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But despite the number of subplots going on that include parallels to a particular commander - in - chief, amnesia, and betrayal to name a few, Vaughn and Jane Goldman manage to tell a story that gels just enough to avoid becoming incomprehensible.

There are a lot of subplots going on and it was good fun to have them all meet up after six months apart.

Not exact matches

While there are many, many compelling things about the film, I found myself gravitating toward a teeny - tiny subplot: when both Joel (Jim Carrey) and Clementine (Kate Winslet) accidentally hear the tapes each recorded of the other in their attempts to erase each other from their memory, they get a glimpse of what their former romantic partner was thinking of them at the time things went south.

However, the film is poorly written and is full of unnecessary subplots that don't go anywhere.

It's just as clear, however, that the film's incongruously languid pace stands as an almost insurmountable obstacle virtually from the get - go, as filmmakers Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg have employed an episodic structure that becomes more and more problematic as the thin narrative unfolds - with the ongoing emphasis on subplots of a decidedly underwhelming nature (eg Jim's continuing efforts at resisting the advances of a sultry neighbor) compounding the movie's increasingly lackluster atmosphere.

But this time out, Gore Verbinski «s last go - round, it seemed the only way they could cram in more Sparrow was to include a hallucination subplot in which we get multiple Sparrows talking to each other — the film abandoning even the pretense of interest in the bland, chemistry - free romance between Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom.

Now each of these subplots do make sense within the overall plot of the movie, but it felt like there wasn't enough to go with, so the writers filled in with fluff.

That's a pretty big strike against the movie from the start, and although Blitz tries his best to mold the story into a sort of adult «Breakfast Club,» the characters are paper - thin and none of the subplots pay off, including a potential romance between Eloise and a hunky wedding crasher (Thomas Cocquerel) that goes nowhere.

Subplots such as Fred's troubles with his girlfriend, Willy (Higgins (Evan Almighty) playing Santa's right - hand elf) trying to get together with a lovely fellow helper (Banks, Invincible), Fred's friendship with a precocious African - American orphan (Thompson), and the unendurable dysfunctional family squabbles only add to the feeling that the script by Dan Fogelman (Cars) started with a kernel of inspiration and little knowledge of where to go with it once it is set up.

In a subplot that goes nowhere, at least nowhere interesting, Norah, under false pretenses, befriends a woman (Mary Lynn Rajskub) whose mother was a victim in one of the crime scene mop - ups.

Upon presenting her novel to the local publicist, he condemns her sequestering the romantic elements that her ilk (other women) should want to read in favor of a horror subplot involving things going bump in the night.

It perhaps goes out of its way to resolve some subplots that would have been better left alone, but that didn't matter so much when I was grinning like an idiot at the pure fun of it all.

Dolan goes on to explain that «this «villain» subplot, albeit funny and entertaining, didn't feel like it belonged to the rest of the story, which ended up not being on heroes or their nemesis, bur [sic] rather on childhood, and its dreams.»

There is too much going on as the film keeps going back and forth between all of its subplots.

Once Garant and Lennon's subplot merges with the demonic insanity going on with Corddry and Bibb, along with the introduction of Bibb's free - spirited sister (Lindhome), things reach a zany peak that bring plenty of laughs.

And he winds up being convinced to go for a ride on the Spatterbox, the yacht of a well - to - do blowhard, with Danny, where they endure a number of close calls (depicted unconvincingly with rear projection scenery) before getting lost at sea, a subplot with all the drama of an «ALF» episode.

But a distracting subplot about a homophobic, off - his - rocker neighbor simmers distractingly on the margins of the narrative, before giving way to a truly ruinous plot turn — a genre leap so misjudged that all the goodwill Silva has built up until that point goes up in flames.

Odin doesn't cross the line into criminal acts without the injection of a drug abuse subplot that has him going off of the deep end.

Considering this is a comedy and most comedies suck nowadays, I am not going to spend a lot of time talking about some of the silly subplots that go on in the film.

Adapted from the novel of the same name by Dennis Lahane, Live by Night is massive in scope, containing a number of subplots, locales, and characters to go along with it.

Of course, because none of the subplots and multiple characters carry any weight, this also means that most of the serviceable acting performances (Affleck has rounded up an impressive cast of names including Zoe Saldana, Chris Cooper, Sienna Miller, Bredan Gleeson etc) go to wastOf course, because none of the subplots and multiple characters carry any weight, this also means that most of the serviceable acting performances (Affleck has rounded up an impressive cast of names including Zoe Saldana, Chris Cooper, Sienna Miller, Bredan Gleeson etc) go to wastof the subplots and multiple characters carry any weight, this also means that most of the serviceable acting performances (Affleck has rounded up an impressive cast of names including Zoe Saldana, Chris Cooper, Sienna Miller, Bredan Gleeson etc) go to wastof the serviceable acting performances (Affleck has rounded up an impressive cast of names including Zoe Saldana, Chris Cooper, Sienna Miller, Bredan Gleeson etc) go to wastof names including Zoe Saldana, Chris Cooper, Sienna Miller, Bredan Gleeson etc) go to waste.

What waits at the end of the tunnel ties into a subplot involving a Mexican police officer and his young son, but it goes much further into the dark heart of this battle.

