Sentences with phrase «than an action series»

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In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.

In fact, these major bowl games usually take more action than most World Series games.

This leads to the other fun fact about this series: Neither team has scored in the last 180 minutes of action, and Marquette has held the Johnnies without a goal for more than 400 minutes.

However, Stuckey, an analyst at Sports Action, noted in the Action Network Slack channel that in the previous 38 World Series Game 7s the average runs per game were almost a full run less than in Games 1 - 6.

He also notes that installing automatic response systems should be put in place, rather than employees performing a series of complex manual actions.

Rather than coming off as an empty paean to the fans, though, the filmmakers» desire to focus on the characters as real people even in the midst of pitched battle keeps even the shallowest viewer of the series engaged in what could have easily been just mindless action set pieces and explosions.

Ash's vivacious vocabulary is largely intact, but this series needs more creativity in its stories, side characters (who've more than earned their own plots) and action scenes — not just in dumping blood everywhere.

Rather than a cohesive narrative, Avengers: Infinity War resembles the penultimate sequence of every Marvel Studios production that has come before, an exhausting series of ultimately futile action scenes that endlessly proclaim the goodness and importance of the supposedly heroic characters as they engage in battle against an all - powerful foe.

It's an auspicious start for the fifth live - action «Trek» series, with less moralizing, less preaching and more action than past incarnations.

Justin Lin, who's now directed three movies in the Fast series, knows how to choreograph and edit an action sequence so that it's more than an onslaught of chopped - up images and grating noise.

Oddly some of the action scenes have a faker, obvious CGI sheen to them than the series.

This new installment of the stunt bike racing series is moving the action from city streets, straight to the sunny and colourful beaches of California, mixing tricks, flips and combos than ever before.

As the title implies, the focus of this hour - long live - action series is not on the larger than life costumed superheroes who turned The Avengers into the third highest - grossing film of all time, but the employees of the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division, the government agency of espionage and law enforcement that has worked with and sometimes against the likes of Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and the Hulk.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

The final chapter in the «Hunger Games» saga is more funeral march than victory parade — but that's entirely appropriate for this gritty action series

This film is a little grittier than the Taken series but comparable to that in content, giving Neeson another opportunity to be a stoic man of action.

As expected, the HBO series marks the arrival of a larger - than - life sci - fi epic jam packed with memorable characters, excellent turns from actors Ed Harris and Evan Rachel Wood (among others), and enrapturing action sequences that have emotional payoff to match.

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

I'd grade this as the best of the series, which means that I've enjoyed each successive chapter more than the last, but it still falls short of the mark of being a movie worth going out of your way for if you're not a hardcore action fan.

Deep Silver has published more than 100 games since 2003, including own brands like the action role - playing game Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, successful adventures such as the Secret Files series and Lost Horizon, the role - playing game Risen and well - known licenses like the Chernobyl shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky and Prison Break: The Conspiracy, the action adventure based on the popular TV series.

Of course, this is a «spiritual successor» rather than a new installment, thanks to Konami's vice grip on the series» copyright, but one glance at the side - scrolling RPG action, full of overwrought anime horror and laser - tight combat, makes clear that Bloodstained is obsessively recreating the glory days of Game Boy Advance vampire hunting.

The Stark heir remains undefeated on the battlefield against the Lannisters, yet has had more romance and drama than on - camera action scenes in the epic fantasy series.

Nonetheless, as far as action movies go, you could do much worse than this reboot that requires no prior knowledge or appreciation for the»80s television series.

The Jurassic Park franchise has been gravitating towards action - adventure with each release, which is why Bayona is hoping to bring the series back to its horror-esque roots - and that's, in part, why Trevorrow believes Fallen Kingdom will be much better than Jurassic World.

This brief recap brings us up to date with Nioh as it appears in its current form — A lovingly crafted homage to the precision combat and mechanics of the Soulsborne games, whilst also introducing an RNG loot system inspired by Diablo and Borderlands and transplanting the action from the more European fantasy aesthetic of Miyazaki's aforementioned series to a feudal Japan setting that is more than a little reminiscent of the Onimusha games.

The screenplay, credited to Geneva Robertson - Dworet and Alastair Siddons, devises a series of puzzles for Lara to solve, though as the action intensifies, it's difficult to follow her reasoning, and the puzzles remain rather puzzling, if they were ever intended as anything more than plot devices.

For me, it's the former rather than the latter... but, then, I'm just slightly older than the generation who swore by those toys that were more than met the eye; not that I'm not curious to see how the animated series translates to live - action, but, frankly, I'm much more psyched to find out if the writers of «The Simpsons Movie» can pull a rabbit out of their hat and come up with a flick that's better than, say, the last three or four seasons of the show.

