Sentences with phrase «startling moments»

After clearing an area in Union for the first time, traversing back to another building, I found myself stumbling across enemies I missed, creating some truly tense and startling moments during a time I wasn't expecting to do battle.

The Call of Duty series has dropped many a jaw over the years — and here are five of the most startling moments in the franchise.

But the movie manages some terrifying, startling moments, mainly thanks to a crafty, strangely prickly music score by Christopher Young.

There are certainly no intentional jump scares, but you'll likely run into more than a few startling moments.

Get Out Much of Jordan Peele's breakout hit was infused with openly startling moments meant to evoke visceral audience reactions, and yet the one that resonated most was shrouded in a stunning silence.

The film has a few startling moments, and is fun to watch for the sake of just enjoying something stupid.

I greatly enjoyed The Conjuring for a number of reasons, but mostly because it was very smart with its scares — starting slowly with a few startling moments that evolve into relentlessly intense sequences of pure horror.

There are very startling moments that aim to make you jump but the fear is justified as the culprit is a ghost or a villain with ill intent.

Yet it's indelibly linked to those films despite its comparable comic tone, the humour occasionally overturned with sudden, startling moments that remind us intently of the pain behind these sources of humour, that ensure our ability to laugh never obscures the memories of those who can not.

Some of the film's more startling moments and visuals are the most effective and unsettling sequences I've seen in a horror film in recent years, which will be due in part to what personally unsettles me, but may have no impact on anyone else.

Amiel makes an admirable stab at overcoming the staid, episodic conventions of the typical biopic, staging Darwin's mental and physical breakdown with startling moments of magical realism.

Some of the best sales conversations include one special moment that makes people step back and take notice, that changes people's perspective, or that creates a startling moment of insight and clarity — this is what we call an «Ah ha!»

As I stood there, weeping, I had a startling moment of clarity, almost like a voice broke through to me: «You've been seeing through a glass darkly.»

The bill then passed the committee, also on a party - line vote, after a startling moment when committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D - WV) inadvertently voted against it.

At the same point, Blomkamp ratchets up the intimacy: in one startling moment, he drops from his mockumentary style into an omniscient narrative mode.

The prologue is a visual mess of strobe lights and filter effects (A party montage is joylessly similar, using various camera speeds), and when Carrie Anne is on the loose, Tonderai offers only cheap, anticlimactic startle moments (The most ridiculous one eyes a couple making out in a car as Carrie Anne makes her way toward them).

Consider if instead the film embarked upon cheap, pointless startle moment after another, the way thrillers have degraded into recently, and we can appreciate Twohy's handling all the more.

We've all experienced that startling moment when a passing vehicle splashes a flood of water onto your windshield and suddenly, your visibility is seriously compromised.

At a startling moment when one of only two novelists on TIME's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World is a writer of naughty Twilight fan fiction, we don't need the Pulitzer saying that nobody writes good books anymore.

It was a big, startling moment to me.

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It was a startling and confusing moment for me.

That these moments occur in the course of the rough and tumble of his pastoral career and not, as a rule, as calculated links in a chain of argument makes them the more startling.

Or about how there are moments when her own strength startles her, and moments when her weakness — her forgetfulness, her fear, her exhaustion — unnerve her.

William is just about the only one I talk about Qi with, and having him suddenly spout my words back at me was a moment of startling clarity.

We witness moments of struggle, support, and hope as what is revealed, with startling clarity, is that diet can reverse Type II Diabetes and change lives.

These photos ofthe boxer then known as Cassius Clay, from negatives lost for more than 40 years, present a few of those crucible moments from startling new angles andwith revealing humanity.

The shock of recognition startled me for a moment.

A startled look crosses Rachel's face as she rises into the air, and for a moment she's suspended between emotions, deciding whether to laugh or cry.

Swaddling makes the baby feel secure and safe, helping him stay asleep even during moments of startle reflex.

