Sentences with phrase «off than a sequel»

More of a spin - off than a sequel, though still marketed as the latter, On Stranger Tides follows the adventures of one of the protagonists of the previous three films in the series, fan favorite Jack Sparrow (Depp, The Tourist).

Not exact matches

It is more than enough to kick off the next few «Jurassic» sequels which will definitely happen now.

There have been 11 versions of the game in between the two releases and three spin - offs, but Rovio is calling this one the «sequel,» referring to it as Angry Birds 2 rather than Angry Birds 13.

You'd be much better off slamming though another round of the PSX original than to suffer through this underwhelming sequel.

Because the two films had been created by splitting an existing work in half, rather than it being a direct successor, or the two being filmed back to back like The Matrix sequels, they argued that it would be unwise to write off Volume 1 until Volume 2 had been given the chance to finish the story.

You know you're in for a long haul when Kate Winslet's clipboard - wielding Jeanine, leader of the Erudite faction, comes off less like a Hillary Clinton than a weary Applebee's supervisor at the end of a 14 - hour shift in this plodding sequel to «Divergent.»

That's undoubtedly a hard trick to pull off, especially when it comes to balancing strengths and weaknesses, but I think it made Total Warhammer a much stronger game than this more traditional sequel.

The main contradiction to all of this praise, of course, is that the events that occurred in the first film (like killing off the entire team in the opening mission) lead to the less - than - impressive sequel.

Rather than a sequel or spin - off, this is a spiritual successor to 2008's Cloverfield, a terrifically tense thriller that builds a genuine sense of horror.

2» rocketed to an estimated $ 145 million debut in North America, kicking off Hollywood's summer movie season with something the movie business has been craving: a sequel more successful than the original.

As always, there are far too many sequels, spin - offs, remakes and reboots clogging the cinemas, but hopefully they'll be better than 2016's lacklustre batch.

Former Vice President Gore spoke to more than 2,000 filmgoers here Thursday evening, where a sequel to his 2006 documentary «An Inconvenient Truth» kicked off this year's annual festival.

With a fistful of Oscars (including Best Picture and Best Actor), a couple of sequels and a twenty - years - later remake and spin - off TV series, this adaptation of John Ball's lean thriller obviously qualifies as more than just another small town murder mystery.

Two of the actor's last three films have barely received theatrical release and, in between them, this Ghost Rider sequel became the rare Marvel flop, its indefensible $ 51.8 million domestic pull (less than half of its predecessor's take, though it also had half the budget) ranking it lower than all but four films to spawn from the comics publisher: The Punisher and its sequel, Jennifer Garner's Elektra (a baffling spin - off to Johnson's weak Daredevil), and the notorious Howard the Duck.

More of a spin - off than a direct sequel, «Yoga Hosers» centers on two 15 - year - old convenience store workers, played once again by Harley Quinn Smith and Lily - Rose Depp.

After 2012's The Hunger Games caught us off - guard with its subtle themes, this sequel more than lives up to the hype, dramatically expanding the scale of the action while letting the actors deepen their characters...

Despite the fact that this too - soon spin - off feels like a mere cash - in on the Disney Cars / Planes marketing machine, this sequel is actually a lot more fun than expected.

Lego Dimensions is then set for two years of support with new figures and level packs coming out over that time, rather than yearly game releases, but you'd hope that these can all be brought forward to any sequel, given that the gameplay is based off the standard Lego game formula.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is director Matt Reeves sequel to Rupert Wyatt's prequel, which was in - turn a reboot of a franchise born in the late sixties that went on to spawn more than 5 spin - offs as well as a television series.

Blade Runner 2049 is hitting theaters this week, and the early buzz for the sequel 35 years in the making is off the charts, with some reactions saying that it just might be better than its 1982 predecessor.

So unlike with the first film, which was cohesively held together by the bond of its main three characters, co-writers and directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore prove they've bitten off more than they can chew with this sequel.

Secretly, you pine for a second Paddington sequel to arrive sooner rather than later, and pray that the franchise doesn't branch off to cheapo TV specials and painful Christmas ads.

However, what makes it better than its sequel, spin - offs and various rip - offs are the excellent production designs by Ron (Alien) Cobb and the music by Basil (Robocop) Poledouris.

2008 was no exception as its summer contained no less than six sequels, not to mention one semi - sequel / reboot (The Incredible Hulk) and one spin - off (Star Wars: The Clone Wars).

The less than magical sequel to her enchanting NANNY MCPHEE is at once a story of British stiff upper lips during the Blitz, a bizarrely cartoonish tale of a gambler without the means to pay off his debt to an boldly blonde pair of collectors, a bland story of misbehaving children in need of Nanny McPhee's firm hand, and a brief diversion into the Expressionist Cinema of the Weimar Republic with father and son at odds.

