Sentences with phrase «more of a throwback»

but that's cause I'm being biased and my favorite team wore more of a throwback color rush jersey that was straight fire...

Hayden removed the brooch as she hit the after - party circuit, making her look like even more of a throwback to Jourdan's interpretation at another award show in November.

It's more of a throwback to one of the first SNL movie spinoffs, Steve Martin's «The Jerk.»

This Spidey is more of a throwback to themes of the original comic books, in which young high school student Peter Parker is a socially outcast science whiz who gets bitten by a radioactive spider and finds he can climb walls, lift cars and sense impending danger.

Some people have been calling The Day After Tomorrow a throwback to the Irwin Allen disaster films of the 1970s (The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno), but in reality, it is more of a throwback to the disaster films of the 1990s (Armageddon, Deep Impact).

While it is slightly cheaper than the Galaxy S8, the S8 seems more modern and up to date compared to the Xperia XZ1 which now represents more of a throwback design.

Developer Flying Wild Hog promises Hard Reset will be more of a throwback to classic PC shooters like Doom, which tried less to capture the action of Hollywood blockbusters a la Call of Duty and instead featured larger, more intricate levels that encouraged more exploration.

While it is slightly cheaper than the Galaxy S8, the S8 seems more modern and up to date compared to the Xperia XZ1 which now represents more of a throwback design.

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Get ready to hear (lots) more about Generation Z. They're just barely on the cusp of adulthood, but their preferences and outlooks are a bit of a throwback to earlier generations.

An online video that came out in late August features the same characters in a throwback to toy ads from the late 80s or early 90s, and was more of a way to introduce the Giant Jr. name.

The project is under attack by a Jewish group that terms it «a throwback to Germany under Hitler,» recalling the «buy Christian» campaigns that started in Germany in the 1930s, and that resulted in a widespread refusal to trade with Jewish merchants in the years preceding the Third Reich's more brutal acts of anti-Semitism.

To confess interest in «process philosophy» as a viable vocation (over and against the mere historical study of a certain tradition) is to seem to associate oneself with a tradition thoroughly discredited in the eyes of its more analytically - inclined critics as little more than an historical anachronism — a throwback to the worst examples of unrestrained 19th - century speculative nonsense.10

This is much more of a no - recipe recipe than the bowl of peanut butter filled pretzels I ate with a few chocolate chips while finding myself in an iTunes throwback vortex that consisted of How Bizarre on repeat.

Some of these names are actually throwbacks that are becoming more popular.

He was a throwback to a different, arguably more genteel era, though he certainly saw and covered his share of political intrigue and scandal.

Tee — c / o Bryn Nicholle / / Floral Kimono — c / o LuLa Roe / / Photography: Anastasia Strate Denim skirts are back and I couldn't be more excited for them as they are a throwback to the fashion of my high school days.

The effect, whether intentional or not, had a slight throwback to The Matrix and a bit of a BDSM feel, but also gave a luxe finishing touch to fall / winter outerwear that we'd definitely like to see more of come Milan, Paris and New York.

The figure - flattering straight cut of the shift dress is youthful but ladylike, and celebs are loving the unfussy, throwback style in more of - the - moment fabrics like leather and metallics.

Alexa Chung's awkward modeling throwback, Jordin Sparks» wig out, Kaley Cuoco's dream dress — and more celeb twitpics of the week.

It's a throwback to that more innocent kind of film, where you know who's good and who's bad, where you boo the villain and cheer the hero... The movie makes fun of those clichés, but director George Lucas must love them too, because he makes them work.

The movie's core idealism is a throwback to a more innocent time of film making.

In any shot that isn't a close - up, the transfer doesn't quite scream HD, although the aesthetic of the film as a whole, a definite throwback to the 70s style of indie filmmaking, doesn't necessarily lend itself as fair competition to a more polished 21st century production.

Every facet of the original has transitioned smoothly onto the newer hardware, and while the «warts and all» mentality of the combat may strike some as tiresome, the updated visuals and a wondrous retelling of various arcs of beloved characters both good and bad makes this throwback one of the more engaging titles available for Nintendo 3DS owners.

Fans more interested in Sonic's 16 - bit glory days will want to keep an eye on Sonic Mania, a throwback game designed in the vein of the Genesis platformers.

In keeping with the popular social media trend of «Throwback Thursday» (#TBT), we will from time to time take a moment to focus on the classic trailers, posters, and promotional items from some of our favorite Halloween - themed movies, TV shows, and more, continuing today with a flashback viewing of the original trailer for the sixth film in the Halloween franchise, originally titled Halloween 666: The Origin of Michael Myers (1995).

Pitched as a throwback to the likes of the 1993 classic Super Bomberman, does this blasting experience light the fuse for a new cowboy to rise to the top, or is it more of a dud?

Comparing the two is instructive: Whereas that execrable grindhouse throwback did little more than put a tropical twist on the Hostel formula, Knock Knock breaks the cycle of repetition that's plagued Roth's career, effectively inverting his usual slaughter - the - tourist scenario.

