Sentences with phrase «people in suspense»

Leave it off and keep people in suspense instead.

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It gets people talking, and makes sure they'll tune in when you finally kill the suspense by sharing your new idea.

De Niro's performance begins to seem more a matter of well - practiced gestures than real conviction, and the long, silly finale more an exercise in empty panache by director Tony Scott than a truly gripping suspense piece involving people we care about.

I guess the kinds of people who loved this movie are captivated by suspense and good graphics, both of which this movie had, but neither of which is enough to make me interested in a movie.

This is a suggestive emptiness: a car racing down an empty rural highway, creating suspense; a sky that hangs ominously over a gas station, and then begins to fill with the fiery ribbons of a spy satellite breaking up in the atmosphere; people standing in empty fields and clearings in anticipation of the supernatural; the spotless white space of the test room of a secure government facility; the camera pivoting around NSA analyst Sevier (Adam Driver) as the massive hangars of an Army base flicker on one after another, readying for pursuit.

How much suspense can you wring out of one person manning the phones in a 911 - emergency station?

Shyamalan proved himself earlier in the suspense genre with his alien invaders in Signs and walking dead people in The Sixth Sense.

This stimulating exploration of people who willingly delve into the taboos of society to uncover the reasoning why others extract pleasure from forbidden activities is captivatingly presented in writer - director Joe Swanberg's new suspense film, ’24 Exposures.»

Regardless that this is a prequel so we know that Leatherface is going to survive and therefore lacks any suspense at all, as a movie Leatherface is all over the place with references to what comes later shoehorned in — like the blink - and - you'll - miss - it appearance of Grandpa in the opening scenes and the character of Hartman (the unscrupulous Mayor in Texas Chainsaw 3D was called Hartman, in case you'd forgotten)-- and details that just don't make sense, such as Drayton being portrayed as a psychopathic killer but yet in Tobe Hooper's original movie he «takes no pleasure in killing», and three people climbing into a cow's carcass to hide from the police which looks as dumb as it sounds.

Strickland builds suspense out of the mundane: Jones stresses out about getting paid, and he watches as the people who run the studio argue in a language he can't speak, about issues that have clearly been festering for some time.

There's the requisite mission introduction, reacclimating people to the Syndicate, mentioned in the last film, but it fails to generate much suspense.

The emotionally and physically charged lives of three people - a college professor (Sean Penn), an ex-con (Benicio Del Toro) and a young mother with a reckless past (Naomi Watts)- collide unexpectedly in this gripping suspense thriller.

And the suspense of knowing whether or not Ana and Christian get their fairy tale ending will bring in even more people.

Additionally, there is simply something intriguing about a mystery aboard a train, and although this doesn't come close to the suspense of Strangers on a Train, there is a Hitchcockian feel to it as Neeson's character presented with a situation in which all he has to do is point out a person who doesn't belong on the train and will receive $ 100,000.00, but based on his background as a cop is very unlikely.

While her new novel deals with many of the themes typically explored in Li's writings — assimilation to American life, the lives of everyday people in China, and the damage wrought in the aftermath of China's civil war and turn to Communism — Kinder Than Solitude also contains a suspense element.

That's around 235,000 words of romance, suspense, and adventure set in the world of the People.

The action and suspense make it a thriller as well, and there's romance in it, because you can't have people interacting in pressure - cooker situations without something developing between them.

And I agree T - Mobile looks on track in 2010 HTC HD2 already announced, Windows 6.5 released, Nexus One, Garmin phone coming to the spotlight, Nokia and T - Mobile look like they are becoming good friends, LG and T - Mobile look to be talking phones, HTC and T - Mobile are becoming good friends, and Motorola looks to be a good suspense movie after some T - Mobile employee asked a Motorola worker if T - mobile was getting the Droid he looked at the employee and smiled and people assumed that that means yes.

Yes, but not in writing my romantic suspense villains, which is what I assume people mean when they ask the question.

- Kirkus «A must - read... stunning... Bohjalian specializes in the suspense created when people are cut off, physically and emotionally, from society (as he did in his best - selling Midwives).

It is a very focused dialogue between two people, and there is also built - in suspense.

I think there's certainly scope for suspense in a first - person narrative.

As the first half of the game goes on and more and more Zaroff posters get put up, and the people get more and more excited about his arrival, the player should hopefully remain in suspense, scratching his or her head in regards to what's going on.

It's being billed as a first - person suspense game that puts you up against the clock in horror filled sewers.

Focusing on a single captured moment in time — a group of people occupied by something and uncanny glass - like waters — it speaks to the history of photography and suspense.