Sentence examples for weak instalments from inspiring English sources

On the contrary, studios would be more likely to react to the absence of a critical safety valve by delivering increasingly weak instalments, just as they did in the era before the internet allowed negative buzz about a movie to spread like wildfire and ruin opening weekends.

They felt that "The Harrowing" was a weak instalment of Inside No. 9, giving it three out of five stars.

In terms of the Hunger Games series in the US and The Hobbit worldwide, both are, as they stand, the weakest instalments; both await a shot in the arm from belated Chinese releases.

The first two are weaker instalments in sagas which have seen better days, and Yorgos Lanthimos's avant-garde relationships satire felt to me more like a brilliantly realised, superbly acted short (extended way beyond its natural life span) than a fully formed feature film.

Unfortunately for Bale – and McG – Terminator Salvation turned out to be the weakest instalment yet in the long-running sci-fi saga created by James Cameron.

While last year's Mockingjay Part 1 was the weakest instalment of the saga so far, bereft of Arena action and with the exploration of the love triangle of Katniss, Peeta and Gale increasingly ponderous, part two promises the chance to see Donald Sutherland's President Snow finally get his comeuppance, along with the inevitable downfall of the uber-dandyish citizens of the Capitol.

I suspect that An Unexpected Journey is largely critic-proof in the same way that the middle two Pirates of the Caribbean movies continued to drive all before them at the box office despite the antipathy of reviewers and Spider-Man 3 remains the highest-grossing movie about Marvel's webslinger despite being by far the weakest instalment.

The first instalment is to be a $15 billion package mostly comprising an employment-tax proposal considerably weaker than the one touted by the president... Other instalments should follow.

The comic told US talk show host David Letterman in 2012 that the critical failure of 1989's Ghostbusters II had convinced him to steer clear of future instalments, and indicated the script he had seen for a proposed followup was weak.

Like the first instalment of Hotel Transylvania in 2012, this sequel about a retreat for famous monsters has triumphed despite weak reviews.

Weak, weak, weak, weak.