Sentences with phrase «subplots about»

Subplots about the Turks recruited to help rebuild Berlin and the ignored danger to women in all parts of the city add complexity to an already difficult, seldom written about time in the world's history.

Yes, there are subplots about a re-election campaign, and crime and environmental bills, but what we, the viewers, really care about is whether Sydney Ellen Wade and President Andrew Shepherd will get their happily ever after.

At once oversimplified and overcomplicated — the type of film where shadowy elites cackle sinisterly while meeting at an abandoned carnival in broad daylight — The Crash fumbles between bad diatribe and bad domestic drama, complete with subplots about absent parents and childhood cancer.

Peter Benchley's Jaws is a poorly written beach read, loaded with nonsense subplots about local mobsters.

Moody subplots about anti-witch factions and powerful muggle politicians feel so disjointed from the thrust of Scamander's story that they're nearly forgotten before they jut back into the finale.

Though the laughs are intact, serious subplots about cancer, deafness and gay couples adopting babies add an unwelcome weight that shifts the whole thing off - kilter.

From this corner - painted position, the film distracts with equally benign subplots about things like a misinformed assassination attempt, and Elizabeth's dicey decision to dress in full armor to lead her short - numbered army into combat.

The Crash fumbles between bad diatribe and bad domestic drama, complete with subplots about absent parents and childhood cancer.

There's a subplot about the church's hiring decisions, which seems to get dropped for no reason.

In 2001, music categorized as ccm accounted for more than $ 1 billion in sales — up 12 percent in a year when the recording industry as a whole took a downturn, Newsweek ran a cover story on «Jesus Rock» and HBO's The Sopranos featured a humorous subplot about the mob family trying to get in on the action.

It's hard to complain about sequences as beautifully choreographed and rendered as these are, but it becomes a little overwhelming, especially when Nelson is tasked with balancing the twin storylines of the kung fu masters battling for supremacy, and the quieter subplot about Po searching for the parents that abandoned him.

The slim plot mainly involves Menashe's attempt to impress his brother - in - law and their rabbi by hosting a successful memorial dinner for his late wife, the preparations for which detour into a brief subplot about a pricey shipment of gefilte fish.

A subplot about Lincoln's oldest son's (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) determination to serve in the Army feels like a superfluous distraction, while attempts to address the president's complex relationship with his wife, Mary (Sally Field), never quite approach the thoughtful depth and detail of the political maneuvering.

And of course there's a whole freakin» subplot about «what girls want,» via which Marmaduke learns to be a better man and will — I shit you not — teach Lee Pace's harried dad to be a better dad.

While written in reaction to accusations against Bill O'Reilly and Roger Ailes, season two of Master of None included a subplot about a renowned chef and TV host (played by Bobby Cannavale) who partners with Dev on a new TV series and is later accused of sexual harassment.

It simply seems to believe that the characters» most identifiable traits, a subplot about Bernard's grandfather (played by Bruce Dern) falling in love, the growing admiration and affection between the teens, and a story about politics that has nothing to say about politics will be enough.

A subplot about Elektra's dimbulb costar going to Mexico and learning she's a lesbian is equally pointless, and the DICK TRACY primary - color production design is nifty but irrelevant.

It would be perfectly acceptable if there wasn't a whole other subplot about one of the characters getting sent abusive text messages — how is she able to get a signal?

Nikki's identity increasingly begins to blur with the character she is playing and then a subplot about a Polish girl is introduced.

While moments, particularly the resolution to that seemingly throwaway subplot about the dead friend, can be moving despite their dissonance (a Farrelly hallmark), they're always cursory to the central duo, who are unrepentant in their squandering of years on foolish pranks, openly hostile towards reflections of their age (e.g., Fraida), and insulated from harsh reality by not only their wilful ignorance, but a perpetual fog of nostalgia as well.

The second commentary is half as reverential: Stupin and Williamson, properly reacquainted with «Dawson's Creek» by this point, mock a subplot about Jen's dying grandfather and express embarrassment over the laid - on - thick «chick rock» — observing simultaneously that male singers tend to drown out dialogue.

Music really isn't this movie's top priority, and as further evidence, before the band even performs three - quarters of a song in front of a crowd, the screenplay by Ryan Landels has already given us the subplot about the robot, which leads the sisters on a hunt to find some kind of message from Jerrica and Kimber's father to the former (Sorry, Kimber, but only Jerrica gets a posthumous pep talk from dad).

An important subplot about a murder takes a back seat to coming - of - age sexual awakenings, aggressively cloaked homosexuality, and routine racial prejudice, all under the guise of Daniels» busy camera.

This neatly ties up Bucky's subplot about his psychological conditioning, leaving him free to participate in Avengers: Infinity War without much exposition needed — as we know he does.

