Sentences with phrase «plot points at»

The filmmakers arguably throw too many plot points at the wall, hoping to make some of them stick, and there are a few schoolboy errors along the way, such as when a photograph of Game of Thronesactor Noah Taylor turns up early on, so that you spend almost the entire film waiting for him to show up.

Another plot point at the end is just ludicrous.

They have however, expressed an interest in revisiting that plot point at a later date.

Not exact matches

Always have the endgame in mind as you plot your strategy, and be prepared at some point to split the remaining difference.

The SEP also includes the dot plot, which is an aggregated forecast of where Fed officials see interest rates at various points in the future.

The Irvings are more than ready to take advantage, plotting a new $ 300 - million deep - water export port at Mispec Point that could see them become the most significant Canadian energy players outside the oilpatch.

Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Rios, a corrections specialist with Bravo Company, Regional Training Center - East, plots his first point during the night land navigation event at the 2012 U.S. Army Reserve Best Warrior Competition at Fort McCoy, Wis., July 17, 2012.

The chart below plots valuations at each point in history against the deepest loss in the S&P 500 during the following five - year period.

Rather than hitting all the major plot points of Jobs» life, the film presents fictionalized versions of behind - the - scenes looks at three product releases from 1984 to 1998.

Both habits move the plots forward at key points.

The plot is loosely held together by quite a bit of setting up and falling down, devoting much of its runtime to making you want to care about what the Pentagon Papers are, how the newspaper operates, and what's clearly at stake, before finally getting to the point where everything finally comes together, which is when the film is at its sharpest.

In spite of attempts to paint a vast plot on the part of world Communism to take over and dominate the American Protestant Churches, the best evidence that could be produced pointed to a handful of well - intentioned but sometimes naïve clergy who had at times been used by Communist - front organizations or by the party itself.

I truly thought he'd lost the plot at this point, but he could not have been more right.

If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

Their development figures to be one of the key plot points this season, and with Redick and Johnson on board, there's finally a chance at substantive success to go along with all the good times their young core should provide.

the man lost the plot so ANYTHING is better at this point that keeping this man in charge

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THAT»S how I ended up diving into John Toland's 1000 - page history of the Pacific War from the Japanese point of view (in paperback, thank god) while on the bus on a FIFTH - GRADE field trip... starting with 200 - odd pages of 1930s Japanese nationalist politics, which at least was full of plots, assassinations, coup attempts, ritual suicides, and other exciting stuff.

I pointed out to the beleaguered - sounding commander who phoned me after I raised the phone hacking issue at prime minister's questions that plots to conduct covert surveillance on sitting prime ministers were the sort of thing you'd see in movies, and that most people would think a «rigorous assessment process» wasn't really required when deciding to investigate.

The truth is more mundane, of course: Miliband senior was hardly, at this point, at least, the ringleader of some turbulent band of plotting Blairites.

Travis Horton at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, plotted the migratory tracks from each species over a detailed magnetic map of Earth, which shows how the magnetic field's inclination and declination — the angular difference between the field lines and true north — vary from point to point.

(F, G, H) The number of unique sequences within the subsets which share exact runs of CDR3 residues are plotted on the y - axis against runs of increasing CDR3 length on the x-axis for (F) B9, (G) A14 and (H) B21 at the time points indicated in the legend.

Showing this in a plot is thus a completely moot point that is clearly not aimed at any fellow scientist; it is something meant to impress uninformed lay - people.

Our light scattering set - up can measure the light scattering intensity at a very large number of angles (that is the equivalent of a cascade impactor filters), so it can construct a particle size distribution plot of a very large number of points.

ΔF / F0 at each time point is plotted in (B).

If you look at the plots in the Gulliford paper, you'll see that from starch only to starch + tuna, there was a significant spike, and from there to starch + tuna + margarine there was not a significant increase (even a decrease at certain time points).

The premise of a murder mystery with an unreliable narrator is well - trodden territory at this point (The Girl on the Train, In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and Sharp Objects all come to mind) but there were at least two moments where I let out an audible gasp over an unforeseen plot twist... so I guess I'm saying if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Sadly, you can see every plot point coming and it doesn't evoke any kind of emotion at all.

