Sentences with phrase «plodding story»

It's the same plodding story for the handful of Galaxy S5 variants and one - offs Samsung launched last year.

At least the dancing is good, and Vincente Minnelli's restless camera gooses a plodding story into liveliness.

The problem is the rest of it; the plodding story and the rest of its very weak script with cliched plot points and a rather unsatisfactory ending which unfortunately leaves you massively unfulfilled.

All of those details serve no real purpose and only drag out an already plodding story.

There are flashes of light — Rene (Luis Guzman), the ex-con Our Heroes go into debt with is a menacing delight with his own delusions of grandeur, and Cam's frenetic, audacious ambition blasts the plodding story line along in most unexpected ways.

Not exact matches

«Instead, we heard the same kind of tale of woe, the struggling stories, the same defensive nature, with the only twist being a better control of inventory and a sense that they can continue to plod along,» the «Mad Money» host said.

It's only through a combination of rich, collaborative, and altogether interactive elements that something like this can be born, a piece of software that shirks tedious story and plodding industry conventions in favor of pummeling sound and pure, unadulterated gameplay.

Laden with lazy writing that drags out clichéd phrase after clichéd phrase — seriously, the line «you don't write, you don't call...» should be permanently retired from screenplays, especially if it's delivered between characters who hate each other — the story kind of plods along, checking off plots points from a list.

Unfortunately, the story moves at a plodding pace, and the game falls into more unfortunate strides of repetition than I'd hoped for.

Though its plodding pace brings it down in some parts, it is a well crafted story that gives a Human dimension to the defenders of the Alamo, portraying them as people, rather than the larger than life legends that have since permeated history.

Unfortunately, even the hottest past - their - prime stars of 1976 can't save a movie that plods along for two hours to tell a story that savvy viewers will be able to figure out in the first fifteen minutes.

The story plods along.

The Danish Girl will almost certainly not reverse this trend, for despite compelling performances and a fascinating concept, the film fails to develop its characters, and plods along at a pace that almost dares the viewer to give up on the story.

This is a competent enough, if plodding, espionage thriller with mostly compelling actors (except for the lead, Jessica Chastain, a lightweight who is mysteriously being called great in this film, and who just received a Best Actress nomination) that tells the story of the painstaking intelligence gathering that led to the ultimate revenge killing, when U.S. Navy Seals exacted retribution for the murder of 3000 people on September 11, 2001, on U.S. soil.

The problem is that these moments are rather few in what might have worked better as a character study, as the story at its core is not particularly new or interesting, and plods along to a predictable beat to its ultimate conclusion that feels too long in coming.

Contrived, glib and cheerfully formulaic, David Dobkin's film veers between a rather plodding murder case and a much more interesting underlying family saga, and takes its time to tell a story that could have been trotted out in 90 minutes.

What could have been a film to break new ground as did the filmmakers for the superb «Mad Men» series instead create a same ol' retread of spy stories, which in itself would not be so bad if the story did not plod along with boatloads of banter which do nothing more than confuse the viewer further.

Bottom Line: The Hateful Eight has some great moments, but the western mystery thriller is too long, and the story plods along.

Unfortunately, even with noteworthy cinematography and an excellent A-list cast, the story fails to deliver a memorable experience and plods along at too many points.

What we get instead is a confusing story that plods along and almost collapses from its own weight.

The story just kinds of plods along.

The location shooting, sea - based sequences and above average acting help to elevate the film beyond the plodding details of the story.

The plot is interesting and timely, but it plods along while various characters repeat the story.

But none of these characters stick around for long, as Hans keeps taking up the story in his plodding and uninflected voice, and even Chuck's story gets buried in the far less engaging story of Hans» reunion with Rachel.

Who would have thought that the ageless, exquisite Cinderella could be recast as the silly story of an enormous yet lovable elephant who plods along to the ball with glass pie plates on her feet; or that Sleeping Beauty, that most regal of all fairy tales, could be twisted into the story of a frog with a most unusual and promising dance career?

No big contrarian posture, no big story, just a plodding kind of strategy that requires more discipline than intuition.

I detested the plod of the story, the endless scrambling around in dark tunnels and the mind - numbing puzzles, and the Lara Croft character made me cringe, frankly, with disgust: grown men drooled over a collection of pixels arranged into a pretty shape, as the designers made her ever more pneumatic in each sequel.

That sounds like an absurd comparison, but I love those sorts of games where you can plod along and do things how you want to but with no time pressure or no big bosses to deal with — I can make the game my own and imprint my own stories on to it.

Her back story alone is enough to pique a player's interest, but so little of it is properly addressed that I found myself less and less engaged with the story as it plodded along.

The story and acting holds up, even if it's monotonous to plod through, so when you inevitably find this in your local bargain bin it's still worth a play through.

Unfortunately, the story is plodding, blandly translated and slow to get going.

The dialogue is presented almost entirely through text menus with only small samplings of voice work here and there and the story moves along at a plodding pace without much progression.