Sentences with phrase «romantic subplot between»

Aside from a forced romantic subplot between Thurgood and the staunchly anti-drug Mary Jane (Rachel True), the above is all Half Baked has in the way of plot.

Those «feelings» she refers to includes the dangling romantic subplot between Black Widow and Bruce Banner (last seen in Avengers: Age of Ultron and referenced most recently in Thor: Ragnarok), as well as Cap and Widow's ongoing conflict with Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) since Civil War.

The story of Joshua's search for his missing sons isn't substantial enough to warrant an entire movie, so writers Andrew Knight and Andrew Anastasios have tacked on a romantic subplot between Crowe and Olga Kurylenko's Turkish widow (which doesn't seem right considering Joshua is still mourning the death of his wife), as well as flashbacks of his sons in battle that are incredibly difficult to watch.

On the negative, that would have also made the film lose its only redeemable element, which is Applegate's valiant effort to give an actual performance amid all the inanity of all the slapstick and the tedium of a forced romantic subplot between André and the gardener next door (Tara Reid).

But while a good film, Cider is far from the great one Miramax and director Lasse Hallström were hoping it would be, marred by an unconvincing romantic subplot between Homer and Candy.

Screenwriter Caspian Tredwell - Owen and director Martin Campbell must have realized that their preachy scenario did not engage on any kind of emotional or storytelling level, and so they tried to shoehorn in a romantic subplot between Sarah and Nick.

Throw in an unnecessary romantic subplot between the chemistry - free Tatum, and Kunis, the story suffers greatly from thin characters.

Primary in that regard, I definitely disliked the romantic subplot between Frank and Laura.

Most of the film plays like your typical fish - out - of - water story before switching focus to the romantic subplot between Alan and Zahara in the final act, but while it's an interesting development that explores the difficulties of such a relationship in Saudi Arabia, it feels so rushed that Tykwer is unable to give it the attention it deserves.

VanCamp touched on things like whose camp Carter falls under (which you should already know), fighting another Marvel hero, and the possible romantic subplot between Carter and Cap.

Softley returns in optional commentary for a 22 - minute block of deleted scenes, which rather fascinatingly reveals that test - screening audiences rejected a romantic subplot between Kate Hudson and Peter Sarsgaard.

There's a contrived romantic subplot between Timberlake and Arterton's characters.

The romantic subplot between Gamora and Star - Lord is somewhat undercooked, but all of the above made me root for it in spite of myself, if only because it would be legitimately interesting - and for this genre, (nearly) ground - breaking - to see them pair off, procreate, and be faced with a half - pink / half - green baby of their own, with whom to (hopefully) do slightly better than Ego and Thanos did with them.

-- There's a minor romantic subplot between Star - Lord and Gamora following the seeds planted in the first movie

Thankfully, this does NOT involve a romantic subplot between the two of them.

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Of course, a romantic subplot starts between Mike and Brooke but it never really takes off.

I was also a big fan of a romantic subplot (a complete invention of the filmmakers) between an elf and a dwarf.

This is especially true with the romantic subplot created between Kjell Bjarne and Reidun which never reaches any emotional relevance to the audience.

Catrin has an artist husband (Jack Huston) who isn't happy about her new job, and there are hints of a romantic - comedy subplot between Catrin and Buckley.

It's one thing to be about love, and entirely another to be one not just about romantic love, but all types of love — also love between friends, within a family (as illustrated in a subplot involving Naina's bickering mother and grandmother, which nicely supports the main story), and its power to inspire people to act beyond themselves.

A subplot involving a Cinderella-esque romantic relationship between the Bergen King and a peasant girl takes up a large chunk of time and is, by far, the wackiest and silliest element.

Once I realigned my expectations with the reality of the movie, I began to enjoy myself — though there wasn't as much hockey as I'd hoped (more on that in a minute), the romantic subplot, between Doug, and self - professed slut and lover of the violence of hockey, Eva (Alison Pill) captured my interest, not for its sweetness or charm, which it had, but because Eva was quirky, but in a realistic manner.

Able to weave dialogue at incredible pace with sly smiles that beg for adoration, the relationship between the two is front and centre and easily eclipses a lazy romantic subplot which the writer realises you couldn't care less about.