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Another thing that the game's developers have assured us is that you should not expect a linear and / or predictable story in the Xbox One exclusive title.

Gamers often loudly complain about derivative, predictable stories in video games, and rightly so.

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Coal's fall from grace is a well - known story and has had a predictable impact on the one - and - only coal ETF (a telling fact on its own); from its peak in April of 2011 to the inevitable trough in January of 2016.

The by - now predictable story lines have to do with the bishops» alleged interference in public policy (usually related to abortion) or with the Vatican's alleged suppression of deviant theologians.

We have some quick stories about Abraham traveling around with sarah every where, occasionally screwing stuff in the name of good, almost killing his son in the name of god, selling his wife up the river a couple of times in the name of god, sounds awfully predictable and robot like to me, and yet you have odysessus, a constant lost hero trying to make his way back to his wife penelope and struggling with his own morality, journeys, trials and ultimate success.

Do you not see the irony in an ID / creationist dismissing as «just so stories,» scientific hypotheses based empirical physical evidence and on replicable, predictable and validated mechanisms?

This could easily have turned out to be one of those formula feel good films with their predictable story book endings but, In the capable hands of director Mara Nair («Amelia»), she brings warmth, emotion and an understanding of the Ugandan culture into this lovely and heart warming film.

The progression of Ganesh's career is predictable throughout and nothing in the midst of the story really takes the audience elsewhere.

The story is more than decent too, it doesn't feel like a rehash, after the 35 minute mark it never gets dull, and while predictable in places it makes up for it in spirit and suspenseful atmosphere.

Dungeons are tiny, its characters paper - thin, and the story far too predictable in its overuse of already overused plot elements.

I don't think they could fit any more cliches or predictable story lines than they did in Dexter's final season.

Perhaps the weakness of Coco will lie in its predictable storyline, as it becomes clear from early in the Land of the Dead sequence where things will be going for the rest of the plot, if you know how these stories always go.

Its blaring earnestness and thin characters (all of whom practically wear badges identifying them as good or evil) fail to add nuance to a story that keeps making the same point in virtually every predictable scene.

«Slumdog Millionaire» is a somewhat predictable but lovely film, combining a honest look at poverty in India with one of the best love stories of recent years.

The director, Peter Berg («Very Bad Things»), keeps the predictable story line on course without developing a truly compelling momentum in the action sequences or finding anything fresh in the interaction of the stock characters.

Fans of light puzzles and predictable stories with damsels in distress that turn into the champion by the end will find what they're looking for here.

The narrative might not take an ambitious route and falls into predictable patterns but the backwards premise and refreshing Napolean - Dynamitesque cast provide enough fun to propel the story forward in a sea of fairly well delivered laughs.

Stewart plays out the film as if it were a traditional «haunted house» film, but because we already know it is about alien life, we merely watch the characters go through predictable motions until the story catches up with what we already surmise, and the only things keeping viewers reeled in are basic questions such as, «why are they doing this?»

Even if the story directions are somewhat predictable, convenient, and fudged along in order to build up to a violent head, Rubin's direction is still in good form, even if the material could have used a bit more subtlety to deliver the same message without an implausibility overhead.

Perhaps it's nostalgia, if not for the simpler thrills of childhood viewings (this was my first time seeing the film) than for the off - the - wall, predictable, and good - natured stories that the Disney studio has long dabbled in.

Story, acting and style go out the window in favour of this hackneyed, utterly predictable conclusion that simply has no need to exist, except to hammer home a metaphor already beautifully and understatedly handled in the first two acts.

The story plays out in some predictable ways and others not so predicatable.

The story is predictable and lacking in any real drama or mystery.

Like the first film, the story comes in predictable parts, only faster, since — like Katniss — we are already familiar with the process.

There are some issues I had with the film such as some of the cinematography not looking as good as it could've been due to the poor lighting, some of the quick cuts in the action scenes were distracting, the movie can drag a little at points and I do think cutting off 15 minutes could've made the pacing move a little more faster (some scenes felt a little rushed too), where the film decides to take its story can be predictable, and some of the green screen was REALLY noticeable.

Once policemen and bumpkins are introduced in a series of repetitive «I don't believe your story — hey, why did the lights go out» scenarios, however, Jeepers Creepers, while retaining Salva's indisputably cinematic eye, becomes something a good deal more predictable and consequently safer.

