Sentences with phrase «real narrative»

(It says a lot about the lack of real narrative here that the film was released in America with an entirely different opening.)

Critic Consensus: Thunder and the House of Magic lacks real narrative depth, but its visual splendor offers sufficient compensation for younger viewers.

Critics Consensus: Thunder and the House of Magic lacks real narrative depth, but its visual splendor offers sufficient compensation for younger viewers.

Known for its JRPGs and storytelling, its immersive experiences, the SNES helped pave the way for real narrative to creep into gaming.

Labour, which will have been in power for 12 years by this May, can not sell itself on a concept of «change»: right now, it's only real narrative is that the last thing Britain needs to do is change its government.

Television shows with plots that hinge on the success or failure of a new business tend to lack real narrative stakes.

Characters who may have had real narrative arcs in earlier drafts of the script are now paper thin and superfluous.

Without much real narrative depth on display, Den needs its action scenes to maintain our interest, but that doesn't happen.

In this modern vision, as in ancient gnosticism, the decline of real narrative has gone hand in hand with a blurring of the dialogical or event - character of man's existence and of the relation between God and Man.

That is the real narrative of great leadership, it's the Corbyn narrative and it's markedly different to the: «First they send you to Oxbridge, then they give you a plum Special Adviser job, then they parachute you into parliament, then you become leader» narrative which would be thrust upon us by Oxbridge educated Special Advisers.

There is no real narrative to speak of.

Rather than collecting a bunch of funny people together on a set and just letting them riff, the film establishes coherent characters and drops them into a twisty mystery plot that's tightly crafted enough to generate some real narrative momentum while never getting too bogged down in its own plot that it forgets to be funny.

This film is a satire about the lack of real communication found in contemporary high - tech society.With no real narrative, beginning, or ending credits, it centers on Munson, his wife, and a bizarre orange - clad goggle - wearing exterminator named Elmo.

There is no real narrative to speak of as you are just playing through a number of missions as different members of a special ops group known as Unit 13.

The lack of any real narrative was kind of a disappointment at first but after jumping into the game it didn't bother me at all as I was having too much fun giving terrorists the business.

For the rest of us, though, The Avengers is an entertaining enough ride that lacks any real narrative weight.

The situations are contrived, characters come and go, and there's no real narrative propelling the story along.

It's got all of the director's visual verve, but it lacks a real narrative drive.

I'd guess this made the film just to add some song and dance to the movie; it has a few counterparts as well, and none of them offer any real narrative purpose.

But there's still that problem of no real narrative taking place.

«The dialogue is relentlessly fancy without being witty, and the specious moralizing of the plot looks like it was tacked on to appease square adults; the real narrative force behind this movie is nihilist camp, as in Roger Corman's 1966 The Wild Angels but without the same degree of filmmaking skill... its inanities and glib pretensions are so thick that it mainly comes across as tacky and contrived.»

In an era in which dark and creepy seems to be associated with having to be scary without the need for any real narrative depth, this is a refreshing change.

Just as I was beginning to properly enjoy myself it was over, and with no real narrative beginning, middle or end to speak of it all left me feel rather empty.

Now boasting a real narrative campaign as well as new ways of hooking online players, this is a sequel that truly does what it can address its predecessor's failings while keeping all the enjoyable stuff.

While the players» character has no real narrative progression or depth, his skills fortunately can be improved by assigning various perks that can be unlocked by using points that are earned by completing missions or challenges scattered throughout the huge map.

The lack of any real narrative was kind of a disappointment at first but after jumping into the game it didn't bother me at all as I was having too much fun giving terrorists the business.

There is no real narrative to speak of as you are just playing through a number of missions as different members of a special ops group known as Unit 13.

But I digress, aside from the lack of any real narrative, the game does have a very strong Destiny or Halo vibe and the core concept feels very familiar for somebody who has played either series.

The main reason for this is the lack of any real narrative.

That's not a bad thing, but gamers who were excited at the prospect of new Sci - fi epic from the developers of Halo were left quite deflated at the lack of any real narrative.

Unless you can tolerate the constant deaths and lack of any real narrative, Solo players are advised to hunt monsters elsewhere.

I'd really like to make a real narrative film, though maybe the time for me to do that has gone by.

Donna Huanca's artistic practice investigates aesthetic rituals, arrangements and displays to construct hyper - real narratives.

I do a lot of storytelling, but it's without a real narrative.

The tapestry had a real narrative and a format with repetitions.