Sentences with phrase «with plot points»

With most of the essential exposition out of the way, Valkyrie Drive begins to expand its aspirations, with plot points that disrupt conventional gaming dichotomies.

He could have been removed, all with the plot points I mentioned earlier, to create a more manageable movie.

The reason for this, as it turns out, is pretty simple; the people who like seeing a spoiler - heavy trailer will go and watch the movie when they see a spoilerific trailer, while those that don't like it usually don't dislike it enough to not go watch the movie anyway, thus from a marketing standpoint it makes more sense to load up the trailer with plot points and reap the benefits.

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Every writer struggles with plot points and character arcs.

It spends a lot of time thinking and paying homage to Kubrick, but falls short with plot points that don't add up and maybe one - and - a-half characters that are at all developed.

That occasionally means going along with plot points that strain credulity, like that time she agreed to stay married to her hooker - loving husband.

With both its plot points and its gags, this movie attempts to cover up its redundancies by purporting them a form of symmetry.

At their best, the movies have been enjoyable ways to pass time, and at their worst, they've been riddled with plot points that hark back to superior films.

It's all big, dumb, broad strokes, with plot points visible from miles away.

Instead of serving chills and thrills, the film pounds us with an explanation that grows more convoluted with each plot point.

(You may have already met Shao Jun and be familiar with this plot point if you've seen Ubisoft's 2011 short film, Assassin's Creed: Embers.)

What the film lacks are any surprises in the mix, with every plot point and character written in a strictly - by - the - book fashion, with no attempt to give us something we haven't seen done before dozens of times.

Gangs have always been an interesting aspect of the Red Dead world, with the plot point of the original revolving around Marston's past involvement with Dutch's Old Gang.

Not exact matches

The mega-chain's creation myth does have some plot points in common with The Social Network: while McDonald's retains the names of its founders, the McDonald's brothers, it was Kroc who realized the potential of fast food and spread the chain from coast - to - coast, eventually buying out the brothers.

Combine this with another of Twitter's problems — that it's often a source of spoilers for things I do care about, like Game of Thrones plot points, and the alternative of simply not using it looks far more appealing.

Wireframe and draft: Start by plotting the major persuasion points of your piece in line with a formula like AIDA: Attention, Interest, Design and Action.

Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Rios, a corrections specialist with Bravo Company, Regional Training Center - East, plots his first point during the night land navigation event at the 2012 U.S. Army Reserve Best Warrior Competition at Fort McCoy, Wis., July 17, 2012.

One of the major plot points this season is Archie's obsession with the killer's striking green eyes.

I struggle with infidelity as a plot point to cheer for and so I appreciated the juxtaposition of an affair to «root for» and one to despise but even so, it was fascinating and un-put-down-able, too.

Editor's Note: The following interview with Noah screenwriter Ari Handel contains some minor spoilers and discussions of items that deal with major plot points in the film.

This book isn't an argument to make or a point to take, this isn't a single story with a plot and a climax and a denouement, and there isn't a single three - step program to follow with nicely spaced headers and boxes to check off.

With ezer kenegdo properly translated, (and with the creation of woman after man identified as a plot point meant to create drama, not subordination), we see that there are no explicit statements of a hierarchal relationship between man and woman until after the event that Christians have come to call «The Fall.&raWith ezer kenegdo properly translated, (and with the creation of woman after man identified as a plot point meant to create drama, not subordination), we see that there are no explicit statements of a hierarchal relationship between man and woman until after the event that Christians have come to call «The Fall.&rawith the creation of woman after man identified as a plot point meant to create drama, not subordination), we see that there are no explicit statements of a hierarchal relationship between man and woman until after the event that Christians have come to call «The Fall.»

The Russian Formalists of the early twentieth century rightly pointed out that her novels exclusively follow the Cinderella plot: A young woman falls in love with a man of superior social standing and has to wait for him to make the first declaration of love ¯ to be followed, even more excruciatingly, by the hoped - for offer of marriage.

There is a classic eucatastrophic pattern to the seven Harry Potter books, with the central books, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, taking the reader to the darkest, most desperate point in terms of both the plot and Harry's own development.

(Have seen both the pointed and round types) We are doing test plots here in Ecuador with both types and...

