Sentences with phrase «story premise of»

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.

Not exact matches

That's the premise behind a recent New York Times story asking female executives who came within touching distance of becoming CEOs what caused them to fall at the last hurdle.

Quite simply, the big idea is the premise of the story.

The entire premise of the bible creation story is FLAWED in it's entirety.

There are more stories out of the bible that have been proven impossible and or wrong by science than have been shown to have any credibility... Of course I'm talking about actual science... not that christian science and creation «science»... which use scientific sounding things and jump to ridiculous unjustifyable conlusions, or that create incorrect premises and then make up answers to suit the questionof the bible that have been proven impossible and or wrong by science than have been shown to have any credibility... Of course I'm talking about actual science... not that christian science and creation «science»... which use scientific sounding things and jump to ridiculous unjustifyable conlusions, or that create incorrect premises and then make up answers to suit the questionOf course I'm talking about actual science... not that christian science and creation «science»... which use scientific sounding things and jump to ridiculous unjustifyable conlusions, or that create incorrect premises and then make up answers to suit the questions.

The entire premise of this story is flawed.

And the substance of that premise is NOT dismissive of Julie's story.

Interesting comment from someone supporting a book with the Noah's ark science fiction story and the premise that ALL laws of science / physics / etc.

That was the premise of a Sunday Belief Blog story that provoked more than 1,800 comments from impassioned readers.

The rest of the story is that the church has always been pretty good at investigating irregularities but not so good at acknowledging the power of God that can be contained by no religious premises.

The story now gathers pace with the toing and froing of the order between a number of premises in Rome and the arrival Madeline Hambrough, who takes the name of the English Bridgettine martyr Richard (Riccarda) Reynolds (canonised later in 1970).

I thought the characters were flat and unattractive, the story ho - hum, and the premise churlish and clumsy (i.e. the whole point is to tear down the belief system of others rather than put something positive forward as an alternative).

However, the latest wave of this trend, including but not limited to, Snow White and the Huntsman, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters and Jack the Giant Slayer have each demonstrated, in their own way, a fundamental flaw with this premise; they lazily force these classic characters to «grow up» by ratcheting up the angst and violence instead of revisiting the more complex layers that exist within the original stories themselves.

Back to McKnight's premise of the Bible as Story:

Lot's of mysteries out there... but I find working with the simplest, most consistent premises works better than making up random stories which have contributed nothing to the growth of knowledge or technology.

Both the film and the novel make much of God's strategic metamorphosis here, which is really the premise of the whole story.

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the entire premise was that it was low key falsified to sell a story and like feigned an air of importance that didn't exist in his death

This whimsical story illustrates the unexpected outcomes of one little girl's bad mood, and Lemony Snicket's presentation at the BBF is guaranteed to banish any bad moods from the premises!

Town of Ramapo to make hidden hamlet disappear, eviction notice sent to home - renters STORY AND PHOTOS BY KATHY KAHN Residents of the small community of the «Hamlet of Ramapo,» a dead - end street off Torne Valley Rd. in unincorporated Ramapo near the Village of Hillburn, have been told by the town to vacate the premises.

But this story again illustrates that economist Thomas Piketty's premise is wrong: Even intelligent and lucky investment strategies are almost never enough to maintain the real relative wealth of heirs, particularly when they live off investment income.

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People The premise of this podcast is simple but ingenious.

Presented as a mockumentary, The Mind of Marlo delivers a short, hilariously down - the - earth story despite the wildly absurd nature of its premise.

The game has all the components of a good leisure side - scrolling semi-strategy, with upgradable units, shops, money, grenade throwing and so on but it lacks depth: there is no story really, there is no premise, tutorials are silly as the whole writing overall, enemies are not explained (nor their skills), and strategy pretty much boils down to clicking on whatever units cools down first (to produce that unit and storm the enemy's portal).

As the struggle with Voldemort suggests, the premise of the story is allegorical — good / light against evil / dark — with obvious revivals of the genre traditions of British heroic legend and medieval romance, even though the films have modern elements.

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.

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.

But if you can get past that and watch the story unfold under the premise of a kindly Father trying to live up to the expectations of his (in this case adopted) daughter... it is a beautiful story and really quite sad.

It weaves an interesting, often touching and sometimes cringe - worthy story, although this time the premise of the story (revenge, initially) is much darker than you might have expected.

The narrative might not take an ambitious route and falls into predictable patterns but the backwards premise and refreshing Napolean - Dynamitesque cast provide enough fun to propel the story forward in a sea of fairly well delivered laughs.

There's still a certain level of unease in the basic premise of this story, which uses the abuse of a woman as a means of creating some thrills, but at least the thrills of Revenge aren't cheap.

The premise itself is simple, as it's the start of the story and Silent Hill is a story driven game.

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.

After that, we weigh in on a hilarious premise - the true story of Nicholas Cage's favorite rare Superman comic - book being stolen from him.

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

Uncomfortable as the premise sounds, reliable reports have it that Diary is no miserablist slog, but rather a perceptive, even funny coming - of - age story.

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.

The writers actually did an admirable job of creating a story out of the game's premise.

With a story that links together every cliche from the weepy chick - flick library, this movie uses its doomed romance premise to reduce every woman in the audience into floods of tears.

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.

There are elements of the story that push the believability of Andrew's obsession a little too far, but overall, how Chazelle is able to craft a psychological thriller out of this simple, off - beat premise, is one of the best cinematic accomplishments of the year.

It's a decidedly stirring premise that is, at the outset, employed to competent yet far - from - gripping effect by John Cameron Mitchell, as the filmmaker, working from Lindsay - Abaire's screenplay, offers up an opening half hour that generally comes off as an overly conventional look at grief - with Becca's inability to accept her boy's loss precisely the sort of reaction that one expects from movies and stories of this ilk.

Garland, who adapted the screenplay, takes the premise, characters and larger ideas of VanderMeer's book, and interprets them in his own story to bring an almost unfilmable novel to the big screen as a sci - fi epic.

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

Its premise was taken from an old Richard Matheson story, which became a truly sterling episode of The Twilight Zone.

Typically, the films have favored visual flair over an intriguing story, but Self / less gives us the rare case of an outwardly interesting premise becoming underwhelming, while the anticipated avant - garde style is all but nonexistent.

The Bad: Once the story is set up, and the premise is through with it's introduction, the film falls flat from lack of what to do next.

On the one hand, the premise and story are a clever adoption of old fairy tale tropes (the pauper princess, heroic warrior savior, evil quasi-relatives, completing three trials, etc.) dressed up as modern big - budget sci - fi.

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.