Sentences with phrase «story pales in comparison»

Admittedly gta IV was a big improvement, but that story pales in comparison with the one in Red Dead.

The main story pales in comparison to the real strength, and that's the characters and their interactions.

My story pales in comparison to the countless stories I've heard from students who found out they weren't ready when they graduated from high school.

Aside from impressive 21st century digital effects, this new take on the Moses story pales in comparison to Cecil B. DeMille's iconic 1956 version, The Ten Commandments, which is far more resonant and intensely dramatic.

These stories pale in comparison to the controversy that erupted in 2015 when Embrace — Moody's African - American student group — decided to host a forum addressing white privilege.

But when it comes to sheer weirdness, all of these love stories pale in comparison to Yorgos Lanthimos «The Lobster, which is set in a world where singletons who can't find a mate within 45 days are turned into an animal of their choosing.

They stock Mills and Boon for romance, but those stories pale in comparison to a real, hearty, traditional romance.

Not exact matches

Marivaux's stories — at least in my mind — never really arise as more than a mere trifle, making them pale in comparison to the works of other classic playwrights like Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Molière.

Clash of Ninja Revolution 2 pales by far in comparison to Ninja Storm in almost every sense (story, fighting options, GRAPHICS, music, language options, and just the overall gaming experience).

However, their distraction pales in comparison to the beefed up role for another fictitious character, Bard's (Evans, Dracula: The Untold Story) servant Alfrid (Gage, Hamlet), who is meant to be the film's comic relief, but ends up being so broad and overbearing, you'll long to find him beheaded and skewered on the end of an Orc's spear after just the first of a dozen intolerable scenes in which he appears.

But by never focussing the story in a meaningful way, the film pales in comparison to its nearest predecessor,...

The original Age of Ultron story, with Ant - Man creating Ultron and Ultron being impossible to destroy was so much more powerful than this and Infinity Gauntlet is going to pale in comparison to the original story (the set up for the original story would take a few more years and stand - alones).

by Walter Chaw Mouldering in a can for over a year (the film would smell pretty stale regardless past 1980), Impostor is the umpteenth adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story (whether directly or indirectly), a fable of identity that pales in comparison to an acknowledged classic like Blade Runner, an ambitious blockbuster like Total Recall, and an under - seen sleeper like Screamers.

It's fun, and it's beautifully rendered, but it is a far cry from «Zootopia» in terms of story, a farther cry from «Frozen» in terms of musical numbers, and it pales in comparison to both in terms of emotional weight.

Anecdotes about her time on set pale in comparison to the hilarious stories she swaps with a dear old friend, Griffin Dunne, to whom she lost her virginity.

But as interesting as details like that can be — and as wonderfully quotable as Harlin tends to be — they pale in comparison to the unexpected and over-arching story of Harlin's career.

The story inevitably recalls Abbas Kiarostami's «A Taste of Cherry,» and this sketchier work can only pale in comparison, but a tightly disciplined climax, free of the expected moralising, suggests that, following the equally promising «Chop Shop» and «Man Push Cart,» Bahrani has a great film in him yet.

But that little nugget of insight pales in comparison to the scene below where Patric regales the story of his best sexual encounter to his «buddies» (Aaron Eckhart and Ben Stiller) while in the sauna.

Exactly look at Final Fantasy Versus XIII aka FFXV that game was announced back at E3 2006 and still we ended up having to wait 10 years and in the midst of all this SE decided hey let's make 2 sequels to Final Fantasy XIII that nobody asked for, and that further convolute the story of an already dreadful trilogy that pales in comparison to other lower budget jrpg's of last gen that had far more likable characters such as Tales of Xillia, Valkyria Chronicles, and even Xenoblade Chronicles of which fared considerably better.

Running around an hour and a half, the main story is serviceable enough but pales in comparison with the stellar narrative work developers like NetherRealm Studios have been knocking out.

The story looks existent too, even if it pales in comparison to the action.

«emergent experiences» — a lazy way of telling players to make their own fun through interaction — will always pale in comparison to games that emphasis an engrossing story.