For example, our technology has to take this great action game, fuse it with a richly simulated world that we fill with unique player characters, each with their own history and unique abilities and characteristics.
The filmmakers got so caught up in the look they wanted to achieve that they forgot something essential: comic-book characters need fleshing out to fill a hundred-and-ten-minute movie.
The premise of "Hardbody, " most of whose characters are required to stand in one place most of the time, makes it too physically static to fill the space of a Broadway stage.