Sentences with phrase «of predictable moments»

The plot has its share of predictable moments, and the majority of the twists are visible from miles away.

There are also a lot of predictable moments and cliches that I usually can look past during a coming - of - age drama but for some reason, they were just too noticeable here.

Not exact matches

The causal determinist maintains that the future relative to any moment is fully determinate at that moment and is predictable on the ground of natural regularities by any perfect knower of the initial conditions and relevant laws.

In anticipation of the predictable holiday chaos and our subsequent food coma, I aim for a moment of zen and economy, creating simple and efficient meals, deliciously comforting while using lurkers in the refrigerator as inspiration and freeing up space for turkey - centric leftovers.

In addition, Mhky might not be on the same level with Sanshit... but he is well above all the wing forwards we have in the team at the moment (including Ozil whenever he is deployed on the wing), just imagine an attack line of Laca, Auba and Mhky with Ozil providing all the assists, you can bet you luch that Arsenal will be a handfull for any team to handle and less predictable with fresher options coming off the bench to maintain the pressure (Iwobi, Welbeck and co).

Although Arsenal have an abundance of creative talent, there isn't really much creativity in the side, it all seems very predictable at the moment.

Then it gradually fades into less frequent, and usually less predictable, moments of pain and sadness.

Consider any moment of the geological record of life on Earth: to what extent were the changes of the next 10 or 100 million years predictable at that time?

Nearly every one of the film's emotional scenes is too predictable to hit its mark, but Mr. Jones's dry delivery has its moments.

Critics Consensus: Though it's harmless as family entertainment and has moments of charm, The Santa Clause 2 is also predictable and forgettable.

It's intense, frightening and all too believable — even if in some moments it is also guilty of being all too predictable.

Critic Consensus: Thanks to Al Pacino's stirring central performance - and excellent work from an esteemed supporting cast — Danny Collins manages to overcome its more predictable and heavy - handed moments to deliver a heartfelt tale of redemption.

Black Panther's third act is less impressive by comparison, as the movie's action gets bogged down in CGI overload and its plot beats lack the emotional resonance of earlier moments, either because they are rushed or a bit too conventional (re: predictable).

Critics Consensus: Thanks to Al Pacino's stirring central performance - and excellent work from an esteemed supporting cast — Danny Collins manages to overcome its more predictable and heavy - handed moments to deliver a heartfelt tale of redemption.

The actor runs through Times Square in his underwear in «Birdman»; more challengingly, he wrestles with some predictable soul - searching dialogue passages in his dressing room or in the wings, mixing it up with his skeptical producer (Zach Galifianakis) or gauging his own feelings regarding his actress lover of the moment (Andrea Riseborough).

What follows is a predictable underdog sports flick chock full of training sequences and bathroom humor with a few moments of true beauty and pure comedy.

While it's got to be said «Amerika's Nightmare» certainly has its moments over the space of a complete album the familiar themes and reference points start to feel a shade tired and predictable.

It's a playbook as old as time, and Sutter never deviates from the predictable path, while drowning the film in his trademark for overwhelming morbidity that barely gets a single moment of relief.

The acting is believeable throughout and although predictable, the film has its moments and share of special effects.

Even though it has it's funny moments, the majority of it is quite predictable.

, moments of startles timed exactly as we've come to expect (Director Wes Craven misses the mention of how predictable the killer appearing out of nowhere is during the prologue and proceeds to do the same), and a level of viciousness that undercuts the jokes.

What's genuinely startling is how director Lone Scherfig spikes the romance and comedy with stark moments of violence, as characters we come to know and love succumb to German bombs and, sometimes, less predictable calamities.

All this is, of course, entirely predictable, with a few amusing slapstick twists and the odd sweet soul - searching moment.

As mentioned, there are some self - indulgent moments and the progression is probably going to be pretty predictable for anyone who has ever seen an estranged father / son relationship in a film before, but Real Steel deserves a lot of credit for not gumming up the plot with too much melodrama.

I will admit that some of the use of lighting and camera movements in the second half do provide for some scary moments, but there are an equal amount of scenes that are predictable and laughably bad; one particular scene involving a character winking is particularly (and hilariously) terrible.

Given the predictable conclusion upon which the movie arrives, it's a little surprising that the screenplay by director Kevin Reynolds and Paul Aiello allows for moments of skepticism about that Mystery.

