That nitpick wouldn't be more of a problem if the cool factor of the current roster wasn't so dampened by the general aesthetic and the strangely
unappealing character designs which look at their worst during main story cutscenes.
Developed by veteran Amiga studio Sculptured Software, War on Wheels has much in common with Sculptured's other 1991 NES release Eliminator Boat Duel, and shares the same brand of
unappealing character art.
In his own words: «I realized, when the movie came out, that I played the one really
unappealing character in a huge movie full of really appealing characters.
The setting of Hinashi Bay is beautifully realized with detailed environments and picturesque landscapes that are lost behind
the unappealing character designs.
Make no mistake Roger is a completely
unappealing character, and Stiller is appropriately cold as the vacant former rock star, and yet Greenberg isn't a completely negative experience.
The movie is full of nonsensical plot twists, embarrassingly broad performances and
unappealing characters.
Jessica Biel, Seth Meyers, Sarah Paulson and Til Schweiger are lumped with four of the most
unappealing characters of the year.
Cheesy music,
unappealing characters, a threadbare and uninteresting plot, and some poor directing cripple any chance this film has to even be tolerable.
Not exact matches
The film doesn't find space to fill their
characters out in more than broad swaths, but manages to make them both
unappealing, having a superheroic pissing match that turns into literal grappling over the moral high ground.
All of the teen
characters are boring and
unappealing, it makes me long for old Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes where you had teen
characters like Xander and Willow who were actually entertaining.
The
characters are one - dimensional and
unappealing, the script is scatterbrained mush, the music is redundant and ineffectively used, and the message gets lost amid idiotic supporting
characters with little better to do than mouth un-pithy lines for no apparent reason.
Control is atrocious,
characters extremely odd and
unappealing IMHO (your mileage may vary on this one), rewards for your trouble very minimal, graphics / sounds very underwhelming.
Then again, Vinterberg seems to have rather clumsily loaded the story in favour of the smouldering Schoenaerts, who makes scant effort on the accent front but lets his glowering looks do the talking — a world away from Alan Bates's earlier reading, where the
character's sheer decency has to work extra-hard to outweigh a seriously
unappealing vintage beard.
For those unfamiliar with the comic, the overall plot of the story essentially centers on the
characters in the past being warned about and — trying to avoid — a very
unappealing dystopian future.
Sarandon's performance is fine, but the script makes her
character even more
unappealing than she is supposed to be.
With Survival of the Dead, George A. Romero's Dead series has officially crossed into irrelevance - as the movie suffers from an egregiously low - rent sensibility that's perpetuated by an emphasis on wholly
unappealing elements (ie
characters, dialogue, visuals, etc, etc).
The problems start off with the fact that the
characters themselves aren't written with much inspiration, and casting that is
unappealing for those roles to boot.
Which brings me to my next point, the
characters in the film are
unappealing.
Never the less, some readers will find the
characters unappealing and the whole execution rather tedious.
If I as a writer am condescending to my own
characters, it makes them
unappealing to the reader and doesn't make them three — dimensional.»
A great strength here is McCann's characterization: of Mendelsohn; his caregiver Sally; his unfeeling,
unappealing son Elliot; and all the
characters in the restaurant he visits.
The story seems to take a few leads from Jane Austen, but in the end, the
characters are flat, the art
unappealing (to me anyway), and the flow of the story a little rushed and awkward.
The graphics are quite poor, mainly in its
character features but also notably in the motion features displayed in cut scenes, which makes it
unappealing and breaks the immersion.
Sure, the art direction is still largely generic, and many of the
character designs are flat - out
unappealing, but from a technical standpoint the game looks great.