Sentences with phrase «teenage characters make»
YA / Mature Readers: The school setting, the complicated family connections, and the soulful inner lives of Godwin's teenage characters make this an elevating read for advanced YAs who love big, many - faceted novels.
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Parker remains a bumbling boy throughout the entirety of «Spider - Man: Homecoming,» and for this reason alone makes the character feel so much more authentically teenaged in a way that his 26 and 28 - year - old Spider - peers never did.
And, while his almost villainous rigidity is so well defined, and the glimpse into the lives of Iranian exiles are valuably drawn, the character of his teenage son Esmail (Jonny Ahdout) is not, making his last act of desperation a mere device to provide a climax.
The audience learns intimate details about the various characters who populate teenage Mills» life without ever really getting to know them, and it makes the whole thing feel a tad superficial and self - indulgent as a result.
McKeon went on to make his last teenage appearance in the 1985 comedy Mischief; that same year, he made his first grown - up appearance as the title character in the TV biopic Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story.
The film starts off a little weird, with the main character a slightly quirky teenage boy depicting his love of film - making.
The teenaged main character was perhaps a little too authentically sullen and sulky to see him rank among Henry Hill & co, and for the film to make this list, but it was an early highlight, as were «The Fighter» or «True Grit,» although, again, it's a testament to the strength of this year's line - up that neither made my final fifteen.
The character's introduction in Captain America: Civil War (more on that later) is built upon here as the film does a fantastic job of showing audiences Peter's teenage earnestness that it makes it feel more like a coming - of - age film than a superhero blockbuster.
I mean, how come nobody questioned all the teenage boys buying Tomb Raider for Lara Croft back when it was all the rage, but making a female character exactly to your liking is suddenly bad?
Peter Parker is essentially the original teen hero in many comic readers eyes - the balance between his teenage life and the great responsibility of super-heroism is what helped made him into one of Marvel's most popular characters.
As well as the above changes, balance adjustments have also been made to several characters, including Black Adam, Black Manta, Captain Cold, Firestorm, Gorilla Grodd, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
For everyone else, however, the simplistic beat -»em - up action isn't likely to be substantial enough for more than a quick laugh or two — barely distinguishable characters and repetitive stage design actually make the teenage titillation quite tedious.
«Teaming up with Nickelodeon and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles made perfect sense, as we share many of the same fans who enjoy family - friendly entertainment and classic characters.»
Some may remember him as a playable character from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System version of Konami's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters game, but he originally made his debut in 1993's Mighty Mutanimals # 7 before making a bigger splash as the eponymous villain of The Future Shark Trilogy, wherein he makes one heck of an impression on the Future Turtles — by blowing out Future Raph's eye with a torpedo and establishing a new tone for the book!
Characters spout phrases filled with words like «hella» and other painful teenage jargon that feels outdated, making portions of the game's dialogue feel laughably forced.
Some of the key themes of Starr's work - from Hypnodreamdruff (1996) a 6 screen multimedia work about the intertwining lives of a group of lonely eccentric characters, to Big V (2004) a four screen piece about teenage sexuality and Catholicism - explore the relationship between history and memory; attempting to extract meaning from collapsing realities, she makes complex and obsessive investigations into invisible, lost or fragile phenomena.