Sentences with phrase «with character motivations»

And when something's as richly imagined as the world of «Game of Thrones,» the show can fall flat when it plays fast and loose with character motivations.

This is why the main quest and those closely tied faction quests feel like a slog sometimes, for all the interesting scenarios the game plays out, the factions just feel shallow, along with your characters motivations.

Not exact matches

«We admire or foster a character trait we call «grit» but that is really relentless, persistent perfectionism, absent the intrinsic motivation,» she cautions those concerned with fostering mental toughness.

Participants were apt to complete a tedious task (entering 10 - character strings of code) faster when they could tackle quicker segments first, with their motivation increasing as they got closer to completing the task.

While a candidate's deep - rooted passion for Saturday Star Trek conventions or service dog training might not sound relevant to your business, how we choose to spend our free time is probably the most honest gauge of what we find intrinsically rewarding, and in entrepreneurship, understanding these deep motivations could help you put together a team with similar aims, character and cultural fit.

Flamini is a fearless character from the old school, With plenty of Stamina, aggression and motivation, He has a real passion for the game, just because he is in his early 30's that doesn't mean that he can't keep preforming like he did last night!

Breeze is a great character, they're both great wrestlers and Ziggler has some extra motivation these days as he tries to put distance between himself and an ill - fated feud with Rusev (and Summer Rae).

Macmillan manages to synthesise a consideration of the environmental and structural factors in the years before 1914 with a sympathetic and engaging examination of the particular motivations and characters of the men who took Europe to war in 1914.

Its imaginary worlds are full of characters with confusing or unexplained motivations.

Positive and friendly with a hint of mystery but displayed as a character with drive and motivation!

At almost three hours long the film does feel overstretched, with a set - up period of at least 45 minutes which moves at a languorous pace as it doles out arguably unneeded exposition and character motivation.

What makes this film fascinating is the conflict between the two characters, which is centered mostly on a great dialogue that explores the motivations and creative process of a genius, with Charlton Heston delivering his typical overacting and Rex Harrison as magnetic as always.

With a a messy script full of expository dialogue, confusing motivations and plot holes, this uninteresting and generic movie is also only able to move forward by relying on stupid characters who are no more a killer elite than a bunch of incompetent amateurs.

It hews to the most obvious tropes of case - of - the - week shows about oddball visionaries partnered with law - and - order sharpshooters, and in the first hour at least, doesn't pay its audience much respect when it comes to the plausibility of dialogue, character motivations, or the security procedures at a mental institution for former future - convicts.

The film, however, is a slogging monotony, a structureless, flimsy, rough - shod thing with characters suddenly popping with no narrative motivation and a story that sags and lags like an atrophied nursing home resident.

Up until now, Coogler and B. Jordan's partnership has mostly consisted of B. Jordan playing the main character and with conflicting, yet always good intentions and motivations.

Jordan explained his motivation for the Killmonger character in an interview with Rolling Stone: «This young black man from Oakland, growing up in systemic oppression, not having his mom and dad around, going to foster care, being a part of this system... I understood his rage, and how he could get to the point where he had to do what he had to do, by any means necessary.»

The features start out with a wonderful feature commentary from Coogler and production designer Hannah Beachler which goes into not only the look and action of the film, but also a lot of the themes and motivations of the characters.

As for that key moment that sets up the final act, I thought the film established the character motivation adequately with the earlier scenes showing us Schultz's reaction to some of the violence against slaves.

Coogler and Cole take the character's motivations and run with them, ultimately creating an antagonist with whom you not only understand and agree with, you begin to find yourself rooting for him.

The bios for Nakia, Okoye, and Shuri give each woman a full, realized character with motivations of her own, outside of T'Challa.

Obviously, they see the scenes they're in, but otherwise, directors Anthony and Joe Russo — along with the writers, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely — tell the actors the general story and character motivations, and that's it.

It's a thriller set in the 1960s at a crappy hotel called the El Royale in Lake Tahoe, where a group of characters with mysterious motivations will violently come into conflict.

The trip to Canto Bight has to do with new character DJ, and we know that part of Rose's motivation is going to come from her sister, Paige Tico (Veronica Ngo), a gunner with the Resistance.

Each character is so blissfully constructed with their own quirks, intricacies, and motivations.

