Sentences with phrase «other subplot»

It would be perfectly acceptable if there wasn't a whole other subplot about one of the characters getting sent abusive text messages — how is she able to get a signal?

Let us know which outcomes you are expecting on the final day, and whether there are any other subplots you're particularly keeping an eye on.

Anything wants to be an unconventional love story but gets distracted by other subplots, and McNeil doesn't take the time to develop what becomes the central story line.

It's actually somewhat enjoyable when following around the documentary crew (which includes Walsh's filmmaker and Callies» meteorologist), but the movie comes to a screeching halt every time it cuts away to one of the other subplots.

Other subplots add zero value.

It doesn't know if it wants to be a tale of Robin Hood style Prohibition - era mobsters, a classic revenge story, a war between gangsters and the Ku Klux Klan, a battle over turf between Irish and Italian mobs, the startup of a casino, or whatever the other subplots are that I'm forgetting.

, President Nixon and Tyrion Lannister verse our hero's and a raft of other subplots and ideas to boot.

Meanwhile, other subplots pop up and then disappear, failing to mean anything in the end.

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.

Two other subplots involve Abby (Paula Malcomson) and the fact that she spends more time with Ray's brothers than she does with her husband.

Emotional manipulation aside, some of the other subplots that pop up during the film's last third aren't explained very well.

But other subplots work beautifully, not the least of which is an ongoing discussion between Blocker and his grizzled Master Sergeant (Rory Cochrane) over what should be the cost for all the violence they've seen and all the death they themselves have had a hand in delivering unto guilty and innocent alike.

The other subplots rack up alongside some of the better previous Star Wars adventures.

Star Wars The Last Jedi has proved divisive online among fans, with many railing against the film's depiction of Luke Skywalker, aspects of the Force, and other subplots.

Throw in a handful of other subplots of varying quality, and nobody will accuse «True Blood» of skimping on narrative threads or action, even if some of it is of the fang - gnashing variety and risks choking on its own excess.

Especially egregious is Team Cap — we don't get much time to absorb his new status as not - Captain America, and his eventual reunion with deprogrammed bestie Bucky (Sebastian Stan) is as rushed as most of the film's other subplots.

Not exact matches

The feud between O'Neal and fellow superstar Kobe Bryant; the presumed lame - duck status of coach Phil Jackson, whose contract negotiations with team owner Jerry Buss, the father of his Significant Other, are on hold; the frustrations of Hall of Fame rentals Malone and Gary Payton — all have made for compelling subplots but not always compelling hoops.

It did try to be honest to what really happened and did not throw in your typical love story or other pointless subplot to muddy the facts.

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.

Others see a sexist subplot to the partnership between Republicans and the breakaway Democrats, one that has denied Andrea Stewart - Cousins, leader of the mainstream Senate Democrats, the title of Senate majority leader, and a role in the behind - the - scenes deal making now conducted by the so - called four men in a room.

David Cameron did his best to ruin the buildup to his leader's speech by getting into a muddle over credit cards, but the best subplot came from none other than Boris.

The House of Representatives seemed poised to pass a bill to keep the government open until 16 February, after promising conservatives a vote on a major increase in defense spending, a hard - line immigration bill as well as other unnamed concessions that the conservative House Freedom Caucus leader Mark Meadows called «subplots» on Thursday night.

The same can be said for a minor romantic subplot involving Greg and his girlfriend Amber (Alison Brie), which is very much underdeveloped and doesn't add much to the final product other than a somewhat clichéd angle where Tommy becomes jealous of Greg's new relationship.

The film's uncomplicated plotting allows plenty of space for goofy little throwaway gags — like a running joke about the young McGregor's feeble attempts at birdwatching — that other films might have cut to make way for various subplots or emotional character moments.

That makes a subplot tacked on to put Anastasia and others in peril — the seeds of which were planted in the last film — feel all the more strained and absurd.

The talent speaks many a metaphor between Alexander and Achilles and Hercules, along with Achilles and his lover, Patroclus (AN: a subplot which was amended in this year's other sword and sandals epic, Troy, making the lovers «cousins» instead), represented in Alexander in the form of Hephaistion (Leto), Alexander's most trusted friend (lover?).

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.

The lead actors now had real chemistry with each other and had reached a new level of maturity that made the puppy love subplots all the more believable.

