Sentences with phrase «plot device»

The heroes are shown as capable of making mistakes while the villains actually react to events as people and not as plot devices.

The complaint alleges 38 similarities between characters and plot devices in the two works.

How many of these ideas are just plot devices for you?

It was this change in tone that began the production of a slew of beat - em ups, with familiar plot devices and environments.

This medical advice is brought to you by convenient plot devices.

Simple plot devices to give the player a reason to do something other than just enjoying the rhythm challenges to follow.

The game even goes out of its way to poke fun at its own tired plot device, but it doesn't make up for using it.

I don't want to give away the major plot device for those that are actually going to see this, so I'll skirt around it.

Fortunately, everything works out, and we're left to ponder this increasingly common plot device.

You must also give credit to the two main leads who help make some of the familiar plot devices feel fresh again.

This is as far as the story goes, which is good because it's already a fairly ridiculous plot device even at this early stage of development.

Even so, these events are capable of still drawing the player deeper into the narrative, thereby becoming effective plot devices.

Essentially, the poor guy was denied a seriously important plot device that would have helped his character over the long term.

Not having a major plot device around for weeks (and months) at a time hurts more than it helps.

A disaster film or disaster movie is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster as its subject and primary plot device.

He decides to use that easy plot device known as narration to help string everything together and tell plot points.

Just a silly plot device to bring them together for the story.

She more often than not just gets in the way, neither becoming an interesting character nor a necessary plot device.

Reason and logic also occasionally make way for convince in some lazy plot devices.

You'll either buy into it or see it as a cheap unnecessary plot device.

But if you take an actual plot device or a mood or a tone from a movie or a series of movies, the result is something far more substantial.

They could have easily used a romantic plot device to tie Lightning to this story, but going with the desire to protect her family is something that everybody should be able to understand.

The result is a mix of heavily derivative plot devices and intriguing themes concerning whether humans are worthy for the next world.

Otherwise, the various plot devices that keep the story going happen in more or less the same fashion.

Whilst the performances are strong, the rather extreme plot devices can seem a little clunky.

It's a bit on the nose, as are all the minimal plot devices.

Well actually, this has been a mainstay plot device employed on every single game they ever made.

Once you get past the annoying plot device, the game itself is rather impressive.

Nothing is more boring than cardboard characters that just serve as plot devices.

I love that the filmmakers never feel compelled to reduce them or their feelings to convenient plot devices.

Both are full of cheesy dialogue and ridiculous plot devices.

Geralt therefore goes from place to place with the incredibly overused plot device of having to do jobs for numerous people in return for information about Ciri's whereabouts, which in turn has the nasty side - effect of making the player feel like a leaf simply being blown about by the whims of whomever you meet.

It began to feel a little less like life itself and more like a movie when decisions being made felt like plot devices in order to have the happy / sad ending that it went for.

As clichéd as it may be, it is also an entertaining enough film if seen as one aimed at children, who may not really be overly familiar with overused plot devices and themes.

Director Zemeckis takes this one through the Hitchcockian route, trying to play up macabre psychological terror while liberally lifting key plot devices from Psycho, Rear Window, Vertigo and Suspicion.

LANPHERWe've danced around the actual plot device here.

Nevertheless, the seamlessly - interwoven plot device works in terms of ratcheting up the tension.

His matches are usually foregone conclusions to most fans that seriously pay attention to the business; because of his dates, he removes a key plot device from television being the top tiered belts; his bumps in viewership and ticket sales are not substantial.

And while the film is indeed funny, the main plot device concludes in a somewhat odd fashion, which I won't spoil here other than to say I became a bit thrown off by the third act's more farcical aspects, however funny they may have been; the tonal shift is sharp and somewhat abrupt.

Cap started out as 90 - pound weakling Steve Rogers before one of those marvelous four - color plot devices turns him into the pinnacle of human perfection.

Similar to the way a fable unfolds in a novel or television series, unstable relationships, betrayal, world conflicts, adrenaline rushes, opportunities, and a wealth of other plot devices» effects ripple through modern game characters, changing and shaping their personalities in a way that players can notice over time.

Female characters don't seem to be Monahan's forte, because Brie Larson's (21 Jump Street) love interest character, and Jessica Lange (American Horror Story) as Jim's mother feel more like plot devices with barely sketched personalities than actual fully - formed or relevant characters.

Bioshock Infinite on the other hand is very much the same game we received back in 2013 (for PC users at least, the console version is now in line with the PC version) and that works, Infinite is the most intriguing game in the franchise blending the unique world of Columbia with interesting plot devices of alternate dimensions, and tears in space and time.

WHY: Though it shares a similar plot device as «Groundhog Day» and «Source Code,» Doug Liman's «Edge of Tomorrow» is a truly original piece of science fiction that Hollywood should make more often.

@Atheist Hunter Any story that uses magic as a central plot device is fictional.

The time travel plot device also nicely replicates the gaming experience of being able to restart a sequence from an earlier saved point.

As relationships and alliances are forged between the imprisoned beauties, the movie relies on bizarre plot devices in order to make it seem like a mind bender.

The DNA scan on the Spectre ring is both a very arbitary gadget and a contrived plot device, asking us to accept both the technology and the fact that all the people involved would have worn the same ring.

The focus is almost exclusively on them once the game starts and their opponents are relegated to walking plot devices, but with a group as dynamic and pissed - off as this, one hardly notices.