Sentences with phrase «pointless subplot»

Say Anything (1989) was beautifully and painfully true to teenage love, but suffered from a pointless subplot involving Ione Skye's father.

It works less well when her otherwise convincing on - screen daughter, Ruthie (Stefania Owen), veers off in a brief and rather pointless subplot involving school, peers and drugs that doesn't go anywhere before being wound up almost as quickly as it began.

It did try to be honest to what really happened and did not throw in your typical love story or other pointless subplot to muddy the facts.

Not exact matches

A subplot about Elektra's dimbulb costar going to Mexico and learning she's a lesbian is equally pointless, and the DICK TRACY primary - color production design is nifty but irrelevant.

Kent has subplots that go nowhere, including a dull romance with Lois Lane (Amy Adams); their highlight is a sensual, albeit pointless bath tub scene that makes Kent look like a horny jackass than a loving boyfriend.

And soon enough we're back to the explosions, chases, battle sequences, kickin» - ass montages, and pointless romantic subplots that we've come to expect from these movies, the latter of which comes in the form of Phillips's right - hand woman, Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell).

Screenwriter Kelley Sane generally does an effective job of balancing the various characters and their respective storylines, though there's certainly no denying that some of these subplots are far more interesting than others (ie there's a seemingly pointless digression concerning an illicit relationship between two young Arabs, the relevance of which isn't made clear until the film's final moments).

Who Elektra is besides an assassin with a tragic past is besides the point — as pointless as the stunningly banal subplot that sees her developing maternal instincts for neighbour Mark's (Visnjic) irritating - beyond - measure daughter Abby (Kirstin Prout), who, in a Jewel of the Nile twist, is apparently someone the bad guys want to get ahold of really badly.

The main family / military husband plot was completely by - the - numbers and pretty pointless, (though it was better than a hastily thrown in romantic subplot) but I guess when you're spending $ 200 million on a movie you need to have a thematically simple side story.

There's another subplot involving Kodiak that comes across as actually be rather pointless, and more than a little coincidental, especially considering the fact that very Elite which harmed Kodiak just so happened to get posted to a mission where the two have to work together, too.