Sentences with phrase «story as supporting characters»

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The plot is weaker than some of Marvel's more recent stories (I'm looking at you Winter Soldier), and the villain is the biggest mustache twirling megalomaniac the studio has yet produced, but what it lacks in completely solid writing it makes up for in its wonderfully charming cast, an impressive use of special effects, and at least a baby step forward as far as female supporting characters are concerned.

Since the story unfolds at such a brisk clip (and spends a lot of time with a good amount of supporting characters such as Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Mark Ruffalo, and Melanie Laurent), the Horsemen don't really have enough screentime to create believable characters, but that's not the main attraction here anyway.

Liam James is great as the heart of the story, managing to portray an understated awkwardness and pain, but with his character remaining shy for large parts of proceedings, it is the supporting cast of offbeat characters who help bring the spark to the film.

Whacky supporting characters (Will Ferrell as Cubby, the local mortician and / or pornographer; the aforementioned deputies and Lucinda) can spark a joke here and there, but the story is weak and not worthy of the supersize popcorn.

The rest of the cast is wonderful, an ensemble of simple characters who support a very realistic urban story; Nathan Lane as Frankie's gay neighbor, Jane Morris as old and bitter co-worker Nedda, Kate Nelligan as Frankie's free - spirited bestie, and Hector Elizondo as cafe owner and Frankie's boss.

Forster and screenwriters Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, and Damon Lindelof have taken what used to be a character - driven zombie story, ripped out its brain and heart, and left it as nothing but a stumbling corpse kept alive on life support with a blockbuster budget.

The trailer also includes scenes of the story that is inserted into the main narrative, a story written by Jake Gyllenhaal's character that will feature most of the supporting cast and serves as a possible threat to his ex-wife, played by Amy Adams.

As a non-comic book reader can I ask the internets, does this character have lots of good stories that they can base a script off of and does he have lots of good supporting characters and enemies?

Certainly it isn't because it's a fitting ending to the journey of Bilbo, as he's not even involved in the majority of this film, instead taking a back seat to a host of characters that are either greatly beefed up from their small supporting roles in the original Tolkien work, or, as in the case of lovelorn wood elf Tauriel (Lilly, The Long Weekend) and handsome dwarf Kili (Turner, The Mortal Instruments), complete fabrications injected to put in a love story for, presumably, the young female set.

Similarly, while the «Francois» personality gives Cera an opportunity to break away from the awkward, teenaged persona he has gotten down to a science, that aspect of the story takes as much of a backseat as the rest of the gallery of supporting characters.

He's a figure of great notoriety, and has been represented in film several times previous to the Richardson version, including the 1906 silent film The Story of the Kelly Gang and a 1960 Australian television version starring Ken Goodlet as Kelly, who makes an appearance as a supporting character here (amidst a healthy mix of other Australian character actors, including Bill Hunter and Frank Thring).

As usual, Spielberg is a master juggler of moving parts in a story with multiple themes and many supporting characters, including the whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg (in a pensive performance by Matthew Rhys) and hard - charging Post reporter Ben Bagdikian (Bob Odenkirk).

The supporting characters in the film all fill various archetypes that are somewhat typical for a story such as this.

Helmed by Ron Howard (after taking over for the fired Phil Lord and Chris Miller), «Solo: A Star Wars Story» features Alden Ehrenreich as the beloved title character, with a great supporting cast that includes Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Woody Harrelson, among others.

Directed by Ron Howard (taking over for Phil Lord and Chris Miller), «Solo: A Star Wars Story» features Alden Ehrenreich as the title character, with a great supporting cast that includes Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Woody Harrelson, and more.

Supporting males characters such as two student athletes played by Emory Cohen (Place Beyond the Pines) and newcomer Anthony Kelley - or an enforcer played by The Wire's Dominick Lombardozzi - feel even more like devices than characters, though given their small roles in the story, that's a bit more understandable.

It doesn't help that the story becomes unwieldy from a multitude of subplots involving the supporting characters, such as Tars Tarkas» rivalry for leadership of the Tarks with Tal Hajus (voice of Thomas Haden Church), the question and implications of Sola (voice of Samantha Morton) being Tars Tarkas» daughter, and the political maneuvers of Dejah's father (Ciarán Hinds), who thinks he can ensure peace between Helium and Zodanga by having his daughter marry Than.

With little else to keep me interested as the story stumbled along, I did enjoy keeping track of all the trendy names of various minor supporting characters, from high - priced bodyguards Taylor and Sawyer and Prescott to the novelist Boyce Fox to the architect known as Gia Matteo to the bank manager Troy Whelan.

The movie is really the story of the Lemmon and Curtis characters, and it's got a top - shelf supporting cast (Joe E. Brown, George Raft, Pat O'Brien), but Monroe steals it, as she walked away with every movie she was in.

The story is loosely based on the life of influential folk musician Dave van Ronk and stars Oscar Isaac as the titular character with Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund and Justin Timberlake in supporting roles (though Timberlake is nowhere to be seen in this trailer).

And I'd like to single out Moritz Bleibtreu (Run Lola Run), one of my favorite German actors (also very good in The Baader Meinhof Complex) as one of the supporting characters whose role — unlike poor Vikander's — does add to the depth of the story.

