Sentences with phrase «story premise for»

She praised the game's story premise for being «interesting,» however she felt it did not offer «necessary information for the main Halo story line.»

This sets up a great story premise for exploration, as what you need to do for each planet varies, and you will generally spend a lot of time driving around getting distracted by abundant side quests that exist on top of the story - linked ones.

That would set up a uique story premise for Avengers 4, in which Hawkeye is quite literally the last Avenger in existence.

The story premise for Danganronpa 2 remains the same with the return of some fan favorite characters.

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It wants to make us root for its premise to be vindicated, for us to say yes, this should be a story about Harry Potter and his wayward son.

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This Island Earth (I'm still not sure how the title applies to the story) starts off with an interesting premise — aliens posing (poorly) as a think tank of sorts to recruit Earth's best and brightest for the scientific good.

He was adamant that the story premise of Free Fire could not be done as a feature film and was, at best, the sort of material for a 20 - minute shoot - em - up short.

The story line is not one they are expecting you to swallow - for those that may need to be reminded that this is a TV series, not real life - however, the premise for the story line sets the scene perfectly and is naturally secondary to what will keep you coming back for more - the delightful characters and their immersive interactions.

Though Netflix's latest binge - a-thon doesn't always handle the logistics of that situation in a completely convincing way, its premise provides a sturdy backdrop for the suspenseful story of a girl striving to protect her younger brother at all costs.

Many hints have been coming in the past few weeks as to what the premise of the next American Horror Story season will be, and this latest teaser for the show has got to be the best of the promotional material that we have seen to date.

Official Premise: Based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom.

And for the first time in the franchise, this story actually takes advantage of the moral ambiguity suggested by the premise.

Outside of Vinson and some choice scoring / music selection that, along with its story, evokes some of the memorable 1970s work from John Carpenter (Assault on Precinct 13 and The Fog come to mind), You're Next is a fairly dreadful choice for a scare flick, with ineffective acting choices, a laughable premise, and no real surprises offered to anyone who actually pays attention to the poorly written dialogue that occurs between scenes of violence.

Now, for the umpteenth time, we get the same premise — only this time it's meshed with an «epic» love story from the creator of «Twilight,» worldwide bestselling author, Stephenie Meyer.

For such an incredulous premise, nothing in the story feels forced.

Horror is a genre where a film can sustain a dubious premise for at least one feature - length story, but the flaws...

Acting as a ghost hunter for - hire is a fun premise, and the story is complemented by its genuinely likeable cast of characters.

At least part of the credit belongs to screenwriter Diablo Cody, who seems to have set out to write a greatest - hits Jonathan Demme movie — complete with full - length live musical numbers, kitsch décor, and a wedding — while taking another go at the basic premise of her script for Young Adult: the story of a nobody returning to nowhere.

Provided you are willing to swallow a silly premise which has the protagonist crisscrossing the country in search of his long - lost nursery mates, the picture proves to be a pleasant enough diversion, not for its examination of astrology but rather on account of the love story which blossoms between gentlemanly Jake and damsel - in - distress Sarah.

The story is relayed to the player through flashbacks as they are interrogated by a bounty hunter and follows the basic premise that was the driving force behind the previous Borderlands games — Searching for vaults that contains a priceless artefact, sending our characters off on a quest to find keys to unlock them.

Although blessed with good actors, there is still a certain stale quality to the story that makes for a less - than - completely scintillating premise, further compounded by the fact that Owen and Watts, while individually fine and appealing actors, somehow make for a bland on - screen pairing.

Official Premise: «Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)» is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton)-- famous for portraying an iconic superhero — as he struggles to mount a Broadway play.

That's the basic premise of Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola «s obviously whimsical series of shorts for Prada, and the third and final installment has now arrived bringing the story to a close.

Co-written and directed by David Greenwalt, who would later do mostly television work for teen series such as «Buffy the Vampire Slayer» and «Angel», this is a smart and energetic film that, despite some of one of the more contrived premises you're ever likely to see, manages to succeed by keeping the story constantly moving and changing, and actually do it with some wit.

It looks interesting and would never be mistaken for any other sci - fi movie, but there just isn't enough in that premise to entertain or excite with such mundane characters and stories.

