Sentences with phrase «try more plotting»

I knew enough about the whole pantsing and plotting debate that I knew I wanted to try more plotting.

Not exact matches

Plotting denominational mission strategies has become more difficult, in part because mainline mission executives first tried to ignore this paradigm shift, then tried in vain to shape it.

Last year we decided to garden in a large community plot but had a lot of issues, tried to plant too many things, and spent way more than we had planned on coping with problems / drought / pests / neighbors etc..

If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

To plot a more direct course, you need only source the experience of those who have done it successfully — those who have tested and amended the journals, textbooks, and tactics that you've likely already tried.

We are converting a 5 - acre plot of land with a house into an off - grid homestead from scratch and trying to grow more while buying less (though we have a long long way to go).

In a Hollywood landscape where glossy, mature thrillers are an increasing rarity, Red Sparrow doesn't condescend to the audience, to the point that it becomes easier to enjoy the less you try to untangle its more disturbing plot points.

But by the end the plot gets more contrived and stupid as they quickly try to wrap things up neatly.

Where plenty of more serious - minded modern films would try to build a relevant message into this plot about the dangers of unchecked corporate power, lax regulations, or genetic experiments, Rampage seems to consciously make the antagonists as shrill and unrealistic as possible, to avoid any unfortunate associations with reality.

Red Sparrow becomes easier to enjoy the less you try to untangle its more disturbing plot points.

It's again a show that tries too hard to keep the drama going when there is no longer any more drama to squeeze out of the plot.

With a throwaway plot and a parade of weird characters, the comedy tries to be bigger, bolder and more outrageous than the television series, but it ends up being a lot less funny.

Instead, it tries to cover up plot holes and absurdity only by offering more, as if it hoped that you wouldn't have time to think about what a crock the last scene was if it outdid it with an even more unbelievable scene.

These more - for - more genre epics try to fill every corner with hundreds of creatures (this film contains over 600 various alien monsters) to the point where is stupefies whatever plot they are selling.

Only four episodes in, the show has already gleefully torn through entire seasons» worth of plot — but more importantly, Killing Eve is hilarious and truthful, even as it moves within a tried - and - true TV formula.

The plot is thin but the film tries hard to present a believable experience for Bryan, and Neeson does his best to allow him to be more than straight «action man».

But these films have tried desperately to make Bond «gritty» and when you do that the plot holes just become more glaring.

The plot is more or less preposterous, with passengers dying every few minutes and the villain sending Marks clues and taunts via text message, as the latter tries to puzzle out the identity of the bad guy.

In watching it, you waste your Time (97 minutes to be exact, if you stay for the whole credits trying to decompress what you just witnessed and contemplate your own existence), you pray for Death to offer you a sweet release from this monstrosity, and yet you Love every second of it because for all of its deformed themes, insane plot developments and bizarre decisions from top - notch actors to get involved with such a project (Will Smith, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley, and even more are somehow all present and actually delivering these lines with a straight face), Collateral Beauty is one of the most deliriously entertaining movies of 2016.

One can see in the main plot that Hostage tries to be more than a standard family hostage story by upping the ante a bit, having the hostage investigator himself attempting to bargain several sides in order to reach an amicable conclusion for all, including the chance of sacrificing the people he is sworn to protect in order to save his own wife and daughter.

While the main plot is fairly simplistic, it actually helps more than it hurts, avoiding the dozens of subplots that many action movies these days try to shove in.

The film's plot — while not exactly unprecedented — is weak at times and sits at the back burner to these guys all trying something cool with the jokes, but I would've preferred, in light of the film like Attack the Block, for this movie to try and embed the narrative into the humour a lot more, rather than just make another The Babysitter with more comedians.

What Sightseers gets right where Seven Psychopaths (out today and reviewed here) gets it wrong is that this film does not try to admonish itself for including violence, and incidentally is much less indulgent in the violence, along with having a much more coherent plot with better direction, writing, acting, and presumably better catering too.

On first glance Unknown seems to be nothing more than the sequel to Taken, a film where Liam Neeson trekked around Paris trying to uncover some major plot.

Maybe I'm getting used to Disney's handling of many of the Marvel characters, but these guys need to lighten up a little and remind audiences they're supposed to be enjoying a fantasy — not a serious plot that tries to be more relevant by injecting the «terrorist» word into the narrative.

