Sentences with phrase «story beats like»

If you find yourself rolling your eyes at many of the game's story beats like I did, there's a good chance the second half of the game will remedy the disappointment.

Not exact matches

Like Boston Beer's flagship Samuel Adams Boston Lager in early taste tests, Koch's stories are hard to beat.

I would like to give that guy a good beating, but I'm glad we all got to know your story, very touching.

There are a lot of folks who tell a story of being beaten or abused to the cadence of bible verses just like those deployed by preachers who don't consider consequences of theology.

He says ultimately, stories like The Conjuring are scary, but in the end, are about «beating the Devil.»

ive been wrestling since i was 9 years old and when i went into high school i had to wrestle a girl... growing up learning to wrestle i had ended up having violent style, i never was dirty or broke rules but i was taught to do anything in your power to win whehter it was to club down the head or grab the throat to gain position etc. unfortunately i was in the postion to wrestle a girl once and at the time i did nt care who you were boy / girl, white / black / purple it did nt matter im was going to go out there bounce your head of the mat and bury you, so i went out there and wreslted the same way i always wrestled, 110 % and always to put your oppenents back through the mat i dditn change my style at all bc she was a girl i wrestled the same against everyone but after i pinned her in the first minute i did nt even realize that i broke her ribs when i power doubled through her, now after that for the rest of the tournament i was heckled and berated for forcefully beating a girl ppl were telling my parents «hey, looks like you raised a wife beater» etc. etc.... ever since then i refused to wrestle girls and thank go i eventually grew out of the lower weights, moral of the story is that is great and all that girls are wrestling but they shouldnt wrestle boys even if they know what they are getting into because 1.

oooh this beats any airline's first class hot plate... cant wait to hear your stories of your trip... and soo jealous youre going to san fran... go to Boulettes Larder, best restaurants in the Ferry Building, tell them Aubrey sent you and they will treat you like a queen!

As SubWulfert noted above, if he were to take a risk on someone like Charlo or Derevyanchenko and then beat Canelo... it's a whole different story.

More often than I'd like, those stories finish one of two ways: Either you get beat by a competitor or you move on and forget them.

The Mirror has reported the latest from France on this massive transfer story and if correct it has handed the Gunners a major boost to our hopes of beating the likes of Real Madrid to secure the signing of this highly rated young forward.

Story for the gods... they don't need Van Persie to beat us, just get some kids off the streets in a Man U, Chelski or hell, even Monaco kit, top it up by putting the moaning one [or just about any brash folk like Berbatov] in the picture and we are in deep s ** t, our players will quake in their boots and lose the plot; we only beat Man City «cos their manager is almost as studious and gentlemanly as our prof. kindly remind me of one feisty game we've won in recent times, ok maybe Stoke [it took a broken leg to Ramsey and constant harassment before our players thought it was necessary to stand up to Stoke].

Hearing amazing stories of thriving babies, adoption, foster care, independence, overcoming challenges, and beating postpartum depression made me feel like I wasn't alone.

The story goes like this, Atalanta was the fastest mortal and would only get married to the man that could beat her in a race.

I did like this game, but once the main story is beaten, there is little to no reason to keep playing in my opinion.

Like ever other movie in the M: I series, the story demands your unedified attention at every beat, and one can't help but feel that some of the countless twists are frivolous considering the basic framework of the narrative.

I'm not hating on Nintendo but they are known for remaking games I will agree that super smash bros for Wii u is a fun game but its definately a remake just like GTA 5 and Last of Us both GTA 5 and Last of Us are games that have an actual story and have open worlds and are not just straight up fighting games they have more going on with them than super smash bros and I don't see how super smash bros beat out dark souls 2 I'm sorry but dark souls should be higher due to the mechanics of the game and how well it is designed but I will agree that super smash bros for Wii u was one of the better games of the year but it is not in the top 3 or in metacritics opinion the best I would put it more of top 5 of top 6 game never the less super smash bros for Wii u is not a new game and is the 4th remake of the series

And, aside from a conclusion I won't spoil except to say that it plays exactly like the meta - film twist at the end of Altman's THE PLAYER, Spielberg can't resist to inject a Gumpian «brush with history» as then Assistant Attorney General Rehnquist, a future Justice of the Supreme Court, calls to advise Bradlee the publication of the papers is prohibited by the Espionage Act of 1917 — just a beat too late to stop the story going to print.

If you are a really good story gamer like me, you would be able to just rush right through and beat it in almost no time, but this actually required some thinking and planning to get through this game.

If you are a really good story gamer like me, you would be able to just rush right through and beat it in almost no time, but this

Like the previous two episodes, Episode 3 of Guardians gains enough momentum with its most engaging relationships and story beats to carry itself forward.

Then trailer 3, which was just a mad, difficult to follow barrage of a million snippets of the story interspersed with people getting beaten up and shot, I was like «uh, right, too much».

The muted photography feels like an attempt to match the frequently serious story beats, but it's all wrong, robbing viewers of the splashes of color that made «Guardians Of The Galaxy» so memorable.

The latter is always an especially welcome theme in a children's movie, and Herbie: Fully Loaded, with its emotional - roller - coaster story beats, will work like gangbusters with kids.

For one thing, the story is almost a beat - for - beat repeat of James Cameron's Aliens, while the visual grammar of both the action sequences and the designs is heavily inspired by the video game likes of Gears of War.

