Sentences with phrase «n't lampoon»

There is no reason why Jacobs should not lampoon a book after a brief glance rather than dignifying it with a review, but it is a bit much to accompany the caricature with advice to the author on the virtues of close reading.

Not exact matches

The new Google Glass project lead — also the current Nest CEO and one of the founding fathers of the Apple iPod — plans to completely scrap the original and ridiculously lampooned product, The New York Times reports.

I'd be fine if the cartoon was lampooning an actual conservative belief or pointing out a real logical fallacy of conservative thought; but this doesn't seem to be doing that.

In «The Fightin» Side of Me,» he lampooned antiwar protesters: «I read about some squirrelly guy who claims he just don't believe in fightin» and I wonder just how long the rest of us can count on being free.»

He also knows — after having so much of his early career lampooned with the notion that he could not «win the big one» — that walking away a champion in his last game leaves a permanent marker of doing exactly that.

We were then lampooned for not winning anything even though we qualified for the champions league every year (this now seems to be a wonderful achievement since we failed last year) and have won the FA cup three times in the last four years.

How long before, the media decide to lampoon the current incumbent as Roy «don't talk to me about stats» Hodgson?

But if trashy lampooning by a convicted fraudster can not be ignored, who cares if we shout from rooftops that ours is a «religion of peace.»

But while she is the star of the show, the lampooning is not limited to the Iron Lady.

They lampooned the rally, and several Democratic legislators who were invited did not struggle to contain their enthusiasm.

He wasn't the first comedian to lampoon Adolph Hitler, even at that time, but his portrayal is likely the most revered.

The Campaign can't decide whether it wants to be an all - out lampoon, or a sharp - tongued satire, or even an earnest story of political redemption.

He's not in Mark Wahlberg's league, and 21 Jump Street isn't quite as funny as «The Other Guys,» but by lampooning himself here, Tatum has bought himself a grace period to grow in.

Uncertain whether or not to lampoon or truly lay into Godard, in the end this biopic falls between two poles: ironic, given its subject is one of the most decisively committed filmmakers ever.

Smith seems to be lampooning that motivation more than endorsing it, but as with so much of the rest of the film, the jokes just aren't funny.

Enter Franz Liebkind (Will Ferrell), clearly a Nazi sympathizer, but in the tradition of «The Great Dictator,» «To Be or Not to Be» and the like, Brooks relies on Ferrell's mastery of the absurd to lampoon Nazisâ $» to hilarious effect.

When they set out to create an animated satire of Donald Trump's presidency, the creators of Our Cartoon President faced the challenge of effectively lampooning the president in a climate that is not lacking for Trump - bashing.

And poorer Penelope Cruz (G - Force, Vicky Cristina Barcelona), as Guido's mistress, Carla: she has to prance around in an unintentional lampoon of sexiness — it's kinda like that Victoria's Secret commercial that Michael Bay recently directed, in fact — in an attempt to convey how insanely devoted to Contini she is, to the point of... well, I won't spoil, in case you insist on seeing Nine, but women who do what Carla does are not devoted — they're mentally ill.

Cameron Crowe's endlessly quotable screenplay wouldn't be quite the same without Cruise's comic timing as he bellows «Show Me the Money» and lampoons his own hot - shot persona.

The movie's old school conception of heroism and values wouldn't work without some nifty writing — Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely's script makes it clear Steve wants to go to war not to kill the enemy but to keep some other poor soul being killed — and a great central performance by Chris Evans's, who sublimates all the cockiness he displayed in Fantastic Four (and then expertly lampooned in Scott Pilgrim).

Not a terrible idea (i.e., making the boring, button - down dork the centre of a satirical romance) for a movie as self - serving, self - pitying, neo-Woody Allen ideas go, but as The Baxter unfolds with a suspiciously - familiar series of contrived situations, gentle misunderstandings involving homosexuality and a strange woman in your bed, and a parade of women so far out of Elliot's league as to render his eventual abandonment as inevitable as his ultimate match (with Cecil (Michelle Williams), likewise far out of his league) is unlikely, it becomes clear that the flick is just as stupid as that which it purports to lampoon.

