Sentences with phrase «so much the plot»

Too many characters and so much plot that no single scenario ever develops into an absorbing drama.

The script lifts so much plot from Disney's animated Frozen that it could qualify as a remake.

Let's begin with a recap of Iron Man 1, not so much the plot (a man puts on an iron suit and beats the bad guys) as what it was that made it so successful, widely considered one of the best comic book adaptations ever.

With so much plot to trudge through, other directors would have simply gotten lost or stuck to the «boy and his dragon» cliché, but DeBlois gives the dragons just as much psychological depth than the humans.

But, as I have read in other reviews, there really is so much plot that it feels like there isnt one.

It's not so much the plot that really drives the game forward — it's the scenarios, the characters, the little details, and most of all, the humour.

As a fan I enjoyed how Dennaton tied things together, but I felt that they added so much plot that it actually watered down the experience.

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You'd just be like, «Nah, every part of this is bulls --» — especially considering so much of the plot revolves around the setting, like the details of how Artemis operates.

We're a little thin on plot details right now but, well, soap operas aren't known for their coherent plot details anyway so let's not trouble ourselves too much over that.

We've been seeing quite a few reasons to just wait to send that text message till after you park the car, but perhaps none that sound quite so much like a bad movie plot than this story from Maryland, where a 25 - year - old woman was distracted by texting and ran her car off the road, clipped a tree and was propelled 60 feet into a lake.

We note in any case, and emphatically, that it is, like so much in the patriarchal narratives, a very good story indeed especially in the graphic portrayal of Tamar, in its deft integration of plot, and in its fine suspense.

Unfortunately I'm not very comfortable baking with yeast, so after much plotting and planning I decided to use the essence of the poppy filling / spread and merge it with one of my old favourites, the cinnamon bun.

His tomato plot looks more like a forest than a garden, yet his tomatoes are so much better.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

He took to it so quickly, and has been plugging away at his little basket ever since (except for the moments when I kind of steal it because it's SO much fun to do), all while plotting the next one he wants to make though he's contemplating how he can do it with Maine pine needleso quickly, and has been plugging away at his little basket ever since (except for the moments when I kind of steal it because it's SO much fun to do), all while plotting the next one he wants to make though he's contemplating how he can do it with Maine pine needleSO much fun to do), all while plotting the next one he wants to make though he's contemplating how he can do it with Maine pine needles.

So much life in those beds this time of year, and I love wandering around and plotting our next meal.

We're lucky to have a bank of mature trees at the end of our plot, so it's pretty much enclosed all around by green — which I adore.

I know that by three months everyone says things settle down so I'm very much keeping that in mind when I'm almost losing the plot!!

Pediatric well visits are about so much more than getting shots and plotting your child's climb up the growth chart.

This was a presentation given by Tom Schoenemann of the University of Michigan at Dearborn, and what he did was to survey cranial capacity and body weight data, so brain size and body weight data for a bunch of modern humans and also [a] fossil one, and he plotted all of this on a graph and he determined that the brain size of the Flores hominid relative to her body size more closely approximates that what you see in the Australopithecines, which are much older, you know.

So much of the plot revolves around moving from one stupid idea to the next that I was often laughing at the screen and, generally, not watching the movie.

The problem I have with so much writing about screenwriting is that it is often only about structure (Syd Field's plot points; the Hero's Journey, etc) without a lot of understanding of the nuances of character, tone, et al involved.

This modest film falls into the category of «character study», which generally means there there isn't a real plot or story follow, so much as a brief peek into a life of someone for a while, perhaps in the hope of learning a thing or two about a different mode of life, or as a reflection of our own.

Much in this film deliberately doesn't move, including the plot until the last 15 minutes or so, when things pick up, but not enough to actually become compelling.

Similar to Inception and Pulp Fiction (okay, maybe not so much the latter), this movie is horribly misunderstood by the common person, but to anyone who has a sense of meta - humour, good cinematography, writing, and great plot line this movie shines like lamp in a dark basement (See what I did there, I was implying that horror movies in general aren't that great... I was also referencing the movie).

So much going on and intersecting / overlapping plots.

Also, the script relies so much on portraying fundamental outlines of the characters in order to keep the plot moving, that it almost feels like we're watching alternate versions of these characters.

