But the characters and dialogue are the stuff of comic strips and junk fiction.
While the multiplayer was interesting, it was the immersive story, the characters and dialogue that sold the game.
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His later films often spiraled away into an indecipherable landscape of half-baked dialogue, outlandish characters and cheesy sets.
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The movie feels loose and easy, but it has actually been designed with great rigor, with its matching pairs of characters and bits of echoed dialogue.
This is the second play for Flahive, a writer for Falco's Showtime show "Nurse Jackie, " and she proves a talent to watch, her characters deeply grounded and her dialogue profound without being flashy.
Ross is something of an indie Robert Altman, with his huge cast of characters and plaited strands of dialogue, and he has a sharp and comic eye for intimacy, domesticity, and practicality: daily routines when nothing is happening have the moment of high drama, and an egg in the refrigerator, a broken waffle iron, and a handful of change virtually come to life.
Gizmodo calls the shows characters failed actors instead entrepreneurs and mocks their dialogue.
"I hope nobody is shocked to learn that I also made up dialogue and imagined encounters and invented characters, " he added.
If you don't expect a lot from it, sit back and enjoy the dialogue, the good-looking characters and the special effects, you should have a good time.
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In the three movies, the acting is so natural and persuasive that many fans think that the lines between the characters and the actors blur or that the dialogue is improvised.
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The storyline occurs years after Anakin Skywalker won his race in "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, " but many of the characters are still around and add some great dialogue in between races.
But here as always, Ms. Herzog uses her well-tuned ear for dialogue to reveal the personalities of her characters, and it doesn't take long to figure out that for all their glib chitter-chatter, Abby and Zack (even their names are right) are pitifully unequal to the harsh challenges of adulthood.
The characters are unglamorously, unforgivingly, all-too-realistically drawn through deft description and revealing dialogue.
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