Sentences with phrase «of ancillary characters»

I created several of the ancillary characters, and took a few liberties with members of the royal family.

The sense of history is missing, and in its place is the tone of a fine fairy tale, overcome on occasion by the screenplay's repeated summoning of ancillary characters to hint at a future where a greater evil must be defeated.

They make their way to a ravaged, now nearly forest - like, and, obviously, zombie - infested London (after a stop in a forest — another solid action sequence, punctuated by Parks showing what he's willing to do — that whittles down the number of ancillary characters accompanying the party).

The story does get bogged down in a few of its ancillary characters, namely Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Natalie (Scarlett Johansson), both members of SHIELD, whose presence here is solely to bring up another entry in the comic canon (along with a post-credit scene featuring the discovery of a prop from another hero in the increasingly incestuous cinematic Marvel Universe).

Not exact matches

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens collects the story content from the newest Star Wars film along with a handful of ancillary stories to take the characters through.

These stories exist in the same universe and feature the same cast of characters (with most of the supporting players of the first movie taking on ancillary roles in this one).

Jim is absent for a good portion of the film as we get to know the ancillary players, so that when the conclusion focusses only on Redford's and LaBeouf's characters, it's a bit of a let - down.

Its wrenching climactic moment, too, focuses on an ancillary character, who finds herself in the most difficult, but vital, of situations.

And it's that idea of familiarity that ultimately causes The Forgotten to fall short of its potential: there's way too much information provided by an ancillary character (compare with the intricacy of the involvement of the narrator of Dark City), and the twists and turns — with the exception of one marvellous, terrifying moment — are telegraphed, enough so that they're neutered of most of their weight.

The film is loosely based on a string of real French robberies from the early 1980s, but director Oliver Marchal doesn't bend over backwards trying to conform to some detailed procedural schematic, and the material benefits from a gritty, streamlined telling that keeps the focus first and foremost on the characters and not the ancillary mayhem that surrounds them and that they later cause.

For another, the details of the heist are far more complicated with a lot of moving parts and ancillary characters, such as Dwight Yoakam's prison warden, who have no idea that they are playing a part in Jimmy's grandiose scheme.

Downtime in between levels is spent traipsing around the open world map of Manhattan, performing checkpoint races and hunting down gold bricks to open up ancillary stages to earn more character unlocks.

This is an incredibly busy film, with a three - way narrative that follows the plot of Tolkien's book, begins the process of revealing the central villain that will put all of Middle - earth in jeopardy, and, for some reason, inserts a romantic triangle between an ancillary character, a character from the previous films who has no role in the actual story, and another who is the creation of the screenwriters.

So, with all of that extra time, the studio might as well keep tossing more good actors into this thing until every ancillary character is played by someone you recognize from something else.

On the one hand, the movie presents the old standby thriller plot of mistaken identity with the supporting and ancillary characters playing their roles with sincerity toward that end (with a couple exceptions).

While Russo doesn't specify who's taking centre stage, he confirms that all of the Avengers will be back, joined by «some new Avengers and some ancillary characters.»

Sega's attempt is, as you would imagine fronted by their Blue poster - boy Sonic the Hedgepig and a collection of less successful ancillary characters like Tails and that cat - shaped thing one that no - one has heard of.

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens collects the story content from the newest Star Wars film along with a handful of ancillary stories to take the characters through.

It's probably impossible to create a game about an ancillary character and it'd be ridiculously anticlimactic to watch an NPC save the world instead of you.

This new E3 presentation introduced the mother of that child for the first time along with a host of monsters and ancillary characters some hostile and some, apparently, helpful.

Their weird creations, usually part - design and part - sculpture, look like organisms found on the bottom of the ocean, or perhaps ancillary Dr. Seuss characters — sometimes a combination thereof.

With this approach, a less restrictive reading of the Association Agreement and its Protocol could have been reached, while the case at hand still could have been easily dismissed (as the Advocate General also does in the second part of his opinion, pointing towards the ancillary character of the passive freedom to receive services in the concrete circumstances of the case, paras 78 - 79).