Sentences with phrase «of shallow characters»

Many people knock the game for its lack of subtlety, for its lack of maturity and for its portrayal of shallow characters who just liked to blow shit up, but it's for all those reasons that I loved Bulletstorm.

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Legacy values vector at a different plane than resume values, and if underdeveloped, they leave a leader stranded in the shallows of moral character.

The fact that you resort to petty little insults shows the depth of your character and arguments, which are about as shallow as a drop of water in an empty pool.

New friendships tend to be shallow, focused on sharing superficial pastimes rather than on the mutual development of character.

Subject to constant comparisons to predecessors Breaking Bad and Weeds, Good Girls attempts to ask similar questions about morality, deceit and greed, but fails to interest us beyond the shallow circumstances of the characters, ultimately diminishing its value.

attempts to ask similar questions about morality, deceit and greed, but fails to interest us beyond the shallow circumstances of the characters, ultimately diminishing its value.

Why not give thanks — with Garry Wills and a host of hostile critics — that so dreadfully shallow a character has at last been put down?

With the exception of the leads, the characters are shallow and oh - so expendable.

Rather than coming off as an empty paean to the fans, though, the filmmakers» desire to focus on the characters as real people even in the midst of pitched battle keeps even the shallowest viewer of the series engaged in what could have easily been just mindless action set pieces and explosions.

Obiviously Project Soul doesn't want to tackle a modern «Weapon Master» mode, the campaign is shallow as always (and cast with a bunch of unlikable characters).

His girlfriend was a pretty shallow character though, and the plot had a little bit of depth, but not as much depth as it probably could have.

Streep plays the character with a story arc, the shallow social insider who grows a spine to become the Iron Lady of newspaper, Watergate and film («All the President's Men») legend.

Some of them have accents, one of them is a woman, one of them likes to smoke pot, but really they're all slight variations on the same excitable, profane, and shallow archetype, the kind of character that gets their own poster in marketing with a nickname like «The Kid» or something cool - sounding like that, but it's all posturing.

I would advise everyone to instead just watch The Shallows, a superior shark thriller with natural style, tautly wound suspense sequences, and the luxury of an emotionally compelling character arc to go along with the benefits of a sun - kissed Blake Lively.

Once again the character representative of Christianity shows only selfish, shallow callousness while the character representative of Islam offers a well - spring of peace, rest, and reoriented perspective for the weary Western protagonist's soul.

The silly antics continue in this sequel with even more fight scenes and the addition of more characters, albeit shallow ones.

All the characters are shallow and one - dimensional and, while one can argue that this is the point, it doesn't make for 90 minutes of engaging cinema.

I scratched my head in wonder as to why this pair of one - dimensional characters couldn't find happiness in such a shallow story.

It's a clear sign of the times that as well as battling a supernatural force, the characters also have «issues» to contend with, sort of like a shallow genre take on 13 Reasons Why.

It's a tough sell when these characters come across, at most, as shallow representatives for their respective side or, at least, pawns in an admittedly detailed dramatization of history.

Spielberg is the master of spectacle, so there is plenty of eye - popping action to look at, it's just so hollow, and the characters so shallow, and the world so unexamined that RPO never gets off the ground.

Yet for a character - driven storyline, Kuklinski still feels a little shallow and two dimensional; sometimes he even feels like a weaker version of Travis Bickle from Scorsese's Taxi Driver.

It is because of the strength of her performance and willingness to lay herself bare that her character doesn't stray into manic pixie dream girl territory — she's much too fully realized, even as a fantasy, to be rendered that shallow of a stereotype.

It is a very sudden and obvious dip in quality and scale after that though, all the missions henceforth are too short, often boring designed, two plays on multiplayer maps, the one with airplanes instead of using the usual multiplayer controls of planes dumbs it down to the Battlefront style of «point and shoot» controls and have shallow character exposition.

The Disappearance of Alice Creed Kurt [LOVED]-- A very solid 3 character thriller in the vein of Shallow Grave.

Credit I Feel Pretty for not going the way of Shallow Hal, the 2001 Farrelly brothers abomination in which the Jack Black character dated a morbidly obese woman — Gwyneth Paltrow in an egregious fat suit — because to him, she looked like (and was) the real Gwyneth Paltrow.

These characters are drawn shallow, while most of the plotting gets shelved for prolonged periods during each film, making way for the special effects and silly scenes of young tomfoolery to take center stage intermittently.

