Sentences with phrase «supporting characters seem»

Lady Bird has a quiet and concise outrage about economic inequality, and key to its emotional generosity is that even minor supporting characters seem aware of how unfair it is that their futures can be determined by something so random as when and where they're born.

I find it interesting that even though T'Challa was the lead, the supporting characters all seemed a bit more interesting.

Not exact matches

Esther is not a flawless character (few biblical characters are), but to question her basic morality like this without any support from the text or from traditional interpretations of it seems from my perspective to reveal a troubling agenda.

Youngster who's come through the youth set up, seems to genuinely support the club and is a great character, yet we've never really taken to him as well as we should.

The supporting characters are usually an afterthought, but in Black Panther, they are so well drawn that they seem every bit as interesting, perhaps even more so, than the main protagonist himself, who is either mostly masked or obvious CG during his battle sequences, whereas we are always aware as the women fight, with full acting and facial expressions to root us into their fight in the moment.

The same goes for the fact that the Black Panther is the only character that the MCU seems to think needed a test - run introduction (via a supporting role in 2016's Captain America: Civil War) before getting a movie with his name in the title.

Giving a beautifully understated performance that made the character seem sympathetic and tragic as much as dangerous and reprehensible, he won his third Best Supporting Actor award.

The supporting characters have barely anything to do — Vince Vaughn's role seems gratuitous and Keith David's miniscule appearance competes with Lindsay Crouse's in The Impostor for the smallest cameo ever.

And a side supporting character named Peter (Alexander), who has strabismus (his eyes aren't aligned), is written solely to draw out a few yuks, though it would seem a stretch that his mother (Janney, Juno), who is constantly ridiculing his condition, would still be making fun of it, especially as it is a condition he was born with — you'd think she'd have run out of insults years before.

Also along for the ride is Clint Eastwood's son Scott who seems to be present as a foil / support for Boyega's character and who is referred to as attractive, which might be his sole reason for even being there.

Meanwhile, most of the film's best moments come from the supporting players, who turn out to be more important to the story than Potente (whose character seems to be an addition simply so that the film can have some form of romance) or Damon.

While the «Zombies - take - New England» storyline seems fresh in this venue, the haphazard cast of characters surrounding Norman could be underdeveloped and little more than stock supporting characters.

Even the supporting male roles just seem to work in tandem with the main cast, adding spice and developing them into well - rounded characters.

This would seem like an insurmountable contradiction, but Jason Reitman's film fleshes out the character, Ryan Bingham, with shadings and subtlety, and Clooney gets excellent support from co-stars Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick.

All of those supporting - actor awards have been unanimously given to Sam Rockwell, who has a bigger, flashier role than Dafoe's — and whose character arc, from witless racist antagonizer all the way to slightly better person, seems to appeal to awards - voting bodies in search of some hope for those currently lost to Trumpism.

In fact if the splashy and self - consciously sensationalist promotional material so far is anything to go by, his Dom seems like the kind of loudmouth cockney wideboy who'd be a supporting character elsewhere, but has been given his own movie here.

Michael Pena's Luis also seems to have a little fight in him, and his Marvel connections go deeper than most supporting characters, as evidenced by his roundabout connection to the Falcon.

There's a motley bunch of supporting characters — Anton Yelchin proves just how chameleonic he can be (almost unrecognisable as the guy who played Chekov in Star Trek), Helena Bonham Carter seems totally out of place and Moon Bloodgood still has the coolest name in Hollywood.

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!

It's a funny scene that certainly adds a lot to Gerry's character, but in the context of the story it seems self - serving to give such significant insight to a supporting character while the main cast only gets a cursory backstory at best.

Characters who initially seem poised to become significant supporting players — among them Army Rangers James Badge Dale and Matthew Fox and rogue CIA operative David Morse — prove expendable, either by becoming food for the encroaching zombie horde, or simply by virtue of the pic moving on to another locale: first a ghostly military base in South Korea that might be the source of the outbreak; then to Israel, where a senior Mossad agent (well played by Dutch filmmaker Ludi Boeken) may hold some additional clues; and finally a WHO research lab in Wales, where — in the pic's most elegantly crafted setpiece — Gerry and a handful of uninfected scientists enter into a careful cat - and - mouse game with the otherwise zombified staff.

