Sentences with phrase «much plot from»

The script lifts so much plot from Disney's animated Frozen that it could qualify as a remake.

Not exact matches

But the questions about how much of Trevorrow's plot will stay in the movie will only increase after a new revelation from «Saturday Night Live» alum Bobby Moynihan.

Energy producers can calculate, almost down to the barrel, how much oil can be extracted from a tar sands plot.

The data are plotted along two axes: how much money the US sends to China for those products, and what portion of all international purchases come from China.

We've been seeing quite a few reasons to just wait to send that text message till after you park the car, but perhaps none that sound quite so much like a bad movie plot than this story from Maryland, where a 25 - year - old woman was distracted by texting and ran her car off the road, clipped a tree and was propelled 60 feet into a lake.

If we start this season without either extending Sanchez's contract or selling and replacing him with a SUITABLE alternative (S) 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... if nothing is resolved and we lose him for free, then try to find a replacement in the much inflated marketplace, this would be typical of the half - baked decision - making that has plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams that don't develop or recruit enough talented young players tend to lose the plot from an organizational standpoint

The plot thickened over the weekend because up until then Alexis had not said much on the subject apart from that he was leaving it to his agent to deal with.

Nice article... I used to be one of those staunch Wenger fans through the years... I used to believe he is superior than Sir Alex, because with almost nothing to spend and playing with kids, he managed to keep us up there every year... I was really caught up with that half season wonder we used to show... In the summer 2013, him or the board (I don't recall) came out and said we are much stable financially and now we can fight with the biggest bullies, I got my hopes high, I thought we are definitely signing a top striker and DM, that what we need... What happened, only hours before the window closed we managed to sign a top AMF (remember we have our best player for the season 2012 - 2013 was AMF, Cazorla if you remember), I was really depressed seen Giroud leading the line every match... then comes winter window, and we were right there top of the table... My friend send me a poster of an elephant on a tree, and on the bottom of it «no one knows how it got there but everybody knows how it will get down»... I told my friend that we are only one decent striker far from the gold... and what happened, we signed an old injured DM on loan... That for me was a completely arrogance and stubbornness cost us the league title... There I completely lost the plot with Wenger... I wish yesterday I was with those who raised that banner... I would write in my banner «Enough talks and philosophy, we need results»

Avid gardeners who don't have much space to tend at home may reserve one of the Naperville Park District's 700 plus garden plots located on West Street, across from Knoch Park.

This is where we need to depart from the model of politics that has informed much of the reporting of last week's events: of plots, conspiracies, networks and factions.

In the January plot against Brown (which, as I wrote at the time, was much more serious than it was presented as being) all it would have taken would have been one shove from Johnson in private or public.

The relationships between the various cancerous cells from a single person can be plotted out in much the same way as evolutionary biologists plot relationships between species: by drawing phylogenetic trees, branching diagrams that trace «descendants» back to a common ancestor.

«Plots with many species are much less prone to big dives in productivity from year to year,» says Peter Reich, a coauthor of the study and a professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota.

Researchers from the University of Exeter simulated the effects of street lighting on artificial grassland plots containing a community of invertebrates at night, exposing them to two different types of light treatment — a «white» light similar to newer commercial LED street lighting systems and an «amber» light simulating the type of sodium street lamp still found in much of the UK.

Scientists have inventoried biodiversity and have been measuring how much and how fast Amazonian forests can absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere with the assumption that the plots were in their most pure state.

The plot of the film is not very different from the Universal classics: mad scientist, longed to resurrect the dead, comic character much alike Abbott and Costello, beauty who of course is taken by the «monster» (which is the Wolf Man), the climax with a burning building, while the battle of protagonists with a monster is going on and, of course, a happy ending.

So much of the plot revolves around moving from one stupid idea to the next that I was often laughing at the screen and, generally, not watching the movie.

Trying to underplay conventional plotting as much as it can, this film is seriously meditative upon the life of a man who we barely known anything about, and makes matters worse by portraying gradual exposition in too abstract of a fashion for you to receive the impact of the would - be remedies for characterization shortcomings that do indeed go a very long way in distancing you from a conceptually sympathetic and worthy lead.

I am a huge fan of the original Prince of Persia trilogy, and when I heard about this game I was a little worried that they would change to much of what made the original games great, and I was right, the gameplay has been completely destroyed, platforming is awkward do to too may actions being mapped to the same buttons, combat is tedious and unenjoyable, it's EXTREMELY repetitive, having to search around for light seeds just to advance the plot is stupid, and do to the fact that you can't really die the whole game just feels like trial and error, and the new Prince character is completely unlikeable, while they messed up most of the game it's got some good things going for it, the voice acting is solid, the graphics are beautiful, and the ending does have interested in seeing where the story goes from here, but I'm not sure if I want to pick up the next game they come out with, this was a huge disappointment and isn't worthy to bear the Prince of Persia name.

Their fabricated stories occasionally dissolve into something much more honest; Jack, perhaps the most emotional of the brothers, is a short story writer, with suspiciously familiar plot points and characters he insists are fictitious (from the short, Hotel Chevalier, which accompanies the film at the festival, we know this is not true).

While the «Footloose» remake doesn't differ much from the original musical - drama, in terms of the characters and plot - line, Brewer was able to successfully modernize the tale while staying true to its important message.

As much as I loved Inglourious Basterds, that film was a series of digressions from the main plot, but this film is actually centered on the story he lays out at the beginning.

