Sentences with phrase «likes escapist»

The Nintendo Switch gets a lot of love with the eShop update this week, including indie titles like The Escapists 2 and Super Meat Boy.

If you like escapist espionage thrillers with lots of action, perhaps there's enough quality actors, superb stunt work, and nice location shoots to give The November Man a passable grade, especially because the R - rated action can be quite brutal compared to a James Bond flick.

I made that choice intentionally, though it entailed certain risks, the first, quite simply, that places of such celebrity may upstage characters and events; the second, that they will make the story seem superficial or glib, like the escapist fiction you buy at the airport to distract yourself from the boredom and anxiety of flying.

Of course, head over to something like The Escapist to catch up on a satirical Zero Punctuation game review and you'll have no problem viewing the videos, but overall, Flash support doesn't translate into a perfect experience just yet.

The Nintendo Switch gets a lot of love with the eShop update this week, including indie titles like The Escapists 2 and Super Meat Boy.

I pay a lot more attention to coverage of my games get from sites like The Escapist than I do to Gamespot for exactly the reasons you suggest.

Not exact matches

Amidst the incessant declarations of public crises about this, that, and the other thing, C. S. Lewis looks very much like an «escapist.»

Like the original, The Escapists 2 delivers both a creative and challenging videogame that will keep fans of the first game busy for a long time to come.

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

There are no escapist thrills like the pre-9 / 11 disaster films, but a cloying message of what matters most.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 23, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS August Rush (PG for slight violence, mild profanity and mature themes) Freddie Highmore stars as the title character in this escapist fantasy about a promising musical prodigy who runs away from an orphanage to New York City to find his parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers) only to end up living with a Fagin - like wizard (Robin Williams) and lots of other kids in a makeshift shelter in an abandoned theater which was once the Fillmore East.

But, it is drags like 2016 that make escapist entertainment like the movies such a vital part of our cultural identity.

«Choke» (2008) 2008 was not a great year for the festival, with films like «Assassination Of A High School President,» «Transsiberian,» «What Just Happened,» «The Escapist» and «The Great Buck Howard» all under - performing when they finally made it to screens.

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.

Viewed as a simple, escapist, heart - warming tale set amongst the Hollywood elite, it's a perfectly adequate distraction which, like a brightly coloured, no - frills plastic wristwatch, at least passes the time, until you're home again.Hide

It was clear that Blakeson was set for a Christopher Nolan - style career path, moving from low - budget indie thriller to bigger - scale films, but, like fellow Brit Rupert Wyatt, who went straight from the excellent «The Escapist» to the mega-budgeted «Rise of the Apes» without passing Go, Blakeson seems to be skipping a few steps, and going straight for the tentpole.

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.

If you enjoy prison break films like The Great Escape and The Shawshank Redemption, you might feel right at home with The Escapists 2.

There's no shame in putting together a supergroup of talent like this for a bit of escapist entertainment but Caine and Freeman couldn't look more bored.

«This is The Princess Diaries meets Twilight, and Hocking hits all the commercial high notes... Switched is escapist fantasy; it isn't the specificity of the world that matters here; it's the accessibility... What teenager hasn't felt like a freak, a changeling in his or her own family?

Sitting at the opposite end of the spectrum — like the pretty cheerleader voted most popular in the class — is the escapist travel book.

Swiss - Belhotel Bay View is a 4 star all - suite hotel and an escapist fantasy of what a truly luxurious resort should look and feel like.

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I really want Escapist 2 but I'm going to wait a while in case they do a physical release like the other consoles.

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.»

One more thing I'd like to add: So far Derek Smart, The Escapist and the claimed sources have made many (mostly dubious) allegations and haven't shown any evidence to back these allegations.

The Escapists 2 is like if Animal Crossing met Grand Theft Auto.

The Escapists 2 has a retro look to it, and much like the first game it has a top down type view but this time character models and animations are definitely more polished than the first game, looking slightly less pixelated and more rounded with additional shading.

I spoke to studio co-founder and lead game designer Jeremy Spillmann about what motivates him and his team to bring difficult issues from the real world into what is usually seen as a purely escapist medium — and how Hatch might offer more opportunities to let smaller studios like Blindflug find a mass audience.

This is a lot like a great escapist novel you read on a long, lazy summer vacation — except in the game you get to be the protagonist.

In other words, The Escapist, like most online gaming sites, isn't making enough money to warrant a long drawn legal battle over words.

The most challenging thing about cheating Escapists 2 is that the game is procedural and unpredictable like Dead by Daylight hatch locations.

His most notorious work to date is «what what in the butt» - a youtube viral video that conflates homosexuality, blackness, and religion into an absurd / escapist cartoon like universe.

Hard - boiled Mickey Spillane, the verbal Earl Stanley Gardner, escapists like Hammond Innes and Alistair Mclean and romantics like Helen McInnes sold in huge numbers alongside much less memorable, and probably less talented, authors mining the same rich vein.

Feng's paintings were more whimsical and escapist than those of the Political Pop movement of the time — from Wang Guangyi's juxtapositions of Chinese revolutionary workers with Western brand labels to Yu Youhan's Andy Warhol - like renditions of Chairman Mao as Marilyn Monroe — but nevertheless they captured the attention of the same market of predominantly European and American buyers.

Admittedly, it's a bit idealistic and escapist, but nevertheless, it's always neat to see the many modern re-interpretations of traditional nomadic homes like the Mongolian yurt, and even more fascinating to see completely new concepts like this caterpillar - shaped prefab tent from Nomadic Resorts.