It has been such a long while since someone actually made a weird movie just for the sake of being weird in today's conformist Hollywood that one can't help but like Rubber; even when the movie seem to roll about in search
of a coherent plot towards the end of its very brief running time of 85 minutes.
The movie flirts with the outline
of a coherent plot, but the answers to its dramatic questions have all sunk to the ocean floor in a plume of beatific marine footage and Cronenbergian body horror.
To be fair, through the eye of Yates those visuals are formidable, and Rowling fills these scenes with some truly original, weird events, but up to the movie's halfway point it's almost entirely focused on fantasy beasts and action instead
of a coherent plot.
Unfortunately, the lack
of coherent plot (well, it is about stoners after all) becomes tedious, and when you don't know what the hell is going on it's difficult to get invested in characters» plights.
The caper can barely bother to make the surfing and sky - diving part
of a coherent plot, resulting in an extreme sports highlight reel burdened with too many dead spots
Not exact matches
What it's about: The
plot isn't entirely
coherent, but the third «Pirates» movie was a visual spectacle that had the characters sail off the edge
of the map and find what lies beyond.
At the end
of the day, after all the wavefunctions had been calculated and probabilities
plotted, shouldn't quantum mechanics have something
coherent to say about nature?
What this film seriously lacks in a
coherent and discernable
plot and character development, it more than makes up for it with tons
of style, great cinematography, and well - placed tension.
Rather than collecting a bunch
of funny people together on a set and just letting them riff, the film establishes
coherent characters and drops them into a twisty mystery
plot that's tightly crafted enough to generate some real narrative momentum while never getting too bogged down in its own
plot that it forgets to be funny.
Maybe it was just as cheesy, maybe the effects weren't as stunning, but at least there was chemistry with the cast, a
coherent plot, and the goofball jokes were an expected part
of the package and well - executed - a huge improvement over its predecessor.
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.
There's less a
plot in this movie and more a series
of extravagant events hoping to be a
coherent film.
While the original film had a lot
of incredibly funny moments, it didn't always have the most
coherent plot even if it did have a solid villain.
Starting with little more than a sketch
of an idea, a few
coherent characters and some very specific locations, the
plot and the nitty - gritty would all emerge when the filming began.
As I mentioned in the intro, Full Throttle is a bit more
coherent than the first film, and unlike its predecessor, they actually construct each scene as part
of the overall
plot, even if it is sometimes tangential.
One
of its earliest efforts, Iron Man 2, was a poorly received mess that reeked
of studio meddling, sacrificing a
coherent plot to lay groundwork for an upcoming slate
of new heroes who would eventually form The Avengers.
It comes with a fairly hyperactive tone that makes the movie feel more like a connected series
of comedy bits rather than a
coherent plot.
Action films then expanded in the 80s and 90s, with the growth
of special effects techniques and in response to jaded audiences who demanded faster
plots (
coherent or not), greater violence, and stimulation.
After scientists have done the hard work
of working out these relations, it is possible to use one ice - core record to represent broader regions IF you restrict consideration to the parts that are widely
coherent, so it is O.K. to
plot a smoothed version
of an Antarctic temperature record against CO2 over long times and discuss the relation as if it is global, but a lot
of background is required.