And they did such a good job with their Story mode and some of the other features that I feel like they kind of beat me in that sense,» he said.

Most «inspiring true story» movies have their truth panel - beaten into a prefabricated formula and served up like a Sunday School lesson.

But it feels like just another story beat, rather than a revelation that should open the film up dramatically for dissection.

Apart from the trademark hand - drawn style and grotesque creatures, its mishmash of familiar story beats feel more like a Hollywood production than the more eccentric Japanese visions we've come to love.

The cinematography is gorgeous as always, and the performances are pretty good across the board (particularly newcomer Ni Ni and Christian Bale as the Westerner caught in the middle of the conflict), but the real star is the story itself, which earns its emotional beats without feeling like it's pandering to the audience.

Ugandan artists like Afrigo Band, Eddy Kenzo, and Bobbi Wine provide ample rhythm and momentum, the beats dramatizing Phiona's story.

Joining the ranks of other B - list characters like Ant - Man and the Guardians of the Galaxy, «Doctor Strange» marries its inventive visuals with the usual superhero story beats to deliver the best solo origin movie since director Jon Favreau kicked off the MCU with «Iron Man.»

While the actual premise is not that bad, the execution of the narrative and the story beats are terrible and feel like they are overplayed.

Be aware that I'm not keeping things vague for the sake of being vague, or attempting to present these story beats to you in a mysterious or illogical way: this is how the story plays out, heavy on style — everything's very Lynchian in its dreaminess — and very low on things like «reality» or «recognizable actions being undertaken by characters that we can identify with».

The humor can also be overly silly at times, more befitting a cartoon than a subtle independent comedy with melancholy beats, and the action elements toward the end, including car chases and destruction, feel like they belong in a spoof of 1980s blockbusters more so than in a poignant story about two misunderstood and withdrawn characters finding ways to come together.

This enlightening eavesdropping is a great delivery method for the story because it not only makes you feel as though you are outsmarting your opponents, but it also keeps your discovery of the storyline feeling more natural and less like you're being beat over the head with the game's narrative.

Story mode which is played out like a Final Fight type Beat - em - up offers players the opportunity to wander the streets of NYC, fighting hordes of cookie cutter aliens and performing repetitive attacks.

That makes Félicité one of the experiences I craved most from this edition of the NYFF: something like a Dardenne brothers movie, but with a driving beat, a goofy love story, and the interpolation of some mysterious, blue - tinted images of orchestral performances and forest settings to remind me that Félicité's mental world isn't all slums and soggy francs.

Right now, the story progresses like a group PowerPoint in freshman year where each beat — and there are three, «BeastMania,» «Mighty Joe Young redux,» ««90s cinema» — has its own voice and it's obvious when the transitions happen.

Add to that a cavalcade of clichés from the local color that reads like a Chamber of Commerce video (jazz bands, an overdose of zydeco flavoring in the score by Ry Cooder wannabe Steve Mazzaro, Bobo's swamp house that's apparently just down the bayou from Jason Statham's in «The Mechanic») to the utterly predictable story beats, and you've got a thoroughly generic movie that can only sporadically provide even gut - level thrills.

And like so much of country music, the story is all - too - sad, yet the tune is so upbeat and fuelled by four - four optimism, it's forces you to tap a toe and tip your hat to the beat.

From the hand - crafted backdrops and methodical puzzles of point - and - clicks like Monkey Island to the guiding pathways and meticulous detail of first - person games like What Remains of Edith Finch, the adventure genre is one that is predicated on tight design and deliberate story beats.

I admire any teen comedy that strays off the beaten path and thoroughly entertains — films like Mean Girls and Superbad come to mind — and now Easy A. Story centers on one particular student named Olive (Emma Stone), who doesn't really follow any kind of clique, mostly stays by herself or with her BFF, Rhiannon (Aly Michalka), and is one smart cookie.

The story just jumps around from beat to beat too quickly and Affleck, as the director, never gives the audience the chance to fully get enveloped in the deeper story, he just keeps pushing it along like a glitzy Hollywood crime thriller, not an intricate crime drama (which I know he's capable of, because I saw it Gone Baby Gone).

I don't want to harsh anyone's buzz; there are plenty of laugh - out - loud moments and extremely satisfying character beats, but it also feels like a stock Fox X-Men film with an overblown budget and needless CGI - heavy action scenes that add little to the story.

With only the idea that comic book heroes have home lives and feelings of inadequacy like everyone else, this one note movie beats that them like a drum with such a lack of wit that it's astonishing that these credible actors would find the rather talky (for a comic book) story worthy of their efforts.

In many ways, the movie plays out like the first Harry Potter film adaptation, a hyper - aggressive checklist of events that must happen to propel the lengthy plot forward as well as hit all the story beats fans of the source material would expect.

The creative team behind dramas like It's Kind of a Funny Story and the Oscar - nominated Half Nelson beat out well - known, female contenders for the 2019 feature.

Like Moonee's story, Bobby's appearances in the film are often episodic, but Dafoe uses these little beats to create a fully three - dimensional character.

It plays like a retro beat»em up but it also has a historical element in that its story follows events of ancient Britannia.

It's a touch disappointing that the film's biopic structure proves as constraining as it does; most of the story beats play out as you'd expect them to in a film like this one.