Sentences with phrase «with bland characters»

The whole game just looked pretty uninspiring, with bland character models and a true lack of variety in the environments.

Not exact matches

But few superhero movies have had Whedon's light touch — the way he infused previously bland characters with real heart.

We do not have street wisdom and about building the Emirates, as much as it makes financial sense and glitters so well, I think most of us will take an Highbury laden with trophies and full of life and character over a lifeless and bland Emirates where fans are not even allowed to passionately support their team.

Kirkland's worldly wise persona is a lot more interesting than the character that is handed to Daniels, which is bland in spite of her go - rounds with Scott.

Frances Dee and Jean Parker acquit themselves well as Meg and Beth respectively but those two sisters, even with Beth's tragedy, are the two blandest characters in the book.

It's probably the most bland and repetitive DBZ game of this generation, with its only saving grace being the immense roster of characters.

Instead of giving us a lengthy story of a great character (Fetch) Sucker Punch offers an interesting albeit short campaign, packed with a bland and boring arena mode.

All the fun worlds are now gone and replaced with a world map, endless backtracking, bland and one - dimensional characters (basically all Toads), pointless combat (uses up stickers and gives nothing in return), no humorous characters, and not much of a story.

The movie's atmosphere of head - scratching complexity is exacerbated by LaBeouf's rather bland turn as Moore, with the one - dimensional nature of the character preventing the viewer from becoming wholeheartedly wrapped up in his ongoing efforts and exploits.

Yes, do note that I said that the underdevelopment makes it «hard [u] er [/ u]» to get invested in the characters, because as if it's not bad enough that the characters are so undercooked and, well, kind of bland, they're unlikable, or at least the lead is, for although Sam Eidman's portrayal of the Scott Weidemeyer character is engaging convincing, the character himself is just too much of a manchild - concerned with the superficial and his own self - esteem over the concerns of others and growing up - for you to feel for him all that much.

With such a long running time accompanying its weak story and bland characters, John Carter is the worst movie I have seen so far this year.

The characters are dull, with bland emotions and motives.

With an irreverent wit, a group of anti-hero characters who hated everyone as much as they loved themselves banding together to save the galaxy, and a bright, extravagant visual palette that popped in a way that directly opposed the bland, grey tones of the rest of the MCU, the first Guardians was lightning in a bottle that would be impossible to capture twice.

Everest works enough primarily because though the characters might be bland and tough to connect with, their harrowing situation isn't, all the more realized in 3D.

It's not a particularly good movie, but it has far more character than this CGI - dominated remake, a bland and flavorless spectacle centered on muscle - bound Perseus (Sam Worthington), a stiffly stalwart demigod who takes on an odyssey to defy the gods with no more personality than the slick but CGI creatures he battles along the way.

Unfortunately, the film focuses on this bland character and her unbelievable relationships with Steve and Ben (plus an extremely sad scene involving a chicken), when centering on the Baker family dynamics or the men's friendship would have been more interesting.

Yen, a superb screen fighter with an often bland presence, creates the finest screen character of his career as the dedicated but modest master who becomes a teacher to the ordinary citizens facing the oppressive rule of the occupying Japanese army and the predatory attacks of Chinese bandits.

Chris Evans fits the bill really well, although the character of Captain America is a little too bland to really do much with.

When it falls into conventional storytelling it is a sloppy, middling action film with lazy focus, bland characters, misses all its comic beats to the point the audience was laughing more at the fart jokes, which weren't even well timed either.

Crazy Heart was acknowledged for its performances and music despite being a solid character study with real directorial sensitivity, and while Out of the Furnace proved to be somewhat bland and predictable, it still contained glimmers of a filmmaker with a distinct vision.

Paul could have very well been a bland victim, but Caan makes sure the character comes across with more personality and proactiveness than that.

People usually bemoan the lack of a strong human element in big blockbusters like this, but while «Godzilla» aims to remedy that by placing the focus more on them than the giant monsters doing battle, the characters are so bland and thinly written (with the exception of Bryan Cranston's scientist, who has a smaller role than is hinted at in the trailers) that it only makes things worse.

Much like in the source material, our main character is mostly a bland doofus in over his head who steals too much screentime from Hit - Girl (who is too busy with high school politics to do much ass kicking this time around).

I understand the limitations of the ropey CGI, but the character is frustratingly bland, dumped with a painful Russian accent and dialogue written by someone trapped in an 80s kids movie.

However, the main characters feel a bit too bland for the audience to fully engage with them.