One of the more unique throwbacks brings in puzzle elements with a progression system, and this is the Adventure Mode.

Itself owing much to such lone - man - of - action hallmarks as «Die Hard» and «Speed,» this welcome throwback to an earlier, more generously entertaining era of summer blockbusters delivers a wide array of close - quarters combat and large - scale destruction.

More 80's throwback in Take Me Home Tonight should sink Just Go with It, even if it isn't well received — but the film has been in the works since 2007, and appears to have put a great deal of effort into getting the plot straightened out, so just maybe it'll come out well.

by Walter Chaw Self - consciously a throwback to supernatural softcore lesbian exploitation as indicated by the films of Jean Rollin and, specifically, James Kenelm Clarke's The House on Straw Hill (with bits of Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love in there), A.D Calvo's Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl has a pretty good feel for time and place, but not much more than that.

The combination of clever how - to details and wild fantasy is a throwback to the days of Disney's live - action man - against - nature films (only slightly grimmer), but it's flanked by a more down - to - earth depiction of the hero's youth in a zoo - owning Indian family, as well as a closing sequence that changes the meaning of everything that's come before.

These days, however, the game is more of a pleasant throwback than anything else.

Such production design - heavy haunted house features as The Shining, The Haunting, and The Innocents have also been cited as a heavy influence on Crimson Peak by del Toro; of late, though, the filmmaker seems to have begun playing down the idea that he's making a haunted house genre throwback, and more than Crimson Peak is a Gothic romance first, set piece - oriented ghost story second.

It's a throwback for Kurt Russell to his Disney Movie of the Week days in terms of screenplay, ethic, and production value, and if Kelly Preston seems right at home, well, that says a lot more about the plastic fantastic Preston than it does about Sky High.

Bardem's Silva is a throwback to a more traditional Bond villain, with equal parts creepy sensuality, intelligence, and psychopathy, and a touch of physical deformity for good measure.

A Walk in the Clouds is a throwback film to a more romantic and innocent area, and how much you enjoy this film will greatly depend on how much of a hopeless romantic you are, and you'll especially find it pleasing if you yearn for the romantic movies of yesteryear.

«The Fabulous Baker Boys» isn't the most scintillating screenplay, and its runaway box office success probably says more about the year it was released than the film itself, but it's a wonderfully sumptuous throwback to the grand glamour of old - school Hollywood — and none of its stars were ever quite as luminous, before or since.

But after the billion - dollar success of Iron Man 3, Black is clearly relishing the opportunity to return to his roots with something more down and dirty, even if its throwback charms are occasionally more retrograde than retro.

for the Sandler bunch, the fact that it was a throwback to the old Hawks / Sturges brand of farcical morality play (a subgenre that has been more or less dead for decades outside of the occasional stab at it by the Coens (Intolerable Cruelty) or I ♥ Huckabees «s director David O Russell).

Though it is a thriller at heart, and does have a high - speed driving subtext, the film feels more like a throwback to the music video stylized, R - rated crime dramas of the 1980s than the new Fast & the Furious over-the-top, CGI - infused modern action - thrillers.

Also, it is a throwback to the old - fashioned cartoons of the baby - boomers and Gen Xers who grew up on unconventional animation that relied more on curiously kooky characterizations constructed with wacky storylines than the glossy, prefab production values of many of today's animated features.

From the soundtrack that bridges the old with the new, the throwback gags to before (the MILF guys almost steal the show out of nowhere), and a side - plot with Jim's Dad that is far more hard - hitting than any of his stints in the previous movies.

The pacing of the films was only the beginning of the problems with selling such a thing to a broad audience; likely because of Tarantino's standing as the more well - regarded filmmaker, the slow - burn crescendo of Death Proof played after the warp - speed throwback gorefest Planet Terror.

One of the most beautiful and glamorous throwbacks to the golden years of Hollywood, she lights up the dreariest vehicles, and there is no one more chameleon - like when it comes to disfiguring herself for the sake of a character.

Based on a novel by André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name is more like a swooning throwback to sensual European gabfests of the 1960s, tracing as it does the attraction that sparks between a smart, sensitive teenager (Timothée Chalamet) and the strapping graduate student (Armie Hammer) invited by the boy's parents to stay at their Italian villa for the summer.

It is only Nick Swardson as Eddie who struggles with a role more typical of the Happy Madison oeuvre: his over-the-top theatrics are an unfortunate throwback to the worst of Sandler's youthful excesses.

It's the kind of style - over-substance ride we've come to expect of director Joe Johnston, known for such throwback entertainments as «Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,» «Rocketeer» and, more recently, «The Wolfman.»

What it is, instead, is a throwback to the kinds of movies Taylor Hackford likes to make: glossy, edgeless, overheated prestige entertainments that are sometimes, as was the case with his Proof of Life, more interesting for the publicity drama they create than for the films themselves.

Of course, cleavage revealing catsuits are still worn nowadays, but more as a throwback costume than a specific look.