the classic example of a great «middle chapter» flick, and others like The Two Towers succeed in that regard as well.

The full - length trailer for «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» has arrived, showing off the more grandiose scale of this middle chapter in the trilogy.

It's now been revealed that Resident Evil: The Final Chapter takes place directly after Retribution in Washington D.C. with Alice (Milla Jovovich) in the middle

The game feels like developer Eidos Montreal was really hoping to make a trilogy and Mankind Divided is a middle chapter that's mostly setup.

The Last Jedi is the eighth episode of the famous Skywalker saga that began with the original Star Wars film in 1977 and serves as the middle chapter of the sequel trilogy.

And now for both those who've never experienced this middle chapter and those who can litigate through it in their sleep, it will let you play through the entire series on one platform.

While it's technically the middle chapter of a planned trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back is still recognized as one of the greatest movie sequels in history, considered to be an even better film than the original by many fans.

Moonlight «s Ashton Sanders also nearly made my ballot as well for his middle chapter despair, but four slots to one film is a bit excessive.

By the end of the year, we'll all have a much clearer insight of this middle chapter with all that extra footage included.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug suffers from the flaws of any middle chapter in a trilogy.

The middle chapter of Telltale's Guardians of the Galaxy series feels like a long windup to a single, meaningful punch.