She has nothing to do with the actual story, but serves as a good character reference for Sportello and a handful of the supporting cast.

At times, some of the supporting characters aren't as full developed as they could be (including the family cook, who oftentimes seemed like an unnecessary addition to the story) but for most of the movie's running time, the script superbly tells this incredible true story.

Though her story might be too big for a film of which she is not the star, it's not inconceivable that she could simply appear as a supporting character as a kind of Easter Egg, or even a backdoor set up for a spin - off.

There are goofy celebrity cameos (Anna Faris as a coked - out version of herself), over-the-top supporting characters (Will Forte in full S.N.L. chameleon mode), and quasi-love stories for both Clarence and Rell.

With interesting supporting characters, Miller's play will live on and on as a stirring depiction of one great American story.

As you serialize this story over a podcast or YouTube, you start to think more deeply about the origin of one of your supporting characters.

The three siblings are at the core of the story, but the supporting characters are interesting and important as well.

I hope you'll explain what developmental editors do, as well — how they often start with an author before a word is written, how they support, challenge, and sometimes suggest characters, stories ideas, structure; and how they also line - edit and even suggest new language for character development, dialogue, and other aspects of the literary style.

- for Sonic's 25th anniversary last year, Iizuka received a task to deliver some sort of product - the target was «dormant fans» who used to play the SEGA Genesis, but haven't really played any games since - Iizuka met Christian Whitehead, which lead to the creation of Sonic Mania - there was talk of another port, but Iizuka thought fans would desire something new from the old games - this is the first time Iizuka partnered with a team of devs spread across various countries - Iizuka said this team had a greater passion to create - this was in comparison to companies that set decisions on a pre-determined schedule (in meetings, etc)- the team had so many features they still wanted to add after the beta version was complete - since there were only a few spots with text that needed to be localized, they could bring the game to more places quicker - the game has Japanese, English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish support - the Studiopolis stage is included due to receiving the most requests from the Sonic Mania development team - Iizuka actually considered reducing the amount of stages at one point in order to meet the development schedule - Sonic Mania doesn't really have much in the way of cut content like scrapped stages - since Sonic Mania was only distributed digitally, the team was able to continue working very close leading up to launch - this let them put in practically all ideas, and there are currently no plans for DLC - Iizuka recommended Flying Battery Zone for inclusion becaues he likes the music - he also likes when the player goes inside and outside the ship - Iizuka likes Mirage Saloon because the stage structure will be different depending on the player character chosen - Puyo Puyo gameplay was added because there was a Puyo Puyo game released in the west for the SEGA Genesis - this game was originally called «Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine», and the team thought it would make a fun boss battle - Iizuka didn't have plans to feature Blue Sphere in the special stages - the Blue Sphere special stages were brought over to Mania as a test, but ended up staying for the final game - the team felt the need to continuously connect stages from various eras, which is doe with the Phantom Ruby story - for Sonic Mania, it was decided that the technological limit would be set at SEGA CD, - this is higher than the Genesis but lower than Saturn - in creating a SEGA CD - grade special stage, they would intentionally make SEGA CD - grade polygons

Knights Chronicle's story will be fully supported by immersive 3D graphics and models and the characters» voices will be voiced by renowned voice actors, showing the same standard of quality and experience as console and PC RPGs.

The story still suffers from a weak supporting cast of characters, while the cinematic action sequences are just as exciting as they were before.

Complete with new story content and additional voice acting that details the rise of the Deliverance in Zofia, this collection of challenging maps includes new support conversations between selected heroes, as well as the ability to take command of a character players won't be able to control in the main game.

While Galahad's trials and tribulations are riveting as the main narrative attraction, the story's supporting characters are just as enjoyable.

Voice - over artists bring life to the characters including Marqus Bobesich voicing Sebastian Castellanos having also had roles in horror TV series and films such as The Crossbreed, American Horror Story and Survival of the Dead, while Meg Saricks voices Juli Kidman having provided additional voices in Life is Strange: Before the Storm and starred in the Nailbiter films, alongside an entire supporting cast who also perform their respective roles to an equally high standard.

Amon is joined by an assortment of supporting characters that can join you in battle as the story progresses.

He's also a supporting character in his DLC after the opening scene, as you play Evie Frye trying to track down Jack through a series of story missions and some new mechanics within side missions.

I would support a Vita release, even not knowing how the vita game works, but the same game where you spend «your energy» on a couple combats, wait for hours, and do a couple more, to unlock the next dialogue, and repeat... that's not the kind of game I want to play, as much as I actually enjoyed the story and characters.

This one contains new story content that acts as a Prologue to the main game, with details about the Deliverance in Zofia, challenging maps, new support conversations, and the ability to control characters not playable in the main game.

Just as novelists develop characters and bring them to resolution, so judges use characterization to form the story of the case and word choice to support their decisions.

Amiibo support is the other notable addition and it allows you to purchase in - game items that will make Bayonetta look like iconic Nintendo characters from Link to Samus as she leaps and slashes her way through the story.