Sentences with phrase «good escapist»

It was a perfectly fun popcorn movie that was a throwback to old Hollywood musicals and contained what so many recent musicals failed to bring: good escapist fun.

Good escapist show for me, I like it better than a lot of the stuff that's on TV these days.

This will probably be the best escapist entertainment of the winter season, and I can wholeheartedly recommend it for those looking for a journey back to old school B - action film glory.

Not exact matches

Being Lutherans, people who believe that God rules in his left - hand temporal kingdom (through justice) as well as in his right - hand kingdom of eternity (through love), we were not truly escapists, quietists, or non-participants.

Even the chapter looking at the Promise Keepers and the Nation of Islam tends to portray those movements as the escapist activities of people whose energies would be better spent on progressive political causes.

Perhaps we should coin a new, better word to describe those people, such as «realists» VS «escapists» (religious people).

She is well educated, deeply involved in the community and a successful businesswoman and civic leader — hardly a Neanderthal or escapist.

The Director of Communications and Audience Engagement will work closely with the CEO to create, curate, and market an expansive collection of film clips (full episodes and movies as well as short clips) focused on bringing light escapist pleasure to the (mostly female) masses.

If the posh elite kept to their historical role as the quasi-comic figures of escapist dramas and not running the country, we would all be better off.

i am what i am and if you want to talk to me you will know me better but her is my weakness and and my strength Imaginative, Sensitive, Compassionate, Kind, Selfless, Unworldly, Intuitive and Sympathetic, Escapist And Idealistic, Secretive And Vague, Weak - Willed...

Which may well be the best approach for a bit of escapist summer fun.

The Escapists 2 adds a lot of content and is still the best prison escaping simulator available.

All in all, The Escapists 2 is a bigger and better version of the original game.

Even today, there is something remarkable about a well - structured western, something of an escapist film poised to make us reimagine and relate.

More importantly, it'll be crass, wrong, well acted, well written, and escapist, And so it could just keep us from blowing our brains out in 2009.

This escapist comedy is so cheerfully outlandish that it's hard to resist, and so good - hearted that it's genuinely endearing.

The good guy's descent into darkness, the cat - and - mouse thriller, the escapist action series, the on - location porn.

«The Equalizer» is hardly groundbreaking stuff compared to Fuqua and Washington's last collaboration, but it's a slick crowd - pleaser that provides the escapist entertainment of any good action flick.

In conflict with the popular wag that people are stupider now than they've ever been, the excrescent original was also defended as good old - fashioned escapist fare.

I remember Jim Sterling of The Escapist ranting about Dark Souls II as an example where the gaming industry attempts to «appeal to a wider audience» or «widen the net» for an already well - made game with a dedicated niche audience (Dark Souls): http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/7340-Guns-Blazing And here we are with one of the same guys saying Dark Souls II is not for Wii U owners?

I don't need to tell you why that's disconcerting, but it also means maybe the best reason to see Rules Don't Apply is that it is the very definition of escapist cinema: It will make you feel as if everything could be all right.

Not only are «Get Out,» «The Shape of Water» and «Blade Runner 2049» some of the very best films of 2017, but from the no - budget indie realm («Prevenge,» «A Ghost Story,» «Transfiguration,» «Raw») to expensive studio epic scale («War for the Planet of the Apes,» «Kong: Skull Island») and newly blazed ground out of the predominantly formulaic superhero («Logan,» «Wonder Woman,» «LEGO Batman») and Star Wars («The Last Jedi») factory farms, fantasy filmmakers tried their hardest to be smart, visually adroit, sometimes startlingly innovative and — strangest of all for this escapist format — humanely, emotionally credible.

Police movies so often depend on sheer escapist action that it's fun to find a good one.

The original Red (2010) was a fun escapist action comedy featuring an A-list cast willing to act silly to earn a few good laughs.

He would return to the era in later films, most notably his hugely successful drama Twenty - Four Eyes (1954), but immediately after Morning for the Osone Family, he dived into escapist fare that better showed off his range, from the poetic romance The Girl I Loved (1946) to the noirish thriller Woman (1948) to the comedy Here's to the Young Lady (1949) to the ghost story Yotsuya kaidan (1949).

