Sentences with phrase «used bigger characters»

I think size of the characters really matters to an American audience, so from Final Fantasy VII onward, we used bigger characters.

Not exact matches

Since the «Star Wars» prequels, in which George Lucas was heavily criticized for using too much CGI to create the worlds and characters, many big - budget movies have tried to find that happy medium of practical and visual effects to give the action on screen a more grounded feel.

Because, hopefully, somewhere between engineering classes at a state college in the Midwest, someone is figuring out how to build a bigger company using just 50 characters.

It's difficult to critique this in a spoiler - free way, but to use the example of A New Hope, while the Death Star was a looming, terrifying presence throughout, the big threat to our heroes in this film seems to appear quite late in the day, and seems more important as a plot device to bring key characters together than a genuinely gripping menace.

The Bible is full of fairy tales and should only be taken as a piece of literature of great importance just as the Odyssey is, but it shouldn't be used to govern one's life, much less to help build a relationship with the biggest fictional and ever - changing character in human history.

«I used to hit golf balls across the street and we had this big hill across our house and my dad got me these plastic clubs — they were like Snoopy clubs with Peanuts characters on them,» she said.

Or more specifically, he reckons that it is Arsene Wenger's faith in the likes of Jack Wilshere and his insistence on playing them and using them to avoid having to spend big money in the transfer market that is stopping Arsenal from having a team full of the right type of characters, namely those with a burning desire to win things.

I think the word is used when someone feels there is a certain amount of risk that's associated with taking a player, but there's risk with every single selection, whether it's big or small, character or skill related..

Under the deal, which Mrs. Obama helped broker, PMA's growers, suppliers and retailers are allowed to use for two years iconic characters such as Elmo and Big Bird in messaging and on produce sold in stores — without paying any licensing fees.

In the prototype characters, the technique was used to create eyeballs that display a pulsing red heart that can change into a big yellow smiley — and back.

I do recall this movie coming out and it was quite a big deal, very popular, quite an original idea and following on well from things like «Flight of the Navigator» and of course «E.T.» This was possibly one of the first movies to use this concept where a robot featured as the main character with humans mainly as secondary characters.

Like Kurosawa did before him, Altman used multiple cameras to film the big crowd scenes; the actors had to remain in character because they had no way of knowing what footage of them might be used.

The plot is weaker than some of Marvel's more recent stories (I'm looking at you Winter Soldier), and the villain is the biggest mustache twirling megalomaniac the studio has yet produced, but what it lacks in completely solid writing it makes up for in its wonderfully charming cast, an impressive use of special effects, and at least a baby step forward as far as female supporting characters are concerned.

Once all the main characters converge, the film picks up while Director Jonathan Mostow (U-571) appears to be using Cameron's cliff notes version on how to stage a Terminator film complete with motorcycle chase and big shootouts.

The biggest disappointment in the film was how little the character of Juliette (Felicity Jones) was actually used.

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.

I remember Double Dragon I and II using small character sprites in a large area, which made the world feel bigger and gave the series a unique perspective.

Franks Big Package adds DLC to dress as Santa and a variety of Capcom characters as well, another great bonus in case you wanted to see old Saint Nick using a machete on a horde of undead elves.

Probably the character with the biggest cult following who has hardly been used in games.

There's a big subplot involving Amy and the relationship she has with her family including her «perfect» sister played by Brie Larson and her dad who is suffering from MS.. It adds more depth to her character but could use some trimming.

Everyone's favourite characters, much of the surreal narration (delivered with perfect dryness by Stephen Fry), and the original's distinctive theme music, are all present and accounted for — and in an age where CGI has become the slick new medium for special visual effects, an inordinate amount of physical modelling and creature puppetry have been used to give the film a refreshingly organic retro look, as though the crew from the original TV series had been lured back to their old tools by a much bigger budget.

According to the official press release accompanying this latest trailer, LEGo New York is bigger and better than before, allowing players to «hyper jump off skyscrapers with Hulk, use Quicksilver to speed run over water or even play as giant characters like the menacing Fing Fang Foom who can grow to the size of buildings.»

This impressive line - up is put to far better use than the average big name CGI cast; each character is instantly distinctive.

One of the biggest announcements for Nintendo at E3 was the announcement of Amiibo figures, NFC - enabled figures of famous Nintendo characters that can be used in multiple games.

Combat appeals to nostalgia but isn't really very good, hit - or - miss voice acting mostly misses, lame use of big - busted minor characters as promo art because boobs.

T2 TRAINSPOTTING Hebrew title: Trainspotting 2 Directed by Danny Boyle With Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle, Johnny Lee Miller Running time: 117 minutes Rating: R (for drug use, language throughout, strong sexual content, graphic nudity and some violence) The biggest surprise in Danny Boyle's T2 Trainspotting, the sequel to his 1996 Trainspotting, is that the four main characters, all of them either heroin addicts, violent criminals or a combination of the two, are still alive and looking remarkably well.

This adaptation of Stephen King's 2009 doorstop of the same name features all the familiar characters: James «Big Jim» Rennie (Dean Norris), a used - car salesman who is second selectman of Chester's Mill and would very much like to be first selectman; Dale «Barbie» Barbara (Mike Vogel), a former Army captain in town on some sort of business; Deputy Linda (Natalie Martinez), the kindhearted cop; lovely Angie (Britt Robertson) who has a regrettable fling with not - so - lovely «Junior» (Alexander Koch); intrepid newspaper reporter Julia Shumway (Rachelle Lefevre); and so on...

Alcohol / Drug Use: Characters drink or are shown with drinks on several occasions, including before a big battle.