Still this sentimental and often predictable plot serves up some tender moments and a couple of nice twists — even if they feel as sugary as the Christmas cookies you just polished off.

Movies tend to be about those moments, but writer / director Jessica M. Thompson's reflective The Light of the Moon puts the emphasis on the everything, and how one catastrophic event taints everything that comes afterwards, in ways you can not expect, and ways that are tragically predictable.

Perhaps viewers who like survival dramas (the ratings for ABC's similarly premised «Lost» might indicate there are many people who do) will find moments of interest, but Flight of the Phoenix offers very little above standard plot elements and a very predictable turn of events.

There's a moment in which one of the kids tries to get the ghost hunter to say his trademarked line (You probably know it from the original), like he's a trained animal doing the same old tricks for predictable amusement.

Simply put, every moment of the movie is predictable.

However, too many of the jokes and gags are predictable and don't really provoke enough laugh - out - loud moments.

Despite a fine moment of movie intertextuality as it is revealed that the Predator has an alien (from the Alien movies) skull as a trophy, this movie is an otherwise predictable and repetitive affair.

CGI waves, some foggy 3D photography, and a lot of barked orders ensue, and there's not a moment that isn't satisfyingly predictable.

An occasional mildly funny moment with alot of predictable characters.

It's far from the best, being fairly predictable, but for fans of the series there are a lot of little moments to enjoy.

Despite the amusing bits (and there are many), despite the budding ardor (predictable and crowd - pleasing), despite the rarely seen and irresistible smile of Emilia Clarke (who is not allowed moments of levity as the formidable Daenerys Targaryen, the Mother of Dragons, on Game of Thrones), Me Before You is a juicy, ripe red apple of a romance with a razor blade embedded under its skin.

As a teacher who used to teach in units or blocks, I find it much easier to spark curiosity in my students when I spiral math curriculum using 3 act math tasks to teach concepts because solution strategies are much less predictable, students are not expected to use a specific formula or algorithm explicitly taught moments before during a teacher directed lesson and each of these contextual tasks creates an intellectual need for the learning.

We took an office - wide vote and in an overwhelming moment of sanity, green trumped the predictable and boring colors everyone else will get.

Excited by the possibility of replicating this success Patrice lays out a book series that takes similar advantage of predictable cultural moments.

It is less troublesome because its spending a minuscule amount of stress-less time at a moment that is both predictable and convenient for me (just before making a purchase) instead of some stressful phone - time at an unpredictable moment in the future, when it can be inconvenient for me, I might not be in the mood and have more important things to worry about and end up not getting the charge - back in time.

It's tense and creepy with several jumpy moments but once you get used to things, you'll find it rather predictable and your confidence in evading the alien will increase with every encounter, so much so that I found myself sprinting more often towards the end of the game compared to how I slowly crouch - walked in the beginning.

Watch Dogs ensemble cast of characters are impressive, and although the story had some predictable moments, each character felt fleshed out and entertaining in their own way.

Even the game's most memorable setpiece moments, like downing fleets of enemy gunships from atop a speeding train or soaring on a gunship through alien valleys, do little to spice up the boilerplate action and predictable level designs.

As you progress through the game you sort of alternate between Mars and the depths of Hell killing demons, unlocking the story and at multiple stages, the game becomes almost predictable but the sense of boredom as you progress immediately disappears the moment you enter the blood - filled battles.

A stern vein of absurdism runs through the work, as do moments of surprising quietude (check out the expression, thoughtful and true, on The Writer (2000)-RRB-, as well as the more predictable alienation of Handshake (2001 - 02).

In the Daily Telegraph, Mark Hudson visits Tate Britain's exhibition of Queer British Art and comes away a little disappointed: «For all the radicalism promised by its bold title, the exhibition proceeds in a perfectly coherent, but fairly tame fashion through all the predictable marker moments.»

In addition, the class focuses on the manner in which cultural definitions of art shift from one historical moment to the next, and how various methodologies in art historical research help make these transformations explicit, understandable, and, in some cases, predictable.

In one of those more common moments of more predictable behaviour, the shares for GPS navigation systems fell by 9.5 % for Tom Tom and 18 % for Garmin on Tuesday alone, dropping further during the rest of the week.

Daily rituals provide predictable moments throughout each day that we be present with our loved ones and connect, while our bigger traditions serve to weave a single thread of happy memories through our individual stories, tying our hearts together.