Sentences with phrase «movie escapism»

The Scorch Trials maintains the semi-successful bar of intriguing movie escapism set by The Maze Runner.

It took everything I loved about Jurassic Park, celebrated that adventure, gave us a new dino and returned us to the perfect example of movie escapism.

Roland Emmerich somehow finds a way in the numbing «White House Down,» a movie that make absolutely no sense but fails to entertain as B - movie escapism (as his movies sometimes have in the past).

Instead, it's a better - that - expected and quite entertaining piece of Summertime movie escapism.

Not exact matches

Complex pop art like Game and the Crank movies shun escapism to stylize and replicate real - life complications.

Planting itself squarely in the collective consciousness, War of the Worlds is a rare pop culture artifact: a summer movie that discourages escapism.

I've lost my sweet tooth for slice - and - dice escapism, and perhaps this is why I feel the need to see movies that don't simply glamorize or fetishize or supernaturalize brutality.

It's a full - bodied adventure movie that's responsive and reverential to the needs of sci - fi escapism.

This is gloriously self - aware hokum, a fantasy movie that is, above all, about our need for fantasy and escapism — and even our need for movies like The Astronaut Farmer — to help us combat the depression and disappointments of the everyday.

Maybe it's a little harsh to characterise Kate Plays Christine as a spoil sport movie, as it's not saying that all escapism requires the viewer to self - flagellate as penance for their spectatorship sins.

Everything from breaking up the movie into chapters (titles rendered in trendy fonts) to faux - New Wave montages, to doubling - up on visual information with unnecessary voice - over (for instance, as Hawkins and Considine leave a restaurant together and enter his crystal - covered van, Oliver announces to the viewer: â $ œIt seems dear Mom is having an affair.â $), all provide escapism, not for the audience into the movie, but for the movie away from itself.

They fit an origin story, a training montage and a surplus of thrilling escapism inside a movie that clocks in at just less than two hours.

But in the meantime I will enjoy both the fantasy and escapism that narrative movies can bestow us as well as the likes of these 5 nominated documentaries that show us the truth.

With the possible exception of Pixar, no other animation company has a better hit - to - miss ratio: the Oscar - winning short Creature Comforts (1989), those incredible Wallace and Gromit shorts and their 2005 feature The Curse of the Were - Rabbit, the great poultry escapism of Chicken Run (2000), the sheer (or rather, sheared) genius of Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015).

The early 1970s to the late 1980s was a unique moment in Australian cinema history; a time when censorship was reigned in and home - grown production flourished, resulting in a flurry of exploitation films — sex comedies, horror movies and action thrillers — that pushed buttons and boundaries, trampled over taste and decency, but also offered artistry within their escapism, giving audiences sights and sounds unlike anything they had seen in Australia before.

has been approved for viewing by the communist regime, I suspect even they recognized this movie for what it really is: Violent escapism with a light and fluffy topping of divine platitudes unlikely to leave anyone with a craving for organized religion.

Edge of Tomorrow remembers it, along with a few other things about that movie and others, weaving all its inspirations into an entertaining slice of summer escapism.

Scorsese knows how what a powerful sense of escapism movies can be, and this feels like one of the most personal films he has made in years.

Catrin's journey with the film crew encapsulates magic of movie - making and how storytelling becomes escapism when real life is too big of a burden to bear.

He discusses his appreciation of The Wire, how he approached «the best worst movie ever made,» telling the universal story about dreamers on the outside, the soul of The Room's Tommy Wiseau, choosing to honour other artists, Basquiat, Pollock, the addiction and pitfalls of public persona, relieving ego to find happiness, recognizing workaholic and escapism tendencies to find happiness and what's on his work - out playlist (Jonathan Richman, Jamie XX, Mura Masa, A$ AP Rocky).

This movie is not meant to be taken seriously and is pure escapism.

Movies are escapism.

«In Time» is one of those high - concept sci - fi movies that are too complex to explain in a single paragraph — the easiest way to describe it is as a less crazy version of «Logan's Run» — but it's a pretty cool concept that, if executed correctly, could make for a really fun piece of escapism entertainment.

To say that you like something like August Rush is to say that you hate to be challenged by a film — that escapism is the first and last reason you go to the movies.

Burroughs» story and Stanton's visual treatment are fine for film escapism, but the script flaws (and some of the acting and pacing) really lessened the movie as a whole for me.

Unless you're a an action - craving teen, or just like really junky popcorn movies of any variety, this blatant cash - grab is just an attempt to deliver its minimal goods for a ready - built audience seeking vapid escapism.

As the movie walks a fine line between serious drama and satirical comedy, and between topicality and escapism, it beguiles the viewer with...

For this reason, this is strictly for viewers that watch nearly every B - movie suspense film on the rental shelves, straight - to - video or otherwise, offering sensational escapism in place of plausibility, pressing the titillation button in our psyches whenever possible.

Exactly what movies are meant to generate: fantasy, magic, beauty, and unapologetic escapism.

If you're looking for fizzy romantic escapism, this is not your movie.

Hollywood heartthrob Ryan Reynolds who plays superhero Green Lantern in an upcoming film says that superhero movies are incorrectly dismissed as mere escapism.

LA LA LAND Writer / Director: Damien Chazelle Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, J.K. Simmons, Rosemarie DeWitt, Josh Pence, Finn Wittrock Sometimes we look to the movies to provide escapism.

But as an action movie that throws back to a time when action movies didn't also have to be superheroes or revenge thrillers, The Hitman's Bodyguard is brainless, dumb - fun escapism as its stupid best.

More often than not movies are used as recreational escapism.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a kick back, put your feet up movie --- the kind that begs for a big bag of popcorn and offers plenty of escapism.

But the movie works as escapism even if you do know enough to come in out of the rain.

In the end, this movie is all about complete escapism and showing the audience a wonderfully good time.

If these become any more prevalent, it will take to a whole new level the idea that movies are a form of «escapism.»

Ready Player One is a movie about virtual reality escapism, so it feels like the main unifying theme is «nostalgic virtual reality sci - fi and fantasy.»

Because entertainment, escapism, and explosions aren't all the movies are good for... (And yes, we mean the 2016 reboot).

The Movies - Constructions Of Reality And Sources Of Metaphors (04/03/01) You can still go to movies for pure entertainment and «escapism,» but don't disregard the impact of movies on our culture and miss the opportunity to draw from them lines, meanings, and metaphors that are useful in your mediation praMovies - Constructions Of Reality And Sources Of Metaphors (04/03/01) You can still go to movies for pure entertainment and «escapism,» but don't disregard the impact of movies on our culture and miss the opportunity to draw from them lines, meanings, and metaphors that are useful in your mediation pramovies for pure entertainment and «escapism,» but don't disregard the impact of movies on our culture and miss the opportunity to draw from them lines, meanings, and metaphors that are useful in your mediation pramovies on our culture and miss the opportunity to draw from them lines, meanings, and metaphors that are useful in your mediation practice.