The film was one of the year's biggest comedies at the box office, and it would be amazing to see a real Oscars push for a character who says «booty hole» and whose most infamous scene involves questionable use of a grapefruit.

One of the better two - character dramas in recent years, this David Gordon Green film revealed unexpected sides of stars Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch, and used its gorgeous, often ravaged landscapes for metaphorical effect without making too big a deal of it.

Music plays a big role here, which should not be a surprise considering Jarmusch's use of music in previous projects, but goes a step further by syncing up the revolution of vinyl records consistently with a lazily rotating bird's eye camera and characters who sway along with it.

That means that the Merida and Stitch - centric Toy Box Games can use any Disney Originals characters (that includes all 1.0 characters, plus newcomers like Merida, Stitch, Donald, Maleficent, Aladdin, Jasmine, and Hiro & Baymax from Big Hero 6 - despite them being based on Marvel characters).

Belgian artist Peyo created The Smurfs using a pseudonym and the five credited screenwriters for the little blue characters» second big - screen adventure probably wish that they could have done the same.

2 will use Ego (played by Kurt Russell) as Peter Quill's father and one of the biggest cosmic characters introduced to the MCU yet.

Having since known all the songs used in the film, I marvel at the little layers that reveal themselves upon rewatching and realise that songs take up a big part of the story and serve as the voice of the characters in conveying what they want / feel much more evocatively and persuasively than non-sung words.

Karl Urban reprises his character of Doctor «Bones» McCoy, thankfully with a much bigger role than the last film, which barely used him, and joins Montgomery «Scotty» Scott (Simon Pegg at his least annoying), Chekov (Anton Yelchin) and Sulu (John Cho) to fill out the crew of the Enterprise.

One big difference between Versus and the story mode is that each player will only have three actions per turn, making it a battle of strategy as you choose between using a turn to move all of your fighters, or putting all of your actions into one or two characters attacking.

Spock is turning into a tricky one to get right, seeing as he is clearly the most intriguing of the characters we have at hand here, but it is always too easy to use him as your main event, which has caused the biggest problems with an unbalanced ensemble with the past two sequels.

The occasion was a 1960 showing of William Wellman's 1931 The Public Enemy, which Macdonald defined as «James Cagney's picture,» adding, «Wellman uses Cagney with subtlety, keeping him in the background much of the time while secondary characters occupy the foreground... So it is all the more powerful when Cagney moves into the foreground at the big moments; our taste for this extraordinary actor has not been blunted by seeing too much of him.»

Iger also noted that the studio has the rights to 7,000 characters, so there are a lot of heroes and villains who still haven't made their big - screen debuts that the studio can use.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

At its heart is a 2 - litre four - cylinder Ford Duratec that uses a supercharger to boost power to 310bhp and torque to 219 lb ft.. Both these figures are delivered way up the rev range (7700rpm and 7350rpm respectively), which gives a big hint as to this car's fast and frantic character.

Under normal use the engine stays impressively subdued, but requests for big acceleration - the sort that would get an automatic kicking down to its lowest available ratio - result in it accelerating to peak revs, resulting in a noise out of keeping with the character of the car.

We also like the big VW's strong value proposition and the easy - to - use character of its controls.

What stands out for me aren't so much the characters — protagonists Nailer and Nita are complex and believable, but many of the supporting characters are sketchily drawn — or the plot, which has a familiar shape — shipwrecked rich girl rescued by gutter rat, flight from bad people wanting to use rich girl as pawn, a big fight, a hairsbreadth rescue — but the meticulously detailed, multi-layered post-climate change world in which the action takes place.

All the Stars in the Heavens By Adriana Trigiani Harper • $ 15.99 • ISBN 9780062319203 Using a rich blend of real and fictional characters, Trigiani's latest offers an enthralling look at 1930s Hollywood and the legendary romance between two of its biggest stars: Loretta Young and Clark Gable.

For the indents, use a first line indent set at about.25 inch rather than an actual indent character (which is much too big, plus it's easy to miss putting one in).

Quesada said that sometimes Marvel doesn't know which characters will hit big until someone uses them in a book - Â Squirrel Girl being a prime example.

- Batman, Wyldstyle, Gandalf, and the Batmobile all come in the Starter Pack for $ 99.99 - complete the entire critical path with just this content - extra characters, vehicles, or weapons are sold separately - you may see ghosts flying around a level and need the Ghostbusters to take them out - use Scooby - Doo to dig and open up a new area - gameplay has you collecting studs, building and rebuilding within the world, and switching between characters - use Batman's grapple hook to tear down big obstacles - you can also drive the Batmobile to run over poppies (flowers that put characters to sleep if they're near them)- fight the Wicked Witch of the West - use the Lego Gateway outside of the game to avoid obstacles - when the Wicked Witch cast a magic spell, it can lock you into a position - when this happens, the Lego Gateway will flash red, save for one white safe area - move the actual figurine to the white area to be safe - every vehicle has three different forms - you must build and rebuild them throughout the adventure to get by - on mission makes you repower a gateway, but the generator is encased in blue Lego brick - build the Batblaster to use the brick - blaster and electricity shield to get by - in - game instructions tell you how to take apart the Batmobile and physically morph it into the Batblaste - use the sonar brick - blaster to destroy blue bricks

- uses the real - life puzzle format to retell the story of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in the space of one hour - puzzles involve doing math, deciphering glyphs and turning in worksheets to a cast of Zelda - themed taskmasters - instead of being a small experience hosting just half a dozen players, this is one big room where teams of 6 face off against dozens of other teams - one puzzle involves decoding words from a series of brain teasers and then using a key to pull out individual letters to decipher the next instruction - involves multiple familiar characters from the series