Sentences with phrase «lampooned so»

It's quite funny to see a film indulge, with the straightest of faces, in all those cheesy horror movie clichés that Wes Craven lampooned so well (and so recently) in Scream.

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The belief that the cartoon is lampooning is that homosexuals are made so by their environment; that is correct; but it does so by implying that this belief necessarily implies that heterosexuals are also made so by their environment.

It was frustrating to see an idea that was so obviously pro-life and pro-family get lampooned by the very people who say they want millions of low - income women to have millions more babies.

He also knows — after having so much of his early career lampooned with the notion that he could not «win the big one» — that walking away a champion in his last game leaves a permanent marker of doing exactly that.

So it was fascinating to see ex-Tory PM John Major — he was historically lampooned for being grey, dull and eating peas — become the hero of the hour.

The «interactive» elements of the exhibition — suitably underdone for a publication which so often lampoons the techno - obsessed — superbly conjure up what the curator, Julius Bryant, calls «the creative mayhem in the editor's office, the Aladdin's cave of detritus».

President Trump's press operation, so far, has been a mix of lampooned press briefings, polarizing presidential tweets, ad hoc events, a sprinkling of sometimes bombastic speeches.

Mr. Schneiderman's reputation for propriety was so entrenched in Albany that he was meant to be lampooned at a legislative correspondents» variety show on Monday night — before the story broke — for being «so lame,» and unscathed by the scandals that have often waylaid Albany politicians.

Smith seems to be lampooning that motivation more than endorsing it, but as with so much of the rest of the film, the jokes just aren't funny.

ADDENDUM: Another way of looking at it: Is there a filmmaker whose style is so recognizable that it could be parodied — and mainstream moviegoers, from their 20s to their 40s, would know what was being parodied, as was the case with Bergman, who was lampooned by the likes of «SCTV,» Woody Allen, and «Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey»?

Spoof movies have made fun of action movies, adventure movies, horror films, and science - fiction movies, so romantic comedies were certainly ripe for lampooning.

In fact, after «Walk the Line» and «Ray,» people were so done with biopics that most people passed on arguably the best biopic of that era, even though it expertly lampooned the biopic structure and had a damned good soundtrack to boot («Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,» we still love ya, baby).

Not a terrible idea (i.e., making the boring, button - down dork the centre of a satirical romance) for a movie as self - serving, self - pitying, neo-Woody Allen ideas go, but as The Baxter unfolds with a suspiciously - familiar series of contrived situations, gentle misunderstandings involving homosexuality and a strange woman in your bed, and a parade of women so far out of Elliot's league as to render his eventual abandonment as inevitable as his ultimate match (with Cecil (Michelle Williams), likewise far out of his league) is unlikely, it becomes clear that the flick is just as stupid as that which it purports to lampoon.

Much of Terrence Davies» Emily Dickinson biopic A Quiet Passion seems to play into that sort of stuffy repressed vaguely Victorian sort of snore-fest that's so often lampooned by the general audience that looks at a movie like The English Patient and wonders how it could be the best movie of the year.

First, it reaches across decades for flicks to lampoon, from Bob Dylan's Don't Look Back to «The Partridge Family» to to Great Balls of Fire to Ray, and does so with very little to tie these little vignettes together.

The Cornetto Trilogy, as it has come to be known, works so well as comedy because of its caricatures and lampooning of traditional clichés; Cuban Fury on the other hand falls into these clichés almost consistently, playing out exactly as you'd expect.

Making of a Murderer gripped true crime fans around the world in 2015, so much so that Netflix decided to lampoon its own success with a gripping new true - crime saga.

Having recently listened to a joke commentary that was rather entertaining, it's interesting how the same concept can go so wrong in this profane, terribly unfunny discussion that unsuccessfully lampoons other commentaries.

The R8 Spider is pretty bad ass after all... However there's so much to like about this car and so few things to lampoon, it's difficult to think of another European car, let alone an Audi, that delivers such compelling value on so many levels.

The fake jacket copy proceeds to lampoon the artificially sweetened and possibly carcinogenic kid - book antics that so many children find tiresome.

That's the problem with satire these days — it's tough to lampoon people who seem so dead set at becoming parodies of themselves.

The Lowry exhibition, scheduled for June 2013, has received the most attention as it comes after critics lampooned the Tate for not displaying its collection of his paintings, and arguing that if they continued to do so the works should be sold.

So this lionizing process of first obfuscating mediocrity and then elevating the mediocre and greedy and power - hungry is what Federico Solmi seems to lampoon in his visually stunning animated paintings which were one of the highlights of the Bushwick Open Studios.

So all I'll say on the subject now is to discreetly note that there appears to be a certain, Pentagon - bound, Klingon element in the Navy, of the sort lampooned in H. M. S. Pinafore, that, metaphorically, needs a spell in the dry - dock where its hull can be scraped clean of encrusted «Beltway Barnacles».

It was so stupendously bad that it even got lampooned by Saturday Night Live:

So it is little wonder that the recent findings of the OECD study, Climate finance in 2013 - 14 and the $ 100 billion goal, were lampooned rather than lauded by many developing countries and civil society.