The plot is pretty much one set piece after another with little plot in between which normally would be poor but this film is practically a late entry in the 80's action genre so its easily forgiven.

The Scooby - Doo - ish central plot is forgivable in a movie with so much visual verve, energetic action and a character so wondrously designed as Baymax.

The plot needed an interpreter into Esperanto or even rebus: Simple would have been so much better and someone should have put a spit - muzzle on the histrionic Penn..

It's not merely that Stoller's film is long (clocking in at just over two hours), it's that so much of its time is misappropriated; plot threads with Tom's parents (David Paymer and Mimi Kennedy) and Violet's mother (Jacki Weaver) could be jettisoned entirely, with that time freed up to examine in greater interesting detail Tom's emotional waywardness.

Many thrillers use their characters as nothing more than cardboard cutouts to be put through the motions of the plot, so much so that by the time the plot boils over we don't care, because we don't know who the characters are or why they're doing what they're doing.

By the end, director Sidney Pollack has spent so much time with Silvia and Tobin at the expense of the tension, building plot elements a thriller needs to keep moving forward, that he has to play quite a bit of bait and switch to get things where they need to be for the climax he wants, which is moving but by that point a bit ridiculous.

For one, the plot was incredibly weak, and this was a surprise because the premise had so much potential.

I don't want to reveal much about the so - called plot, but Solondz is a master at throwing dark, satirical elements into a narrative, humorously revealing the dark underside of things.

I was more invested in the realistic plot with the worldly cad and his ambitious caddy, played by suave Chevy Chase and earnest Michael O'Keefe, respectively, and not so much Bill Murray's garbled gopher - hunting.

Even as its plot suggests more traditional coming - of - age dynamics, the filmmaker doesn't retread familiar territory so much as reinvent it.

There are several subplots which blend into the plot, making this not so much a one joke story but a continued laugh - a-thon.

The plot is fairly thin and predictable but this matters little when everyone's having so much fun.

10 Items or Less is a likeable film with a handful of delightful moments, but at the same time, why does it waste so much time, ours and theirs, in an effort that has no theme, plot or purpose?

Much of the movie hinges on characters not revealing information to each other that no sane person would ever keep a secret; Baby Mama doesn't have a plot so much as a series of contrivances that play out completely as expecMuch of the movie hinges on characters not revealing information to each other that no sane person would ever keep a secret; Baby Mama doesn't have a plot so much as a series of contrivances that play out completely as expecmuch as a series of contrivances that play out completely as expected.

Yet, the plot feels truthful and really connected with audiences; so much so, that it won Russell the Audience Award at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, and an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.

The main plot drive the story so much, there aren't many scenes to provide for character development or to make the overall film interesting.

«He is not a director of plots so much as a director of tones, emotions and moments of truth, and there's a sense of gathering fate even in the lighter scenes,» Roger wrote.

Although many of the plot devices are similar in Scorsese's film and the Hong Kong «original,» this is Scorsese's film all the way because of his understanding of the central subject of so much of his work: guilt.

Gibson, a proven pro at playing off - kilter characters, is so much fun to watch that we are interested when the contrived plot surfaces.

What a tedious film.Over acting, wobbly plot, dialogue at times pure drivel and a laughable ending.It really was poor.The film goes straight into a Cul de Sac and can not get out.Way too much nudity from the metro sexual looking Tilda Swinton.Her androgynous body quite turned my stomach.A redeeming feature was the glorious sunshine and powerful light of Italy.The film meanders, wobbles and finally falls down.Older people like Swinton and Fiennes should really keep their pants on at all times.It is acutely embarrassing when the oldies need to do so much nudity (l suspect it is to appease their insecurity that they might not be physically desirable anymore) Horrible attempt at film making

Some main characters also receive slightly less development, but not so much that would effect your understanding of the plot.

But, as in The Force Awakens, the power of the characters compensates for plot weakness, and if The Last Jedi gets a little detour - y, it's okay, because we like these people so damn much.

We don't know much about the plot specifics or the visual style of Birdman yet, so there's a possibility that Lubezki's lensing will land on the side of serviceable as opposed to showy.