Perhaps more interesting is the parallel between Hitchcock and Hedren during the making of this movie, with Hitch trying so very hard to put Hedren in the mold of his making, and Hedren obstinately fighting him every step, which is almost a mirror of the plot of the movie itself.

The plot above might have worked if first - time director Lance Rivera could have spent more time trying to solidify the plot, and less time letting this cast of actors run rampant on the story.

But «Catch That Kid» is a more down - to - earth plot without the evil madman trying to take over the world — and the high - tech angle just doesn't work as well here.

While the main plot dynamics are still relatively simple — John Wick gets angry and is forced to kill an awful lot of people intent on trying to do the same to him — this time director Chad Stahelski and writer Derek Kolstad showcase all of this chaos and carnage on a much grander and more complex scale.

However, most of the film runs along without much catering to its main plot, concentrating more on its characters, tossing up some pretty clever gags and side stories involving such things as the making of jams, the girls» trying to help Gru to get them a new stepmom, Margo's romantic stirrings, and a good deal of Minion slapstick shenanigans, which will no doubt make this a hit for the kiddies.

It's only as Shepard begins emphasizing more traditional plot elements that Dom Hemingway begins to lose its grip on the viewer, as the film's second half has been suffused with developments of a disappointingly hackneyed nature (eg Dom attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter, Dom tries to find a legitimate job, etc, etc).

Both delta with a similar plot but civil war was more focused and new what movie it was trying to tell.

The plot — a tour through a high - rise tenement building filled with lowlifes trying to kill the protagonist on orders of the crime lord on the top floor — was simplicity itself; it did what it needed to do — nothing more or less.

The locale is solid and the characters are the kind of people we'd like to hear more from and about, but the movie focuses too much on the tried and tired plot developments for the characters to completely grow on us.

When the film gets bored with its four characters, it writes in a load more to try and keep up with (only one brings anything to the plot and that is some comic relief from Scoot McNairy, which I hated, but other critics claim it is the film's saving grace).

The plot of a man who has to start over every day trying to woo the woman of his dreams itself is basically just a reworked idea that the far more entertaining Groundhog Day employed so well.

There's little sense in trying to follow the intricate plots twists which subsequently occur, and when I realised that fact I suddenly started to enjoy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang so much more.

A few more recent ones are there, but reading this book on Kindle didn't give me a chance to try out the puzzle, which combines standard clues with clues whose answers are within the book's plot.

I suppose some authors might quietly plot to stuff things into their books to torture future English students, but generally speaking I think authors are more interested in 1) making whatever point they're trying to make, and 2) selling books.

Anyway, Serious Sam is one of those cases in which trying to inject even a little more plot just doesn't work.

Even when Bomberman moved away from his arcade roots and started trying to add real story elements with Mega Bomberman in the Sega Genesis days, it was never really a game driven by its plot — it was more like we now had an excuse as to why we would go around willy - nilly blowing up every brick wall and balloon enemy we found.

The disease and the damage it has caused make an appearance every so often in the plot, but in reality it's more about the struggle of a rag tag group of survivors trying to fend off overwhelming chaos in the form of various gangs that have taken over the city, perfectly blending sci - fi and urban action into an entertaining tale.

As for the new unbuilt park across the street, Floridians have heard many different plans for that plot of land over the past few years and while I'll believe it when I see it, building Nintendo attractions there makes a lot of sense and would allow Universal to spread out more than trying to shoehorn, say, Princess Peach's castle into an existing park.

No one would have imagined it after the first game, but in trying to one - up the stakes of the predecessor, Double Dragon II went even more reckless in using Marion (yes, the series is rather inconsistent with spelling her name) as a plot device.

In previous Samurai Warriors or Dynasty Warriors games, I felt as though they were simply trying to use a wide brush to paint a picture with too many subjects, but the focus of the story being solely on the Sanada clan made for a more interesting plot.

The story begins as Batman attempts to evade and defeat them all, but takes a slightly more sinister twist as some more familiar faces become involved with Black Mask's plot and try to throw Batman's plans into chaos.

There's an amusingly written story that's more involved than what Capcom's previously tried, but «Has a plot!»

The game tries to be a lot more serious, and fails miserably at it by using the same plot elements we've seen dozens of times already on NES with games like Ninja Gaiden.

We are converting a 5 - acre plot of land with a house into an off - grid homestead from scratch and trying to grow more while buying less (though we have a long long way to go).