The problem with this approach is that not one of the film's observations is new, and its technique — in which artificial suspense is created by cross-cutting multiple story arcs in an attempt to disguise that each one is predictable as a metronome — undermines the quality of its performances.

The problem is that these moments are rather few in what might have worked better as a character study, as the story at its core is not particularly new or interesting, and plods along to a predictable beat to its ultimate conclusion that feels too long in coming.

If you are one who enjoys these uplifting stories about overcoming great obstacles in order to make the world a better place, even if the roads traveled by the filmmakers are predictable and somewhat trite, you'll most likely find great value in viewing Freedom Writers as informative, entertaining, and thought - provoking.

Julie Walters (as his mother) and Vanessa Redgrave (as Grahame's mother) also shine in this often - moving, if somewhat predictable, story, scripted by Matt Greenhalgh.

«Criminal» does have some ridiculous elements and few surprises in the story department, but I have to admit I was never bored, instead going with the premise and staying in the zone through the predictable ending.

But even as the revelations pile up and the screws tighten and you start to sense that terror and violence are inevitable, the movie never loses grip on what it's about; this is a rare commercial film in which every scene, sequence, composition and line deepens the screenplay's themes — which means that when the bloody ending arrives, it seems less predictable than inevitable and right, as in myths, legends and Bible stories.

I spent somewhere between six and seven hours working my way through the game's story mode, slogging through chaotic battles, fighting predictable bosses (wait until they're vulnerable, hit, repeat) and fretting over puzzles that couldn't be solved until I came back through with different characters in Free Play mode.

Zathura is predictable to a certain point, and the home invasion sequence by the reptilian Zorgons drags on much longer than necessary, but just when you think that the story's ideas have petered out and the movie is going to go into coast mode to the finish, a new story wrinkle emerges to keep us reeled in again.

It may just suffice as a sun kissed slice of distraction but in reality, there's not a beat of this story that isn't predictable or even tries to subvert the overly familiar.

Still the story, as predictable as it may be, does deliver when it needs to and Costner is fantastic in his third go round in a baseball film.

This is a very familiar story, so familiar that he skips across the predictable beats in an elliptical fashion, focusing mostly on odd details.

The story is very predictable and, as we know going in that Gertrude is going to die, there are no surprising twists.

The story takes the easy road in storytelling, leading everyone down a predictable path.

After directing X-Men (2000), X-Men 2 (2003) and Days of Future Past (2014), Bryan Singer settles in here for a predictable feature that is too busy introducing new characters to really build momentum for this story.

The story is predictable, and it owes a lot to «The Untouchables,» but «Gangster Squad» is enjoyable in spite of all that.

A feel - good movie in a positive way, The World's Fastest Indian might go through predictable motions in telling this true story, but it does manage to keep the interest going at full speed.

The story starts off in generic and paper - thin fashion, resorting to a predictable McGuffin device.

While I wouldn't say that May in the Summer is a film that is ground - breaking by any means, it is definitely a quiet little indie flick with good acting, a decent although predictable story, and some beautiful direction from the film's star, writer, and director Cherien Dabis.

Far too many of the comedic beats miss their mark in this predictable and lazy story for me to recommend it....

Tuck Everlasting is probably a film worth watching with the family, although a well - read adult might not find enough to keep the interest level high in a story that's this predictable.

The biggest problem with the story is how trite and generic it all plays out, with all of the expected story beats and Sci - Fi tropes present and accounted for; the game thinks it's being clever at times but, in all honesty, it's so predictable that it essentially became background noise for me after an hour or two as I feigned surprise at all the tired plot revelations.

The story and the acting was fine even though it became predictable about 20 minutes in.

Add to that a cavalcade of clichés from the local color that reads like a Chamber of Commerce video (jazz bands, an overdose of zydeco flavoring in the score by Ry Cooder wannabe Steve Mazzaro, Bobo's swamp house that's apparently just down the bayou from Jason Statham's in «The Mechanic») to the utterly predictable story beats, and you've got a thoroughly generic movie that can only sporadically provide even gut - level thrills.

What you don't see in the trailer is what constitutes the other 75 % of the film, namely, the highly predictable brother - helping - brother side stories of families and strangers coming together in their time of great need, and all of the usual wafer - thin archetypical characters you expect in an ensemble film such as this.