Sentences with phrase «escapist entertainment with»
It's escapist entertainment with a genuine heart and playfulness and when it's called upon to be exciting, it has some excellent set - pieces that Spielberg is more than able to handle.The late Melissa Mathison's screenplay has a tendency to wander and the film could have been tighter but the visual effects are astonishing and Rylance and Clement really deliver the goods in the acting stakes.
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Escapism often gets a bad rap, especially when it's combined with the word «entertainment» (as in «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.
A dazzling treat for the eyes, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland merits a viewing for some stunningly realized escapist entertainment, albeit with the downside of Burton's penchant for making the characters» external appeal more defined than anything they might have going on inside their minds or hearts.
Working with production designer John Barry and special effects supervisor John Dykstra, writer - director George Lucas makes escapist entertainment respectable again, and more — he turns it into art.
The old master, Steven Spielberg, creates escapist entertainment about a shitty, dystopian world (2045) in which the escapist entertainment is a virtual reality video game with the sweep of the internet called «The Oasis.»
While Kathryn Bigelow, Tom Hooper and Quentin Tarantino duke it for Oscar honors with their newest films, «Jack Reacher» and «The Hobbit» promise to deliver pure escapist entertainment.
Luckily, by the time we get to this point, we have been sufficiently entertained to deem Innerspace a worthwhile form of escapist entertainment, with clever ideas, a nice cast of actors, and some very good special effects.
Historically Bollywood's appeal has been based around family - friendly entertainment, with songs, elaborate dance sequences and heroic action scenes sprinkled across 180 minutes of escapist, tear - jerking melodrama.
Green for Danger is an escapist entertainment made just after the close of World War II — a classical whodunit with an impeccably droll Scotland Yard inspector in charge of the proceedings — and it is at the same time a film pervaded by the war just...
To an outside observer or casual gamer, Dark Souls often defies what is «fun» about the hobby; these are not lightweight escapist fantasies or benign and mindless entertainments filled with beloved cartoon characters, but relentless tests of focus and skill.