Sentences with phrase «romance plots best»

Or are romance plots best developed in a writer's imagination?

Not exact matches

Taylor begins a romance with Sullavan, who soon joins the three comrades, making the group a jovial, fun - seeking foursome (this plot element bears traces of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, as well as the 1931 film The Last Flight).

This movie is an okay romance movie that suffers from the crazy plot twists and only a few good actors.

While delivering good performances and enough choice laughs to stay afloat much of the way, Get Smart suffers from a laborious plot, excessive length, and an unevenness of tone that favors a violence that jars with the light banter of the dialogue, compounded with an unconvincing romance that brews between 86 and 99.

The romance works rather better than the thriller element, as the plot becomes so convoluted and melodramatic it gets rather silly and never seems to be sure whether to takes itself seriously or not.

The machinations of the plot are loud and fairly clumsy, with unanswered questions and conveniences that serve the screenwriter but not the story (the growing romance between Neale and Carla feels particularly strained, despite good performances by both Milland and Reynolds), yet Lang molds it into something that is consistently entertaining and at times genuinely enthralling.

Because the sequence is so good — and because Loy and Powell do have a nice scene dealing with the romance plot following it — as the film plays, it isn't clear how much time Loy's been off - screen.

A Netflix - and - chill movie for the generation that might have to look up what «Netflix and chill» means, «Our Souls at Night» reunites Jane Fonda and Robert Redford in a sweet, low - key romance that operates best when it eschews plot and just lets us get to know these characters as they get to know each other.

Adventure, romance, and the fantastic are all blended seamlessly as Stardust's involving multi-layered plot unfolds in an inspired and well - paced manner.

Language: English Genre: Musical / Romance MPAA rating: PG Director: Jerome Robbins Actors: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno Plot: Two New York City rival gangs sing their way through battles and love as they duke it out in this 1961 best picture winner.

Language: English Genre: Drama / Musical MPAA rating: PG Director: George Cukor Actors: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson Plot: A movie star whose best days are behind him, stumbles upon showgirl Esther Blodgett and develops a friendship that blossoms into romance.

Reynolds winds up romancing Arterton's co-accountant Anna Kendrick, after he makes a grave error with Arterton, and while Michael R. Perry's script occasionally feels a little like a talking - animal comedy riff on some of the plot elements in Thomas Harris» novel «Red Dragon,» you might as well steal from the best.

DVD release date: 06/05/2018 Theatrical release: 10/01/1958 Language: English Genre: Drama / Romance MPAA rating: NR Director: William Wyler Actors: Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker Plot: A sea captain has retired with a good bit of wealth and relocates the vast expanse of the West and plans to marry his fiancee.

The primary revenge plot is a bore, which is still better than can be said about D'Artagnan's soggy romance with a chambermaid (a very out - of - place Mena Suvari); that thread is memorable for all the wrong reasons, in particular some forced and downright embarrassing sexual innuendo.

I found the plot a little too busy and the art style was just too much like a lot of other manga based on Eroge or Hentai manga in genral also the romance of the thrre kingdoms gimmick never really got used all that well.

A romance between two very practical people, struggling to do their best with the hand dealt to them, Balogh's Someone to Wed is a masterfully plotted novel, composed of the small moments and choices that can eventually change a life for the better.

For those of you writing romance, read Thomas's book for an example of well - written intimate scenes that not only further the plot, they shove the plot forward with gusto, making you feel everything the characters feel and more.

In genres that have a fairly standard plot formula — romance (cute meet, conflict, HEA), mystery (crime, investigation, unmasking the criminal), etc. — that's certainly part of the expectation, but in every genre there are even smaller expectations that we must fulfill to give our readers a good reading experience.

For romance to be engaging, it has to have everything that a good story has - great characters which you relate to, good pace, good plot, credibility.

We talked to Jayne Ann Krentz, the best - selling romance author who uses the name Amanda Quick for her historical mysteries, about leaving the Victorian era, plotting out a web of killer twists and more!

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The story is awesome — plot twists, deception, romance, it has it all... and the plot is much better then most of the movies that are put out now a days.

These facts are well known in the publishing industry which has responded readily with such visual magazines as Playboy and books that are more story and plot - based like Harlequin Romances and 50 Shades of Grey.