Sentences with phrase «much homage to»

For a title that pays so much homage to Final Fantasy Tactics, it's baffling how much it gets wrong, and that's unacceptable on a handheld where strategy RPGs are well made and plentiful.

It's entirely another to pay so much homage to it, especially considering what they're paying homage to and why.

«For The King is a passion project for us and very much an homage to the RPG genre,» said Colby Young, Game Designer of IronOak Games.

An early example was Betty Cavanna's 1946 novel Going on Sixteen, which was as much an homage to as an imitation of Daly's novel.

As much an homage to classic children's stories as a fantastic yarn in itself, Valente's richly worded story sends a girl with bottomless wells of pluck on a voyage into a strange, scary, and silly world.

Where the Journey Leads: If only the pioneers who followed the famed explorers paid as much homage to Native American cultures as this traveling exhibition does.

Heathers Year: 1988 Director: Michael Lehmann As much an homage to»80s teen romps — care of stalwarts like John Hughes and Cameron Crowe — as it is an attempt to push that genre to its near tasteless extremes, Heathers is a hilarious glimpse into the festering core of the teenage id, all sunglasses and cigarettes and jail bait and misunderstood kitsch.

As much an homage to this particular action adventure subset as it is a well - built entry in it, Axiom Verge draws so much from so many places, it's almost a part of the experience just looking for it's influences among the darkly colorful underworld it inhabits.

The Mummy Returns isn't so much an homage to the classic horror flicks of the 1930s so much as an attempt to play oneupsman to all of the summer blockbusters to have been released in the interim years after 1998, and in so doing, it exists only as mindless fodder for strict popcorn movie fanatics.

I wanted it to be very much an homage to Simon and it feels an appropriate film to be that... Let me go back.

It pays as much homage to gaming as Scott Pilgrim VS The World if not more and at levels easier understood by non-gamers.

The film is filled with much homage to the original, including the fact that Oz works at the Baum Brothers Circus and that, after beginning in black and white, the film erupts into beautiful, cheerful color.

Where the film finds its biggest faults is in its college setting; it feels like a strange choice to make a child's movie that pays so much homage to 1980s film depictions of college.

Not exact matches

Apple's iPhone event today was as much about the highly - anticipated iPhone 8 and iPhone X as it was an homage to the company's impressive feats with consumer technology over the last 10 years.

The result was the #backthatSaaSup campaign: an homage to the»90s (the glory days for much of the target audience), and an educational platform for SaaS data protection.

Now that Cheever's voice has been silenced by death, it is time for homage to his much underpraised work.

The show One Day at a Time doesn't look like much at first glance and definitely not so if you aren't familiar with the 1975 classic it's produced in homage to.

2016 International Chardonnay Symposium Pays Homage To France Producers from the birthplace of Chardonnay, and a much - anticipated French Forum panel discussion, -LSB-...]

Audi has already paid homage to how much Le Mans has had an influence on their road cars, and now there's a video directly celebrating years of success in endurance racing.

For all of the above and much more, mothers are irreplaceable and extraordinary today we celebrate their immeasurable gift It is a day to pay them homage whether dead or alive.

She also pays homage to her much - publicized singing skills, which were cultivated in a musical childhood in Forest Hills, Queens, in the house where she still resides.

An homage to the much pricier Chloe «Harper» (as seen here), this lace up boot features a chunky block heel and lug sole, perfect for withstanding the dangerous pothole - laden city streets.

Directed by and starring James Franco, this film is much more of an homage to the cult classic that is The Room, as well as a nod to the passion it takes to make something so terrible.

But Sega are doing exactly the right thing, paying homage to the original with the same goofy feel that made it so much fun.

Director Todd Phillips, who co-wrote the script with Scot Armstrong, may not expect us to read very much into that cinematic homage.

But intertextuality forms the backbone of this body of work, with each refresh paying homage to a new wave of classical horror tropes via cinematography, music and familiar dialogue from the vaults of Hollywood horror — much to the delight of genre boffins everywhere.

The film is such an homage to The Endless Summer, the old documentary that turned the planet onto surfing just as much as the Beach Boys did.

The score lends itself to both sides as well, at times capturing the familiar romance of France that we all know and love and at others paying homage to a much older time in cinema.