The rest of the cast is either wasted or hammy, with ridiculous subplots and contrived ways for white hats and black hats to find each other for routing shootouts and fisticuffs.

On the other side of the coin, there is an entire subplot devoted to Brad's fertility, along with a payoff involving the comparison between Brad and Dusty's testicles by a fertility doctor (Bobby Cannavale), and a whole sequence at an NBA basketball game where Brad gets drunk and makes a complete fool of himself falls flat.

Other dramatic subplots surface, too, most notably Earp's evolving relationship with Doc Holliday (Victor Mature), who has abandoned his practice and his woman (Cathy Downs) back East for a life in Tombstone as a hard - drinking gambler and saloon - keeper.

The other half of the movie involves Cecil's home life, which is reduced to his wife Gloria (Oprah Winfrey) turning from a life of heavy drinking and carrying on an affair with a neighbor (Terrence Howard) to becoming a better person, and a contrived series of subplots involving his eldest son Louis (David Oyelowo), who sees his father as weak and wants to fight the good fight for equality.

There's an actual tenderness that develops between Tyler and Bomer, though their shared scenes create an altogether different kind of energy from the other characters, as if indeed this was the episode of some cheesy television series whirring back and forth between the banal subplots of its human characters.

Two blandly written characters, with one given significantly less than the other, marks for an uninteresting subplot.

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.

We get the requisite subplot that obliges Arlo to put others» needs in front of his own (just as Poppa had encouraged him to do).

But like many other sequels that have come before it, A Bad Moms Christmas makes the classic mistake of thinking the addition of several new characters and subplots is the same thing as building off of the first film's story in any meaningful way.

Perhaps it's not even a question of the film having a main plot at all, but rather, multiplying subplots that push up against each other so that you can't separate the one from the other.

On the other hand, British movies often confuse the daylights out of me because they weave subplots together in such a way that sometimes instead of finishing with... oh, say a nice cinematic cardigan, the end result is more reminiscent of the dust bunnies under my sofa.

Though not every subplot (and with this many characters to juggle, there are quite a few) works as well as others, the chemistry among the core cast remains intact, and that's a major reason for its success.

While I enjoyed the romantic subplot, it doesn't differentiate Goon from any other movie — what does, is the hockey, and I was sorely disappointed by the dearth of hockey action.

Anderson's script comes across as being a little too busy at times, juggling so many different subplots that it lacks the focus of his other films.

A small part by Alan Alda, as the original Elysium founder plays out pleasingly, and it is his character Carvin that holds the deed to the farm, offering the story its silly subplot about a big corporation trying to buy out Elysium to build a casino, which at one point has Linda running topless (with others) in front of a television camera.

Proof that someone else watching The Pelican Brief decided that its great unplumbed racial subplots would be worth a Grisham picture of their own, enter the patently offensive A Time To Kill, underscoring its liberal screed by opening with caricatures of rednecks at war with caricatures of black people: basketball hoops on the one side, Confederate flags on the other; front - yard barbecues, late - night cross-burnings; marble halls of justice, raucous Baptist churches; Kevin Spacey's DA summation on the one side all superego, Matthew McConaughey's tear - jerking monologue on the other all soul.

Benicio Del Toro, the other big addition to the cast alongside Dern, gets to play a kooky side role, but his entire subplot feels like it's doing little more than marking time, making the film drag every time it returns to him from other, more exciting prospects.

Screenwriter Kelley Sane generally does an effective job of balancing the various characters and their respective storylines, though there's certainly no denying that some of these subplots are far more interesting than others (ie there's a seemingly pointless digression concerning an illicit relationship between two young Arabs, the relevance of which isn't made clear until the film's final moments).

As this is both an adaptation and the opening chapter in a larger saga, there are many subplots, foreshadowings and other developments that the movie introduces but fails to explain or resolve - a detriment when set against the need for a film to tell a complete standalone story.

Unfortunately it's never expanded upon, joining other story elements — like the murder of a white pro-civil rights minister — as subplots that fail to come together with King's story in any meaningful way.

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.

The subplot involving a prostitute (Brittany Snow's Balery) who conspires to rob a john with a stranger (Josh Janowicz's Jaron) is an obvious highlight, with the melodramatic bent that's been hard - wired into some of the film's other stories certainly dulling their effectiveness.