Sentences with phrase «spectacle than character»

Sure it's more about spectacle than character, action over logic, but we go to the movies to be entertained, and they deliver on that, right?

There's more focus on relentless spectacle than characters we've cared about for the past decade.

Not exact matches

It isn't often in the summer that you enjoy the intense pleasure of a certain kind of old - fashioned cinema experience, the sort that sweeps you up in sheer spectacle with bigger - than - life images and yet holds you close with intimately observed characters and the details that keep your eyes and mind busy.

He's a visual effects spectacle to behold (a CGI marvel, really)-- nasty, mean and a massive threat, but the character doesn't add up to more than an infuriated bad guy who chases people around and burns their bums with fire because they've woken him up.

It's not a particularly good movie, but it has far more character than this CGI - dominated remake, a bland and flavorless spectacle centered on muscle - bound Perseus (Sam Worthington), a stiffly stalwart demigod who takes on an odyssey to defy the gods with no more personality than the slick but CGI creatures he battles along the way.

For all of his obvious skills and uncommon talent as a visual storyteller, Kosinski's first two films were short on character depth and emotional engagement, but whether a function of Kosinski's innate preferences for spectacle over substance or simply script - related issues, Kosinski's feature - film output made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earlier.

As each character reaches some kind of emotional (and more often than not, amusing) realisation, the mix of humour, music and spectacle build into something really quite special.

Signs is more about the characters than the spectacle.

But Yager, the developers, have promised new highs in the use of character and morality in the game, reaching for something more akin to the emotional horror of Apocalypse Now rather than the meathead spectacle of a Rambo movie.