Sentences with phrase «80s pop culture»

Let's hope you don't need to memorize obscure «80s pop culture references to enjoy it.

It's quirky and neat, whilst the constant 80s pop culture references kept a smile on my face from start to end.

Also launching today is Saturday Morning RPG, a turn - based RPG that was inspired by 80s pop culture.

However, when the creator of that world dies, a generation competes to solve the mysteries he left behind that are worth billions — mysteries only solved by an encyclopedic knowledge of «80s pop culture... including Spielberg's own movies.

Many gyrated over the book's overindulgent references to 80s pop culture, from coin - op arcade games to deeply engrained new wave synthpop cuts to the nerdcore iconography of John Hughes films.

Ready Player One author Ernest Cline is a big fan of references to «80s pop culture, but it turns out that he's also a big fan of striking while the iron is hot — or whatever the «80s reference equivalent of that old saying is.

While the first Deadpool relied heavily on 80s pop culture music, including George Michael's Careless Whisper and You're the Inspiration by Chicago, the sequel instead brought out heavy - hitter Celine Dion with her new power ballad Ashes, played during the movie's opening credits.

The world of the OASIS in the book focused solely on 80s pop culture, but here director Steven Spielberg, along with the novelist Ernest Cline, recreate the world to serve modern nerd culture instead.

The problem is, Ready Player One hamstrings itself by emphasizing Wade's exhaustive knowledge of 80s pop culture, mastery of which is the key to following the Oasis» clues, instead of lending him any sort of empathic motivation.

hamstrings itself by emphasizing Wade's exhaustive knowledge of 80s pop culture, mastery of which is the key to following the Oasis» clues, instead of lending him any sort of empathic motivation.

Not exact matches

If you believe pop culture, the top of the business world might seem something like the 80s movie Wall Street — competition is fierce, rivalries are plenty, and greed is good.

In terms of pop culture, the «80s were all about the surface identity.

He draws his inspiration from the 80's culture with, on the one hand, SF and Horror movies (Blade Runner, Halloween, The Thing), and on the other, the 70's with the italian Giallos of Dario Argento and the dark era of pop - occult culture that ensues.

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To anyone new to Stranger Things Imagine ET, Aliens, The Goonies, The Thing, IT and many other 80's -90's Science Fiction / Horror films books mixed together that was infused of so many pop culture references from the same time that they become hard to keep track of at times well THAT is pretty much Stranger Things in a Nutshell!

The film is very much of its time, trying desperately for «cult» credibility as it is by casting Lemmy, Iggy Pop and that bloke from Fields Of The Nephilim in cameo roles; it also sports a soundtrack by Goth - punk rockers The Ministry and contains the inevitable fractal imagery and pretentions towards artiness that were peculiar to post 80s popular culture.

Meanwhile we've got 80's pop - culture musical references and genuine film / musical moments when a character breaks out into song.

Most egregious are the lame pop culture references, with endless quoting of iconic 80s movies.

The writers dropped a couple of references to «Airwolf» and «CHiPS,» and the feedback must've been encouraging, because since then, the references to 80's and early 90's pop culture have not only multiplied, but become increasingly esoteric.

And just as American pop culture was packed with fervent anti-communist messages during the «80s, Comrade Detective is meant to (ironically) glorify the Soviet Union and vilify the dirty capitalist pigs in the west.

In a dystopian future where everyone plays video games and makes references to «80s pop - culture, only one man can be the best at video games and «80s pop - culture references.

The first film to feature pop culture icon Hannibal Lecter (here called Dr. Lecktor), Michael Mann «s Manhunter (which shoulda been called Mannhunter) is very 80s and very inferior to the award winning installation, Silence of the Lambs, that came on its heels a decade later.

This movie will play differently depending on audience's recall (or tolerance) level of pop culture characters and media from the 80's and 90's.

More of Ryan Reynolds breaking the fourth wall as Wade Wilson aka Deadpool whose superpower is, as he describes it, «unbridled cancer»; More overt and covert pop culture references; More melodramatic 80s music; More opening credit gags and CGI extravaganzas.

Little kids might be hunting for real Easter eggs in the park this weekend, but those who are old enough to have a penchant for 80's pop culture won't have any trouble finding figurative Easter eggs in Ready Player One.

There are three keys that unlock clues and lead to the egg, but knowledge of Halliday's favorite subjects of film, computer games, and general pop culture of the 1970s and 80s are essential to solving his riddles.

Each set piece and the next is a hyperstimulation of 80's nostalgia and prized pop culture in a blink - or - you'll definitely - miss - it fashion designed to make viewers puke glitter or roll their heads over.

It is a tremendous tribute to the pop - culture of the 80s, but very well researched and a lot of fun.

Virtual reality, gaming geekery, and 80's pop culture combined to make this book an instant classic for science fiction fans.

It's easily argued that the 80s were one of the best decades in terms of entertainment and pop culture.

Brought to you in 16 - bit pixelated glory, chock - full of references to not only gaming but also 80's and 90's pop culture.

The game features 80s horror pop culture staples seen in movies such as Poltergeist and the filmography of Stanely Kubrick.

Brought to you in all pixelated -16-bit-esque glory, full of references to not only gaming, but all of the pop culture from the 80's and 90's, better yet - with the mechanics of modern era gaming.

It was also revealed that I will be producing Jason's next album which will focus on ALL rock / symphony / electronic recreations of the GREATEST pop - culture hits of the 80's & 90's!

The 80's Game with Martha Quinn will bring out your inner 80's persona as you answer tough pop - culture questions vying for the top score.

Mix this quirky concept with a variety of little side stories that lead up to showdowns with Commander Hood as well as an absolute ton of 80s pop - culture references (believe me — 80s kids are going to be smiling throughout), and that's Saturday Morning RPG in a nutshell.

Brought to you 16 - bit pixelated glory, full of references to not only gaming, but also 80's and 90's pop culture.

The story is based around 80's pop culture with references to some of our all - time favorite classic NES titles and movies from the days of big hair.

Again, there is no shortage of 80's pop culture here as there are Star Wars, Home Alone, and Transformers - inspired episodes.

For fans of 80's pop culture, and adults in their 30's -40's alike, this game will provide a real treat.

The way in which Anne Collier skilfully re-photographs existing images of American pop culture from the 1960s, 70s and 80s using a large - format plate camera is similarly intriguing.

The artist helped set the stage for 80's appropriation art by recycling the pop culture appropriations of Pop Apop culture appropriations of Pop APop Art.

Cindy Sherman established her reputation — and a novel brand of uncanny self - portraiture — with her «Untitled Film Stills» (1977 - 80), a series of 69 photographs of the artist herself enacting female clichés of 20th - century pop culture.

Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc TuymPop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc TuymPop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc TuymPop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc TuymPop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuympop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans

This exhibition presents Warhol's book work, from early student - work illustrations of the late 1940s, through to his careers as a commercial artist in the 1950s, Pop fine artist and underground filmmaker in the 1960s, and photographer and Pop culture icon of the 1970s — 80s.

Taking its title from the dark 80s teen cult comedy by the same name, Heathers takes a look at pop culture's (and pop cinema's) co-option of contemporary art and its «impulse to vampirise levity as a cipher for criticality and de-subjectivisation».

In any case, this is the first documented example of appropriation in art history even though the name wasn't in common use until the 80s, when it was referred to artists like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg who appropriated images from commercial art and pop culture and, in the case of Sherrie Levine, even appropriated themselves into art.