The movie portrayed her personality and as a legend of a woman posed as a man to enter the monastery and become Pope.German actress Johanna Wokalek was pretty good for that role and the other performances were decent as well.The portrayal of the time, crowds and the cities was below average, but very effective, since it was a low - budget movie, the image and lighting quality was not always good.The weak point of the movie was in the rhythm, which at times was uneven, and went from fast to very slow, but still it was never boring because of the strong plot.

Their fabricated stories occasionally dissolve into something much more honest; Jack, perhaps the most emotional of the brothers, is a short story writer, with suspiciously familiar plot points and characters he insists are fictitious (from the short, Hotel Chevalier, which accompanies the film at the festival, we know this is not true).

It's not quite the hatchet job many had predicted, but you're left at times unsatisfied with minor plot points: Post plane crash, Gerry and his bodyguard are the only survivors... Whilst fleeing zombies at Camp Humphreys, out of seven people he's the only one to survive... Much of the happenstance seems to be too unbelievable to work or be credible.

Innovative and interesting renderings of relationships are at a premium; it's obviously much easier to stick a few characters into stock situations and let the plot grind to a stopping point.

Tommy has never written a screenplay, meaning that he has no concept of basic plot structure or dialogue (A character reveals she has breast cancer at one point, and when people point out that the plot point is never raised again, Tommy says that it's «a twist»).

On the other hand, the game suffers from a bad narrative and wrong division to acts, despite its great plot, and the many side missions begin to feel repetitive at some point.

The acting level at this point, in conjunction with the terrible story line and plot points really take the cake.

He is, however, interested in advancing his wife's career — never mind that she at one point took out a protection order — to the extent that he plots with his friend and «bodyguard» Shawn Eckhardt (Paul Walter Hauser) to break the knee of Tonya's leading competitor, Nancy Kerrigan (Caitlin Carver).

It makes its heavy - handed point at the start and throughout, but its characters and plot just aren't interesting enough to make it worth sitting through.

But at this point, it will take true vision to plot the umpteen sequels without getting trapped in a time loop.

At some point, though, as the laughs kept coming even as the plot picked up, I thought: «This is the funniest movie of the year.»

At the root of the story is a lesson about outgrowing oneupmanship and ridding themselves of the jealousy toward couples who have matured to the stage of parenthood — yet the wholly unrealistic plot only loosely manages to ferry Max and Annie to this graduating point of adult sophistication.

The acting and plot points are poor at best.

Like Gleeson and Byrne, Gluck seems to recognize his film's inherent frivolousness, frequently calling attention to some of the screenplay's plot mechanics and hacky tropes — at one point even hanging a lampshade on Peter's famous blue jacket, in acknowledgement of the object's trite value as an emotional symbold.

Back to the Future really painted a nice plot that filled itself in at every point.

In a ripped - from - the headlines plot that unfortunately seems to be the de rigueur at this point in time, reeling from the tragedy, Katja self - medicates as she is thrown into the German legal system where the two defendants — a young neo-Nazi couple — end up being acquitted of the murders due to minor disparities in the evidence and Katja's drug use.

That's the way it is with «The Matrix» — you either give away major plot points or you can't really talk about it at all.

And so the cheapening, even smearing, of a peculiar kind of romance is at its most rampant, and the want for proper dialogue and plot points has finally become make - believe.

By the end, director Sidney Pollack has spent so much time with Silvia and Tobin at the expense of the tension, building plot elements a thriller needs to keep moving forward, that he has to play quite a bit of bait and switch to get things where they need to be for the climax he wants, which is moving but by that point a bit ridiculous.

We've learned enough about the characters for the show to move on to point at hand and reveal more about the characters little by little while the plot moves forward.

This can detract from the pacing at some points, especially since the film tends to intercut between the revelations of Harry's past, and his friends» efforts to destroy the items which, by comparison, seem far less integral to the plot.