Sentences with phrase «shallow characters with»

Into the Storm suffers due to shallow characters with vacant performances.

Not exact matches

Why not give thanks — with Garry Wills and a host of hostile critics — that so dreadfully shallow a character has at last been put down?

With the exception of the leads, the characters are shallow and oh - so expendable.

Obiviously Project Soul doesn't want to tackle a modern «Weapon Master» mode, the campaign is shallow as always (and cast with a bunch of unlikable characters).

Streep plays the character with a story arc, the shallow social insider who grows a spine to become the Iron Lady of newspaper, Watergate and film («All the President's Men») legend.

Some of them have accents, one of them is a woman, one of them likes to smoke pot, but really they're all slight variations on the same excitable, profane, and shallow archetype, the kind of character that gets their own poster in marketing with a nickname like «The Kid» or something cool - sounding like that, but it's all posturing.

I would advise everyone to instead just watch The Shallows, a superior shark thriller with natural style, tautly wound suspense sequences, and the luxury of an emotionally compelling character arc to go along with the benefits of a sun - kissed Blake Lively.

The silly antics continue in this sequel with even more fight scenes and the addition of more characters, albeit shallow ones.

It's a clear sign of the times that as well as battling a supernatural force, the characters also have «issues» to contend with, sort of like a shallow genre take on 13 Reasons Why.

It is a very sudden and obvious dip in quality and scale after that though, all the missions henceforth are too short, often boring designed, two plays on multiplayer maps, the one with airplanes instead of using the usual multiplayer controls of planes dumbs it down to the Battlefront style of «point and shoot» controls and have shallow character exposition.

While the writing is still shallow in the character and thematic department, having the veteran screenwriter who helped with «The Avengers» was definitely beneficial for the final product.

I felt as though I was watching the slow decline of Kate's character — Her bike is stolen, relationships didn't work out for her, she was downsizing to a smaller apartment, she was messy and sloppy in her living conditions and relationships (she didn't rush her friend to the hospital when he hurt himself helping her move), she was about to lose her best friend to marriage (where she would have no place), she was starting to sleep around with the guys at work, her job was going nowhere, she was shallow, and if she continued to drink at the same rate she'd most likely incur health problems, lose her job and wind up living under a freeway overpass.

However, this character study, ultimately about the forgiveness of one's self, is still rough around the edges with a script that veers dangerously towards the shallow at times, in gratuitous moments that are hard to ignore.

With a predictable script, shallow plotting, and characters that are pale imitations of ones you've seen in much funnier films, there just isn't anything here to recommend.

Tony Shalhoub (left), Jerry O'Connell, Chris Smith and Kal Penn can't do much with their shallow, obvious characters in the CBS sitcom «We Are Men.»

For that matter, even the shallow characters who feel like screenwriter cut - outs bristle with real dimension.

Me, Myself & Irene was wildly uneven, Shallow Hal was a one - joke movie that beat the viewer over the head with its message, and now we have Stuck on You, a movie which is so determined to take its main characters seriously that it takes all of the air out the humorous portions of the film.

The characters» motivations beyond the suitcase MacGuffin are pretty much absent: They're fatally shallow, with grave consequences.

But Blood Wars «screenplay (by Kyle Ward, who co-conceived the story with Cory Goodman) is clunky and uneconomical; for a film that runs 90 minutes, it frequently stops dead in its tracks so characters can narrate the action, or highlight their shallow thoughts and emotions to the point of absurdity.

Elswit returns for Roman J. Israel, but this time — with the exception of an interlude at and around the Santa Monica pier — the city feels like an anonymous Anywhere, U.S.A. And so Washington's ill - conceived character stands out like a sore thumb, the shallow center of Gilroy's unfortunate sophomore slump.

The bad direction ensures the film remains surface - level shallow, with genuine ideas and moments thrown at the screen, and almost discarded in the way the sloppy editing and character reactions seem to demonstrate.

In a summer of fun but relatively shallow action films, this movie has a raft of fully - developed characters, each with their own arc.

This is a far - from - perfect indicator, to be sure; with its 140 - character limit, Twitter debates are notoriously shallow.

The shallow woman's choices — including her affair with the nasty character she hired as a horse trainer — nearly destroyed Peyton's legacy.

The shallow woman's choices — including her affair with the nasty character...

I've lost count as to how many legacy published books in my genre that I've abandoned reading in disgust because of bad plotting and shallow characters, sometimes written in mangled English and with poor editing.

These upgradable abilities are actually fairly shallow with only a few things to choose between and a level cap of ten for your character.

Yoshida: With regard to characters, the first game had 4 player characters, while PSII had 8, but when we looked back at those characters, it appeared to use that their characterization and psychology was rather shallow.

I had a lot of fun with the game mainly for the characters that I was familiar with, but I couldn't get past the feeling that the overall fighting engine seems too shallow for my taste.

Final Rating: 72 % - A good mix of manga characters along with some SEGA goodness, but deep down, the game feels shallow as a fighter.

Dengeki Bunko is still a game worth checking out if you're a fan of any of the manga characters, but it feels too shallow to stick with for long.

A good mix of manga characters along with some SEGA goodness, but deep down, the game feels shallow as a fighter.

Are people really so shallow that they can't identify with a character unless they share the same genitals / race / whatever is trendy that week?

You have characters that are part different armies within Tiny Metal's world, but the story between them is very shallow and filled with many anime arch-types that don't do much for its plot.

There are so many things wrong with Final Fantasy XV — the combat is flashy but shallow, the story never goes anywhere — but the main characters are utterly charming.

This is why the main quest and those closely tied faction quests feel like a slog sometimes, for all the interesting scenarios the game plays out, the factions just feel shallow, along with your characters motivations.

The 3D cheat may seem kind of cool at first, but it's basically using the same clunky controls and the same silly, but sadly shallow characters, but with an extra dimension.

It appears that Cyanide Studio has set the stage for some interesting directions, but they don't take it very far, leaving me subject to a shallow setting with characters I don't particularly care for.

I've never perceived anywhere as completely fabricated as New York: whenever I walk near the intersection of Broadway and Lafayette Avenue, the landscape reminds me of a film set, an entirely constructed surface with shallow roots, populated by character actors.

But with online matchmaking, four playable characters with extremely varied move sets, multiple difficulties, and a satisfying (if shallow) progression system, Gauntlet could also potentially keep you coming back, despite its relative brevity.

Slanderous statements about a person's reputation vicariously attached thereto via association with one's industry by shallow thinking folks who parrot a common misconception, will not phase a person who has the requisite character to not let said garbage stick.