Sentences with phrase «as escapist»

In this respect, it is essential that the «virtual» be seen not simply as an escapist technology promoted by Silicon Valley, but reclaimed as a metaphor or proposition to navigate lived sociopolitical experience.

Many AAA games serve as escapist power fantasies, where the player is ultimately able to dominate the game's universe — right up until the game ends.

This is reality as escapist fantasy (it is Florida, after all), and this is what lingers, as the camera lingers on one last escape.

It makes me wonder whether Scorsese wouldn't have rather gotten rid of the kiddie stuff altogether and focused only on the more grown - up geeky side of it all... except that movie couldn't have been marketed as an escapist holiday treat for families.

As an escapist adventure, it's pretty to look at all of the scenic mountains and vistas.

Arrival, with its handwringing worthiness and easy answers, certainly meets these criteria as escapist balm for the masses, but this analysis ignores the fact that M Night Shyamalan's 2002 film Signs is not just a superior film about alien invasion (funnier, darker, more cinematic), but also a stronger allegory for the apocalyptic fever that has gripped America and, by extension, the world.

Ultimately, Solo: A Star Wars Story depends on — and just manages to work as an escapist romp because of — its legacy characters.

So while the ending may be battle - worn (mirroring Hollywood comedy Role Models which had megabucks thrown at it), nobody could quarrel that as escapist nonsense goes, there's nothing faint - hearted about it.

After this film, how can we demand movies that present murder as escapist entertainment and still sleep at night?

Even the chapter looking at the Promise Keepers and the Nation of Islam tends to portray those movements as the escapist activities of people whose energies would be better spent on progressive political causes.

Team17 is well know for many of their published franchises such as the Escapists, Overcooked, Yooka - Laylee, and more.

Plus, it's published by the same team as The Escapists, Overcooked and Worms WMD, so you know they've got a good reputation behind them.

Not exact matches

Could sane people really study the records of such men as Paul and Luke, and say that theirs was an escapist religion?

Being Lutherans, people who believe that God rules in his left - hand temporal kingdom (through justice) as well as in his right - hand kingdom of eternity (through love), we were not truly escapists, quietists, or non-participants.

Even in our current age of streaming the latest movies in our living rooms, summer is still seen as the prime season for escapist blockbusters.

Perhaps we should coin a new, better word to describe those people, such as «realists» VS «escapists» (religious people).

When we talk with biblical precision about the resurrection, we discover an excellent foundation for lively and creative Christian work in the present world — not, as some suppose, for an escapist or quietist piety.

So I dismissed my snag as the peculiar problem of an escapist parson.

Such escapist movements are quite intelligible whenever history is seen as bereft of a fulfilling future.

The Director of Communications and Audience Engagement will work closely with the CEO to create, curate, and market an expansive collection of film clips (full episodes and movies as well as short clips) focused on bringing light escapist pleasure to the (mostly female) masses.

Newcastle is in many ways at a lower ebb than it was back then — before the consequences of the credit crunch and years of Tory government had really been felt — and, as I noted in that October article, is «in desperate need of the sense of community and belonging, the civic pride and identity, the feelgood factor and escapist pleasure, the solace and succour that the city's football club can potentially provide».

I never wanted to write about potty training as, quite frankly, motherhood involves being covered in enough of other people's bodily fluids in real life as it is *, so in your precious moments of down - time you probably want to read something glossy and escapist, not mumsy and ever - so - slightly icky.

As a long standing seeker of knowledge in vast fields, and also as a soldier who had committed time to study wars and had tough combat experience in foreign wars, I don't belong to the present Biafra mindset — a sort of escapist daily vocatioAs a long standing seeker of knowledge in vast fields, and also as a soldier who had committed time to study wars and had tough combat experience in foreign wars, I don't belong to the present Biafra mindset — a sort of escapist daily vocatioas a soldier who had committed time to study wars and had tough combat experience in foreign wars, I don't belong to the present Biafra mindset — a sort of escapist daily vocation.

If the posh elite kept to their historical role as the quasi-comic figures of escapist dramas and not running the country, we would all be better off.

But if games challenge the mind as much as this new research suggests, why do people in search of escapist entertainment find them so captivating?

As for the cannabis (shrug) people will always demand recreational / escapist substances even if it means going hungry and poor.

A fun, effects - filled, escapist adventure, with several clever notions: Medusa sells garden statuary as a cover, and the Parthenon in Nashville is home to a hydra.

It's an escapist fantasy film that more or less works as solid spectacle entertainment.

