Sentences with phrase «cliches of»

Moving Beyond the Cliches of Green Design Here's some nuts and bolts counsel.

Plywood and vinyl are employed to create works named with titles that refer to cliches of modern language and draw attention to the layered textures within Deacon's art.

I so wanted to do it, because I so admired how he paints outside the cliches of what a black artist should be.

Atelier à propos» design solution avoids cliches of brashness, neon or sporting imagery, instead taking a Modernist - inspired approach with a limited colour palter of white, black and deep orange.

[1][2] She is known for her video works, such as Head (1993) and Kiss My Royal Irish Ass (1992), which targeted the cliches of the female body in art and other issues of art politics.

Despite spanning 4 systems (if we include the previews of the WiiU), the games look pretty much identical — contrast this with Marios 1, 2, and 3, which look very different despite being on the same hardware — and their levels rehash the same cliches of a snow level, desert level, etc..

And now, perhaps one of the most infuriating video game cliches of all time due to how stupidly thought out it is and how obnoxious it makes games.

The QorC guys chat about their time on the post post apocalypse landscape with Aloy, and discuss if the game does enough to get away from the tired cliches of AAA open world games.

There are a few downsides however: Along with the inconsistent AI of ally characters, the story — while mostly stellar — does fall prey to some cliches of the genre.

It's a bit stiff in some regards, and it does contain many cliches of the genre (historical steampunk does have an odd affinity for zombies).

I was done with cliches of «come on in and test drive» or «lets see what we can get you» it was the SAME EXACT story at every dealer (some were worse) then I spoke to Guy.

Pointing out the cliches of superhero flicks doesn't count for much when you fall for those same cliches yourself (the ending is especially snoozeworthy, and even more cliched than many of the superhero films it purports to lampoon).

And along with some of those poorer films come the cliches of Sundance films, and tropes that we've gotten used to seeing.

Their fellow interns fall neatly into creaky stereotypical categories, all variations on the «young computer nerd» cliches of attitude and behavior.

What Coogler has shown through his muse — Michael B. Jordan — is that he can bring a black character to life without falling to the ridiculous stereotypes or making them cliches of what they really are.

But they all share a few important details: Each zone is gigantic, full of nooks and crannies to explore and designed in a way that feels natural, oblivious to the cliches of the average video game setting.

At the very least, it doesn't seem to have dawned on anybody to advance past the acceptable romantic comedy cliches of bumbling, sexually inept husbands and long - suffering, levelheaded wives.

Although far from perfect, the first season of National Geographic's Genius avoided some of the worst cliches of hagiography thanks to Geoffrey Rush and Johnny Flynn's eccentric interpretations of Albert Einstein — and particularly Samantha Colley's fully inhabited performance as Mileva Maric, who was able to come across as exceptional in her own right and not just a flimsy female enabler of male brilliance.

The story flags when it falls back on the incidental cliches of the costume drama, or when it unwisely taps the Duc D'Anjou for allegedly frisky comic relief.

Although the cliches of the genre feel a bit tired.

It playfully and cleverly deflates the conventions and cliches of superhero flicks — as well as its own damn self — with the snarky, sadistic glee of a stoned fanboy who's binge - watched too many Chuck Jones - era Looney Tunes.

Depp and Robbie Coltrane, who plays his sergeant, shake loose from the cliches of the cop - buddy genre and submerge themselves in the story.

It uses the cliches of other animated films and basically insults them.

They're not glib and don't fall easily into the cliches of remorse and redemption.

While some might reduce its endless stream of songs to added set dressing (cue Daniel Walber's Atomic Blonde installment of The Funiture here) or just another fabulous costume, it actually does some heavy lifting to both immerse us into a specific world of its the Cold War setting and distinguish the era apart from the cinematic cliches of the subgenre.

Young Adult (2011)- Strongly gives the impression that writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman intended to take the cliches of romantic comedy and apply them to real life: What kind of person would do such things, and how would she be received?

Though Followers resorts to many cliches of the horror genre, its message is significant.

When the final match hits, it goes fully into «sports movie» mode, complete with all the cliches of a final game scene: an overconfident villain, a seemingly unending back - and - forth score between the two, music that's just a little too obvious and perfectly timed — all the parts are there.

It seems at first like a great idea: a big - budget, high - tech Hollywood action picture that takes all the cliches of kung fu, Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan, and does them right.

Because of this stripped down approach, and the fact that it focuses mainly on Lennon's childhood, Nowhere Boy seems like it has a good shot at avoiding many of the painful cliches of musical biopics.

The surprisingly thoughtful prequel trilogy comes to a powerful conclusion with this robust, dramatic thriller, which avoids most of the annoying cliches of action blockbusters to offer something much deeper.

Parker writes, directs and stars in a film that initially seems mired in the familiar cliches of the Deep South, but gains real power as its violent, unpalatable story builds to its Braveheart - style climax.

Combining elements of Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity with the cliches of 1980s teen slasher movies,...

On the one hand, it dives head first into the cliches of the time (Woodstock but it does get points for mentioning the Mets) but also thankfully points out that not everybody back then were hippies.

It's a nice, classic JRPG, with more dynamic combat mechanics and things to do, however it abuses cliches of the genre, and its visuals and sound effects aren't really from this generation.

Alex Garland beautifully subverts cliches of both fantasy and horror genres, making a film that gets under the skin to properly freak us out

Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn deliver fine work, in roles that give them much more to do rather than fall in love or other such cliches of the genre.

there were a few moments where just a little more dialogue would have improved certain scenes and the film was not without a few of the cliches of this genre, but overall it stands as a personal favorite of mine.

The show is also refreshingly entertaining, even when it relies on familiar cliches of the singing - competition genre.

This is one of the most honest and compelling accounts of the conspicuous consumption that's come to define the cliches of America's nouveau riche.

Although at times it suffers from cheesy dialogue, The Cabin in the Woods is easily on the best horror films of our time, poking fun at the cliches of horror, while being pretty scary, as at least one of your greatest fears appears, in one of the best films of 2012.

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47 Metres Down revels in its ability to renovate the cliches of horror in a new setting.

She partnered with Plenty Of Fish to put the top 30 dating cliches of all time to the test by completing specific challenges to assess their validity as dating rules to play by.

As a major nod to the 1980's and the burgeoning use and abuse of the electronic, a.k.a. synthesizers, synthwave takes the elements and cliches of that style and pushes them into hyper overdrive.

Despite all the cliches, it's a pretty hilarious film filled with good humor, mixed with gloomy atmosphere, making fun and at the same time adhering to the cliches of the Universal horror classic.

Like Abbott and Costello films, «The Castle of the Monsters» also contains elements of comedy, spoofing the cliches of horror films.

But before you go ahead and press that «x» on this page, what is about to follow contains no cliches of «feeling like the wind» or «being at one with the ocean».

The claim that we still do not know what Cameron really stands for was always one of the lazier cliches of the age.