Sentences with phrase «as pure entertainment»

Approached as pure entertainment, games can evolve into unexpected experiences with both a lighter and a darker side, subtle shifts in expectation relative to outcome.

Do we take the bad dialogue, budget production design and ropey acting as pure entertainment?

Of course, readers want an emotional coupling with the story and the characters, but we authors should learn to push the nonfiction informational aspects in our novels that would add to a reader's knowledge as well as the pure entertainment of reading our novel.

Young people see books as pure entertainment, and in that category they can not compete with modern gadgets, said Kupriyanov.

Taken as pure entertainment, it fits the bill, and even if the jokes aren't always side - splitting, there are many smiles to be had from the zany performances of Wilder and Pryor.

Runaway Jury should be seen as pure entertainment if you want to fully enjoy it, as any argument as to its legitimacy just won't hold water.

as pure entertainment.

Instead, it falls short as both pure entertainment and as social commentary.

There isn't much to recommend Wasabi except for the offbeat mix of over-the-top humor and overly stylized action, and taken as a pure entertainment kind of film, it'll please most audiences who like French action - comedies.

A classic - whether you see it as pure entertainment or as something deeper.

If you've been with these films for the past a decade and a half, you will appreciate how writers Jeff Nathanson and Terry Rossio and directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg craft and execute the final hour, allowing «Pirates» to end as it began, as pure entertainment, providing the proper send - off the series so deserves.

As pure entertainment, it also constantly delivers, in no small part thanks to the supporting performances by Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon - Levitt, Tom Hardy and Dileep Rao, who play the various members of Cobb's team.

While this is a fine, if uneven album, the only way to enjoy a significant portion of it is by taking it as pure entertainment.

Not exact matches

Since Inc.'s world eschews flash, pure entertainment, and publicity in favor of thoughtfulness and helping others entrepreneurially, you'll be forgiven if you don't know our community's internet influencers quite as well.

There are other examples of speculation such as some European junk bonds trading at yields so low that no company should ever have to suffer the indignity of bankruptcy but for pure entertainment value you can't beat Jesus coin.

The Roman Coliseums back then were as Ampitheaters which did parlay toward the public's wants and desires to see people being murdered and / or killed for pure entertainments» sake, satisfying the Romans needs to be enlightened and / or emotionally stimulated, giving them something to later talk about after seeing someone die and / or maimed.

But when we run into those like yourselves it is truly pure entertainment as you spiral into a vortex of pain and insanity.

As a whole, the film may not provide as many laughs or pure entertainment value as the Pixar gems we're spoiled with every Summer, but Ponyo delivers a unique departure nonetheless, giving a bit of cultural perspective, and a providing nice throwback to the glory days of animatioAs a whole, the film may not provide as many laughs or pure entertainment value as the Pixar gems we're spoiled with every Summer, but Ponyo delivers a unique departure nonetheless, giving a bit of cultural perspective, and a providing nice throwback to the glory days of animatioas many laughs or pure entertainment value as the Pixar gems we're spoiled with every Summer, but Ponyo delivers a unique departure nonetheless, giving a bit of cultural perspective, and a providing nice throwback to the glory days of animatioas the Pixar gems we're spoiled with every Summer, but Ponyo delivers a unique departure nonetheless, giving a bit of cultural perspective, and a providing nice throwback to the glory days of animation.

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.

Djimon Hounsou arrives at the premiere of Paramount Pictures and Pure Flix Entertainment's «Same Kind Of Different As Me» at Westwood Village Theatre on October 12, 2017 in Westwood, California.

Actor Djimon Hounsou attends the premiere of Paramount Pictures and Pure Film Entertainment's «Same Kind Of Different As Me» at Westwood Village Theatre on October 12, 2017 in Westwood, California.

But on a pure pop level, as a piece of big - time mainstream entertainment, let us also celebrate this:

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Hailed as «a crazy, stunt - filled action spectacular» (Scott Mendelson, Forbes) and «a shot of pure adrenaline» (Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly), xXx: RETURN OF XANDER CAGE x-plodes on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack, Blu - ray Combo Pack, DVD and On Demand May 16, 2017 from Paramount Home Media Distribution.