The Shape of Water feels very much in tune with them and on this occasion he taps into the Cold War paranoia of America while also recognising the psyche that plagued the country during the secrecy of the Roswell incident and pays homage to the old Hollywood monster movies of yesteryear.

The result is odd and not always successful, and at over two hours may be too much of a good thing, but it is full of magnificent moments and loving details, and together with Volume 1 it is the ultimate homage to the films that shaped the creative identity of Tarantino.

This movie does not show much interest in paying homage to the franchise.

The new dark comedy «Rough Night» pays homage to all of them... Maybe a little too much.

Much of the evening was spent paying homage to him — and poking good - natured fun at him.

However, when it does work, it works well, touching all of the required bases in order to pay homage to the men and women of the Coast Guard, restoring its reputation in the minds of anyone that views the film that it is much more than a place to avoid more dangerous military service.

But does all the referencing and homage — and not just to Demy, but also to Golden Age Tinseltown productions like An American in Paris, jazz greats like Miles Davis, and even (in the film's funniest scene) the English new - wave band A Flock of Seagulls — add up to much of anything original?

Boasting 24 extra minutes, enhanced special effects and sound design as well as re-editing, Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut is still very much a Gen Y homage to Kubrick, Lynch and Raimi.

So much of «Fargo» is rooted in the past and each season pays homage to a different Coen brothers movie.

The films scare tactics were awesome.I havent jumped in my seat so much in years.The film was totally a Spielberg homage right down to the fact that the films kids were making their own movies as Spielberg did as a kid.

While the original The Strangers didn't work for me (I felt like it was too much homage, especially to Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and not enough of its own personality), I'm curious to see what director Johannes Roberts does with the sequel.

This praiseworthy homage, directed by Hsiao - hsien Hou, doesn't provide much of a linear plotline worth following, unless you care to be distracted by foul - mouthed Suzanne's annoying caterwaul and her selfish concerns.

Though the «sex equals death» rule isn't as prominent in modern horror movies that defy those decades - old tropes, «It Follows» is very much a retro homage to «70s and «80s genre classics, from the «Halloween» - esque synth score, to the striking similarities to «Nightmare on Elm Street,» both in Jay's perpetual helplessness and the film's dreamlike atmosphere.

Director Steven Spielberg and director J.J. Abram's nostalgic, monster - mash homage to their own movie - obsessed childhoods, «Super 8» tells the story of a gaggle of»70s kids who accidentally capture something much more unnerving — and deadly — on their Super 8 film than the homegrown zombie movie they've set out to shoot.

Excellent (4 stars) Rated G Running time: 83 minutes Studio: New Video Group 2 - Disc DVD Extras: California Quail Bonus Short; Urban Legends; Origins of the Flock; Special Homage to Connor; Mark Bittner's Home Movies; Please Don't Feed the Birds; Music Video: Ballad of the Brooklyn Parrots; Behind the Scenes; Parrots Around the World; Flock Updates; Mark Bittner and Judy Irving Update; Original Theatrical Trailer; plus two new films by director Judy Irving «Christmas at the Bait Shop» and»19 Arrests, No Convictions»; and much more.

Trouble Is My Business, the feature directorial debut of Tom Konkle, is not so much a neo-noir thriller as an homage to noirs of years past.

As such, it isn't a film where the Coens strive to connect with audiences in a meaningful way, but it's more of an homage to a book they thoroughly enjoy, wanting the tale to be told, in as much as can be done in a film, the way they think it was meant to.

Greenscreen dominates countless shots, for instance, but however much the technique has been refined over the years, the seams show here as if in some compositing homage to rear - projection.

It's worth noting, too, that Cronenberg's decision to shoe - horn in moments of body horror, presumably in homage to his much more talented father, fall entirely and almost comically flat, while the pervasive lack of momentum ensures that Antiviral fizzles out to an astonishing degree long before it reaches its half - baked climax.

Too much of the new Ghostbusters is concerned with paying homage to the first movie, from the use of Ray Parker Jr.'s theme song to the incorporation of the Ghostbusters logo into the plot (the logo comes to life as an evil spirit).

It also feels like a perfect film for the times: the US box office successes of both Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty are indicative of a period in which Americans are much more reflective and self - critical than is customary; aside from its homage to the country's most revered president, Spielberg's film is a reminder of the enduring battle between American idealism and bigotry, and between its White House and Congress.

Never before have I played a Dynasty Warriors spinoff that pays as much respect and homage to its original source material.