Not exact matches
Two later
sequences ensure that tears will be shed at every screening
of «Stronger»: Bauman's reunion with the man who saved his life (Carlos Sanz, extremely moving), which Green finesses gracefully, without histrionics, and the scene
of Bauman
throwing out the first pitch at Fenway.
The excellent work in establishing characters and the group's relationship early on is nearly all but
thrown out the window or forgotten about for large portions
of the film to make way for prolonged, self indulgent action
sequences that we have all seen many times before and that are all too common in a Frost, Pegg, Wright collaboration.
«Rampage» feels like a cross section
of different films, it opens like a
sequence out of «Gravity», briefly looks like Johnson's 2017 winter hit «Jumanji», lots
of «Jurassic Park Lost World» and «King Kong» moments
thrown in there with a splash
of «San Andreas», since we see three planes crash during the two - hour film.
The sight
of legendary stunt coordinator Vic Armstrong plotting action
sequences gave me a pang
of nostalgia for the precious ingredients that were
thrown out with the bathwater when Daniel Craig stepped into James Bond's shoes, and I liked all the business with publicity leaks dogging the filmmakers.
Whether he is
throwing us off guard with a haunting image that zooms
out to reveal it is little more than a portrait, acting as a red herring, or simply greeting the audience with a disturbingly visual parade
of naked flesh in the opening
sequence, you leave this movie thinking about the imagery.
As gnarly as the footage was (I saw someone on Twitter claiming that someone at their table had
thrown down their napkin and stormed
out of the room), the entire
sequence was beautifully shot and edited with laser precision, with each
of Johnson's movements causing an immediate reaction on the young lady in the first room.
One particularly memorable
sequence starts
out with the sisters laughing as they try on Mom's old clothes and ends with them in tears after impersonations
of mother
throwing fits that have scarred them for life.
Their response ignores the egregious errors in implementation that we identified, namely the fact that they
threw out a majority
of the state observations, miscoded outcome information, and completely confused the
sequence of test introduction and achievement measurement in several states.
There's also a
sequence which involves Sherlock running away from a hunter, trying to take cover behind trees while managing a stamina bar which goes on for far, far too long and was so horribly botched in its execution that I briefly entertained the idea
of throwing my computer
out the window.
Rounding
out eight stages
of element -
throwing showdowns are two palette - cleansing breaks from business as usual: a pro-bending minigame based on the sport from the show and endless runner Naga (Korra's polar bear dog companion)
sequences.
But the central mystery — the location
of the lost city
of Ubar — is then essentially solved halfway through the game and it the game launches into a meandering
sequence of events where character interaction is entirely
thrown out in favour set - piece after set - piece after set - piece.
His work often features crowds
of people, blurred together or figures standing apart from one another, or in
sequence, as in «Action Painting»
throwing paint or objects
out towards the viewer.
In this spirit, many
of his works are
sequences showing attempts at accomplishing an arbitrary goal, such as
Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (1973), in which the artist attempted to do just that, photographing the results, and eventually selecting the «best
out of 36 tries», with 36 being the determining number just because that is the standard number
of shots on a roll
of 35 mm film.
«They can
throw out water vapor and ice, which sets the humidity
of the stratosphere, and that has an impact both because water vapor is greenhouse gas and also because water vapor, through a
sequence of events, has an effect on the ozone hole,» Romps said.