Sentences with phrase «too episodic»

Some agents give feedback along the lines of «the story felt too episodic.»

Each story feels too self - contained, too episodic, for the franchise to amount to more than the sum of its parts.

But the narrative proves too episodic, and when you move into the final section — with all of its digressions — it just grows stale.

But as a story ostensibly escalating toward the titular cataclysm — Norse mythology's take on doomsday — «Ragnarok» feels too episodic, a scattered trifle passed off as epic.

The series felt short on the fact that events seemed too episodic, incredibly unrealistic.

As inviting and professional as the film looks, its plot is far too episodic to sustain viewer attention; for every brief oasis of energy, there's a barren wasteland of 20 minutes through which the audience must trudge.

Not exact matches

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

The games I can compare this most to are Life is Strange and The Walking Dead since they too were episodic and focused on your choices.

400 Days is the demonstration that The Walking Dead worked thanks to its episodic nature, or at least to a «not too compressed» narrative rhythms.

Recalled in Laura Hillenbrand's 2010 book and here made grandly episodic in the manner of cinematic versions of the Bible and The Hobbit, Louie's story is ideal for such epic scale, yet it's also too complicated to be reduced to such notorious generic confines.

So rousingly well done that it seems to come from a different solar system than most contemporary episodic television shows, and yet too many rapturous panegyrics could spoil some of the fun.

As far as the comparison between episodic games and DLC, I'm not too certain I agree to be honest.

The Coens, masters of the picaresque, have a tendency to wax episodic — spending too much time on individual set pieces rather than a cohesive whole — and while this movie is far more tightly structured than The Big Lebowski, it does not quite reach the brilliantly plotted heights of either Barton Fink or Fargo.

Cianfrance asks questions about life and legacy too meandering for the film's good, resulting in an admittedly saggier middle section, but he reached way beyond the regular confines of indie cinema with Pines» episodic, decades - spanning tale, and that can not be ignored.

That isn't meant to give too much heft to a fairly silly and overly episodic comedy about a Manhattan couple, Linda (Aniston) and George (Rudd), whose careers dead - end on the same day.

Splitting in too many directions as it follows Paddington's adjustment to life in prison and the efforts of his human guardians, the Browns (Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville), to clear his name, the more episodic Paddington 2 struggles to keep a balance between plot and pleasure.

With Book Club, the formula isn't too different from the episodic hijinks that made Golden Girls uber - popular.

All of which translates to one simple phantom question: is it too much unlike episodic TV?

Director Sidney Lumet has infused Serpico with an episodic feel that paves the way for a decidedly hit - and - miss atmosphere, with the movie's far - too - long running time of 130 minutes ultimately highlighting the meandering nature of Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler's screenplay.

It's a great story but the script definitely needed a rewrite, as it was very choppy and episodic... oh and the ending was a complete downer, which I didn't mind but several others found it to be too much.

For all its character - driven touches, the majority of the movie plays out too much like a typical biopic with episodic scenes highlighting the major events of the subject's life and occasionally touching upon glimpses into the man's psyche.

It's an episodic movie with some lovely scenery and a strong central turn from Witherspoon but the constant learning of life lessons may be just a tad too self - helpy for some (read: male) viewers.

Director Nicholas Stoller's film too often feels episodic — it's shaggy and meandering when it should be escalating in tone and tension.

I enjoyed it, but did find it slightly «episodic» and rather too short to be totally satisfying, and was left unsure if a full - length novel would cut the mustard.

Most famously of course was Double Fine, who collected a phenomenal amount for Grim Fandango creator Tim Schafer to use to build another game, but others have taken to the field too, including Cardboard Computer, a two - person team who this week find themselves in the spotlight with their new episodic game, Kentucky Route Zero.

As for the story, which is the driving force behind any good episodic game... well, it's too early to tell.

The prices of games are way too high according to Comte, and a way to reduce those prices is obviously through DLC and episodic content, a model that has reached a remarkable level of popularity over the last few years.

I'd also add in Too Human as a failed attempt at an episodic RPG (if you consider it an RPG), as the company has more or less folded before releasing Two Human.

I'm really looking forward to this game and will definitely be getting the SE package and I'm really glad the story will be continued with episodic content too...

The episodic campaign isn't all you'll get in this package either, you'll also get the rather brilliant Raid mode bundled in too.

Strong Bad Episode 3 continues the monthly episodic release for the series, too.

TellTale's episodic games are often style over graphical substance — there's usually not too much when it comes to the complexity of the models or animation, and instead, they are highly stylized to look like comic books come to life.