The Golden Compass (PG - 13 for fantasy violence) Epic escapist fantasy, based on Philip Pullman's award - winning novel, about a precocious 12 year - old scholar (Dakota Blue Richards) already attending Oxford who ventures into a parallel universe to save her best friend and other children kidnapped by an evil organization known as the Gobblers.

It's far from the best this material could produce, but it's successful on its own terms as period escapist entertainment.

At a suggested retail price of $ 19.99, The Escapists 2 represents good value for the Switch, particularly considering the relative price of other recent ports to the system.

Tags: Braveheart, Brian Cox, Doctor Who, Euros Lyn, Hulu, L.I.E., Manhunter, Paul Dano, Red, Running with Scissors, Rupert Wyatt, Ryan Murphy, Super Troopers, That Championship Season, The Escapist, The Good Heart, The Light from the TV Shows, The Prisoner, The Sopranos, The Straits, Tom Sizemore, Underbelly, Will Harris, X2

Team17 is well know for many of their published franchises such as the Escapists, Overcooked, Yooka - Laylee, and more.

The book is really very good indeed, tougher and less escapist than the competition, so if any of these becomes a critical hit, it could be this one.

Evoking all the things that Michael Bay movies used to be — exciting, a bit ludicurous, and funny — «Pain And Gain» looks like top form, escapist entertainment by the guy who knows who to do it best.

Like most good sci - fi, The Expanse is both a solid form of escapist entertainment and at times an eerily accurate reflection of the present.

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.

Guillermo del Toro's escapist fantasy - romance The Shape of Water was the biggest winner, the story of a young woman's love for a captured sea creature — with best picture and best director, setting the official seal of approval on what is, by any measure, a beautifully made movie to which audiences have responded with distinctively sensual delight.

It's about good, old - fashioned escapist filmmaking.

Not for all tastes, but if you ever wished that Guy Ritchie could re-capture his initial potential, The Escapist is a good fix.

It's the first in a planned trilogy that is partly a psychological thriller with strong sci - fi overtones (which I suspect will become stronger as the series develops), partly a cautionary tale of modern life, but mainly good old escapist fun (think 1984 meets The Matrix).

- Juliet Nicolson, author of Abdication and The Great Silence: Britain From the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age «Jewell's many fans should eagerly embrace this story about two different women living in two different times whose lives converge in the most unexpected way... Family «Lisa Jewell's latest escapist love story is heartbreakingly good.»

Well behaved, but an escapist when bored.

Good in yard, but an escapist if ignored.

Interestingly what is available at all three locations is determined by dice at the start of the game, thus you may roll an apprentice and a manager for the tavern, while the bank might be offering four and six coins on its two dice and Daalgard could be willing to teach a new escapist trick as well as one of your choice, as indicated by a question mark, although a magician can always learn a trick from their own school of magic regardless of dice rolls.

The Escapists did very well for itself, in fact it did so well that Team 17 and Mouldy Toof have announced that its sequel has been released for Steam, Xbox One, and PS4.

Flockers was decent, Light was merely okay and The Escapists was pretty damn good.

By keeping a good eye on your stats and effectively managing your time and money, The Escapists can easily become a fun yet challenging game for anyone.

In development for about a year, the indie sensation has made fans all across the board, with The Escapist calling the preview trailer «quite simply amazing,» PC Gamer praising it as «insanely beautiful,» and IGN stating that the game has «visuals to challenge the very best games on the market.»

Well random regular / confused Escapist viewer, I'll let you in on a little secret: I won't be reviewing Mass Effect 3.

The Escapists is a truly exciting game that has managed to achieve a decent following on the PC and consoles, and with the sequel the developers aim to go bigger and better.

[2] Lisa Foiles of The Escapist ranked Daisy number one on their list of top five annoying princesses in video games, stating she didn't really have a good reason why.

Portal's GlaDOS Invades Steam With Potato - Related ARG By The Escapist on April 4, 2011 «The best example so far is in Cogs, where entering «potato» on the main screen unlocks a new level called» and some very GlaDOS - like messages.»