For the next hour we're treated to shallow, repetitive attempts to deepen Thorin's character as he falls foul to the curse of all that Dwarfish gold.

The feature directorial debut of Aaron Sorkin, Molly's Game is a slight biography, a rambling exposé of an underground poker game featuring plenty of rich and / or famous people, and a shallow psychological study of its main character.

In this way, The Artist is as shallow as Sucker Punch — both use a «story gimmick» to cover weak story and characters (Sucker Punch was conceived as a send up of a various video games.....

WWZ is nothing more than another militarized hollywood mish - mash of pointless cut - scenes, shallow characters, and weak plot.

Both characters give the film some of the depth that the shallow void of high school social politics takes away.

Every character was fairly shallow, but that was mainly because Koei probably assumed that the only people playing the game were big fans of the books, so they didn't elaborate much on what was going on.

I felt as though I was watching the slow decline of Kate's character — Her bike is stolen, relationships didn't work out for her, she was downsizing to a smaller apartment, she was messy and sloppy in her living conditions and relationships (she didn't rush her friend to the hospital when he hurt himself helping her move), she was about to lose her best friend to marriage (where she would have no place), she was starting to sleep around with the guys at work, her job was going nowhere, she was shallow, and if she continued to drink at the same rate she'd most likely incur health problems, lose her job and wind up living under a freeway overpass.

Well the whole goal of Baader - Meinhof was the shallow characters because they were all influenced by the times and the violence.

On the audio commentary, Burger speaks of adding characters such as Sophie and Leopold, and the 110 minute film still feels quite shallow at times.

The two - time Oscar winner works hard to create a real character out of this collection of eccentricities, but this shallow, condescending movie constantly undermines her efforts

Shallow characters who regain their humanity is the stock and trade of Cruise's film career.

However, this character study, ultimately about the forgiveness of one's self, is still rough around the edges with a script that veers dangerously towards the shallow at times, in gratuitous moments that are hard to ignore.

With a predictable script, shallow plotting, and characters that are pale imitations of ones you've seen in much funnier films, there just isn't anything here to recommend.

It's in this hand - off from one tone to another where Macdonald fumbles the ball, as he hasn't given us enough of an emotional connection between the characters in order to feel for their plight, or even care about Daisy's newfound romance, before they're all thrust into danger and having to propel themselves forward out of a sense of love that we feel is shallow and, in a real world sense, would likely have been forgotten in the face of the death and destruction that surrounds them.

Attempting to stuff bullying, grief, disease, and mythology does little to give any of them weight, doubly so when the characters feel as shallow as they are and the actors feel this limp.

The only reason for watching such a shallow and worn drama is because of Crudup's subtle performance and how he deftly moves through the thin script by masking himself in deeply drawn - out inner psychological twists that give his character a somewhat fresh feel.

Ron Burgundy is the purest incarnation of Ferrell's signature strain of comic character: crass, pompous, sexist, shallow and painfully lacking in self - awareness.

Using Will Arnett's brilliant, self - aggrandising, shallow, desperately insecure Batman as a starting point, The Lego Batman Movie then spirals out into an all - encompassing deconstruction of the character, his world, and all the inherent joys and flaws therein.

Me, Myself & Irene was wildly uneven, Shallow Hal was a one - joke movie that beat the viewer over the head with its message, and now we have Stuck on You, a movie which is so determined to take its main characters seriously that it takes all of the air out the humorous portions of the film.

It's a messy casserole of Avengers promotion and crossover frippery, shoehorning in unnecessary supporting characters and dual archvillains, devolving its hero to the shallow dickweed he was at the start of the first movie just to generate some character conflict, throwing in a little slapstick martial arts so its director can have an onscreen star moment alongside a sexy A-lister...

Although it is colorful, and the actors are all very likeable, even if their characters do come across as shallow and dim - witted most of the time, Pride & Prejudice isn't particularly funny, witty, or romantic.

Cancun is awesome» — just one of the many well - placed lines exampling the shallow lives of the rich and pretentious, the polar opposite of Hayek's character's embracing, deeply spiritual Beatriz.

But Blood Wars «screenplay (by Kyle Ward, who co-conceived the story with Cory Goodman) is clunky and uneconomical; for a film that runs 90 minutes, it frequently stops dead in its tracks so characters can narrate the action, or highlight their shallow thoughts and emotions to the point of absurdity.