Sentences with phrase «about nostalgia as»

These Planes are as much about nostalgia as they are about the future.

The reason I talk about nostalgia as it is one of the major reasons why so many people hold Zelda in such high regard and why people are so defensive of their favourite.

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All they can offer is nostalgia for simpler days, some deprecatory remarks about our 24 - hour news cycle, and a forlorn endorsement of shorter memos for the President (the demand for which was, as I recall, widely regarded by critics as a symptom of intellectual vacuity in the Reagan Adminstration).

So many questions, but we don't get to choose the word of the year (The runner - up is «nostalgia» which also seems just about as old as time itself, but at least it's entered sort of a boom season, so that makes a little more sense).

i read your post as more a story about life, nostalgia and relationships than about food, of course the pizza is what tied it all together.

Great to read Amy's take on the movie, i have read her book about the invincibles as well and it made you feel wonderful, this movie i am certain brings in wonderful memories and a lot of nostalgia.

I didn't grow up with that and so I don't feel the same nostalgia as you do about cupcakes in school.

I was a teenager, but I will never forget the soft look of nostalgia as she talked about breastfeeding her 6 babies.

The so - called British Batteaxe went back in time with former home secretary Alan Johnson, who has just published his memoirs, and Michael Portillo who admitted he makes a living out of nostalgia as he spoke about heritage railways.

So instead of fixating on the past and getting lost in either nostalgia or bitterness, move quickly from discussing the details of your dating past into talking about how that past has impacted your growth as a man and as a relationship partner.

Everyone in Nostalgia speaks as if they have been engrossed in an online philosophy seminar for about a month before we meet them.

There's a lot to like about Rad Rodgers as it's a well - made platforming shooter fueled by»90s nostalgia.

Though it's inescapable, it's maybe right to feel uncomfortable about this, especially as the process of strip - mining our nostalgia gets deeper and more desperate.

Worthplaying has a nice preview about the game, focusing on the nostalgia factor, as well as the relatively simple gameplay.

Whether it's adherence to Ms. Barber's facts (whose faithfully - told story can be read here) or an overreliance on period nostalgia (which surprisingly keeps pop culture out of sight), something about this didn't resonate for me quite as it did for many viewers and award voters.

While moments, particularly the resolution to that seemingly throwaway subplot about the dead friend, can be moving despite their dissonance (a Farrelly hallmark), they're always cursory to the central duo, who are unrepentant in their squandering of years on foolish pranks, openly hostile towards reflections of their age (e.g., Fraida), and insulated from harsh reality by not only their wilful ignorance, but a perpetual fog of nostalgia as well.

While Jarmusch mostly described it as a romance during the NYFF Q&A, that feels like only one facet of a layered film that says so much about culture and its erosion, idols, nostalgia, civilization's decline, and art.

In fact, the most interesting thing about Spaceballs circa 2005 is that what was once spectacularly stale — by the time it came out, the first wave of Star Wars mania had passed — now elicits nostalgia for a Star Wars saga that was so classical and (visually / narratively / allegorically) uncluttered as to lend itself to burlesque.

Since leaving the studio fold a decade ago, Miller and his screenwriter / producer wife, Jody Savin, have turned out a string of modestly budgeted indies with name casts and solid production values but no real personality, the best of which, 2008's «Bottle Shock,» was another (heavily fictionalized) slice of «70s nostalgia about Napa Valley's emergence as a world - class wine producer.

As that film continues its run across the country, Davies spoke with novelist Steve Erickson about the film, how he creates the textures of a period piece, and his nostalgia for his childhood for an interview just published at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Poorly acted, barely scripted, and about as embarrassing for the cast that worked on it as it is to the viewers watching, Over the Top merely exists today as fodder for 80s nostalgia and little else.

Moretz stars as the young actress that's been cast in the role that made Binoche's character famous, and Stewart plays Binoche's assistant in this movie about age, nostalgia, and art imitating life (read our review).

Some see this version of the story as a psychological thriller about an aging spy in a changing world (and some find Brandauer's Largo to be complex and sensitive; I merely find him bland and tiresome), but there's really nothing to the damned thing beyond a dusty, misguided nostalgia attempting to resurrect Connery's glory days.

There's clearly a measure of nostalgia involved here as the now 55 - year - old Linklater goes back to 1980 — just about the time he was at university — to eavesdrop on a houseful of college baseball jocks as they prepare for the start of term.

More New Releases: «In the Fade,» starring Diane Kruger as a woman seeking vengeance for the death of her husband and son after a bomb attack; «Nostalgia,» a mosaic of stories about love and loss, exploring our relationship to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives, starring Jon Hamm, Catherine Keener, John Ortiz, Nick Offerman, James Le Gros, and Bruce Dern; and «Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell,» with Michael Gross once again returning as Burt Gummer and combating Graboids and Ass - Blasters.

