Sentences with phrase «better than its source material»

Is Iron Man the first comic - book movie better than its source material?

Starting with one of the aspects the game does far better than its source material; the graphics.

Not exact matches

Some turn to the East, particularly to Taoism; some to Native American perspectives and other primal traditions; some to emerging feminist visions; still others to neglected themes or traditions within the Western heritage, ranging from materials in Pythagorean philosophy to neglected themes in Plato to Leibniz or Spinoza; and still others to twentieth - century philosophers such as Heidegger or to philosophical movements such as the Deep Ecology movement.9 As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230).

Such authentic sayings, whose exact wording can not well be reconstructed, whose translation is uncertain, whose out - of - date thought patterns are obvious, are none the less more important historical sources for encountering Jesus» history and person than would be the chronological and psychological material the original quest sought in vain.

For an understanding of Hinduism, it is better to have read a little introductory material and to have studied the Bhagavad Gita intensively than to have read more widely in secondary sources.

There can be no doubt that what we identify in the Tetrateuch (Genesis - Numbers) as P employs and incorporates in the fifth century some material as old or possibly older than J. And J in the tenth century may well have had as a primary source an earlier effort to bring together coherently a wide assortment of stories deemed to have significant bearing on the life of the people Israel.2 Certainly individual units in the J corpus had been in existence for centuries before they were integrated; and beyond any doubt these units were often strikingly modified in meaning in the context of the J work.

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Although federal R&D data are less than perfect, the OMB figures, supplemented by data obtained directly from the agencies, do provide a good basic source of material for conducting an analysis of R&D budget trends.

The porous carbon performed better as conductive electrode material than conventional carbon sources, often heat - treated coconut shells, coal or wood.

Even though those three ran more than nine hours total, Jackson still needed to drop a lot of material from JRR Tolkien's source; after all, the book filled well over 1000 pages, so even three long movies couldn't cover everything.

While it is obviously a good idea to not reveal too much with the first trailer, it does seem clear that Nocturnal Animals is heading down a far more sinister path than its source material; the 1993 novel Tony and Susan.

Seems to me that they often do a much better job of capturing the spirt and energy of the source material than more traditional adaptations do, as a comparison of the two 90s adaptations of Emma (the other being the Gwynneth Paltrow version), I think, shows.

Director Mary Harron turned Brett Easton Ellis» novel «American Psycho» into a far better film than the source material.

Recent cinema has been rife with object lessons on why it's probably better to risk angering fans of source material rather than sacrifice momentum (look no further than Watchmen), so it stands to reason that Azkaban benefits from having taken the road less traveled, even if it wasn't the way that the original fans wanted it to go.

: There is a better than average chance that Piercing will be a highly stylized dripping with atmospherics type piece and we'll soon find out if Pesce reteamed with DP Zach Kuperstein on this psychological thriller, but we're more curious in seeing how the filmmaker appropriates the source material and possibly steers clear of Takashi Miike imprint.

Rather than turn this into an exercise in listing source materials, however attractive shooting fish in barrels might be, best to focus on how the picture makes Isaac Asimov's three rules of robotics into two (making it different!)

The source material is a pretty lacklustre book; the content is good, but it has been said to read like a UN report on a zombie invasion, rather than a thriller.

She should know better than to trust the accuracy of their «reviews» when primary source material clearly contradicts them.

The maps are designed with choke points and hot zones in mind, and while staying true to the source material may more important in this case than others, DICE has a proven track record of making high quality large scale shooters, which will surely serve them well with Battlefront.

In - engine cutscenes look better and more accurate to the source material than One Piece games have ever done before, with the original (Japanese only) voice actors reprising their roles and lending and an air of authenticity to every moment.

Both franchises have spurred entire subgenres of games - with the best efforts adopting a more liberal, rather than direct interpretation of their source material.

In short, because of the interactive nature of gaming, there's a capacity for gaming adaptations to be better and to mean more than their source material.

The Spanners serve a dual purpose in this exhibition — they offer a pop of color and a palate cleanser should the eyes need a rest from looking at dots, which tend to vibrate at that scale, as well as referencing the source material gesturing that this installation is something more than prints from a book.

For backup support, it seems to me that one area that needs shoring up is textbook material on climate change, because a teacher who can point to a text source is better equipped to handle studen / parent resistance than one who can merely repeat verbal arguments.

At the moment, it seems you have simply skimmed (at best) the article rather than studying the arguments and source material, then launched in with already debunked arguments.

Editor's Note: For the report and supplementary materials, please go to https://www.forest-trends.org/publications/government-industry-data-suggest-30-percent-wood-used-indonesias-industrial-forest-sector-comes-unreported-illegal-sources/ WASHINGTON, DC (17 February 2015)-- More than 30 percent of wood used by Indonesia's industrial forest sector1 stems from the unreported clear - cutting of natural forests and other illegal sources instead of legal tree plantations and well - managed logging concessions, 2 according to a new study analyzing -LSB-...]

The application judge had concluded that the same quality of evidence against Shirdon was not available from any other source than Vice Media's reporter, and the material sought, in the form of screen captures of text messages, provided the best evidence of what Shirdon said, which favoured making the production order.