Premise: Washed - up actor Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton)-- famous for playing the iconic superhero Birdman — struggles to mount a Broadway play, an adaptation of Raymond Carver's 1981 short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.

For as ridiculous as the premise may be (and it becomes even more so as the story progresses), «Non-Stop» does a good job of building suspension by throwing an almost endless barrage of red herrings at the audience.

The film is a fine debut for Bell as a writer, director and leading woman with a script that is witty, despite having a familiar story arc, mostly because of the unique premise.

Although hardly an exciting premise in terms of story, the idea of seeing the powerhouse that is Tom Hardy completely alone on screen for the duration of an entire film is quite an intriguing one.

Awesome, very good premise and nice to see a worthy sequel, I think they have the right idea here, the characters were cool and the effects were good, story worked for me.

For the third film running, Shyamalan has infused pulpy genre material with a fresh sense of austerity and weight, first with the somber ghost story The Sixth Sense and its wholly original comic - book follow - up Unbreakable, and now with a science - fiction premise ripped straight from the supermarket tabloids.

Both of them carry the same story premise with a virtual online world that the main characters can roam around, so it was relatively simple to combine them for a crossover.

Despite this, it's a highly entertaining space story that works off the premise that friendly aliens have been watching our TV for decades; they believe the cast of hit TV series Galaxy Quest (among them Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman) are in fact Earth's mightiest heroes, and whisk them away in the hope the crew will win their war for them.

Overall: C - This slick production boasts gorgeous sets and real world locations providing a feast for the eyes along with an interesting story premise.

Orphans raised by wildlife have been the premise for such films as Tarzan, Mowgli's Story, and the live - action Jungle Book.

Hence, all the marketing for Love Happens, from the trailer to the ads to the title itself, veer steeply away from the very real premise of the movie into the romance that happens amidst the movie's core story of a man coming to grips with the death of his beloved wife.

The most common complaint about the 2013's The Purge — even among those (like me) who otherwise liked the film — is that it sort of wasted its very clever «all crime is legal for one night» premise by focusing on one fairly basic «home invasion» story.

Jonah Hill developed the story with screenwriter Michael Bacall («Project X») and uses the musty premise as a springboard for a raucous post - «Superbad» comedy with action.

Good for Crowley and his efforts to secure funding for the R&D to tackle diseases like this, but the premise has «TV movie» written all over it; as cynical as this sounds, the story simply isn't sexy enough for the silver screen.

It's not for the cookie cutter characters that would make a sequel appealing, though, but for the insane premise and Miike's batshit approach to telling the story.

Official Premise: Heaven is for Real recounts the true story of a small - town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life - changing experience with the world.

Danish director Isabella Eklof's feature - length debut stands out in Sundance's international narrative competition for its seductive premise — the story of a drug lord's girlfriend, and an ensuing love triage set against the backdrop of a port side along the Turkish Riviera.

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The scandal at the center of the story may seem a little trite (and as an interview with Clooney and producing partner Grant Heslov reveals, it's probably the biggest difference between the film version and the Beau Williamson stage play that it's based on), but you can hardly fault «The Ides of March» for relying on such a tried and trusted premise when real - life politics are just as dirty.

He uses still shots of street life as the visual connective tissue between capturing meetings held by various minority groups: Columbians celebrating a World Cup victory and then taking their party to the pavement; a mature LGBT community circle discussing the venue for future meetings; a Halal butcher blessing chickens prior to slicing their throats and having their still - twiching bodies dragged through various grubby processing machines; a group of Hispanic activists gathering stories of small business being forced out of their premises due to unfair rent hikes; and even a group of Christian urban beautifiers who are seen descending into intense prayer when one of their number explains that her father is dying.

But to those who may not buy into the premise entirely, I assure you that the vast majority of the plot is explained logically, and any sudden escalation of the story is accounted for with reason for a character's actions or development.

It's an intriguing premise for the character and enough to keep the familiar procedural points early on in the story involving.

The story is slight and the cinema psychiatry creaky, but for a premise with such lurid possibilities, Lars and the Real Girl is as easygoing and warmly innocuous as the benign irony of the title.