But on the other side of things, while it isn't an origin story, it actually still manages to hit a lot of
the origin story beats that we're used to, just with a slight adjustment to them.
Not exact matches
The movie touches on the main superhero - movie
beats that we expect: the
origin story, the demonstration of powers, the final battle with the equally...
Ant - Man offers the usual
beats of a superhero
origin story, but at least it's trying to give those
beats a different tune under which to drum.
offers the usual
beats of a superhero
origin story, but at least it's trying to give those
beats a different tune under which to drum.
Guiding Aloy through Horizon's beautifully rendered world and fending off would - be killers proves to be the glue that holds Horizon together, connecting
story beats involving tribal conflicts and sci - fi
origin stories.
Arguably one of the weirder properties under the Marvel banner, «Doctor Strange» marries its inventive visuals — from the colorful, kaleidoscopic imagery to the physics - bending action sequences — with the usual superhero
story beats to deliver the best solo
origin movie since «Iron Man.»
There's the potential for an intriguing
origin story in these
beats, and it should tell you how impatient the screenplay (by Joby Harold, Ritchie, and Lionel Wigram) is when you learn that the entirety of that tale is told in fast - forward.
Joining the ranks of other B - list characters like Ant - Man and the Guardians of the Galaxy, «Doctor Strange» marries its inventive visuals with the usual superhero
story beats to deliver the best solo
origin movie since director Jon Favreau kicked off the MCU with «Iron Man.»
It's an
origin story that lazily follows the most basic
beats of a «ragtag team of scientists in space encounter disaster» movie.
While this is yet another superhero
origin story, Wonder Woman's conviction keeps its more common
beats alive.
Between the ascension of Marvel Studios and it's competitors filling the movie theaters with comic book adaptations, audiences have been
beaten over the head with
origin stories and heroes who question the point of their existence.
Not a huge negative, just what one expects out of an
origin story by hitting all of the
beats without excelling in any area.
I agree about the
story beats, but I guess there's really no way to get around that with an
origins story, y ’ know?
They tell the same
origin story of Ratchet & Clank battling Chairman Drek, with the same major
beats and character arcs.
Off on her first ever adventure in 2013 - thanks to the time dilation granted by the current fad for
origin stories and reboots - she was shipwrecked,
beat up, brutalised and left without any real tombs to raid or endangered creatures to massacre.