Perhaps they will lean more on elaborating story and character motivations than trying to knock us out with visual razzle - dazzle.

Paper thin characters with no motivation are the best.

Much like Christopher Nolan was able to do with resurrecting the ice - cold popularity of Batman in Batman Begins, Bryan Singer (X-Men, X2) brings a sense of respect and emphasis on character motivations to the forefront of the story, resulting in a complexity and maturity befitting the world's most popular and beloved superhero.

Late in the third act, when characters are forced to interact, their motivations become mud - coated with quirk.

That's not the case with Beasts as it makes character motivations difficult to understand in the final act.

A powerful epic - scale Western with a rich story full of nuances, following a complex character of dubious motivations in a search that stretches for many years - an anguishing journey set against the imposing vastness of the Monument Valley desert with stunning panoramic shots.

Egoyan, as expected, has peppered Adoration with relentlessly morose figures whose behavior and motivations often stretch the very limits of credibility, though the superb work of the various actors (Speedman, especially) inevitably proves effective in infusing the broadly - drawn characters with a small degree of authenticity.

But it's Walken who really, well, walks away with the movie, playing yet another Christopher Walken character, but this time actually putting some thought and motivation behind it.

Coppola gives her primary characters a Gothic twist replacing the older, brooding, tired masculine figure and the young, naive heroine with a feminine adventurer who provides the masculine figure with the motivation and opportunity to journey into the unfamiliar landscape.

There's one central one that feels a bit forced, but does actually fit very well with the characters and their various motivations.

From here we jump 18 months ahead to the present where a seemingly endless number of characters with overlapping motivations and plotlines flit from location to location at breakneck speed in order to force all the pieces into their positions of the board so that we can see The Dark Knight repeatedly punch The Big Blue Boy Scout.

Unlike most action movies, this film plays out patiently, with long scenes that reveal internal motivations, deepening the characters and situations profoundly.

They met with me separately and we talked about character and behavior and motivations.

The «Dollars» trilogy is one of the rare series that gets better with each successive entry, as Leone spends more time on plot, characters, and motivation than he did in his smash international debut.

Film noir flourished during the decades either side of the second world war, populated by shady characters operating in a grey moral world under their own rules and motivations, all with an impending sense of doom colouring their every actions.

Yes, the movie admits from the start that its factual basis in history begins and ends with the existence of an outdoor ballroom in the Gardens of Versailles, suggesting that we can assume the movie's characters, their actions, and / or their motivations are partially or entirely creations of fiction.

Check your expectations at the door because Scott's film is an episodically stale adventure, fleshed out with thin characters that inhabit no motivations that feel neither authentic nor realistic.

Character Story Mode will allow you to learn about the world warriors of Street Fighter V. Selecting a character will lead you through a series of battles with cutscenes that shows their background and motivation as well as how they know some of the other chCharacter Story Mode will allow you to learn about the world warriors of Street Fighter V. Selecting a character will lead you through a series of battles with cutscenes that shows their background and motivation as well as how they know some of the other chcharacter will lead you through a series of battles with cutscenes that shows their background and motivation as well as how they know some of the other characters.

At once a funny action - adventure (with typical visuals expected of a Strange comic) and a compelling character piece, The Oath is an exciting follow - up for new fans who have just gotten to know Strange and his motivations, as well as his buddy Wong.

Rather than supply motivations for his characters, Altman provides them — and us — with a climate of reference comprised largely of the stops and starts of behavior and modulated by visual and aural structures at his beck and call.

The screenplay and Cianfrance may be interested in the actions and motivations of these characters, but they far more concerned with the Bigger Picture and What It All Means.

Walton Goggins, who plays the villain in this year's Tomb Raider film, opens up about his character's motivations as he clashes with Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) over the contents of a tomb he has spent the last seven years searching for.

All of the performances in the film are subtle but memorable; each actor brings to life a character with their own personal motivations, hopes and reasons to be dishonest.

This tendency to cut corners leaves London Boulevard feeling increasingly shaky as it progresses, leaving us with characters whose motivations are never really explained beyond the roles assigned to them (mobsters, when left to their own devices, will try to kill each other, etc.).

These two are no longer vague representations of seeking parity or power through unity or strife but characters with decided rationales and motivations.