The way the plot unravels is much like «Aliens» with a mish mash crew of cut throat mercs and civilians being surprised and taken down one by one by an unexplained sea beastie, the casting is unique and perfect for the posse of renegades who each have their own quirks and style which, again, does remind you of the classic marines from «Aliens».

It would do you a disservice to say much about the plot beyond that point, but suffice to say that the fake kidnapping turns out to be real, and that things snowball from there.

Much ballyhooed for its on - location filming in and around the United Nations building in Manhattan «The Interpreter» works better as a captivating drama than it does as an espionage thriller due to some sticking plot points that prevent the audience from

The characters don't have much depth, the plots twists are at times laughable (no, I really did laugh out loud on several occasions) and, in season 1, you could see some plot developments coming from a mile away.

And there's a hidden triumph in the supporting cast from the always - reliable character actor Bill Camp (Black Mass, Midnight Special), whose spectacular, hideously convincing wipe - out as a guy called Harlan Eustice, in the course of a single night, sets much of the plot in motion.

The fact that he is from outer space is pretty much ignored and virtually irrelevant to the cliche riddled plot and the feeble attempt at providing depth and moralisation goes nowhere.

In conclusion, there are melodramatic spells, as well as some focal unevenness, spawned from hurrying past certain plot aspects that really aren't all that needed in the first place, being not much more than supplements to the rather repetitious bloating that makes this overambitious effort too overblown for its own good, though not to the point of completely dismissing its engagement value, as there is enough sharpness to the production designs, cinematography and score work to provide striking style, as well as enough story value, brought to life by inspired writing, direction and acting, - particularly by leading lady Halle Berry - to make «Alex Haley's Queen» a rewarding near - epic study on the struggles faced by the mulattoes who struggled to fit into a post-slavery society that was rich with racial tension and plenty of other life challenges.

He's not helped by the fact that his plot goes absolutely, completely nowhere; by the end of the series it was clear that if you cut most of the Foggy And Karen Investigate scenes from the series it would be much tighter and better.

Connor cuts away to a flashback whenever we need to understand something else about why Wolff is the way he is, and even though most of those flashbacks are pretty unbelievable in their own right, they keep things moving and — perhaps more importantly — keep you from thinking too much about the rest of the messy plot.

The film looks fine from a technical standpoint, and things move along without too much muss or fuss, but likeable actors and competency in the lensing fall far short of turning this plot into something worth following for more than a few snickers at its expense.

Language: English Genre: Biography / Drama MPAA rating: PG Director: Steve Rash Actors: Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith Plot: Biography of the young rock star Buddy Holly - from his early days, his meteoric rise, his breakup (and reunion) with The Crickets and his much - too early death.

As much as the twist - heavy plot relies on a preponderance of happy coincidences in order to survive, it also seems to have all its ducks in a row from a character motivational standpoint.

It is with Hellboy that del Toro seems most at ease, never losing the tone or vision of the film from beginning to end, and faithfully capturing not only the essential ingredients of Mignola's creation, but also deriving much of the storyline and plot developments from the comics themselves.

I know he got cut from Avengers: Age of Ultron because he distracted too much from the already - stuffed plot, though.

What a tedious film.Over acting, wobbly plot, dialogue at times pure drivel and a laughable ending.It really was poor.The film goes straight into a Cul de Sac and can not get out.Way too much nudity from the metro sexual looking Tilda Swinton.Her androgynous body quite turned my stomach.A redeeming feature was the glorious sunshine and powerful light of Italy.The film meanders, wobbles and finally falls down.Older people like Swinton and Fiennes should really keep their pants on at all times.It is acutely embarrassing when the oldies need to do so much nudity (l suspect it is to appease their insecurity that they might not be physically desirable anymore) Horrible attempt at film making

I do not want to give too much of the plot away, but I will say Hemlock Grove is unlike any town in Pennsylvania that I have ever been to, and I am from PA!

There just aren't many reasons for the continuous distractions except to divert attention away from the fact that this plot doesn't amount to much.

Dig this: «Vice» is not the kind of movie whose plot you can flow - chart, or that will benefit terribly much from the inevitable click - baiting «explainer» pieces that are sure to be written about it in the coming months.

There's gambling, guns, and plenty of gangsters, but I won't go into the plot much more than that, as one of the most enjoyable parts of «Get Shorty» is the way it effortlessly moves from one comic hitch to the next.

One can take issue with the video - game-esque plotting of Tony Gilroy and Chris Weitz's script, which was developed from an idea by visual effects supervisor John Knoll; too much of the climax comes down to hitting a series of inconveniently placed switches.

While delivering good performances and enough choice laughs to stay afloat much of the way, Get Smart suffers from a laborious plot, excessive length, and an unevenness of tone that favors a violence that jars with the light banter of the dialogue, compounded with an unconvincing romance that brews between 86 and 99.

We knew that the series was planned to be a trilogy, and with so much drama and plot elements built up from the first two entries fans have been dying to see how things will wrap up with the third and final entry.

There's not much point to discussing the plot of Scary Movie (mercifully renamed from Scream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween).

You'll have a much better time knowing that this is one of the best Marvel movies to date due to the action, cohesive plot, and well acted characters from the veterans and the newer additions.

In fact, much of the plot here revolves around the idea of sheltering a child from the horrific truth and consequences of that dark reality.

I loved the films from the 70s because they were about characters, and not so much about big plot point and big set pieces.

That plot synopsis does not sound all that different from what we've heard before, so it's difficult to tell how much the story has changed.

But I would caution against trying to take away too much meaning from the «Morning Glory» plot.