Sentences with phrase «superfluous side characters»
But while the season starts off strong and ends just as strongly, it drags considerably in the middle due to a series of boring subplots and superfluous side characters that don't really affect the main storyline.
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Scorsese guiltily indulges often in superfluous side stories and eccentric character introduction, and yet it's hard to fault him — it is all the more fun for it.
Like the Harry Potter films, Matthew Vaughn's (Layer Cake) treatment does spend an inordinate amount of time on secondary characters and superfluous side stories, to the point where it's hard to discern there being a main story for long durations.
While I wouldn't mind playing with some of these side characters and superfluous plotlines in a video game, as an adaptation of a beloved work that has enchanted many millions of readers, young and old, I'm left longing for a different kind of fan film — the inevitable one in which someone edits out all of the stuff not from the writings of Tolkien — and makes it the movie it always should have been from inception.
While the literary fans will most likely be split as far as how Yates and Goldenberg have chosen to adapt the Rowling opus, fans of the movies can finally have something to smile about, and one can only hope that future film versions will continue this new trend on sticking to the basics to tell a story in an appropriately cinematic fashion, leaving the side stories and whimsical superfluous characters better left to the realm of the richly - developed book forms.