Much of this music is still too pervasive to qualify as nostalgia, and in some respects, the story is really about the first steps toward rock radio's commercial homogenization.

As much as Before Sunrise was about a blossoming romance, Before Sunset is about a romance that might or might not be over, that's still looking back at a moment frozen in time, and is full of nostalgia, pain and regreAs much as Before Sunrise was about a blossoming romance, Before Sunset is about a romance that might or might not be over, that's still looking back at a moment frozen in time, and is full of nostalgia, pain and regreas Before Sunrise was about a blossoming romance, Before Sunset is about a romance that might or might not be over, that's still looking back at a moment frozen in time, and is full of nostalgia, pain and regret.

You could say the same thing about nostalgia, whether it's the kind of»80s name - checking that Spielberg and Cline are doing in «Ready Player One» or the kind that politicians and advertisers do when they encourage their audiences to remember the good ole days - comforting if you don't think too hard and, as corporations and film studios well know, monetizable.

Well, that same premise seems to be applied to The Kids Are Alright, a new show about a very crowded family with the same nostalgia - tinged take as The Wonder Years.

As I say in my video review (click the link above to watch), Nostalgia opens with an insurance assessor (John Ortiz) analyzing the value of a grandfather's (Bruce Dern) lifetime of artifacts, spurred by his granddaughter's questions about their monetary value.

There is a tendency nowadays to hark back with nostalgia to the mythical good old days, usually imagined as about forty or fifty years ago.

There's a whiff of nostalgia about the Elise as John Barker explains: «There's a wonderfully retro feel about this Elise, in all the right ways.

Publisher's Weekly even noted a kind of nostalgia in his book for the early days of Amazon, as Marcus writes about their warehouse across from the world headquarters of Starbucks and the exhiliaration they seemed to feel.

Everything about this place has a powerful nostalgia to it but nothing comes across as kitsch.

Why I love this place — It definitely holds a fair bit of nostalgia for me: travelling is as much about the feelings you associate with a place and the people you meet as the destination itself.

Fighter management sim with RPG and tycoon elements Find out who killed your father, and maybe learn something about yourself along the way Heavily story - driven, with multiple different narrative branches and game endings to discover Get as deep with stats as you like, and find your own way through extensive skill trees Gorgeous pixel visuals with 80 - 90s references and nostalgia all over the place

I think it's fair to say that early 3D shooters have aged about as well a pot of week - old yogurt in a greenhouse on a hot day, so the driving force behind sales is likely going to be nostalgia, alongside the novelty value of having it in your library.

But there is something about the aesthetics of the packaging that really warms the heart in the old SEGA Nerd, bringing back the nostalgia factor and the days of buying (or receiving) new SEGA games as a kid.

As important as remembering the effect nostalgia will take on the collection's review is, it is equally important to talk about some of the other features found in Rare ReplaAs important as remembering the effect nostalgia will take on the collection's review is, it is equally important to talk about some of the other features found in Rare Replaas remembering the effect nostalgia will take on the collection's review is, it is equally important to talk about some of the other features found in Rare Replay.

Galerians might not be a pretty and realistic - looking as I remember, but everything else about the game definitely lives up to the nostalgia - fueled memories I have of the game.

The featured works in the exhibition — ranging from painting and sculpture to photography, film and installation — examine the passage of time by alluding to nostalgia or sentiments about aging, often depicting specific places in states of decay; these works can act as documentation, memorial or symbol.

Her current show and recent films — about decay, beauty and nostalgia — mark her out as one of the best of her generation argues Brian Dillon

Andersson describes the work as not being about «nostalgia or memories, but of decline and desolation».

He looks to objects, such as these mirrors, as stored memories about life in a consumer society and as sources of nostalgia, encouraging «comfort with one's own mental chaos.»

As New Yorkers had already experienced a heavy winter Susanna describes the inspiration for this body of work: «Snow, and weather, can be a story about sensory experience, cultural expectations, nostalgia, and disappointment.».

And in fact, it's not hard to see the painting collected here, and the broader painting universe from which it's drawn, partly as an expression of some nostalgia about earlier eras, when experiments with form seemed to offer something like truly radical content.

Snow's art is about recent memory and nostalgia as he attempts to capture and remember his debaucherous escapades the morning after.

The copies are smudged and almost illegible, and the reference to books by Benjamin such as The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction aligns the work squarely with recent artistic projects dealing with Google Books» scanning process, which touch on issues like the nostalgia for paperbound books on one hand, and concerns about mass digitization on the other.

Skeptical of the national mood of celebration and nostalgia, Andrews worried about whether the voices of contemporary African Americans would be included as part of the planning.

Part of that is nostalgia, I think, for a pre-digital age; but you can't argue with the number of accomplished architects who talk about playing with Legos or wooden blocks as a formative experience.