The film's supporting characters — drunks, loudmouths, fast - talkers, double - crossers — are typically annoying Coen creations though none seem particularly suffocated by the brothers» signature contemptuousness.

However, those plans don't seem to include these important supporting characters from the «Spider - Man» comics.

Last month it was announced that Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow is finally going to get a solo movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it seems that she could have been beaten to the punch by another Iron Man supporting character, with Black Panther screenwriter Joe Robert Cole revealing to Complex that Marvel considered a War Machine solo spinoff film prior to making Iron Man 3.

So movies like 12 Years a Slave vs. Gravity, Spotlight vs. The Revenant, La La Land vs. Moonlight it seemed that, however strange, the actors helped push the «smaller» character driven films to a win, while the membership supported a more director - driven film for Best Director.

This one seems like a natural fit because Clea, like the Ancient One, is a supporting character in the «Doctor Strange» series.

Lady Bird just seems to be a passing supporting character in their own coming - of - age arcs.

One is tempted to blame a 86 - minute run time, and the rushed nature of some character awakenings (Edwards's in particular) would seem to support that, but then the snail's pace of the talky, inert proceedings make the film — and Murphy — feel like its wasting its precious, limited time.

Best Supporting Actor Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri There are those who insist Armie Hammer, 31, lost his nod for Call Me By Your Name because his character seemed like a pedophile romancing Timothée Chalamet's teenager.

If Bilbo seems a supporting character in his own story for much of the film, the screenplay ensures he has recovered his eponymous status in the final act.

Check out the longer cut — I would say it certainly seems focused, maybe because it has more time to take so many detours with the supporting characters.

But it seems, from a read of the script and hearing things here and there, that James Franco's performance as Milk's lover, Scott Smith, is going to be the one to watch as he enjoys much more screen time than Brolin and obviously has more of a supporting connection to the main character throughout.

The seeds of Sauron's rise now sprout in the margins of the story, every battle seems to be a personal grudge match, and Bilbo is reduced to a supporting character in what is supposed his story.

Supporting characters are marginally better off this film, with Pepper Potts given much more screen time — although how it is used still disappoints — while Rhodes seems more accessible in this film.

At times, some of the supporting characters aren't as full developed as they could be (including the family cook, who oftentimes seemed like an unnecessary addition to the story) but for most of the movie's running time, the script superbly tells this incredible true story.

Yet even amidst the playful and poignant, as also manifested in slight but suitable supporting characters (voiced by the recognisable likes of Helen Mirren, Alfred Molina, Joel Murray and scene - stealer Charlie Day), Monsters University seems more an excuse to give Mike and Sulley something to do rather than giving audiences a reason to care.

Although Murphy is clearly the most recognizable face, he is supported strongly by a good cast of character actors who seem much more tailor made for their respective roles, and even veterans like Stamp (My Boss's Daughter) and Tilly (Monsters Inc.) are fun to watch in roles that they don't get a chance to play often.

The thought of considering all of this supporting material «fat», and cutting it, was an impossible one to consider; some of these characters show up in the sequel, although if their stories were told in the first book it would seem like a bunch of irrelevant fluff.

The supporting roles are all likable characters who seem to fall in place when the time is right.

Cavendish (Cabbage) unfortunately seems to be a support character since he was introduced together with Ucshi.

Just like the handheld Pokemon games, the graphics seem to be underdeveloped and the gameplay focus is really on catching, raising, and battling with the assorted critters, overshadowing the characters and story rather than supporting them.

Looking very nice, but it seems like these support characters don't have a 3d model, only images that grant some effects, akin to the dissidia FF summons, I hope there's a way to disable them, or maybe it could become very unbalanced.

If you look carefully at the scans, these characters don't seem to be playable, but rather support characters that aid the player as they battle various types of enemies.

The hidden code says 118 playable AND support which makes it seem like there will be support - only characters.

In this connection, it has been noted above that group care challenges some typical American ideological notions, but success is also an American value; to the extent that we can demonstrate effective work, the pragmatism that seems to be part of our national character can prevail to rekindle public interest and support.