Sentences with phrase «narrative logic»

Thus freed from the burdens of narrative logic and / or character development, the comic talents of Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron, Ike Barinholtz, and others are allowed to float free and act on their impulses in an «anything goes» atmosphere — the raunchier the better.

3:15 am (6th)-- Sundance — INLAND EMPIRE David Lynch's latest magnum opus, which pretty much can't be understood by any use of normal narrative logic.

He can't help himself from following that shot with a deeply curious coda, which uses the movie narrative logic of cliffhangers and sequels to position The Post as prequel to All the President's Men.

The Messianistic super hero, technophobia, conspiracy theory and prophecy all combine to make a thrilling story which creates the perfect structure in which the hero can perform fantastic feats without compromising narrative logic.

Even when the A-to-B-to-C narrative logic is a little on the wonky side, the sharp visuals, abundance of grotesque intrigue and game ensemble cast — led by a typically committed Mbatha - Raw — add up to a decent sci - fi outing, if sadly nothing more.

A mess of early CGI, noisy silliness and bizarre science fiction musings, both films leave narrative logic and effective atmosphere at the door, with their camp pleasures very much a matter of diminishing returns across their mercifully brief runtimes.

On the other, there were the more outrageous dream - horrors popular in Europe, the work of Hammer Studios in the UK and Mario Bava and Dario Argento in Italy, films that prized artistry, oddity and explicit gore over narrative logic.

Her approach is more offhand and impressionistic, and she expects viewers to be active and attentive enough to intuit their way through a film that constructs its own narrative logic.

Gialli (the plural form) didn't so much defy narrative logic as wander dreamily away from it.

In so doing, he produces not a document but a monument, a work whose narrative logic is architectural rather than chronological: a set of lives to be encountered, traversed, and returned to as the rooms and floors of a building might be over the years, still sequentially but not in a limited or decided - upon sequence.

Bound by the same paradoxes of the point of view and perception (Markus Raetz) or by a vague narrative logic (Mac Adams), or a double proof in relief or counter-relief of an irreversible intervention on abandoned buildings (Gordon Matta - Clark).

10:30 pm — Sundance — INLAND EMPIRE David Lynch's latest magnum opus, which pretty much can't be understood by any use of normal narrative logic.

Yet even as the script — which Affleck co-wrote with longtime friend Aaron Stockard — stumbles now and then in terms of narrative logic, it carefully sets in place the elements of a genuine moral quandary, one from which Affleck does not shy away.

Follow the story's narrative logic, whether you consider it a historical event or a Markan parable.

Oblivious to both narrative logic and the laws of physics, the cliché - filled San Andreas doesn't nearly have the star power of earlier, better disaster movies it borrows from like «The Poseidon Adventure,» «Earthquake» and «The Towering Inferno.»

But Niccol's paranoid anxieties about the totalitarian dangers of cyberspace feel oddly glib and dated, light on thrills or narrative logic.

This is not for audiences who demand story and character and narrative logic.

Having written both Independence Day and its sequel, Dean Devlin — here directing his first theatrical feature, after two decades collaborating with Roland Emmerich — isn't exactly known for his commitment to narrative logic.

Granted, the narrative logic stringing the set pieces together (or in some cases, the logic of the sequence itself), may be riddled with holes, but that doesn't stop each respective sequence from delivering the level of thrills and excitement people are paying to see.

Pan is a collection of neat yet unorganized ideas (plus some obvious continuity errors) and great visuals, but not a whole lot of narrative logic.

I follow that by citing specific instances of these problems and specific solutions, as well as specific instances of less general issues — a problem with a given scene, for example, or some bit of narrative logic that's breaking down, or a drift in perspective.

Imagination has no boundaries for them and anything is possible, if we follow the original issue's narrative logic.

TD What I am noticing about If Only... (besides the irruption of your divorce papers — the end to a contract — and the possible contractual relationship you share with Mass MoCA and your fellow traveler, the pilot) is how the narrative logic seems to be determined by logistics / constraints, much as in Drop the Monkey.