Also, there's a subplot about a mole inside the government that is as obvious and useless as it is underdeveloped and hastily resolved.

Amidst the adultery and heartbreak there's a subplot about Allen's character going through an existential crisis that allows him to insert his familiar neurotic wit.

The piece reveals that Anderson regular Melora Walters played the singer in a trio that entertains at Dodd's book party, as well as an amusing subplot about Freddie being entrusted with guarding a box that's a little unfathomable out of context.

Verbinski litters the film with references to old TV Western serials, John Ford's Monument Valley, and especially Once Upon A Time In The West, which it quotes both in the score and in a subplot about the railroads bringing order to the Wild West.

We've got much more piss your pants one liners and forth wall breaking tomfoolery from Wade, it's sweet sensitive and extremely emotional in parts (not since the finale of T2 have I sobbed so much), the OTT action and gore makes a hatchet fight in a Butcher shop look clean in comparison with moments to make hardcore Gore - Geeks give a huge hooray, the cringe worthy «oh no he didn't» moments are rife, there's a touching subplot about what it really means to be Family and also we are treated to an array of colorful supporting characters including an excellent turn from Josh Brolin as futuristic super soldier «Cable», a wonderful performance from upcoming young talented star Julian Dennison (hunt for the wilder people), the obligatory Hugh Jackman cameo and a mega hard Super Villain who makes his previous onscreen incarnation seem like Vinny Jones in a giant penis suit... Oh wait!

In between, we get a mopey subplot about Ben Grimm dealing with his new rocky body.

There's a whole subplot about a Vietnamese priest that purposefully refuses to make any kind of sense for most of the run time.

It hates children with a unique fury, boasting the highest dead - kid count since Schindler's List, and sure enough, somehow Harlin manages to work in an uncomfortable subplot about exorcising Holocaust demons as our happy Catholics exorcise a literal one.

But a distracting subplot about a homophobic, off - his - rocker neighbor simmers distractingly on the margins of the narrative, before giving way to a truly ruinous plot turn — a genre leap so misjudged that all the goodwill Silva has built up until that point goes up in flames.

A lesser filmmaker would use these scenes as little more than decorative bookends, but in the end Cameron molds them into a relevant subplot about man's selfish and greedy nature.

The movie also thoughtlessly tacks on a subplot about cancer, presumably to add tears to the laughter; it, too, fails.

While the idea of slick David Copperfield types using magic to pull off capers is enticing and spectacular, the first movie squandered its potential with an inane subplot about an all - seeing magic society called «The Eye,» and one of the most obnoxious film twists in recent history.

There's a subplot about a rival government organization, but it's totally undeveloped, perhaps because of the political implications of a local group being forced to submit to the rigid amoral hierarchy of a bureaucratic power.

Despite his penchant for secrecy, he could not prevent the leak of a subplot about Don and his wife, Megan (Jessica Paré), traveling to Hawaii.

A small part by Alan Alda, as the original Elysium founder plays out pleasingly, and it is his character Carvin that holds the deed to the farm, offering the story its silly subplot about a big corporation trying to buy out Elysium to build a casino, which at one point has Linda running topless (with others) in front of a television camera.

Gamora feels side - lined in order to service a subplot about sisterhood.

Instead this hilarious film manages to stay afloat, even when it offers up a more serious subplot about moral redemption in its latter half.

The film, said to be in the vein of «Pulp Fiction», features a subplot about the Manson murders, with Margot Robbie set to play Sharon Tate.

As Vaughn told ABC News Radio back in 2015: «I was umming and ahhing»cause it had a whole fun subplot about celebrities being kidnapped.

A subplot about Dan's younger neighbor selling iffy Chinese goods feels a touch superfluous (another detail surely picked up in research), but this is mostly a film with a clear - headed and undiluted mission.

The film also practically wastes Julianna Margulies as Allan's possibly alcoholic wife Ruth and there is a subplot about Charlotte Hope's Becky being attracted to Allan that is never heard from again.

What, the end of human civilization isn't enough, they have to throw in a wildly unnecessary subplot about a sad child?

McAdams is incapable of being anything but adorable onscreen, Krasinski doesn't say much and does it well, and this might have been a cut - rate version of «The Descendants» (without the genuine emotion) if only Crowe hadn't slopped a belly flop of a subplot about national security and military privatization over the top.

Harvey Weinstein reportedly took the film away from director Kyle Newman, excised a subplot about a fanboy dying of cancer, hired another director to shoot more footage, and threatened to ship it straight to video.

Oh, and as if more was needed, a framing subplot about Dan having to fill his daughter's blank homework sheet with an on - the - nose rumination about who he is as her father.

Moving ploddingly between the hijackers and the Israeli cabinet as both groups argue over their respective principles and policies, 7 Days throws a somewhat baffling additional subplot about an Israeli dance troupe into the mix.