Sentences with phrase «screen watching the story»

Sitting with his niece, they were glued to the screen watching the story of one of sport's most infamous people, Tonya Harding.

Not exact matches

Nolan employs some unconventional story - telling methods throughout the film, and his incredible visuals need to be watched on the big screen to truly be appreciated.

She also enjoys watching great stories on screens of all sizes, shopping online and eating anything salty.

Look at Hollywood: Movie studios have made a fortune selling us miraculous stories that we watch on the big screen with... maybe not belief but hope in our eyes.

It's kind of fun to see the guys watching themselves on the screen and providing stories from the set.

«The Towering Inferno» laid the foundation for good disaster movies to come, both in being huge budget and cast wise, and with great special effects that accompany a story that makes you glad you're not one of the people you're watching on the screen.

The character that really did have a story to tell was and was exciting to watch on screen was Erik Killmonger.

The Story (Alan Wake): As I sat on my couch watching the credits for Alan Wake slide up the screen of my television I thought «Wow, this is it.»

But at least you'll never get lost trying to follow the story because, luckily, every so often Najafi cuts back to a group of far - too - talented actors sitting in a room together, watching the action on a screen and explaining the entire plot to each other.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

His use of close - ups gives one the impression one is watching a documentary, which puts the viewer more into the story that is unfolding on screen.

Prior to a Thursday screening of «Winchester,» a ghost story whose protagonist comes down on the pro-gun control side of the firearms violence debate, a smattering of multiplex attendees and I watched a trailer for the new «Death Wish» (opening March 2).

As the story progresses she can go a little over the top teetering into the land of bumbling female sidekicks, but for the most part, she's a joy to watch on screen.

In fact, it's nearly impossible to watch the film without reflecting on the current real - life conflicts happening all around us today in the stories that flood our endless newsfeeds and project upon our screens.

What science fiction films do best is warp our deepest concerns and immediate dangers, so that we can watch them bloom into larger than life stories on the big screen.

Though the story of Marcus Luttrell's incredible survival is tailor - made for the big screen, and Berg does a good job of highlighting the soldiers» brotherhood and courage under fire, it's hard to find any pleasure or entertainment value from watching the characters (real - life men whose family and friends are still living with that loss) get brutally slaughtered.

The design of the film is strong; the prophetic dream sequences are incredible to behold, the Watchers look amazing on the screen (introduced in silhouette, a tactic Aronofsky uses a lot here) and there is a truly awe - inspiring sequence of Noah retelling the story so far of Genesis that could legitimately be worth owning this on physical media just to watch again whenever necessary.

Watching Rust and Bone, which Sony Pictures Classics acquired preemptively before its first Cannes screening, it's easy to imagine all of the ways in which Hollywood might have fouled up this story of a killer - whale trainer (Marion Cotillard) who loses both her legs in a freak accident and, during her recovery, enters into a tentative romance with a stoic drifter (Matthias Schoenaerts) who moonlights as an amateur MMA fighter.

Wenn Emilia Clarke ditched a screening of Solo: A Star Wars Story so she could watch the royal wedding.

As a result, there were long stretches where I found myself staring at the screen watching the flashy images go by, but barely cognizant that I'm actually watching a story.

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It can get frustrating to watch them edit out some of your best moments (such as persuading teams to do what I wanted), but they certainly tell the best story on screen regardless.

An almost mythic story, excellent performances and a setting — the Missouri Ozarks — seldom seen on the silver screen combined to make this one of the best movies I've watched this year.

I wrote at the time: I've started this story twice, now, and got about half - way through it each time, only to watch it die on the screen.

But specs only tell part of the story, and overall we really enjoyed using the Toshiba's screen, it made watching video a very pleasant experience.

In that story, Publishers Association chief Stephen Lotinga speculated that «people are now getting screen tiredness, or fatigue, from so many devices being used, watched, or looked at in their week.»

Making the long story short, the touch screen tablets are great versatile tools that can be of great help I your day to day activities, allowing you to both write down emails and listening to music or watching a movie.

There's lots of beautiful handmade Honduran mahogany furniture, a screened porch with hammocks and a second story deck for watching those mango - papaya sunsets.

This works because it allows more wiggle room in creating a story instead of having players go through the same sequence of events they most likely watched on the big screen.

- the eight protagonists won't have similar stories to each other because the team wants players to enjoy different experiences - the other six protagonists will have jobs different from Orberic (Swordsman) and Primrose (Dancer)- Orberic and Primrose were chosen for the demo because their starting points are closer to other party members - each protagonist will have different starting points, so there may be a gap in the progress difficulty - the team is trying to even things out, but they don't want every character to have the same difficulty, as that would be boring - the demo has surpassed 1 million downloads worldwide - a demo was released because they thought simply publishing screenshots and trailers wouldn't convey this game's fun factor - more than 80 % of the overseas player base found the game interesting - there was one player who won against a high - leveled NPC in a Duel, and another who defeated all bar customers - the team had expected the former, they didn't expect the latter - the music was received very well, which comes from composer Yasunori Nishiki - overseas players complained of hard - to - read text, because the UI was based on the Japanese version, which will be adjusted - the biggest complaints were about slow map movement, and the lack of fast - travel - both of these features have been implemented, with faster movement and fast - travel between cities - players also found the screen too dark, so devs are adding waypoints for paths and also bigger roads - there will be an Event Skip feature, as well as the ability to freely watch events that have been already seen.

While the game mostly consists of first - person exploration through grid - like 3D environments and 2D battles, it's clear that Soul Hackers was a Sega Saturn title as it occasionally incorporates anime - style FMV content into its story, which are a pleasure to watch and look good on the 3DS screen, and add life to the story outside of its conversations with various characters.

«I've always loved watching these characters translated to the big and small screen, but those were passive, linear experiences and I saw video games as the one unique entertainment medium where players could actually BE the characters and actively live out the fantasy of controlling them and shaping the story.»

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There's a few more months left before you can play Watch Dogs as super hacker Aiden Pearce on your TV and PC screens - but Ubisoft has a bigger screen in mind for you to experience the game's story.

The story of Watch Dogs centers around Aiden Pearce, a hacker bent on revenge and inflicting his own brand of justice after a violent family tragedy and this narrative should lend itself perfectly to the big screen.

When your audience views a video, or watches a story, their emotions actually start to mirror what's on screen.

New touch screen technology has been incorporated into the exhibit allowing visitors to watch friends and descendants share their stories about Nell Dorr and the lasting impact that she made on their lives and our town.

Raymond Pettibon's films Sir Drone and The Whole World is Watching: Weatherman»69 about the paradoxes of American punk will be screened at Garage Auditorium throughout the exhibition, while the open - air cinema on Garage Square will show a Russian premiere of Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk by Corbett Redford, exploring the 30 - year evolution of punk rock in California.

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If the current look of your Apple Watch's main screen is getting a little stale, and you're already tired of the existing Mickey and Minnie Mouse faces, you'll soon have the option adorning your smartwatch with Toy Story characters.

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