His startling array of sketches gave him a chance to teach other kids how to draw at a local school recently, which Luke says «was an incredibly humbling and awesome moment to see others creating sketches and sharing them.»

Several political reporters with long memories were startled by the statement, since it refers to a long - ago incident when the governor was his father's heavyweight — a moment Team Cuomo doesn't like to revisit.

At that moment Jennifer shot me a look I haven't seen since the supernatural thriller The Exorcist startled audiences.

Earns its keep simply for the moment when Loy, expecting Powell to describe her eyes in gushing terms, is instead startled when he remarks that they look like «angry marbles.»

George Romero didn't improve on our first look at George and Martha with any single moment of his seminal Night of the Living Dead — the effect of the reveal is as startling, as memorable, as the first appearance of Stanley in Kazan's Streetcar Named Desire.

Perhaps the most startling and disturbing moment in the film comes when a doctor tells Adam Schumann (Miles Teller) that thousands of men and women are waiting for access to PTSD treatment in special centers around the U.S..

It shows no desire to entice you in, but that aloofness, and some moments so dazzlingly strange that they startle you into alertness, make it as seductive as it is repellent.

From the opening moments of black - and - white bleakness on a field of dead men as a shellshocked horse startles Lee Marvin, the images are rich, varied, and all - of - a-piece.

The filmmakers embrace the «moment» women are currently enjoying in pop culture: Thanks to female - centric works such as last year's «Bridesmaids» and this year's HBO series «Girls,» female characters can be seen confronting intimacy issues in sometimes startling ways and unconventional protagonists are getting screen time.

For a brief moment, I thought that Tommy Lee Jones» The Homesman, based on a novel by Glendon Swarthout (who also wrote The Shootist, and, weirdly, Where The Boys Are), might be making a major feminist statement — something truly startling, bold, and pointed.

, moments of startles timed exactly as we've come to expect (Director Wes Craven misses the mention of how predictable the killer appearing out of nowhere is during the prologue and proceeds to do the same), and a level of viciousness that undercuts the jokes.

You Were Never Really Here is a fleeting mood piece that, for its occasional moments of startling beauty and Phoenix's auching tumult, doesn't linger.

There are many excellent moments in this film where the ghosts startle you, disappear, and startle you again before you have enough time to catch your breath.

In McDonagh's simmering crockpot of small - town personalities, resentment commingles with a shared history and understanding — sometimes within a single scene, like the startling gear - shift moment where a tense confrontation between the chief and Mildred disarms itself when he suddenly coughs up blood.

Scary Movie was by no means a good film nor a particularly hilarious one (though, admittedly, it had its moments); the only reason I can come up with for its wild popularity was the startling and unexpected extremes of its vulgarity.

There are also moments of magical realism and startling surrealism (with a drum - based score that can be distracting) that are so in - your - face, I often wished the bombardment of style would shut up so I could hear the characters.

What's genuinely startling is how director Lone Scherfig spikes the romance and comedy with stark moments of violence, as characters we come to know and love succumb to German bombs and, sometimes, less predictable calamities.

On the one hand it has a suspiciously art - cinema - by - numbers feel to it (riffing off a Michael Haneke template), but on the other hand it is full of original, startling, daring moments and provocations.

While the characters in this story experience moments of peril and some brief violence (including a startling incident when a bird smashes into a bus window), the film never drives out of bounds for families with older children.

I missed the kooky, at times cryptically obsessive quality that Joss Whedon brought to «The Age of Ultron,» but this is a smoother, more consistent film with its own oddball moments, such as Paul Bettany's Vision making paprikash for Scarlet Witch while listening to Chet Baker, and Falcon's startling name - check of racist police officer Mark Furhman.

Like Someone In Love may bear some of the superficial markings of a comedy, even a romantic comedy Kiarostami - style, but make no mistake, by its final moments the film becomes a startling dissection of masculine jealousy and the capacity for violence.