Sure, Nicloux often goes a little too far with his deliberate provocation (excessive gore shocks until it just dulls the senses, while in one scene, there's a close - up of a leech - infested penis), and a subplot involving a Vietnamese prostitute isn't quite fleshed out enough beyond being a mere vehicle for Ulliel's feverish temperament, but this is brave, exciting filmmaking, and a fine amuse bouche to Apocalypse Now's meatier take on the same subject matter.

Other subplots freely come and go — the most prominent centers on a stylist (singer Nicki Minaj) coming between married employees (Common and Eve)-- but the twin strengths of the movie remain its amusing asides and, across the field, its civic - minded seriousness.

Even though he's the only one actually committing here, Michael B. Jordan might as well have been phased in from another brand of C - grade rom - com as his super-sized cheesy, level 11 cliché romantic subplot butts heads with the should - be elbow nudging plot line going on with the other fellas.

Add into the mix a subplot involving Hans» cancer striken wife and a mysterious masked killer who is going around taking down underworld figures, and «Seven Psychopaths» has a lot of narrative balls to juggle, and doesn't always handle them satisfactorily.

As you can clearly see, there is a lot going on here, with dozens of characters wrapped up with several subplots in the elaborate tapestry that is «Avengers: Infinity War.»

The film thereafter establishes itself as a fast - paced, downright fun horror - movie ride that's ideally suited to its Midnight Madness slot, although it's admittedly difficult not to question the inclusion of an entirely useless subplot detailing the ongoing exploits of Brent's best friend (ie it seems like the two storylines are going to converge at some point, but this never happens).

Neither of these subplots connected with me as much as I wanted them to, and even though both have a number of strong moments overall each is depicted with such timid restraint I found it difficult to care about anything either man was currently going through.

Scripters Simon Boyes and Adam Mason attempt to liven things up by sprinkling the proceedings with distinctly oddball subplots, including an assassin dying of a terminal illness, but, like everything else contained in this mess of a screenplay, such digressions wind up going absolutely nowhere (ie there's no satisfactory payoff for anything here).

Additionally, the romance subplot between Chiwetel Ejiofor and Nicole Kidman never really goes anywhere; it's an unnecessary distraction that doesn't further the main storyline or add much to the development of their characters.

One of them — a subplot about money owned to a bookie (Terrence Howard) that literally goes nowhere — is unnecessary.

Aside from the complete lack of comedy, there are subplots that go absolutely nowhere.

The Bob subplot in Fulci's City of the Living Dead used to make me furious and I still roll my eyes, but the anger is gone.

Then there are the fan - vexing elements of his supposed half - human heritage and a strong romantic subplot with his companion Grace (a doctor who performs heart surgery right after going to the opera).

A subplot about Handy and President Cole running against each other in some contrived mayoral race that showcases every variety of quirky senior citizen (the nudist, the potty - mouthed old biddy usually played by Betty White, the sassy ethnic earth mama, usually Asian or black) doesn't go anywhere and just makes an already laboured piece seem interminable.

WHY: As far as WWII movies go, this stodgy historical drama is pretty forgettable, dragged down by a sappy, East - meets - West romantic subplot that's become all too common with these types of films.

In Hollywood math, the 61 - year - old actress is the perfect age to be a septuagenarian's love interest, which she does in one of the subplots that doesn't particularly go anywhere.

This actually results in two subplots: one having John coerce Ella to confronting the man (with a shotgun hidden down his pant leg) and the other involving the revelation of a long - ago affair that went on under Ella's nose.

In fact, it might just be his worst movie to date — an adaptation of Ben Fountain's 2012 satirical war novel that's plagued by some really stilted dialogue and acting, as well as a number of awful subplots that go nowhere.

We never see Jules» various meetings with the prospective CEOs, instead forced to take her word that they went as poorly as she insists, while a third - act subplot involving her seemingly awesome husband is horribly mishandled, completely missing the point of his actions.

Cemiria Dawn, the creator of the petition, then goes on to provide a bulleted list of itemized complaints about the film, ranging everywhere from Luke Sykwalker's characterization to the «Cheap, sometimes childish humor» to the entire Canto Bight subplot with Rose and Finn.

Though uneven and hampered by go - nowhere subplots, Rick Famuyiwa's Sundance hit mostly lives up to its title, especially when it hangs within the margins of the margins alongside teenage geeks living in the L.A. suburb of Inglewood.

There are a solid four plots going on in Mother's Day, and they all have their own subplots and character arcs, which doesn't mean it's necessarily hard to keep track, it's just hard to care about one or more of the characters when there are so many.

If you have subplots going nowhere, scenes that advance nothing or characters that fail to come alive; if parts of your story are told in the wrong sequence, you've begun it too early or dragged on the ending too long: a structural editor will pick that up.

I ADORED Leviathan — that trilogy was one of the few where I've actually cared about the romance as anything more than a subplot, mainly because it was so gradual and creeping and wonderful Scott Westerfeld is a brilliant world builder and every time I try and write steampunk, I just sit there going, «I'll never be as good as this... sigh.»

Everywhere you go there are eccentric characters, strange subplots and weird configurations of rocks and trees which lead you to new puzzles and surprises.

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