Nintendo showed off the cartoony strategy game «Pikmin 3,» anti-gravity racer «Mario Kart 8,» 2 - D platformer «Donkey Kong Country Returns: Tropical Freeze,» 3 - D platformer «Super Mario 3D World,» slick action sequel «Bayonetta 2» and a speedier rendition of «The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker» for the Wii U. For gamers who couldn't make it to E3, the titles will be on display at more than 100 Best Buy Co. stores in North America this week.

Summit Entertainment is taking Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke off the sequel in this big new franchise and Lexi Alexander's Punisher: War Zone bombed, earning less than half what Hollywood thought it would.

With Lumines: Electronic Symphony, the series grows and expands in ways that render prior games as more spin - offs than true sequels.

Considering that the first Major League was enjoyable but nothing more than passable, perhaps lower expectations are in order for any sequels that might spin off of it.

With San Andreas taking in more than $ 113 million globally upon its launch, the disaster film would seem to be a proven genre again, one that Roland Emmerich has parlayed to success several times, though they don't tend to lead to sequels, so this might be another one off.

And it's also worth noting that as with the first «Twilight,» «The Hunger Games» has been slow off the blocks internationally — it took only 40 % of its box office abroad, meaning it ultimately ended up taking less worldwide than the «Twilight» sequels.

In fact, Deadpool 2 is so much more a complete vision of a Deadpool movie that the first film retroactively feels somewhat lesser in comparison, like a proof of concept experiment (with little confidence behind it) or extended test footage reel... Ultimately, it pays off with a Deadpool sequel that is bigger and better than the first film.

The Conjuring spin - offs have been manifesting faster than ghosts at an abandoned mental institution over the past couple of years, with the first of those, Annabelle, even inspiring a sequel of its own.

This game was followed up by sequels and spin - offs that, in some cases, were significantly better than the original.

While quick and eager to offer food for thought with its questions raised, they are then far less sure to offer any sort of satisfying explanations or even at least the beginnings of them, the wishy - washy vagueness ultimately coming off as a willful decision less for intriguing, stimulating ambiguity than to rather gracelessly leave open back doors for sequels.

It's a testament to him and the cast that even though it's a sequel with multiple stories that have to be juggled with, they manage to pull it off better than most sequels can do.

The sequel sold more than its predecessor, and made a killing on DLC expansions; one of which brought Frank back into the fold in Dead Rising 2: Off the Record.

«Olympus Has Fallen» was a pretty blatant rip - off of John McTiernan's «Die Hard,» so it should come as no surprise that «London Has Fallen» — which is more of a spiritual successor than a literal sequel to the 2013 film — takes a page from another installment in the John McClane series, «Die Hard with a Vengeance,» by staging it as a buddy movie between Gerard Butler «s gruff, no - nonsense Secret Service agent and Aaron Eckhart «s hostage - prone president.

The sequel picks up pretty much where Fantastic Beasts left off, but moves the action to Paris as Newt and his friends are enlisted to help thwart Grindelwald's plans by none other than Albus Dumbledore, played by Jude Law in this new film.

Plus, it sounds like it may be taking some more time than initially thought to get The LEGO Movie Sequel off the ground.

Shot for very little money, it put Henenlotter's name on the map and allowed him to go on and make more off the wall horror films like Brain Damage, Frankenhooker, Bad Biology, and no less than two Basket Case sequels.

This tardy - to - needless sequel to 2003's unusually scabrous studio comedy plays the same dirty tricks with only negligible variations: rather than shopping malls, incorrigible wash - up Willie Soke (Billy Bob Thornton) and his diminutive sidekick (Tony Cox) are reteamed to rip off a Chicago homeless charity.

It's great to see them create games other than Musou sequels and spin - offs.

It didn't take off and the series was dropped by the publisher, although the book has since become a much stronger - seller than that first Penguin book in 2010 (because I've self - published four sequels to the Midnight Ink book since then).

With very little to distinguish the game between its predecessor, and more fat on the bone than a blue whale, Shadow of War started out promising, and I quickly felt very much at home, but one game and 15 - 20hours into its sequel and the novelty had finally worn off.

One thing I like is that they are sort of mashing all the animal crossing games together and improving on them to create this game and make it more unique but also the similar to its predecessors because in my opinion the other 2 were more like spin - offs or successors than actual sequels so im going to recap on how, wild world seemed more like an update (kind of like animal forest + and + e) because all it didn't really add much and it kinda removed more but the exception is that it was really made to be a portable version other than a sequel so they have an excuse for removed content plus, all they really removed was 3 features.

Since then, the action - RPG fantasy series has gone on to sell more than 40 million copies worldwide through various sequels and spin - off titles.

Weird how iam8bit chooses to reprint sequels rather than the games that kicked these franchises off, but I digress...

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspeoff more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspeOff the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects