Sentences with phrase «plot points like»

I've seen art breakdowns, a couple of interviews from the writers, even a couple of really interesting experts consulting on plot points like the United Nations address or what a tsunami would really do to Wakanda, but again, nothing to keep me hooked in.

Who misses key plot points like this?

Not exact matches

Then there are the scenes when plot points are achingly hand - fed to us, like a scene in which Ellsberg is making copies of the volumes of files that make up the Pentagon Papers (which also drags on a few beats too long).

Combine this with another of Twitter's problems — that it's often a source of spoilers for things I do care about, like Game of Thrones plot points, and the alternative of simply not using it looks far more appealing.

Wireframe and draft: Start by plotting the major persuasion points of your piece in line with a formula like AIDA: Attention, Interest, Design and Action.

Wenger wanted to make a point only he understands and it backfired and made him look like a man who lost the plot.

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Let me point out the film's plot threads to you and you tell me if it sounds like it'd be an interesting movie.

The plot trudges along weighed down not just by the stupidity of it all - half the plot points make no logical sense, like Lex Luthor supplying his henchmen with experimental military bullets - but by the apocalyptic self - seriousness of it all.

As the stakes escalate, Mark Perez's script still organically makes time for the characters» realities, like Max and Annie having trouble conceiving a child, without such story points feeling too forced, and plays on the expectations of thriller plot twists more than once.

It seems to take a long time to get to that point though, with a lot of convoluted and clunky (but apparently necessary) plot - spinning and romantic waffling between Katniss and her suitors beforehand, the latter of which seems like an ill - fit for such a determined and independent character, especially as played by the fiery Lawrence.

Music is well done and used sparingly as environmental clues when some pivotal plot point is about to occur or to punctuate dramatic moments like the start of a boss battle.

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.

It is larded with cliche and contrived plot points, things like the following: Person A: «I wonder what the old sheriff was up to» Person B: «Well, he never walked around without

U-571's plot moves like a rocket, never pausing for breath, and this works to a point, but certain events (what happens to Keith's Major Coonan, for example) are glossed over in favor of more (exceptionally well - done) shots of exploding depth charges and topside battles.

Audiard's film is muscular and brutal, and the plot points can be about as subtle as Schoenaerts» fists, but I liked this film, and liked watching its characters dance around the improbable details while they found their hearts.

I think the points that Johnny makes about the Horcrux hopping being «like a video game» are because of the book making that the premise of the plot.

On one hand, it creates some intrigue as you discover how each character got to their respective points of desperation; but because each goes only once, it leaves out insights as to how they do or do not overcome these demons which seem important for a plot like this.

The movie starts like the trailer, showing how kick - ass decides to be a superhero, but as soon as he meets hit girl and Big Daddy, who were already super heroes before him, the whole point of the movie entirely changes to satisfy the revenge plot between Big Daddy and the main bad guy.

I liked both games, but the plot of the most recent one was ludicrous to the point of distraction, with lines like: «Eternal life - just think how many problems that would solve!»

Naked is a very inconsistent film with dumb plot points and an incredibly predictable conclusion, which sort of takes away from the comedy that does work, but I'm not going to be too picky about a film like this.

These three characters circle around each other like wounded animals looking for help, but while the plot points that push them together might feel contrived, their interaction is earthy and very real.

But even if it feels like a couple pages are missing from this dog - eared piece of Raymond Chandler - meets - Robert Ludlum pulp, you can pretty easily pick its plot points back up... or just kick back and wait for the next cool explosion.

Love this act, as I felt like it hit all the marks on the main plot point.

I like that feeling when I finish certain Grant Morrison comics; I don't like the feeling when I finish a crazy - looking film that I want more out of than flashy visuals and a mix of horrific plot points.

Plot - points, like buses, arrive suddenly after a long, tense wait.

Each plot point in The Glass House becomes increasingly ludicrous, using logic defying twists and turns that can only be present in movies like this.

Excluding Roland and Jake Chambers, nobody in this film feels like anything other than a plot point.

However, their storyline goes where literally every single plot point goes in this movie: half an hour of watching the group run from room to room, like Scooby and Shaggy evading a ghost, and hiding in various cupboards from the lions.

