Any job (high - paid, low paid, it does» t matter) will make
you feel like the ape in the suit if there's no cultural fit, if there's no alignement between you, the company and the position you occupy, if there's no higher purpose or sense of mission behind it.
It feels like it apes the iPhone's iOS interface and replaces it with something else - like Google Now Launcher - making you feel a little more in control of things.
Not exact matches
«In order that primeval men, or the
ape -
like progenitors of man, should have become social,» Darwin reasoned, «they must have acquired the same instinctive
feelings which impel other animals to live in a body.»
It's clear immediately that filmmaker Peter Berg is looking to
ape the
feel and tone of Paul Greengrass» work, as Deepwater Horizon boasts a documentary -
like feel that's heightened by its low - key performances and general lack of context - with scripters Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand, in terms of the latter, delivering dialogue that tends to emphasize authenticity over exposition (ie much of this stuff sounds as though it was pulled directly from real - life transcripts).
It definitely
feels like the second part of what will end up being a new trilogy as Rise of the Planet of the
Apes set the groundwork for this storyline.
San Andreas actually
apes The Day After Tomorrow so closely that at times, it
feels like Cuse just took the latter film's script, cut - and - replaced all instances of «storm» with «earthquake» and «runs from cold» with «runs from opening fissures,» and called it a day —
like Tomorrow, the film centers on a father's unlikely determination to cross a disaster zone to save an adult child, with only a minimal idea of where his kid might be in a city approaching a population of 1 million.
Judy Greer
felt like an «ass» whilst pretending to be a chimp in «Dawn of the Planet of the
Apes».
20th Century Fox has made this summer
feel a lot
like summer 2011, with the satisfying follow - ups to its X-Men and Planet of the
Apes reboots each again emerging as the cream of the crop.
A Quiet Place
feels like a conscious attempt by Paramount to
ape the Blumhouse blueprint, much
like A24, another fleet and industrious production company, which has achieved critical inroads with idiosyncratic horror - adjacent movies such as The Witch, A Ghost Story and It Comes at Night.
«Stylistically, the movie attempts to
ape the screeching nocturnal momentum of Scrooged, but the screenplay
feels like a rough draft.
It must play off the audience's affection for the original film, even learn lessons from all that its predecessor did right, but without
feeling like it's repeating itself, without
feeling like an unimaginative retread, without — if you'll pardon the indulgence — simply
aping what came before it.
The results are mixed in this painfully - middling survival horror, mainly because it
feels like every element of horror is just
aping past glories
like Silent Hill 2 or 3 without really understanding what made them scary.
I forgot I was watching a movie about
apes as they
felt like any other living, breathing character in a movie.
Like the Star Wars sequel The Empire Strikes Back, Dawn of the Planet of the
Apes is a much darker follow - up but that transition
feels inevitable.
However, he's got a host of impressive credits to his name, having been part of movies
like Zero Dark Thirty, Dawn of the Planet of the
Apes and Netflix's Mudbound, which many
feel was deserving a Best Picture Oscar nomination this year.
The whole thing looks and
feels like an extended episode of some Starz series, and you almost get the sense that first - time feature film director Aleksander Bach is attempting to
ape the Resident Evil movies, another franchise with bad writing, silly action and only the most tenuous connection to the video games that inspired it.
The door handles on the inside
feel hollow and cheap, and the seams between the leather on the door cards and the inset speakers (designed
like sunbursts to
ape Mercedes» Burmester speaker motif) are still a little clumsy.
And yes, I know Resident Evil 4 preceded Gears of War; I don't care, that's what the «fifth» game
felt like, and older IPs can still
ape new games,
like it or not.
I
feel like the game hasn't learned anything from the
likes of Tales From The Borderlands or Life Is Strange in the same way that Planet of the
Apes: Last Frontier has.
One was asking «what
feels ape -
like»?
Coming on the heels of the studio's last project, The Martian VR Experience, it was important that players experience the
feeling of embodying the
ape, while still providing them with an experience that
felt like a game.
Against nimble modern platformers
like Rayman Legends and Ori and the Blind Forest, however, Tropical Freeze can sometimes
feel as lumbering as the titular
ape in its execution.
Thief is certainly a fun game to play, but not always a fresh one — the stealth
feels very Dishonored -
like, exploration
apes the Bioshock series, and Garrett's «focus» abilities are ripped straight out of Batman: Arkham Asylum and a dozen games since.
Now the pendulum has swung and it
feels like Snapchat is doing anything and everything — including
aping Instagram — to get users to stick around.