However, the film doesn't care about any of that and neither do I. It's not much more than a series of horror set pieces with occasionally clever effects and very clever action beats, that's all it wants to be and goddamn if it doesn't do that well.

Rather than really developing these issues narratively, the film unfolds with a series of action / comedy set pieces.

Once the action shifts to Gotham City, Batman Begins has more genuinely frightening moments than any of the other movies, but the theme of fear and how it affects people is developed only through an endless series of portentous epigrams.

Instead of Burton's surrealistic stylistic flourishes, the series is re-invented as a grittier type of action movie, perhaps closer to the Blade movies than, let's say, the Spider - man and Superman movies.

In fairness, it does better than many of its peers (the Divergent series, which fizzled out before it could come to an end, comes to mind), and the action outstrips even some of its non-genre competition by leaps and bounds.

The game now, more than ever, plays like an action adventure game, in which you will play as all three of the main characters from the Harry Potter series.

The Turtles are beefier and it's far more action packed than the original series.

Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch Urban Trial Playground — This installment of the stunt bike racing series takes the action to the sunny and colorful beaches of California, mixing in crazier tricks, flips and combos than ever before.

Playing a little more like an entry in the Bourne series than the Bond series, not only with its «rogue agent who can't trust his organization» story, but also its hyperkinetic way of editing the sometimes brutal action sequences, Quantum of Solace falls a bit from star Daniel Craig's debut due to the fact that impressively choreographed hand - to - hand combat fails to impress when the action and stunts are this grandiose.

While it was the latest YA novel adaptation at a time when they seemed to be arriving on a regularly scheduled basis, having a film so stripped down and primal made it more worthwhile as an action - horror hybrid than a world - building first chapter of a more extensive series.

Yet it's definitely more about the journey than the destination — all of that is an excuse for fun action scenes with an enjoyable cast of characters, and for at least the introductory film in a series, that's probably enough.

As for the movie representation of Maze Runner series, following the plight of Thomas and his fellow Gladers, this cinematic series falls somewhere in the middle of those two, finding a better groove in its dystopian action than teen drama romance (i.e..

The Popcornflix library includes more than 3,000 titles within a variety of genres, ranging from action and comedy to award - winning foreign films, TV series, National Geographic documentaries, classic cartoons and the recently added extreme sports category.

Its motion - capture CGI renders the characters in rubbery, apple - cheeked versions that sometimes slide queasily into the uncanny valley; its script (written by the dream team of Doctor Who show - runner Steven Moffat, Hot Fuzz writer - director Edgar Wright, and Attack The Block writer - director Joe Cornish) is an of - the - moment action movie, little more than a lengthy series of big setpieces, crammed with fights and chases.

Agent Carter ended up being a fun, if slim, brace of period - isms and classy action with a decidedly enhanced visual style over the pictorially - lifeless S.H.I.E.L.D. Hayley Atwell was better than the show she was in, but the series» widely - spaced high points - in particular, a visit to the Black Widow training school for young evil - doers in Soviet Russia - were pretty high.

Sega has been letting gamers play with Monkey - filled balls for more than a decade now, and the latest Vita incarnation of the series retains all of the traditional action expected.

Whatever the reason, one of the joys of the Bourne series (launched, in book form, by author Robert Ludlum in 1980) is the combination of seemingly real - world political intrigue and visceral action sequences that feel more dangerous and thrilling than anything on offer in the ever - expanding catalogue of either the Marvel or DC franchises.

Mendes brings a certain level of prestige to the proceedings that the series hasn't had before, and while some were worried about his lack of experience shooting action, the trailers suggest that he's done a more than capable job in that department.

Resident Evil Revelations 2, like its popular predecessor, emphasize the series» roots of traditional horror rather than focusing on over-the-top action, producer Michiteru Okabe said in an interview at Tokyo Game Show.

If you guessed that the Rush Hour series is popular primarily because of the irreverent repartee among the two film's stars more so than the plot itself, you'll understand why Rush Hour 3 is the lesser of an already mediocre series of action - comedies.

Serenity benefits from its larger big screen budget with better special effects than the TV series, and more time for prolonged action sequences.

Baker Street Irregulars will follow the «motley crew of characters who assist the modern - day Sherlock in solving cases with their unique talents,» while Person of Interest: Animated is an «anime style» show that «will extend from the TV series to deliver bigger - than - real - life action.»

Load times have seen major improvement since the last entry in the series, and booting up the game and getting into the action should not take more than a minute.