Sentences with phrase «muddled story»

1) Your book is your ultimate marketing tool; do not publish a book filled with grammatical errors and an incomprehensible story line with conflicting and muddled story progression.

Brad Bird, the Academy Award - winning director of such animated classics as «Ratatouille» and «The Incredibles,» has fashioned with Tomorrowland, a clever, but muddled story of a scrappy teen, Casey Newton (Britt Robertson, «The Longest Ride») and a cockeyed former boy genius, Frank Walker (George Clooney, «The Monuments Men») who join forces in an attempt to...

Brad Bird, the Academy Award - winning director of such animated classics as «Ratatouille» and «The Incredibles,» has fashioned with Tomorrowland, a clever, but muddled story of a scrappy teen, Casey Newton (Britt Robertson, «The Longest Ride») and a cockeyed former boy genius, Frank Walker (George Clooney, «The Monuments Men») who join forces in an attempt to save the world from itself.

Muddled story and bloated action sequences notwithstanding, they enjoy the look, feel, sound and overall atmosphere.

However muddled the story gets, Scorsese guarantees Bringing Out the Dead remains a pulsating trip.

The mainstream news and entertainment media will usually tend to ignore, downplay, or muddle stories that are inconvenient to the center - left political coalition.

This approach occasionally muddles the story such as trying to follow the robots» ill - defined plans and how five increasingly inebriated men in their mid-40s can be excellent fighters.

Not exact matches

Fortune's Erika Fry has spent months untangling the complicated story, which reads like a drive through the streets of Mumbai, with miscues, misinformation, and the muddle of Indian politics.

Yep, it's the same old story; once again, Japan is just muddling through.

See, that's what I mean by muddled... you humans took a little story, mixed it with some myths from earlier religions and decided I was this all powerful god with an all powerful father (that supposedly turns hair on the head as well as beards white if you look at him) that cared about each and everyone of you.

I just died on a cross and the story got a little muddled through the years.

It's been all at once, overwhelming and ugly and beautiful and filled to the brim with mediocre miracles, which is the story of faith in a nutshell: Not a compilation of transcendent mountaintop experiences, but a muddling along through the desert with manna here and there to keep you going.

The antecedent physical objects... and scientific objects... which occasion the duration to be what it is are another story, and the persistent habit of muddling the two sets of entities in philosophy... is the origin of much confusion.

Fellaini's continued presence in United's squad tells a story of the muddled post-Ferguson years, and a squad that has been built and rebuilt by several men who didn't really know what they were trying to do.

That there have been ten (plus caretakers) in the twenty eight years since, though, tells another story as the clubs make - do - and - mend muddle through strategy has failed to adapt to the cash rich era of modern football.

«It is a story of muddle - headed government initiatives, skewed police incentives, racism, drug wars and the old, old habit of treating white people more leniently than everyone else.»

But no election - year incumbent wants a story line muddled by angry bands of roving protesters.

«The story is still a bit of a muddle.»

Also, the story here is really incoherent, muddled, and doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

There's even a touch of Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar to Laura's story, as Glazer asks the audience to look through the eyes of a mostly silent misfit, muddling her way through Scotland.

A lousy script, unfocused direction, incoherent editing, shockingly terrible special effects — and, probably, panicked studio executives — have left its four talented stars muddling through a dull superhero origin story with zero payoff.

While the movie has a nice look, the story gets very muddled and the main character remains a twit throughout the film.

Efforts are muddled and the story incomplete, making the feature limp along, in search of something substantial and focused to lean against.

The production design, editing, and cinematography is strong throughout and the story is interesting but things get a little muddled once the third act rounds up.

Dexter's fourth season tries too hard for the story's sake, resulting in muddled character development and a number of irritating appearances by the titular character's father.

There's a lot to chew on here, and if Burden is ultimately buried by its muddled central character, it's as much a testament to the filmmaker's refusal to sugarcoat this story as it is a criticism of the final product.

Muddled on the issues, but it earned its Oscar as a dramatic, involving story, full of tough and appealing characters.

Whether this was Coppola's intention is debatable but it still doesn't forgive the muddled unravelling of the story.

The new feature American Made similarly fits into the genre but rather than finding its own unique identity, this drama feels like a muddled version of a familiar story.

There's one great scene (at a restaurant) but aside from that, the jokes fall flat and the story is muddled.

Unfortunately, those ideas are muddled as they're happening concurrently with about four other stories.

There are moments to enjoy here, but the muddled nature of the story and execution prevent it from fulfilling the promise of Jolie as one of popular fiction's most memorable villains.

Using the visual and aural framework of the 1980s (with a transportative collection of upbeat, synch - heavy late - 80s jams), the underdog story keeps true to Eddie's unorthodox ascent to being a certifiable Olympian, though muddles some details along the way, prettying it up to make the film more family - friendly and easily digestible.

The «story» was completely muddled.

The result is a bloated film that seems incapable of deciding exactly what it's supposed to be (the continuing story line about the fate of Peter's parents and the involvement of Norman Osborne is continued on top of all of this, but also muddled), besides marking time for the next film and the introduction of the character's anti-Avengers, the Sinister Six (who are teased endlessly in the second half).

If it has a political point to make, it's pretty muddled, and elsewhere the fine - grained sexism — this isn't a world where women are allowed to both talk and have their clothes on — seriously scuppers any sense of the story as thoughtful or progressive.

The film is less insensitive than just muddled, unsure whether it's an empowerment story or something much thornier and darker.

Many chose to lay the blame at the feet of the screenwriter and well - known geek punching bag Damon Lindelof for producing a muddled, unfocused story, but the end result was another promising project from Ridley Scott that failed to live up to expectations.

Her character is never more than a contrivance to flesh out a story that didn't need her, and which limps to a muddled ending.

Triple 9 has a mediocre story that feels muddled at times, but it boasts fine performances from it's stellar cast and is a serviceable B picture.

And indeed, this prequel / sequel hybrid doesn't quite make sense, muddling its premise by straining to keep Snow White herself out of the story (she's always just off screen) while spinning a tale that feels so derivative that we feel like we've seen it all before.

It starts as an intriguing enough mystery, evolves into a suitable second - act quest; however, some third - act «twists» just derail whatever narrative momentum the story manages to build, and muddles both the mythology and character relationships developed up to that point, leaving us with an awkward ending that doesn't feel much like an ending so much as a chapter break.

Such a chess - heavy story could have easily ended up a muddle of «chess as a metaphor for life» platitudes.

The simple thrust of the story gets muddled by aimless meetings with the deceased's acquaintances.

Yes, the story was muddled and inconsistent, but the visual style produced some memorable sequences that made the end result greater than a sum of its parts.

While the overall story arch gets muddled with too many ingredients, and sometimes the script and secondary actors prove to be less than impressive, the action is thrilling and the whole thing is rather fun, if you are into this sort of thing.

The story itself is truly an exercise in overcoming — or at least muddling through — the combative, bumpy nature of love that comes with marriage and family, and the subsequent loss (in a variety of forms) of loved ones.

There are nifty special effects, elegantly executed that enhance the story, and a nice evocation of Tris» own muddled state of mind about which reality she is experiencing that adds a tart sleight - of - hand to the story.

Unfortunately their story never quite takes off, their friendly exchanges building to an intentionally excruciating dinner date whilst never really offering a convincing portrait of the muddled beginnings of a late in life relationship.

While the story works, trying to find a social message beyond it is a bit muddled.