Not containing the wit to be smart, thrilling sci - fi nor the chutzpah to embrace a fun, B - movie shlock vibe, it unfortunately feels like an uninspired TV pilot that any other network would've permanently locked in a vault... At first, it has the feeling of being dropped into a season finale with characters we should know more about, then after the bland exposition, muddled motivations, and nonsensical developments, one realizes they'd never want to watch what came before anyways.

Cregger's bland yet personable turn as the central character is certainly in sharp contrast to Moore's aggressively zany performance, with the actor's incessantly over-the-top work hitting the viewer like nails on a chalkboard and ensuring that the film becomes more and more of a chore to sit through as it progresses.

She takes her character well beyond a bland pop singer with a movie career.

THE BOY NEXT DOOR Jennifer Lopez's return to cinema also marked her return to 10 Worst territory, as she headlined this dopey thriller in which her dunderheaded character cavorts with a hunky psycho (Ryan Guzman, as bland here as in Jem and the Holograms).

It's ultimately clear that Blumhouse's Truth or Dare doesn't possess enough material to wholeheartedly justify a feature - length running time, and there's little doubt, too, that the film fares especially poorly in its aggressively bland and uninvolving opening stretch - with the less - than - captivating vibe compounded by an almost astonishing assortment of one - dimensional, interchangeable characters.

Despite the presence of a decent cast - with real actors like John Lithgow and Michael Rooker on hand - every character seems bland and forgettable.

Thankfully the script attaches (literally) these two characters together for most of the story, so the audience is not stuck with just listening to the bland Blu.

It feels quite bland, and the one character I played with (the ranger - style gun girl) felt strange, lacking weight.

The end result is a rather bland and non-sensical run - of - the - mill cyborg story, with what may be the worst realized villain character I've seen in ages.

Turner, on the other hand, may have been stuck in a movie with a confusing plot, bland villain and too many characters, but she felt like Jean Grey.

There are various customisation options, but none of them are particularly interesting, and with only one generic court the overall look feels bland and forgettable, unlike Overwatch for example (as a different competitive game) which has stark and vibrant characters and settings.

It's bland, pretty humorless, and says nothing worth saying on the subject of fighting censorship and freedom of speech in a toothless fashion, because it's too busy letting a cast of interchangeably quirky characters be quirky because that's what we expect from a British comedy about characters with quirks, I guess.

Characters from those films pop up during Thor «s main narrative and after the end credits, living up to Marvel's commitment to populating their films with the same bland versions of perfectly acceptable cCharacters from those films pop up during Thor «s main narrative and after the end credits, living up to Marvel's commitment to populating their films with the same bland versions of perfectly acceptable characterscharacters.

Rest of Cast: Trouble with the Curve has a cast roster full of bland characters, with supporting actors as simplified as those with smaller roles.

The real strength of the novel lies with the great cast of characters, ranging from the employees of the Good Relations Unit of Belfast City Council and their «bland conformity» to the central character Eban, a complex, damaged individual, determined to remain marginal.

The plot is rote and predictable, meandering along with a cast of serviceable but bland characters and poor dialogue to boot.

The bland character designs simply forced me to focus on their abilities as opposed to their looks but it would have been nice to play with a cool looking character.

EDIT: I bought Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 and I didn't liked it, like the worse Megaman games its bland and formulaic to the point only playing as another characters is the standout, and I think reviews agree with that statement.

It was full of bland characters with no real explanation or development.

While not animated by hand, the cel - shaded graphics produce a reasonable enough facsimile of the look of the show with a few dropped polygons here and there, making some characters look a little bland since there wasn't really much in their design to begin with.

The game's default character is the anime's bland protagonist Kirito, and it becomes quickly clear that the game assumes you'll just roll with the default; your fellow cast of characters will wax lyrical about past exploits, Kirito's betrothed Asuna will always treat you as her boyfriend, and all characters will refer to you as a male, even if you changed your gender — your character's voice in cutscenes will even be Kirito's Japanese voice actor, unless you dive into the settings to turn it off.

Likewise Arcadia, who acts as Bryce's love interest, is a rather bland and witless character who never seems to be more than just your stereotypical over-the-top action girl with a pretty face.

This and a lack of characters with any real personality plagued Skyrims story as well, and just like Skyrim it leaves Reckoning's plot feeling a little bland and dry at points, but overall it's still an enjoyable enough story that leads to a pretty epic, if easy, conclusion.

The graphics, even with the polish up, are still rough - looking with characters lacking detail up close and the environment has some rather bland and boring textures.

Even the staunchest fan of western developed videogames would agree that the Infamous protagonist is one of the most bland and forgetable heroes to ever grace a HD TV screen, while the Capcom and namco stars of Street Fighter X Tekken are, by contrast, some of the most iconic and fun characters ever created, and loaded with bags of personality.