It's the kind of work that can be better appreciated as an important chapter in history than pure entertainment, but French New Wave fans owe it to themselves to pick it up.

As pure pulpy popcorn picturesque entertainment goes, it's a harmless romp.

That's a crazy plot, totally absurd but obviously designed as pure summer movie entertainment.

From the visually compelling opening credits, to the action - packed ending, The Kingdom may have certain flaws in terms of its simplification of complex world events, but taken as a pure piece of entertainment, it is certainly more efficient and intellectually stimulating than most actioners of its ilk.

If you seek pure, unadulterated entertainment that won't require much brainpower as it cools down from the intense heat outside, Step Up 3D is your safest bet.

Because of her, and with her, I am able — by moments — to move out of my own natural larval state and experience movies not just as deliverers of entertainment, conveyors of meaning, or objects of aesthetic contemplation, but as pure fields of emotional and sensory intensity, almost like rooms to which one can return.»

Historians may scoff, but taken as a pure piece of entertainment, Kingdom of Heaven strikes all the right notes to make this one of the better epics to come out in the post-Lord of the Rings environment.

The powerhouse ensemble is more than up to the task, Edgerton, Ejogo and Keough all having moments of pure, unadulterated terrifying paranoia where their emotions leap off the screen as if we're watching a documentary and not a fictional piece of genre entertainment.

Stanley Tong, perhaps because of the constant shifts to the rather mundane world of today, isn't able to keep the magic of the story going for long, especially as some of the more cheesy comic elements, another symptom of Jackie's involvement, bring things back down to the pure entertainment level again.

Greg Kinnear, arrives at the Premiere Of Paramount Pictures And Pure Flix Entertainment's «Same Kind Of Different As Me» at Westwood Village Theatre on October 12, 2017 in Westwood, California.

Greg Kinnear and Helen Labdon arrive at the premiere of Paramount Pictures and Pure Flix Entertainment's «Same Kind Of Different As Me» at Westwood Village Theatre on October 12, 2017 in Westwood, California.

«As far as pure, propulsive entertainment goes, The Social Network is a giddy, two - hour rush of hot - blooded vertiginous dialogue and cucumber - cool cinematic curlicueAs far as pure, propulsive entertainment goes, The Social Network is a giddy, two - hour rush of hot - blooded vertiginous dialogue and cucumber - cool cinematic curlicueas pure, propulsive entertainment goes, The Social Network is a giddy, two - hour rush of hot - blooded vertiginous dialogue and cucumber - cool cinematic curlicues.

Though you wouldn't have any real reason to suspect it, Stardust stands out as one of the year's purest and surest forms of escapist entertainment.

In the end, John Q is completely manufactured hogwash — an expensive piece of pure propaganda disguised as entertainment with a message that could have been compelling had the events seemed remotely close to what might happen in reality.

All around this is a solid effort with strong performances and moments of pure entertainment and drama that all lend to a polished and simultaneously raw feature film about the rap legend royalty known only as NWA.

As pure unadulterated entertainment this is second to none.

In these instances, «storytelling» isn't so much about pure entertainment as it is about education.

«Along with the privilege of exclusivity and being among the first 1,000 to take delivery, owners will be able to enjoy one of the purest expression of open - top driving exhilaration available today as well as our latest entertainment, safety and luxury technologies — many of which are unique among sports cars.»

Here are a few more titles, perfect for reading aloud, that could help kids going through a tough time as well as simply providing pure entertainment.

I had played video games growing up - mostly SNES classics such as Donkey Kong Country and Super Mario World, and I absolutely KILLED at Yoshi's Island — but had never viewed them as anything other than pure brain - melting entertainment.

Borderlands is still a big - name property, but it's not as big - name as Red Dead Redemption, which appeals to fans clamoring for a «pure entertainment experience, and [they] don't care if it's a video game,» according to Zelnick.

But as the game progressed I started picking up more and more of what the game had to offer, and got more and more interested in the story and how the combat evolved, trying to teach myself new combos to deal with the enemies in the game turned from frustration to pure joy and entertainment.

In the case of so called celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio and others in the entertainment industries, the carbon cost of their wealth are especially egregious because the products and services offered by them are for the most part unnecessary and indeed are pure discretionary consumption.