In the other, well, you'll be recoiling at the predictable plot points riddled with convenience and the multitude of cheesy lines (which Neeson looks like he almost can't bring himself to utter).

These preserve some discarded plot points (like an arrangement Sam makes with the journalist played by Jamie Chung) as well as a foreseeable alternate ending.

Wheeler likes to point out plot holes and liberties taken, while Hallström mainly agrees and defends the inaccuracies.

But the hints provided here are pretty damn tantalizing, and I feel like I've learned more about the possibilities of Infinity War plot points than I have from anywhere else.

Like the unofficial version (embedded below), there are few clear shots of the iconic creature (the dust and smoke immersed shots are more intense anyway) and plots points of the movie are still kept under wraps.

The previous entry Die Hard with a Vengeance 12 years ago focused on a mad - bomber destroying parts of New York City, and it's hard to imagine now that at one point that plot seemed only like fare for an action movie.

From the opening sequence of young Mowgli (Neel Sethi) racing through the jungle in the company of his adoptive wolf family and his feline guardian, the black panther Bagheera (Ben Kingsley), through its comic setpieces with the layabout Baloo the Bear (Bill Murray) and its sinister interludes with the python Kaa (Scarlett Johansson), the despot orangutan King Louie (Christopher Walken), and the scarred Bengal tiger Shere Khan (Idris Elba), the movie bears you along on a current of enchantment, climaxing in a thunderous extended action sequence that dazzles while tying off every lingering plot point, and gathering up all the bits of folklore, iconography, and Jungian dream symbols that have been strewn throughout the story like Hansel and Gretel's breadcrumbs.

The main character and main plot points were refreshingly original and the film went darker directions than we usually see from a film like this.

If critics have a function anymore besides carving their own gravestones on the marble of modern cinema, it's to point a finger at films like Junebug, which sounds like a thousand other pictures but is actually something all its own: a Southern Gothic in the tradition of Flannery O'Connor that treats its characters as more than plot - movers or cardboard caricatures.

Even among scatterbrain comedies like The Love Guru, there comes a point where it must actually get around to having a plot, despite Myers» best intentions at avoiding it.

There's also added plot elements (like Briggs» refusal to accept his housekeeper's daughter as his own — when she is in reality) seem to only exist to belabor the point that Duvall's character is old.

My only complaint is with a pivotal phone call between Nixon and Frost; I don't mind that it's fictitious, and it's a great acting moment for Langella, but as a plot point — and in the dialogue itself — it feels stuck in and contrived, like a monologue created for the sole reason of exposition.

That occasionally means going along with plot points that strain credulity, like that time she agreed to stay married to her hooker - loving husband.

If you're keeping score, by the first major plot point Smith, like any good dinosaur Republican, has gone after affirmative action African - Americans, lisping homosexuals, and women with a genuine moron's aggressive lack of insight.

On the one hand, it could be an outright prequel to Undead Nightmare — since RDR2 is almost guaranteed to also be a prequel — which possibly clears up some plot point, like revealing the origin and backstory of the Aztec Mask.

Bleeding Cool recently noted, «The Waltz part is nothing like a done deal,» but also pointed out, «The plot details they offer are far more solid.»

The trailer reveals the plot point that she must recover five mystical items in order to escape, which feels more like a video game than a movie (not the first time one of Snyder's films has invited that comparison).

While earlier Kaurismäki films like Shadows In Paradise and The Man Without A Past were deadpan, blue - collar subversions of melodramatic plot points and classic film genres, this is pure self - commentary, best appreciated by fans.

But for all the exposition and flashback, The Hateful Eight struggles to explain exactly what makes Domergue so evil, and why she's the focal point the film's plot eventually begins to revolve around as characters like the hangman Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the grunting Mexican caretaker Bob (Demian Bechir), and the soft - spoken cowboy Joe Gage (Michael Madsen) sniff around on the sidelines.

The only minor nit is that some of the book's final scenes pick up on story threads from much earlier in the series — like from books 3 and 4 — and if (like me) you haven't read those volumes in 15 or so years, the resolution of these dimly - remembered plot points lack the narrative punch they might have had.

The weirdness of a baby in a suit overshadows that plot point entirely, making the story feel like little more than an excuse to let Boss Baby make poop jokes.