Sentences with phrase «plot points make»

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.

A bit beyond your typical YA love story, its unique characters and quirky plot points make this novel worth your time.

Ok, so the first trailer for Taken 3 ruins a major plot point, just putting that out there before I start discussing why said plot point makes me not want to bother with the film at all.

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).

Instead of showing all of the special effects and revealing major plot points, the video was more of a teaser that focused on the process behind the making of the movie — emphasizing the real sets and practical effects, and de-emphasizing the CGI effects which were widely criticized as removing the humanity and realism of the prequels.

This book isn't an argument to make or a point to take, this isn't a single story with a plot and a climax and a denouement, and there isn't a single three - step program to follow with nicely spaced headers and boxes to check off.

The Russian Formalists of the early twentieth century rightly pointed out that her novels exclusively follow the Cinderella plot: A young woman falls in love with a man of superior social standing and has to wait for him to make the first declaration of love ¯ to be followed, even more excruciatingly, by the hoped - for offer of marriage.

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.

Recap culture bends toward the same talking points, and a critique of this season will certainly be «fan service» — i.e., by delivering what viewers want (Jon resurrected, Ramsay Bolton and Walder Frey killed, etc.), George R.R. Martin and the showrunners have moved away from the ruthless plot turns that made Game of Thrones stand out in the first place.

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

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

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Both Shipman and Oliver make the point that even if remain had won the Brexiteers would have refused to have accepted the result and were plotting a vote of no confidence in Cameron.

The plot is far greater than the delivery, making the film a strong vehicle for a point, but not a spectacular item on its own.

It's pretty normal «double agent» and «dirty fighting» plot points, but the details surrounding it make it feel very fresh — essentially, the series» use of magic and wands instead of normal tools (combined, of course, with a great cast, technically precise execution, and the audience's strong emotional attachment) dress up what would otherwise be cliche.

The Fall Part 2: Unbound brings back the point and click genre to a game with a captivating plot that features characters with distinct personalities and a series of puzzles that will make players wonder how they could not solve them before.

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.

While both installments were treated as thematically and stylistically separate entities, as opposed to a single finale story that was just split in half and to be continued, the exclusion of certain plot points from both books made both film adaptations feel as though they were lacking in emotion.

That's almost beside the point, though: Director Francis Lawrence («The Hunger Games: Catching Fire») makes a hash of the already convoluted plot (based on a novel by Jason Matthews) and wastes a lead who's capable of being this year's «Atomic Blonde» (she even gets a platinum dye job halfway through).

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.

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.

The whole story is made up of numerous connecting smaller plots that each involve their own characters and view - points.

In order to make up for plot points excised, the Farrellys employ the use of a narrator, country musician Rex Allen Jr., to tie up the loose ends.

There are, admittedly, a lot of them, but screenwriter Justin Theroux maintains these plot points and keeps them all suitably aimed toward what makes Stark / Iron Man unique among his superhero peers.

In conclusion, there are melodramatic spells, as well as some focal unevenness, spawned from hurrying past certain plot aspects that really aren't all that needed in the first place, being not much more than supplements to the rather repetitious bloating that makes this overambitious effort too overblown for its own good, though not to the point of completely dismissing its engagement value, as there is enough sharpness to the production designs, cinematography and score work to provide striking style, as well as enough story value, brought to life by inspired writing, direction and acting, - particularly by leading lady Halle Berry - to make «Alex Haley's Queen» a rewarding near - epic study on the struggles faced by the mulattoes who struggled to fit into a post-slavery society that was rich with racial tension and plenty of other life challenges.

That was obviously one of the high points of the film, but what makes the film good is the elaborate plot twists that the film offers to the unsuspecting viewer.

That revelation makes the existence of a major ME3 plot point completely irrelevant and useless.

The point of «Inglourious Basterds» was not to engage in counterfactual speculation about a successful plot to kill Hitler, but rather to carry out a vicarious, belated and altogether impossible form of revenge, using the freedom of cinematic make - believe to even the score.

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.

Crowe and Gosling have chemistry, and they keep you hanging and laughing, even when the plot stops making sense at one point.

Charting the fortunes and (mostly) misfortunes of Paul Giamatti's eponymous anti-hero, principally his three failed marriages, Lewis and novice screenwriter Michael Konyves have fashioned a busy, baggy flashback structure that races through some key plot points as it leaves others dangling, and never makes good on its literary opening gambit to tell the story as Barney's autobiography.

The film does not tie everything up, leaving certain plot points unresolved for the audience to make up their own minds.

If you ever want to make a comedy, but don't know what plot points you need, follow The Wedding Ringer.

The Wedding Ringer seems made by studio executives who have a checklist of standard plot points and appropriate jokes.

Yet Smoczynska, making her feature debut, undermines the deferential plot with a strong visual point of view, including a wonderfully eerie opening shot taken from Silver's perspective as she emerges from the water.

What makes Stung so much fun is that it takes itself seriously enough for the plot, characters and theme to work, but it never pushes itself too far to the point where the whole thing feels silly.

The «Sherlock» TV series keeps many details of the original series — for example, it still makes sense for John Watson to be a doctor who served in Afghanistan as he was in the original stories — but other plot points are updated for the show, with cell phones and other technology often used by the criminals whom Sherlock and Watson are hunting and by the pair themselves.

But as the production of the episode goes on, it felt that the plot is going too text heavy and I personally found it hard to make the scenes work out as its starting to feel draggy and wasn't to the point of the main joke of the Duramboros being so hard to kill for them.

As ComicBookMovie points out, that likely nixes the Kennedy assassination as a plot point, but the possibility of seeing James McAvoy's Charles Xavier wearing bad»70s garb makes up for it.

Let the Team Get Away... Then Make Everyone Wonder If They Did Because so much of the heist movie's plot is about breaking into the bank / vault / casino / stronghold, we often forget the other major suspense point: Will they be able to get out?

How many movies can they make with the same plot points.

Here I expect the differences in species to be a possible plot point (an allegory to the current racial / religious / class divide) as well as the definition of what makes a family (Arlo, the dinosaur is an orphan).

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.

However, Kloves had another challenge much different than just cutting material: He had to adapt the books while Rowling was still writing, so he had to always worry about making plot points in the films that would conflict with what the author had planned for future books.

There were a couple of points in the demo that didn't make a huge amount of sense (saving a soul isn't always the best idea, apparently) but hopefully further plot development will iron out any issues there.

When a movie about the African - American experience in Jackson, Mississippi, during the early 1960s bypasses the assassination of Medgar Evers to move on to a plot point about a pie made of human feces, though, one has to question the story's priorities.

There is a point to that race, but it requires more explaining than should be necessary (For a movie based on a video game series with little to no story, there is plenty of plot making up for it here).

Screenwriter Leigh Whannell makes the film easily accessible to newcomers so don't worry if you missed the first one as you'll quickly catch up to all the relevant plot points.

The plot in this one has the Marvel gang going up against time - traveling despot Kang the Conqueror, which makes it convenient to show off a bunch of different settings from various point in time.

Corporate irresponsibility makes only a blink - and - you - miss - it appearance in The Poseidon Adventure, but here it's a major plot point, adding much - needed meat to the stew.