At only 84 minutes, it's not an ordeal by any means, and the several solid chuckles lampooning the state of out potential future, as well as the ludicrous way we entertain ourselves (there is a TV show called, «Ow!

It certainly deserves the criticism, but the film works beyond satire — like but not quite as successfully as its predecessor in tone — to work wholly as an entry in the genre that's being lampooned, albeit one with tongue firmly in cheek.

First, it reaches across decades for flicks to lampoon, from Bob Dylan's Don't Look Back to «The Partridge Family» to to Great Balls of Fire to Ray, and does so with very little to tie these little vignettes together.

As they bumble around the situation, Oshima's script (with Tsutomu Tamura, Mamoru Sasaki, and Michinori Fukao) becomes slapstick satire, lampooning not just the inane rules that allow the state to execute somebody, but ethnic stereotypes and organized religion in general.

There just isn't a goddamned thing out to lampoon effectively.

«Get Out» hits with the impact of a bombshell in the supposed «post-racial» landscape of America, lampooning not the overtly racist (they're scary enough) but the affluent white liberal set who think they have transcended concerns of prejudice while remaining oblivious to their racial micro-aggressions.

The performances range from terrible - on - purpose (Fiennes, Close, and Jason Isaacs, whose first line as Pucci's father --»... You let your grades go now, maybe you don't get into a top - tier school» — hastily but explicitly lampoons the genre's default father - son conflict, thus throwing The Chumscrubber's true target of ridicule (movies about the middle - class rather than the middle - class itself) into sharp relief) to oblivious (Camilla Belle).

The film isn't without the occasional lull, especially as it spends an inordinate amount of time lampooning the live - action role playing world.

The characters are not only fairly bland, but they're also pretty much the exact stock characters lampooned by 2012's The Cabin in the Woods.

Pointing out the cliches of superhero flicks doesn't count for much when you fall for those same cliches yourself (the ending is especially snoozeworthy, and even more cliched than many of the superhero films it purports to lampoon).

While certainly not a terrible release, Sisters Generation doesn't stray far enough outside the box it lampoons to be considered a good game either.

Developer Xatrix didn't hold back from lampooning on redneck culture, with pork rinds and Googoo clusters providing our hillbilly heroes with health - restoring sustenance.

Sterling decided not to go through with the deal, even to write an article lampooning the company while also including their link as a joke, because the $ 100 he would have been paid wasn't worth it.

While such a relationship is not inherently a cause for concern, the lack of disclosure in the articles written by Mr. Tyler Wilde at PC Gamer while covering Ubisoft games and press releases reveals once again that the often lampooned call for «better ethics in gaming media» has a long way to go before any kind of universal transparency can be reached.

The Lowry exhibition, scheduled for June 2013, has received the most attention as it comes after critics lampooned the Tate for not displaying its collection of his paintings, and arguing that if they continued to do so the works should be sold.

In Not Everyone Feels Like They Have To Win All The Time both artists lampoon the inherit seriousness of art - making as they address themes of faith, death, failure and commodity culture.

Artist Olivia Locher, who scoured the statute books of all 50 states in America, discovering these peculiar eccentricities and many others, doesn't have the answers to these questions, but has created a series of striking photographic images lampooning some of the hundreds of decisions, big and small, made every year by local and state lawmakers.

Inhofe wasn't mindlessly saying a brief cold spell meant the collective whole of global warming was a hoax, he was lampooning the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and their predictions of warmer snowless winters (full text here).

As a result, the right to freedom of speech in the form of the right to discuss, debate and indeed lampoon religion is a fundamental feature of a free society, but the same arguments can not be applied to discussion of race...»

Increasingly, what's being parodied in satirical news reports isn't the subject matter of MSM news — there are limits to how effectively you can lampoon George W. Bush — but the media's voice itself.