Sentences with phrase «nature of the action scenes»

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More action - packed and manga - style, but its predictable plot points (punch - ups and air - battles) are secondary to Miyazaki-esque scenes of women's work, the indifferent beauty of nature and war as nightmare.

Paul's exposition on Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, an elaborately constructed scene where Ian Baker's restless camera cuts repeatedly between the four characters» constantly changing positions, exemplifies the way in which an intradiegetic audience is constructed and the overtly performative nature of the action foregrounded.

Ehren Kruger's (The Skeleton Key, The Ring 2) script does have a coherent premise and the semblance of a plot, but it's so hard to spot underneath the constant and very forced ad - libby nature of the cheeseball, comical interplay, and even tougher to remember after experiencing action scenes that go on for five, ten, or, in the finale, nearly an hour at a time.

Luckily, Jackie is able to get his kicks in, with two exciting scenes of nifty action and stunt work, but you'll admire these scenes for their spectacular ingenuity and death - defying nature, not really into them as part of the rest of the overall story.

There is a lot of flair and bravado to the action sequences here, whether it be in - car chases, boat chases, Nazi torture doctors, and powerful slaps that can knock a man out while keeping him standing still upright, but your left solely appreciating the idiosyncratic nature of it all alongside some admittedly wonderful cinematography that captures these scenes with, again, style.

Like the scene where Pyle is pelted with bars of soap wrapped in towels by his fellow men in his unit, he feels the pain, but the outrage, the anger, the viciousness of their actions is muted by the impersonal nature of it — Kubrick's piece is equally painful but impersonal.

He looks old here, made up with a gray beard and wizard robes, aside from his introductory scenes, he doesn't really get time or space to develop his Taoist Gandalf character, nor does he have much opportunity to show off his fighting skills, given the supernatural nature of the action (Lam Ching - ying gets such a chance in a too - small cameo role as «The Purple Taoist»).

Typical for modern films of this nature, the action scenes are filled with shaky handheld cinematography and rapid cuts that mean there often isn't a single well - framed shot in the whole sequence (and if there is it lasts about a nanosecond before being replaced by one that isn't).

And while William Friedkin's incredible Sorcerer isn't a proper action movie — the only real villain is nature — I'd be remiss if I didn't mention one of the tensest action scenes I've ever seen: The one where the two trucks full of unstable nitroglycerin have to cross a rickety, falling - apart jungle rope bridge in the middle of a storm.

Mafia 3 is supposed to be locked at 30 fps but it struggles to maintain that as there are many instances where the frame rate drops below 30 fps considerably but it either occurs mainly in scenes of an action packed nature when a lot is going on or, oddly enough it happens at times where there isn't much going on around you at all.

Also, its open - world setting seemed at odds with the naturally enclosed nature of a scripted action scene; what kind of game did Rise of the Tomb Raider want to be?

Shot primarily in slow motion, the competitive nature of the Jiu - Jitsu fighters and racehorses is paralysed by an extreme aestheticisation, transforming scenes of action into objects of contemplation and visual pleasure.

Setting the Scene Paris Agreement: Unlocking the potential of forests to achieve a 1.5 degree and climate resilient world November 12, 10:35 - 11:20 — Bonn Zone, meeting room 5 As part of the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action — Forests Day session, Bronson Griscom, Forest Carbon Science director for The Nature Conservancy will present, «Nature based solutions for achieving the Paris Agreement and bridging the mitigation gap: An Analysis on Nature Climate Solutions».

the nature of the procedural history as «similar to a Star Wars bar scene, the procedural history of this action is bizarre.»

In another employment law dispute over unpaid overtime and meal benefits that had beaten a complex path through the judicial system, the judge described the nature of the procedural history as «similar to a Star Wars bar scene, the procedural history of this action is bizarre.»