Sentences with phrase «brilliant conceit»

A strange, slapstick co-op game with a brilliant conceit: you and your friends play disposable space janitors sent to clean up the mess after a squad of square - jawed videogame space marines have done their bloody business.
What a brilliant conceit!
Written by Stiller, Justin Theroux and Mike Judge cohort Etan Cohen, the film opens with a brilliant conceit: The three main actors are introduced via a hilarious series of fake trailers for their latest movies, while Alpa Chino appears in an ad for Booty Sweat.
The concept is pure and perfectly suited to the genre, and it's a brilliant conceit because it makes you a part of the experience.
And in Joe Wright «s directorial decision to set the film almost entirely in a theater, it has a brilliant conceit, somewhere between Baz Luhrmann and Powell & Pressburger, both intimately theatrical and dazzlyingly, inventively cinematic.
In theory, that's a brilliant conceit, as it allows Rogen to finally (sort of) act his age, while also passing the arrested - development torch to a couple of younger actors.

Not exact matches

You mean «the conceit of the brilliant heretic.»
Beautifully conceived and confusingly distributed, Bone Tomahawk features this year's most gruesome kill, housed in a brilliant, weird - western conceit involving cannibalistic troglodytes and a hunting party led by Kurt Russell.
As Jamie, Adam Driver is brilliant at conveying the fearless, tactless conceit of a very entitled young person.
Maybe it's because I've been spoiled, having just seen the brilliant Steins; Gate, but Simon Kinberg's screenplay didn't even take full advantage of the time travel conceit.
Official Synopsis: After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant and conceited surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under his wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
Synopsis (From IMDB): After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant and conceited surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under his wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant and conceited surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under his wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
Though it blossoms into a game of devilish complexity, Monaco is, like many absolutely brilliant games, an experience with a simple conceit at its core.
Remaining true to his independent spirit, his «alternative» stance has turned out to be a brilliant and successful conceit, bolstering the narrative foundation and intellectual temperament of his practice, and ultimately, it seems, boosting his market success.
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