Sentences with phrase «almost parody»

Kaid says «It's almost a parody of how things can go wrong when we insist on having a nation of essentially unwalkable schools.»

The «New Super» style is getting very old and is almost a parody of itself when referred to as «new».

However, this actually works in the game's favor, as it tends to emphasize its own self - awareness of being a simplified, almost parody of this well - tread genre.

Lover for a Day seems at times almost a parody of Garrel's work, a throwback to a time when a filmmaker's artistry or hubris often excused, for many viewers, melodramatic characterizations of women, who in this kind of thing all too often threaten suicide or erratically burst into tears.

He did All Star Batman which was almost a parody of itself with everyone joking about the «Goddamn Batman».

The actors are first class as they interpret what's there; trouble is that what's there — the story — becomes almost a parody of earlier, sturdier «Masterpiece Theatre» fare.

and diversions from the truth it soon becomes almost a parody of film noir.

The actors are first class as they interpret what's there; trouble is that what's there - the story - becomes almost a parody of earlier, sturdier Masterpiece Theatre fare.

Brett Haley's romantic drama The Hero finds Elliott playing almost a parody of this kind of lonesome cowboy.

The 33 - year - old's career has fizzled out into almost parody in recent years and recently littered with controversy with the former international only just being cleared by Brazilian prosecutors of having links to a Rio drug lord.

At this point in time, I get the sense that one version of «masculinity» in men's ministry has grown to the point that it's almost a parody of itself.

However, he is only able to formulate a biblical theology by a process of transforming the cosmic and transcendent dimensions of the New Testament message into an existential anthropology (supposedly borrowed from Heidegger's Sein und Zeit, but Bultmann's categories are almost a parody of Heidegger's).

Not exact matches

Anyone familiar with the more intellectual forms of pop criticism (whether of music or film) will recognize it as a parody of the Rolling Stone critic — a parody so good that, for a moment, one is almost convinced the piece is the real thing:

But again and again you parody the «bad guys», while at the same time you use almost the same vision - casting methods.)

It now sounds almost like parody, but it was deadly serious in 1990: People were being robbed or even murdered for their trendy sneakers.

It's almost as funny as Slate's take on Barack Obama's Facebook news feed, their typically brilliant parody of the political zeigeist.

And let's not forget Tory MP Nick Boles, who is doubtless still trying to get his head round the popularity of his bizarre, parody alter - ego @GeneralBoles, who has almost as many followers as he does.

He tries to compose his usual wide shots, but it's as if his efforts are faltering in the chaos; it's almost a brilliant parody of a robbery scene.

All told, the game's atmosphere is so bad I'd almost be tempted to suspect this game was a parody, if the gameplay wasn't also bad enough to match.

The sentimentality is so thick at times that it almost seems to parody itself.

... the script is almost too tongue - in - cheek for its own good, but Sommers» thrill a minute cliffhanger is a tribute, a parody, and a high energy period adventure all in one.

Cardinal often pulls from years of cop show clichés in ways that almost approach parody.

The conclusion is so rushed it almost functions as parody.

You could almost imagine the two films, or at least their heroes, figuring in the kind of good - natured, racial - stereotype humor that used to be a staple of stand - up comedy (and was memorably parodied on «The Simpsons»): «white guys abolish slavery like this» (pass constitutional amendment); «but black guys, they abolish slavery like this» (blow up plantation).

With Joseph Gordon - Levitt doing a Pepe Le Pew accent as Petit, it's almost as if Zemeckis is trying to parody his own story.

The hyper - conservative agenda in this film is so pronounced that it almost renders parodies like Team America: World Police redundant.

Renny Harlin's follow - up is undeniably fun, but plays almost more like a parody of the franchise, even more so than it did in 1990.

It delivers some amusement when Black and Cera step into their signature personas, which they do enough to almost give the film a feeling of self - parody.

This scenario is serious almost to the point of silliness: It could be parody of a morality play.

But the story is so simple that it's almost unnecessarily long just for the sake of feeling epic, and it's tonally uneven as well, due in part to a few scenes that stray close to parody and some cameos (from Franco Nero, Jonah Hill and Tarantino himself) that are too cheeky for their own good.

Leslie Bohem's script is almost self - parody, but director Roger Donaldson keeps a straight face throughout.

It's almost as if this film is a Bond parody, ahead of its time in some places (the Anglo - Russian affair in this film predates the Spy Who Loved Me by a year).

What could have been simplistic self - parody becomes a genuinely, almost confusingly terrific performance.

The Lady From Shanghai — Orson Welles's craziest film appropriately ends in a funhouse Hall Of Mirrors, as that's exactly what it does to the film noir genre: twist and distort and exaggerate it almost to the point of parody at the very peak of its popularity.

It almost felt like a stand - alone movie, and it embraced the space - opera origins it parodied.

A purported Blue Velvet parody concentrates on the very idea of David Lynch's career as one great big indiscernible mindfuck (making detours through Dune, The Elephant Man, and «Twin Peaks»), while a goof on Dogville focuses almost exclusively on that film's chalk - outline backdrop.

The denouement becomes wildly ridiculous as well — to the point where it almost felt like a horror parody to me at times.

And I hated Harrison Ford in the role of Rickey, as Ford plays him way over the top, almost making it a parody of the man who changed baseball.

Everything here borders on parody without quite crossing the line (although March's goofiness almost pushes it there — not in a bad way).

The Hollars hits all the notes you expect so frequently, it almost feels like a parody of this kind of Sundance standard.

The premise sounds easily dismissible, almost like knowingly preposterous groundwork for parody.

So full of self - aware speechifying, howlingly bad verbal pissing contests, and audacious bulls ** t plotting that it almost flies as a parody of itself.

All these parallels remarkably do not hinder Sky High, which really plays its setting for laughs while avoiding parody almost altogether.

Some movies in MCU like Guardians of the Galaxy are so funny that they almost seem self - parodies.

The home movie spoofs are almost always a riot, and Greg's arguably unhealthy young obsession with Werner Herzog is a constant delight (they go as far as to parody Burden of Dreams, the documentary about the making of Fitzcarraldo).

And the dialogue itself — the thing Crowe made his name on in his great, early films «Say Anything...,» «Jerry Maguire» and «Almost Famous» — so frequently strains for his signature poignancy that it feels like a parody of a Crowe script.

In fact, it almost plays like a parody at times — something you'd see in a show within a show that mocks bad TV.

It seemed like Bay was trying to poke fun at his previous films as this almost felt like a bit of a parody of what he normally does.

Once again reaching out to almost every celebrity he can — Billy Crudup, Zooey Deschanel, Rami Malek, Alex Karpovsky, Andrew Rannells, Jay Duplass, and even Rosie Perez — the parody sequel takes audiences into a world where the issues of the day are locally sourced ingredients, eco-consciousness, thrift store wears, and there are plenty of beards to be found as well.

It's an absurdist self - parodying film about the French, adapted by an American, directed by a Dutchman, produced by a Tunisian (who also did Aquarius), that is almost Wildean in its caricatures, possibly inventing some brand new French clichés along the way.