Sentences with phrase «over plot»

You can gain control over these plots by sending units to take over.
It's not for everyone, but if you prefer characters over plot, there's nothing wrong with taking the scenic route once in a while.
One goes over the plot and characters, another features a brief discussion of the costumes.
None of it quite papers over the plot's pedestrian course, mind.
The former tend to favor theme over plot or characterization.
RPGs are often fairly story - heavy, but many open world games favor exploration over plot.
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has raised alarm over plot by ruling All Progressives Congress to use students of Federal University Oye - Ekiti to rig July 14 Ekiti Governorship Election.
Placing style above coherence, «Seven» glosses over plot points and shows a weakness for cheap, lurid effects.
If you only watch Bond films for the car chases and fight scenes, rest assured they are still exhilirating enough to allow you to gloss over the plot holes.
Pose and Romero opt for atmosphere over plot and succeed with looks at mundane things like that joyless Boggle game, insect repellent application, and a boring water plant tour.
Is it just me or does hearing people quote scripture make you think of two geeks debating over plot lines from Star Trek by trying to out do each other with all of the dialog they remember.
The researchers built large shelters over plots and irrigated them with rainwater so they received either more or less rain than the 100 - year regional average.
Stooping over a plot of creeping bentgrass there, he explains why it's the plant of choice for putting greens: It can tolerate being mown to an eighth of an inch.
If you dig Malick, then you clearly enjoy his standard approach to narrative that espouses feel over plot.
Reviewing the first Deadpool, I carped that the star, an exuberant Reynolds puttied over with fake burn scars, is his series» own RiffTrax, pattering right over the plot's contrivances.
A broad, crude mutilation of Emile Zola's noirish romance Thérèse Raquin that prioritizes heavy petting over plot.
«2003 saw two films that: (1) featured female lead (s), (2) valued action, atmosphere, and attitude over plot, (3) replaced character depth with exhaustive references to pop culture and / or cult films.
Smackdown»85 Companion Podcast (58 minutes) 00:01 Anjelica vs Oprah with a little Amy Madigan on the side 10:00 Our entire group has a Jane Fonda «problem» - shout - outs to Klute and lots of head - scratching over the plot of Agnes of God 20:00 Meg Tilly and Jennifer Tilly and Oscar trivia 22:00 Should they remake The Color Purple?
But at well over two hours, inutes, the unimportance of the story, the essential emptiness of the central character and writer - director Aaron Sorkinâ $ ™ s attempt to steamroll over plot problems with dialogue make this a break - even proposition at best.
When Roger saw Green's second film, «All the Real Girls» (2003), at Sundance, he was struck by the director's «gift for moments of acute observation, for dialogue both naturalistic and uninflected, for mood over plot, for poetry over prose.»
Beast might be guilty of prioritising ambience over plot, with a sag in the second - act stalling momentum.
It's clear immediately that Payne is going for a nostalgic, unabashedly old - school feel, with the movie's black - and - white cinematography merely the tip of the iceberg in terms of its far - from - modern sensibilities - as Nebraska progresses at a seriously deliberate pace and, for the most part, emphasizes small, character - based moments over plot.
Currently, there's not much given over the plot beyond this little snippet that says it is «the story of the final stages of an acute crisis and a life of a fashionable New York housewife.»
This time around Tony Stark will do battle the dastardly Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) and Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce), most likely over a plot involving the deadly «extremis» virus... and not to mention the appearance of the «Iron Patriot».
Alternately, you could change everything, placing a modern day filter over the plot to make Shakespeare's already universal themes somehow more relevant.
As Green tends to prefer character beats over plot and story, it's mostly how he deals with the narrative arcs that feel like they could use more structure, as the film only occasionally coalesces into something of substance, only to have the themes dissipate at the time of the next scene.
We've seen one trailer for new indie sci - fi romantic drama The Discovery, which favoured tone over plot.
Despite being promoted as a back to basics gore-fest, Alien: Covenant is still very much a sequel to Prometheus: It favors images and sensations over plot coherence or character development.
Each member of the fabulous ensemble cast gets to chew a little scenery while Branagh, the director, ladles fudges over every plot point, making the film a most delicious confection.
What they encounter, is a bunch of red herrings, glazed over plot points and horror movie tropes.
Imagery takes precedence over plotting, though, and the latter often gives way to cryptic allegory.
Translating her best - selling prose for film, writer / director Andrew Niccol (In Time) validates the championing of youthful wish fulfilment over plot, character or science fiction conventions, as another unnecessarily complex romantic quandary emerges in fanciful circumstances.
His contemplative, self - serious sci - fi epic Interstellar certainly doesn't match up to its own lofty comparisons to 2001 and other science fiction classics; that being said, it's still a work of tremendous ambition and heart, with staggering visuals, a powerful Hans Zimmer score, and a commitment to its thematic core over plot minutiae that I personally admire.
The teaser doesn't try to sell you on its far - out premise, instead favoring creepy atmospherics over a plot rundown.
I'm sure I watched this movie missing some vital narrative information (I had to run over some plot details with a friend before writing this), but I honestly can't remember the last movie based on source material that felt as impenetrable to an outsider as this film does.
I typed directly over the plot text using a Google Doc, which could be shared with the students.
I'm also drooling over Plotted: A Literary Atlas, by Andrew DeGraff, whose transfixing depictions of the physical and mental landscapes of books include the convoluted course of true love in Pride and Prejudice, A Wrinkle in Time's tesseract made visible, and a gorgeous rabbit's - eye view of the Warrens from Watership Down.
- Kirkus Reviews «Hoag keeps tight control over her plot in this book, raising the tension with every page that turns.
Literary fiction values prose over plot, I might say.
Hover over the plot points to see where a job is in terms of potential growth and annual median pay.
I began to ponder what had happened after the credits rolled, anguishing over plot points, character's future's and more, because the game sure as hell wasn't going to tell me any of it.
The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, today raised alarm over a plot by security agents to implicate him using coerced cultists.
«The latest plot is coming many months after the commission similarly raised alarm over plots by some interests to pay humongous sums into Magu's accounts with a view to releasing the information as evidence he had been compromised.»
The screenplay by Steve Kloves («The Fabulous Baker Boys»), based on a novel by Michael Chabon, is European in its preference for character over plot.
Trying to imitate David Lynch is a tough assignment, as demonstrated by this mildly compelling but mostly pretentious thriller that emphasizes atmosphere over plot.
I wouldn't blame you for glossing over this plot - line in your quest for a learning narrative.
«The latest plot is coming many months after the commission similarly raised alarm over plots by some interests to pay humungous sums into Magu's accounts with a view to releasing the information as evidence he had been compromised.»
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has raised alarm over plot to systematically rig it's candidate, Dr Chris Ngige out of the Anambra governorship election scheduled to...
The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, has raised the alarm over a plot by desperate forces to tarnish his image.
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