Sentences with phrase «more absurdist»

They share the same Evil Co. face that was established in Doom 3 but with a more absurdist and comical slant.

Breaking the weird little bubble of the first film actually harms the efficacy of many of the more absurdist jabs; they are often funny on the surface, but feel like some of the force has been robbed from them.

It's at that point that»71 starts to become a different movie — less an observant narrative of chaos and resistance and more an absurdist thriller.

Not exact matches

It is often much more tempting to settle for such an absurdist view than to remain steadfast in hope and trust when circumstances make the universe seem to be against us.

For it often seems more rational to embrace an absurdist view of the universe than to remain steadfast in hope, especially when there are so many happenings within our evolving universe that, taken in isolation, seem to warrant a tragic interpretation.

Much of the film is devoted to re-creating many of the more incoherent scenes in The Room in all their absurdist glory.

Its absurdist scenarios serve as little more than a ramshackle frame for bizarre non sequiturs, stoned pop - culture riffing, and some of the weirdest gags ever to make it into a studio - released film.

More than a thriller, this adaptation of Jose Saramago's novel The Double is an absurdist - existential mood piece — and a very dark mood it is.

It would have been more daring and absurdist if the filmmakers had attempted something like that here.

Overrated Damsels In Distress Not nearly as clever as the film, or its adherents, seem to think, Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress is a tone - deaf attempt to change gears from the observational comedy of his early films to a more stylized, absurdist mode.

That same one can be forgiven if one had expected more from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, those deliciously subversive elves who nail popular culture in all its absurdist splendor on their television show, «South Park», and who had us all humming «Blame Canada» as we left the theater after seeing the film version, suggestively, but correctly subtitled: BIGGER LONGER & UNCUT.

The writing also continues to be top - notch — from the sparkling dialogue, to the excellent character development, to the smartly plotted narrative that keeps you coming back for more — while the show's absurdist tone works even better in a period setting like the late 1970s.

The more unusual titles include «The 100 - Year - Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared,» which was described as an absurdist fable, and «Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon,» a look at the magazine's history.

What starts off as an absurdist workplace satire about race gradually becomes, well, a lot more absurd as elements of science fiction threaten to overwhelm the story.

It's an absurdist comedy, but the presence of Robert De Niro and — maybe even more so — Blythe Danner imply Parents is based in some kind of reality.

Though the film never quite abandons its absurdist comedy and its boyish glee for romping monsters, Colossal also becomes a brutal psychological horror movie, more unforgiving and savage by the minute.

An absurdist war story for our times, writer - director David Michôd (Animal Kingdom) recreates a U.S. General's roller - coaster rise and fall as Read More →

This laughably sad, morosely funny Irish - language short novel about a direct forebear of Beckett's absurdist protagonists waited 90 years to be translated into English and more broadly recognized as the masterpiece it is.

Written by Darko Macan and illustrated by Igor Kordey, the series offered an almost absurdist take on the superhero concept, with a never - more - powerful Cable struggling with his methods and motives while tracking a super-powered Russian peasant girl.

But the point for us now is that while entry - level «author service» propositions have proliferated at an almost absurdist pace, those who create and purvey those things seem to sense a tougher customer when they get around the more seasoned independent authors, so we see less of those offers in place for people of your and Steen's ilk — including conference events.

It definitely deserved more attention than it got because its awesome mission design and absurdist gameplay deliver a very unique mindlessly fun experience.

The end result was a non-linear and at times absurdist exploration of group dynamics... Read More

Mika Rottenberg is a serial absurdist, as amply demonstrated by her recent exhibition «Sneeze to Squeeze,» which encompasses more than a decade of work.

In an interview last year with ARTNEWS, Bill Powers asked him if it was more difficult to stick to his absurdist roots now that he's represented by Gavin Brown's Enterprise.

Downey deserves more attention for his videos that defy easy categorization, jumbling together National Geographic with an absurdist mentality.

And while the exhibition will indeed be imbued with plenty of cats, along with Auerbach's absurdist, deadpan humor, it will also provide a showcase for the more serious aspects of her work.

While there is definitely a through - line, the new body of work has a different feel from what's on view across the bridge at the Brooklyn Museum.The whole show is based on a newfound interest that I had in... read more... «Hernan Bas: A newfound interest in Futurism and 1920s Absurdist performance»

More recent explorations of the absurdist nature of the movement are found in Kate Glimore's video, Sudden as a Massacre, in which a group of women dressed in heels and floral print dresses strenuously pull apart a large block of wet clay, hurling handfuls of it at the surrounding environment, and in Iran do Espírito Santo's Street Pole, a life - size recreation of a common street lamp, made of solid granite, rendering it useless for its original purpose.

Mischievous absurdist humor runs against more traditional absolutist readings.

The video by Lex Brown (whose YouTube channel is worth your whole morning) is a triumphant send - up of absurdist, dysfunctional film theory and DIY cultural appropriation, or more accurately and as the exhibition essay by Jill Moniz keenly observes, re-appropriation.

Morris's work also related, closely or more obliquely, to diverse things happening concurrently in American art, such as Philip Guston's absurdist figuration; Tom Nozkowski's or Ron Gorchov's allusive abstraction; Vija Celmins's single - image paintings; Richard Artschwager's psychological minimalism.

He's making art that expands into existential paradox, much like Richard Prince's unfunny jokes (for me, his best work) that have a broader, more melancholy and absurdist humor.

In the context of absurdism, and more particularly Camus» argument to the absurd with «The Myth of Sisyphus» where Camus argues that the absurdist has no interest in freedom as free will, instead embracing the «freedom» that comes with established rules.