Sentences with phrase «story device»

The familiar graphic novel story device has been replaced with full motion cutscenes but there is still kind of a comic book feel to them.

Sean Penn co-wrote the screenplay for the foreign - intrigue action thriller, The Gunman, whose interesting plot elements vie with routine story devices.

It's a fairly reminiscent gameplay mechanic and story device made popular by The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past that works phenomenally well in the context of the Metroid universe.

You have plain old smashmouth elemental TV story devices — good guys, bad guys, evil corporations, a family unit, and a headlong rush toward the Truth, whatever that may be.

Alas, Binder tries to tread the line between philosophy and farce, satire and slapstick, and with so many contrasting story devices, the imbalance of mood finally does the film in as a potentially intelligent piece of entertainment.

Not only is this heavy - handed story device too weighty for such a lightweight comedy, but it paints its main romantic players in petty, unflattering light, and we wonder if these two have the maturity and communication skills to ever be happy with one another.

Also like Shyamalan's works, the less you buy into it, the more you will find yourself amused by the silliness of it all, and the fact that the makers of the film expect us to take their cooked - up concepts and bad story devices seriously.

Sean Penn co-wrote the screenplay for this foreign - intrigue action thriller whose interesting plot elements vie with routine story devices.

It's a fairly reminiscent gameplay mechanic and story device made popular by The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past that works phenomenally well in the context of the Metroid universe.

Both story devices are handled well and before long, fears are dissuaded that this good show will lose its touch.

Since 1950 the story device of «Rashomon» has been borrowed repeatedly; Galbraith cites «Courage Under Fire,» and certainly «The Usual Suspects» was also influenced, in the way it shows us flashbacks that do not agree with any objective reality.

An attempt at a plot involving time travel occurs in the third act, but Goldsman doesn't seem to understand the rules that come with using such a story device; when one character's past self dies, the future incarnation inexplicably lives on.

This is moronic and Jackson could have easily come up with another story device to give him what he needed here.

Both of these key elements are story devices that action movies fans will recognize right from the start.