Returning as the same character the following year in the appropriately titled The Scorpion King, Johnson did little to enhance his reputation of a trained thespian, though he did get the summer film season off to a rousing start for audiences hungering for some energetic escapist fun.

In subsequent years, the thespian played Willoughby in John Alexander's U.K. television miniseries Sense and Sensibility (2008), adapted from the novel by Jane Austen; cut against type as an imprisoned white - collar criminal in the Wyatt Brothers» thriller The Escapist (2008); and essayed a supporting role as Sky, Sophie's (Amanda Seyfried) fiancé, in Phyllida Lloyd's big - screen ABBA musical Mamma Mia!

It's just one example of how «Django Unchained» is one of those films that works on multiple levels, either as pure escapist entertainment or as something deeper.

It's handsome, large - scale escapist fare - and has as its costar the formidable, versatile Kristin Scott Thomas.

Sprinkled with little personality bits here and there (Tallahassee's mad quest for an ever - elusive Twinkie, Columbus's crippling fear of clowns, etc.), Zombieland doesn't break any new ground in the horror genre so much as make for a strong dose of escapist fun for knowing fans of the films.

And the fantasy sequences in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty — which stars Stiller as a Life magazine photo editor with escapist daydreams — yield some of its funniest moments.

Hellboy makes for some fun escapist entertainment for fans of the the darker comic style films, such as Men in Black, X-Men, and Blade.

In conflict with the popular wag that people are stupider now than they've ever been, the excrescent original was also defended as good old - fashioned escapist fare.

I remember Jim Sterling of The Escapist ranting about Dark Souls II as an example where the gaming industry attempts to «appeal to a wider audience» or «widen the net» for an already well - made game with a dedicated niche audience (Dark Souls): http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/7340-Guns-Blazing And here we are with one of the same guys saying Dark Souls II is not for Wii U owners?

Ignoring the absurd idea that somehow the Korean resistance to the Japanese was a key to the winning of the war (which the film explicitly states at one point), the creation of noble resistance heroes (even when sometimes compromised) versus the evil Japanese villain is pure escapist nonsense that passes itself off as realism instead of the Tarantino-esque fantasy it actually is.

Escapism often gets a bad rap, especially when it's combined with the word «entertainment» (as in «escapist entertainment»).

I don't need to tell you why that's disconcerting, but it also means maybe the best reason to see Rules Don't Apply is that it is the very definition of escapist cinema: It will make you feel as if everything could be all right.

While horror movies often get shuffled into the «escapist entertainment» corner, a way to escape the world and just let your inner animal hoot and holler at blood and guts for 90 minutes, there are few genres as ready, willing, and effective at actually reflecting our real - world fears and anxieties.

As a result, Sony took down both titles to fix the issue and according to The Escapist, both the aforementioned games are back and available for download.

Strengths: In the post - «La La Land» landscape, Fox is betting there's escapist interest in Hugh Jackman in a showy role as P.T. Barnum in what is truly his avocation: an all - out singing and dancing musical.

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (G) Natalie Portman stars in this escapist fantasy as the insecure manager of a magical toy store who inherits the business from her 243 year - old boss (Dustin Hoffman) and then realizes that she has the right stuff to run the place with the help of his accountant (Jason Bateman) and a precocious kid (Zach Mills).

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 23, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS August Rush (PG for slight violence, mild profanity and mature themes) Freddie Highmore stars as the title character in this escapist fantasy about a promising musical prodigy who runs away from an orphanage to New York City to find his parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers) only to end up living with a Fagin - like wizard (Robin Williams) and lots of other kids in a makeshift shelter in an abandoned theater which was once the Fillmore East.

The Golden Compass (PG - 13 for fantasy violence) Epic escapist fantasy, based on Philip Pullman's award - winning novel, about a precocious 12 year - old scholar (Dakota Blue Richards) already attending Oxford who ventures into a parallel universe to save her best friend and other children kidnapped by an evil organization known as the Gobblers.

It's a PG - rated film, so nothing gory or truly abhorrent occurs, and you never truly sense that anyone is in real danger for even a moment, which makes it suitable all but the most squeamish of children as a mildly scary and generally amusing escapist adventure.

It's far from the best this material could produce, but it's successful on its own terms as period escapist entertainment.

As both thrilling spectacle and escapist summer entertainment, «World War Z» is enormously effective, with Brad Pitt at the center hopscotching the globe in search of the origin of a zombie apocalypse.

It's escapist fun that proves both exciting and engaging, even as the movie evolves from an Ocean's Eleven - style caper into a more routine cat - and - mouse chase.