Sentences with phrase «smaller character moments»

Taking a cue from The Last of Us, the levels in Uncharted 4 were much larger and allowed different avenues to get from point A to point B. Because the levels were larger, it allowed Naughty Dog to create smaller character moments that flushed out the story even more.

That was by design and the entire season has been designed to have huge payoffs, smaller character moments and I think that there's a lot of things in the show that satisfies many people in the audience.

The acting is wonderful all around and Nichols does a great job of finding small character moments that speak volumes, giving everyone time in the spotlight.

The problem, however, is that with the exception of the final 20 minutes and a few small character moments, «Insurgent» doesn't do enough to progress the overarching story to warrant an entire film.

The massive cast blends together and the plotlines messily overlap, per usual Altman style, but the small character moments revealed here are rich and reveal a lot of insight about human character.

SATC2 occasionally redeems itself with a small character moment or interaction that hearkens back to the aspirational everywoman appeal that was the television show's foundation, but there isn't nearly enough of it to support the mounds of toxic froth piled atop it.

Not exact matches

Yes, it balanced massive plot developments with smaller moments of dialogue that built characters, but that's par for the course.

The mother of three children and a teacher of many more, she truly believes in the power of using small moments throughout the day to build character and make the world a better place.

In its best moments, where only small gestures tell us so much about the characters, that's touching and heart - warming, but of course little spectacular and sometimes a little slow.

The cast is, unsurprisingly, wonderful and the movie strikes an enviable balance between action and the smaller, more intimate moments between characters.

In Marlo, screenwriter Diablo Cody has created her most complicated character to date, and in no small part because of the moment - to - moment specificity of the characterization.

Though I did somewhat miss having the action broken up by small chunks of character moments like in Metroid Fusion, the gameplay takes center stage here, and in a Metroid game, that's all you really need.

We get glimpses of characters in small privileged moments, like driving their cars or eating a meal.

It's clear immediately that Payne is going for a nostalgic, unabashedly old - school feel, with the movie's black - and - white cinematography merely the tip of the iceberg in terms of its far - from - modern sensibilities - as Nebraska progresses at a seriously deliberate pace and, for the most part, emphasizes small, character - based moments over plot.

It's hard to imagine a more fitting choice to play the modest and mild - mannered pilot, and although he doesn't get a lot to work with from a character standpoint (Sully is extraordinary only in his ordinariness), the actor makes the most of even the smallest moments.

The Player (Robert Altman, 1992) Robert Altman's films are all epic in the interplay between characters, but he's adept enough at the small moments to make you care about every little twist and turn.

That sequence, piled atop some smaller moments between Rudd and Peña, netted the character a vocal and devoted fan favorite following.

The resulting film feels handmade, like a patchwork quilt, and most of its finest moments are born of small formal gestures that call attention to the character of a particular stock or video format.

While known mostly for his brash, rule breaking cinematic style, his films and characters consistently possess great insight into the small, seemingly insignificant moments that can change lives.

Time is not lost with this set - up, offering some smaller action moments and somewhat stock character development.

The result is a «big film with action sequences but it's made by the smaller moments and human interaction and letting the audience connect with our characters and letting the characters connect with each other,» she said.

Pointedly shifting to characters outside of Bill and Kim's private world brings a dynamism to the separation drama, often resulting in small moments of genuine poignancy.

In the ruins of adulthood King concocts the idea of going home to recapture a moment of happiness and in meeting the adult versions of King's friends, despite their professional and personal success, a small part of each character lingers in Newton Haven.

Every excruciating moment of their plot arc drags the film down, cancelling out the small amounts of goodwill generated by the rare characters and subplots that don't make one wish the ball would just drop already.

Yes, elaborate set pieces are expected but the magic lies in the small moments of character discovery — through humor or insight or creativity — that the audience learns to invest in the protagonist's plight.

But it's in the smaller, more bittersweet nostalgic moments that The Winter Soldier succeeds, with scenes that have time to breathe and build up character depth before we're whisked off into another incredible set piece.

Prickly, acerbic, and not without its rough edges, it's an enjoyably dark humored film wisely settling for small moments of emotional realism rather than exaggerated dramatic flair or tragicomic satire of its flawed characters.

«Their Finest» is small - scale, as WWII movies go, but that gives you time to appreciate its characters (including Bill Nighy as a demanding aging actor with hidden softness) and the moments it captures related to the everyday horrors of war — the inconvenience / tragedy of crew members not showing up on set because they were killed in the Blitz, for example.

In the series» swan song all the memorable characters from the first two films deserve at least a small moment.

Aimed at an audience roughly the same age as the main character, the plot involves some violence, villains and moments of peril likely to frighten small viewers.

What I simply chalked up as an influential fighting series for years was so much more to so many people who have played it over the years, and you see it in the wide array of ways that fans express their excitement and passion for this franchise in Street Fighter V's announcement trailer, from smaller moments like winning your first match at an arcade, to life - altering ones like getting a tattoo of your favorite character.

Adam Bernstein takes Gilligan's taut script and finds a deliberate pace that cranks up the tension without sacrificing the small, human moments that make Breaking Bad so compelling — even as characters make exactly the wrong choices in their lives.

Moments of redemption come in the surprisingly excellent performances of the children, who, given little to work with, find a way to flesh out their characters and provide Bushwhacked with spark and even a small measure of joy.

In both the films» smaller moments of character growth (there are several of those here) and its larger - than - life epic battle sequences (there are plenty of those), Jackson uses the camera uniquely to focus on elements in the story that would've otherwise been ignored.

This is where the $ 18 million budget, a very small amount by contemporary blockbuster / genre - movie standards, comes in handy — no overblown CGI instead of genuine character moments here.

That being said, most characters get at least a small moment in the sun, unless they've been thanklessly relegated to minor supporting status.

But these early moments soon take backseat to what is basically a disaster film in miniature, inserting small nuggets of character detail and humor into what is a tired narrative.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

For the characters in Christina Adam's Any Small Thing Can Save You, each animal that passes through their world reflects a measured truth about love — between a husband and wife, a child and a parent, a brother and sister, at a moment of danger or discovery.

Of the dramatic plot twists that routinely occur in suspense fiction, one character in Harriet Lane's Her complains that they are «unsatisfying... nothing like life, which — it seems to me — turns less on shocks or theatrics than on the small quiet moments, misunderstandings or disappointments, the things that it's easy to overlook.»

But when I realized that nobody had ever written about the second most evil character in our collective American subconscious, the Wicked Witch of the West, I thought I had experienced a small moment of inspiration.

The jury's comment: «Ware's astute and precise renderings, composed with a tender yet unblinking clinical eye and fleshed out with pristine and evocative coloring, trace the mundane routines and moments of small crisis that his characters inhabit.

A small group of islands bursting with character and eccentricity, the British Isles will be sure to capture your heart from the moment you arrive.

In stripping away a lot of the usual narrative tropes the series is usually known for, Nihon Falcom have put a fresh spin on the franchise that puts characters and small moments over grand adventures and vast mysteries.

Participation in the game is made up of small moments and fragmented interactions; a player may receive a strange phone call that introduces a clue to move the story forward, or find themselves breaking into a warehouse at night with a character to expose some sinister plot.