Sentences with phrase «plotlines for»

Persona characters have been overhauled in the Etrian Odyssey style, and the game features two different plotlines for characters from Persona 3 and Persona 4.
As a subgenre of crime fiction, detective murder mystery stories have been serving as plotlines for many novels, movies, and television shows.
While plotlines for Season 3 of the Netflix show are largely under wraps for now, Stranger Things EP Shawn Levy said at PaleyFest on Sunday, «We are going back to work next month, and we're super excited.»
But it would make an interesting plotline for a sequel to Soylent Green: Unleaded 87 is people.
Novitiate (***) The plotline for this religiously themed film seems a bit dated and might have been more controversial if released in the 1960s: A wayward adolescent (Margaret Qualley) turns to the Catholic church for solace, to the chagrin of her agnostic mother (Julianne Nicholson).
This is both a promising and a risky plotline for a comedy.
Of course, the book has faded into obscurity, and the story is now better known as the plotline for an Andrew Lloyd Webber blockbuster musical.
Yes, Persona 1 included an entirely different playable plotline for the game.
The plotline for this sequel places it within a post-apocalyptic world.

Not exact matches

During the presidential election, «South Park» certainly turned to Trump for some scathing plotlines.
These opinions hint at some of the stories that will shape next year's plotline — the first full term for the new character, Justice Neil Gorsuch.
The plotline itself makes for a good read.
Maybe it is the grindingly long, 162 - game season, which allows for so many promising and disheartening plotlines to take shape, only to dissolve again along the way, and which sustains even the most improbable hope past any rational span; or maybe it is simply the course of the year's seasons, from early spring into mid-autumn — nature's perennial allegory of human life, eloquent of innocent confidence slowly transformed into wise resignation.
In a state - of - the - nation drama, where a number of different ideas already jostle for attention, each plotline could be more meaningfully developed with less singing.
Zach and his co-writer brother, Adam Braff, throw a lot on the screen in the first hour, keeping everyone a little off - kilter as to just which plotline it's going to land on for dominance.
It's clear that this is a made - for - TV film before TV became worthwhile, and the events seem disconnected and not part of a cogent plotline.
It jumps around from planet to planet and plotline to plotline and occasionally feels like an unnecessary thread was thrown in just for a one - line gag.
While the novel of «Fifty Shades Freed» offered a more satisfying and complete arc that showcases how married life has changed the protagonists, for both better and worse, the movie adaptation cut some of the most important plot points, in an effort to create a shorter and more cohesive plotline.
«Perhaps recognizing that the premiere might have been a little confusing to some viewers, the writers of «Las Vegas» keep it remarkably simple, dividing their narrative into two alternating plotlines, one in each timeframe... the focus allows for what's always been the strength of this show: Liev Schreiber.
I wish the same for Morris and Bunbury, appealing performers whose plotline here is a lame, repetitive gag about sexual jealousy.
«As we barrel toward the end of season six, «Sleep No More» sets up a few important plotlines that sketch an outline for season seven.»
I don't care at all for Teddy's or Gustavo's plotlines.
Although it is a thriller, a science fiction film, and a horror story all rolled up into one, potential viewers would be well advised to temper expectations for an exciting plotline or riveting action montages.
The bite of the plotline was blunted towards the end when O'Brien turns nice guy and the team plays just for the fun of it.
For my money, still the best Bond, with a screwball plotline that keeps the locales changing and the surprises coming — even when reason dictates that the picture should be over.
An exploration of how the sexual repression of Cleveland specifically, which is not known for being the Mecca of red hot lovers, and the midwest in general contributed to this woman's issues would have made a compelling plotline, but this theme remains unresolved.
But for the most part, the looser plotline provides a fresh experience that still provides the sharp comedy and powerful relationships we've seen in the duo's previous movies.
For the most part, outside of the sensationalized gimmick of a man on a ledge calling the shots, most of the plotline involves spinning the wheels until the final showdown, but by then, it's too little, too late.
It's just not a story that lends well to a dramatized presentation, and though the issues are important, they don't exactly make for an interesting plotline or for characters we enjoy following without a thematic underpinning to wrap it all around, much in the way that the mostly fictitious but highly watchable The Social Network does.
