Sentences with phrase «subplots which»

There were whole subplots which could have been pared down, and I got rather tired of the main character's personal life.

There is some good stuff here, as the scenes are funny and show some subplots which weren't explored in the finished film.

There also are some subplots which are left unresolved by the end, which will further convince you of that fact.

There are several subplots which blend into the plot, making this not so much a one joke story but a continued laugh - a-thon.

The giant spiders are simply a subplot which does make you question why it was called Spiders.

The talent speaks many a metaphor between Alexander and Achilles and Hercules, along with Achilles and his lover, Patroclus (AN: a subplot which was amended in this year's other sword and sandals epic, Troy, making the lovers «cousins» instead), represented in Alexander in the form of Hephaistion (Leto), Alexander's most trusted friend (lover?).

The problem is exacerbated by the fact that he keeps dropping out of the story completely for long periods of time, only to be awkwardly shunted back into the plot while the film nervously assures us that he really is relevant to this story, and on top of that, there's also an incredibly forced and out - of - place romantic subplot which the film really would have been much better without.

Able to weave dialogue at incredible pace with sly smiles that beg for adoration, the relationship between the two is front and centre and easily eclipses a lazy romantic subplot which the writer realises you couldn't care less about.

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He then started planning his second act, which would embrace three subplots: relaunching his hedge fund, becoming a venture capitalist, and founding a new billion - dollar company.

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

Bubbling under the surface of the story is a subplot of national revolution; one which takes centre stage as the trilogy continues.

Let us know which outcomes you are expecting on the final day, and whether there are any other subplots you're particularly keeping an eye on.

McGann was the main player in the week's principal subplot, which was an effort by some members of the press to relive history.

Fishing is small fry, a tiny subplot of a huge negotiation in which those industries which bring in the most cash - like financial services or car manufacturing - will be prioritised.

The chancellor's speech will be interpreted primarily as a spin - off drama, a subplot to the main event of the EU referendum campaign, in which Osborne will seek to restore his political position relative to Boris Johnson.

«s run time - which I thought was two hours, but it really seemed to be like four - seems devoted to a tertiary subplot in the art house Coherence, a film that lacks traditional narrative structure and drips with the ideas mother!

That's also true of the film as a whole, which is so elaborately plotted — crosscutting between past and future while keeping a good half - dozen subplots spinning in the air — as to seem more like a contraption than a movie.

The same can be said for a minor romantic subplot involving Greg and his girlfriend Amber (Alison Brie), which is very much underdeveloped and doesn't add much to the final product other than a somewhat clichéd angle where Tommy becomes jealous of Greg's new relationship.

The meandering midsection, which seems to consist primarily of time - wasting subplots (eg Finch's difficulties using public toilets), eventually leads to a hopelessly sentimental third act that is, to put it mildly, somewhat anticlimactic, which effectively (and ultimately) cements American Pie's place as a disappointingly tame and conventional bit of mainstream filmmaking.

There are subplots with Martha's roommate, whom hates this «Mr. Right» guy, which never get's resolved, and I felt it needed to be, as they were best friends after all.

and a vaudeville sequence involving an East European maid, a dominatrix and a guy duct - taped to a chair, and there's an amusing subplot in which Stifler and Finch compete for the attention of Cadence (January Jones), Michelle's adorable younger sister.

The biggest problem with Gringo is that there are far too many unnecessary subplots, which the weak narrative can't support.

Thanks to the six - hour order, there's no shortage of subplots for the many returning faces, all of which still smartly stay close to the community hearth.

Padding comes in the shape of various subplots, none of which have the energy to resolve themselves: there's some drab stuff about the Greys buying a house and wrestling with the implications of parenthood, plus a feud with a voluptuous architect (Arielle Kebbel).

That makes a subplot tacked on to put Anastasia and others in peril — the seeds of which were planted in the last film — feel all the more strained and absurd.