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

But the point remains — it's still one of America's best and on a plot of land many consider to be the most beautiful in the world (I won't bore you with the Robert Louis Stevenson quote again).

Their development figures to be one of the key plot points this season, and with Redick and Johnson on board, there's finally a chance at substantive success to go along with all the good times their young core should provide.

READ MORE Arsenal plot controversial transfer swoop for record - breaking forward Arsenal news Arsenal star fires bleak warning to Arsene Wenger over Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil transfers Iwobi, however, is delighted with the team's improvement since then, pointing out that they've lifted the spirits around the club to ensure victory in every game except a hard - fought 0 - 0 draw at Chelsea.

Frankly I do nt care what is obvious is that the supposed Tactical Genius (Wenger) is either loosing the plot or has finally reached a point where he is forgetting what he has or has not said and is starting to tie himself in knots with his lies.

Already with 15 games gone in the league, and having lost 4 of them, and more frustratingly, 6 draws as well, the Gunners lie in 10th position, and in urgent need of some impetus, freshness, direction, and more importantly points to plot a way towards the top reaches of the table.

While Owen Coyle has somehow plotted a huge survival push since joining Bolton earlier in the year, Bolton could do with a few more points just to be sure but could very well struggle to attain any in their next assignment.

There's a reality show featuring them, TV shows and movies with tragic teen moms as plot points.

THAT»S how I ended up diving into John Toland's 1000 - page history of the Pacific War from the Japanese point of view (in paperback, thank god) while on the bus on a FIFTH - GRADE field trip... starting with 200 - odd pages of 1930s Japanese nationalist politics, which at least was full of plots, assassinations, coup attempts, ritual suicides, and other exciting stuff.

Plotting a graph with suitable combinations of these variables on the two axes, the researchers traced a straight line that coincided almost perfectly with the experimental data points.

The researchers also tested their prediction models on the validation set, and this resulted in ROC (receiver operating characteristic) plot points with an AUC (area under the curve) of 91.6 percent for general responsiveness, 89.7 percent for TNFi response and 85.7 percent for rituximab response.

The point of showing this particular plot is that «these particular data» do not show any correlation with fat intake as a % of calories and BMI.

The premise of a murder mystery with an unreliable narrator is well - trodden territory at this point (The Girl on the Train, In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and Sharp Objects all come to mind) but there were at least two moments where I let out an audible gasp over an unforeseen plot twist... so I guess I'm saying if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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Their fabricated stories occasionally dissolve into something much more honest; Jack, perhaps the most emotional of the brothers, is a short story writer, with suspiciously familiar plot points and characters he insists are fictitious (from the short, Hotel Chevalier, which accompanies the film at the festival, we know this is not true).

The problem I have with so much writing about screenwriting is that it is often only about structure (Syd Field's plot points; the Hero's Journey, etc) without a lot of understanding of the nuances of character, tone, et al involved.

Laden with lazy writing that drags out clichéd phrase after clichéd phrase — seriously, the line «you don't write, you don't call...» should be permanently retired from screenplays, especially if it's delivered between characters who hate each other — the story kind of plods along, checking off plots points from a list.

It's not quite the hatchet job many had predicted, but you're left at times unsatisfied with minor plot points: Post plane crash, Gerry and his bodyguard are the only survivors... Whilst fleeing zombies at Camp Humphreys, out of seven people he's the only one to survive... Much of the happenstance seems to be too unbelievable to work or be credible.

Alas, once we've had our fun with this particular plot point, we realize that the reason it stands out is because the rest of the movie just isn't that funny.

The plot trudges along weighed down not just by the stupidity of it all - half the plot points make no logical sense, like Lex Luthor supplying his henchmen with experimental military bullets - but by the apocalyptic self - seriousness of it all.

If you can not come up with a good answer then that means your plot point is lacking substance.

It's pretty normal «double agent» and «dirty fighting» plot points, but the details surrounding it make it feel very fresh — essentially, the series» use of magic and wands instead of normal tools (combined, of course, with a great cast, technically precise execution, and the audience's strong emotional attachment) dress up what would otherwise be cliche.

The Fall Part 2: Unbound brings back the point and click genre to a game with a captivating plot that features characters with distinct personalities and a series of puzzles that will make players wonder how they could not solve them before.

The acting level at this point, in conjunction with the terrible story line and plot points really take the cake.