The let's - get - the - band - back - together plotline feels like a pretense for dance numbers, and so it is, but Gregory Jacobs» movie is anything but lazy; it's essentially a story about a crew of professionals who re-learn to love what they do by finding space for personal expression within their daily (bump»n') grind.
While the subject matter is the stuff that good films are made of, and the quality of the direction and acting are worthy of admiration, where The East fails is in the contrivances involved in the farfetched plotline and the unevenness in the thriller elements (such as a scene in which the cell dresses up to the nines to infiltrate a party for pharmaceutical bigwigs that would feel more at home in a Mission Impossible movie) that undermine what could have been a chilling and realistic story of corporations run amok.
For a 160 - minute epic that unifies a far - flung superhero universe that took a decade to build, packs 76 characters into one story, and has four to six plotlines cooking at any given time, «Avengers: Infinity War» hangs together pretty well.
Come for the tasty trailer, stay for the snappy - ass dancing and ridiculous plotlines.
Still, shameless shilling notwithstanding, there's really no excuse for the lack of drive to come up with something other than the customary «slacker underdogs make good» plotline.
The starting of Marvel's final salvo has shaken the 14 billion buck franchise to its core, resolving plotlines and making it a worthy near - conclusion for the primary 3 levels of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
This is really Tom Tykwer's (Perfume, Paris I Love You) showcase, and what the film lacks in terms of exciting and novel plotlines, it makes up for with the director's more realistic approach to the action, where the hero can get hurt, characters aren't always living or dying on cue, and one bullet isn't enough to kill every nameless henchman instantly.
But plotline is what drives you, and it's what drove me to be engaged by a primarily crafting - based game for the first time in my life.
The political aspect of the film, with its people marching the streets for justice and a lack of understanding from local law enforcement, is reminiscent of another film involving a plotline where a young boy is ostensibly stolen in a carjacking, Freedomland.
For the Colombian author is closely associated with magical realism, a style of prose popular with Latin American writers, and marked by plotlines grounded in reality offset by surreal flights of fancy.
WHY: The fourth season of «The Walking Dead» may be plagued by many of the same problems as previous years, but while its tendency to let plotlines drag on for too long causes the show to grind to a halt at times, the renewed focus on keeping the story moving even when its characters aren't plays a huge part in its success.
The main plotline is, essentially, a Blues Brothers riff that has Kermit the Frog visiting his old theatrical comrades one at a time, revealing that he's reuniting the troupe for one big show that will save the Muppet Theater from demolition.
The Amazing Spider - Man 2 never seems clear on where it's going and stumbles from plotline to plotline and from character to character hoping for something to hang onto.
While I wouldn't mind playing with some of these side characters and superfluous plotlines in a video game, as an adaptation of a beloved work that has enchanted many millions of readers, young and old, I'm left longing for a different kind of fan film — the inevitable one in which someone edits out all of the stuff not from the writings of Tolkien — and makes it the movie it always should have been from inception.
The Tales series of action RPGs is known for colourful maps, naive characters, a battle system that works for both laid - back gamers and diehard fans, and cliche but somewhat interesting plotlines.
The track is additionally good for CliffsNotes on Time and Tide's plotline.
It is probably not a film for the fans of the California - drenched «comedy» films which delight in regurgitating the same plotline under slightly different circumstances, and so some audiences may not appreciate the intelligence or subtlety.
With a plotline this uninteresting, we are left to wait for inevitable sex scenes, which will either titillate, disturb, or just flat out bore you, depending on your personal tastes.
I'm not sure why I keep finding myself coming back to these films with the hopes of receiving some form of entertainment but they can occasionally manage to keep my attention occupied for the better part of a few hours, as Divergent did earlier this year with a well - paced run through its derivative, predictable, franchise - baiting plotline.
A secondary plotline focuses on the white Carlyle's love for acrobat Anne Wheeler (Zendaya), a light - skinned black woman, and Carlyle's parents» resentment of their relationship.
The movie may share the same plotline as sitcom episode, but thanks to its excellent cast and willingness to push its protagonist to emotionally unpleasant places, A.C.O.D. works for kids from broken and unbroken homes alike.
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