Everyone here has his or her own little subplot: Ryan starts falling for Sarah (Sharon Horgan), a much smarter and more professional game - night partner whom he brings in as a ringer, and Kevin desperately wants to know which celebrity Michelle slept with while they were on a break before getting married.

Once you overcome that subplot you get a kind of «Pathfinder» meets «Highlander» romp which slowly melts into «The Relic» with a large beastie that moves and see's much like a Giger Alien from «Alien 3».

The supporting cast (especially Lillard) also provides a sound base from which the show can broaden its perspectives and subplots.

However, there was also a stupid subplot involving Tom Green feeding a snake which I thought was a boring stretched joke.

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.

There is a subplot in which he tries to woo the hotel manager played by Annette Bening.

And in a subplot in which Jessica tries to help a promising young student in her playwriting class, and despite the student's mother's disinterest in encouraging her daughter's budding artistic side, Strouse comes close to needlessly sanctifying his main character.

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.

The movie, which marks the feature debut of writer - director Kate Barker - Froyland, has the low - key appeal of «Once,» with its extended scenes of music and drama - free romantic subplot.

But this time out, Gore Verbinski «s last go - round, it seemed the only way they could cram in more Sparrow was to include a hallucination subplot in which we get multiple Sparrows talking to each other — the film abandoning even the pretense of interest in the bland, chemistry - free romance between Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom.

It's actually somewhat enjoyable when following around the documentary crew (which includes Walsh's filmmaker and Callies» meteorologist), but the movie comes to a screeching halt every time it cuts away to one of the other subplots.

Lame subplots involving Bobby's sister (Sari Lennick) and gangster brother (Corey Stoll) only get in the way of the more interesting love story, which benefits from Eisenberg and Stewart's excellent chemistry.

There's a subplot involving Lady Bird's closeted boyfriend Danny (a terrific Lucas Hedges) who's torn between his identity and family, which is devastating.

This is especially true with the romantic subplot created between Kjell Bjarne and Reidun which never reaches any emotional relevance to the audience.

There are subplots that drag, such as one about the president's eldest son wanting to enlist in the Union army; in the role, the typically charismatic Gordon - Levitt struggles unsuccessfully to hold the frame opposite Day - Lewis (though the scene in which he follows a bleeding wheelbarrow culminates in the movie's most graphic and striking visual, a rare example of an assertion of image over dialogue).

Where the film errs is in introducing the action spy flick elements, which is too prevalent to even call a subplot, as it gets the most amount of screen time.

Also in contention must be Fremon Craig's script, which plays to the teen audience with recognisable moments of anguish and glee (the romance subplot involving Hayden Szeto's American / Korean student feels both fresh and warmly familiar) while exploring some very adult emotions; as with the best of the genre, it is a film about teenagers but not just for teenagers.

Director Brad Peyton (this is his follow - up to «Journey 2: The Mysterious Island», which also starred Johnson) even takes a risk with a subplot that's quite heavy for a typical action film.

A major subplot in which Darrel pressures his daughter into a series of underground cage fights feels glaringly contrived (and wildly unnecessary) in the context of a no - holds - barred coming - of - age drama that doesn't really need to cheat.

The subplots are a mess however, with Billy's troubled relationship and even more troubled past feeling like after thoughts, which are hardly resolved at all.

Meanwhile, there's a counter-focus on perversion of these same roles, particularly through a skin - crawling incest subplot, which sets the stage for one of the most disturbing final scenes in recent cinematic memory.

The two chums return for optional commentary over six deleted scenes, many of which constitute a subplot that paints Angie as a victim of abuse — something that «felt didactic» according to Affleck.

A subplot in which Susan (Sally Hawkins), the daughter of one of Vera's employers, is shown obtaining a clinical abortion both legally and with relative ease, provides a neat socioeconomic contrast to the circumstances of Vera's patients, equally in need of assistance if far less privileged.

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).

There's an entire subplot involving aliens trying to capture Stitch which does no insignificant damage to the movie.