Sentences with phrase «not parody»

«It's not a parody....

That's Machete Kills overall: a bad imitation, not a parody, of a genre that was already crazy to begin with.

It's not parody, this is not fun, nor funny, it's just a bad game.

This is not parody.

If the film copies the original shot for shot and has some identical dialogue, isn't it more of a copy and not a parody?

These are not parodies.

Topics include: using the «C - word» the most times allowed in a 15 rating, wanting to make an American action film that didn't parody anything, the social commentary on «Starbucking», the characters and the friends cast to play them, and Wright's directorial style.

But their pompous smarm isn't parodied (as in Woody's film) or scrutinized as an antithesis to emotional stuntedness (as in Baumbach's).

January 30, 2016 • No, this isn't a parody: The presidential candidate has a folk album.

Putting jokes in a horror movie isn't a new idea, of course, but 10 Cloverfield Lane doesn't feel like Evil Dead, Scream, or Shaun of the Dead; its humor isn't parody, caricature, or slapstick.

The Lampoon hasn't parodied a book in 40 years, since 1969's Bored of the Rings.

You mean Anonymous isn't a parody troll?

The subtle parodies the Rabbids make of the Super Mario characters maybe aren't parodied at all but a true reflection of what they've become.

Not exact matches

«Diversity trainings» have become the stuff of parody, and there's a body of evidence that suggests mandated one - off sessions do not have any effect.

GoldieBlox may not have won its fight for the right to parody, but the toy startup scored an unprecedented victory in February, becoming the first small business to air a commercial during the Super Bowl network telecast.

In a sketch that parodied the real - life events of Arie Luyendyk Jr.'s recent proposal on the ABC reality show, McKinnon as Mueller sat down with contestant Becca K. (Cecily Strong) to tell her he couldn't give her everything she wanted right now.

To date, there has not been a bright line rule with regards to parodies in the adult context.

Porn companies are able to get away with strikingly similar parodies of existing IP either by cutting secret deals with the original producers or by convincing courts that their films can't possibly be confused with said content.

While «The Daily Show» skewered nightly television news and «The Colbert Report» directly parodied the «O'Reilly Factor» in the same medium and format as the show, the universe of the media on the far right online isn't as coherent or visible, and the mediums for activism are ever - changing.

The monotone taglines, «Don't Be So Mayo» and «We Are Miracle Whip, and We Will Not Tone It Down,» were youth - pandering at its worst, enough that Stephen Colbert ran a parody of the commercial, throwing his support behind regular mayonnaise on his Comedy Central show.

This is the first time Google nabbed the top spot, although its position isn't that big of a surprise: The tech company is famous — even parodied — for its extensive, cushy, at times downright crazy seeming benefits, along with its talented, passionate workforce.

If you set out to write a parody of gun control, it might look like the real news from London, where guns don't kill people, knives do.

Moreover, it can not be denied that the recent HGTV parody on South Park had an apt title: «White People Renovating Houses.»

Between songs at the recent Henry Fonda Theater show, he smilingly pauses to denounce the ills of warmongering in the White House via a parody of Billy Joel, mouthing, «We didn't start the fire... oh wait, yeah we did!»

Parody is not a hate crime.

However, I think you know, otherwise you would not be able to parody it so well.

And those gods were an astrological parody for worship of THE SUN... You know that big bright hydrogen fusion machine in the sky that the church once believed orbited the Earth... See the only way to truly be religious and in particular a Christian is to not ask questions.

Been watching the new Weird Al videos today... Word Crimes is pretty awesome (though I wasn't familiar with the song it is parodying)

Not only did the Church believe that these gods had been shown up as shadows and parodies in light of the true God's self - revelation.

(Also: don't miss this Twitter account parody, John Yoda.)

I'm Pagan — I don't mind the parades or the parodies everyone makes of our holidays — all are welcome here.

Not so welcome is the fact that antiheroism, often in the form of parody or self - parody, exists alongside heroism: moreover, most presentations of moral heroism are handicapped by an overtly didactic, hard - sell approach.

But he does not leave philosophy untouched by parody.

Wow, you are such a parody of what this article is about, Even finished with a biblical verse, which doesn't actually have many objective interpretations, so you conveniently use the interpretation that best suits your point.

One could believe that Lewis was a theologically idiotic, reactionary old misogynist who couldn't write his way out of a wet paper bag, whose Narnia tales are a disgraceful blight on the landscape of children's literature, whose Aslan is a blasphemous parody of Our Lord, and — believing all that — one could still be a faithful Christian, even a devoted Anglican.

I saw the Pin to Pinterest, which didn't say it was a parody.

But when the gospel challenges and corrects the evils of this world, as we must do also, it does not use harsh rhetoric and name - calling, but parody and humor.

Furthermore, they can easily parody the whole position so that (as one critic, a friend of mine who is not unsympathetic to the wider process conceptuality, has phrased it) talk about divine memory may be taken as nothing more than indicating God's continually re-playing some old film or continually listening to some old soundtrack.

Like 2001, and not like Mission to Mars, Prometheus has no element of parody in its depiction of human grandiosity.

Making parodies and satire is NOT A CRIME HERE!!!

People in these islands died for the Latin Mass in opposition to Cranmer's parody of it, however beautiful its vernacular, and many of us are not prepared to forget that or jettison irresponsibly those sacred rites for which they died.

I am still not sure whether this was one among many examples of his famously weird sense of humour; was he offering an oblique parody of the prevailing Anglican (and secular) view of the Catholic attitude to sexual questions: that the Catholic Church, being run by ignorant celibate clergymen, is intrinsically hostile to all sexual activity, indeed to all sexual feelings of any kind?

As we know, Christian rap parodies are just not very good.

I don't know that I would use «parody» as my term of choice.

Cornel West is not an academic celebrity — he is the parody of an academic celebrity.

The problem is, most people did not see that it was a parody and attacked Dr. J for his poor or bogus research, even though I put a zinger in everyone just in case.

That's why I don't like Darwinfish — I'm going to put an Atheist Atom symbol on my car — it's a positive symbol discussing what we do believe, and it fits my beliefs, rather than a negative defining us as an offshoot or parody of religion.

This is so not only of visual phenomena but also, and perhaps especially, the linguistic because the great bulk of language on television — and radio too, for that matter — is merely a parody of civilized speech.

I wish this was a parody, but it's not.]

It would be interesting to compare Hartshorne's comments here with those of Maritain in his little book on evil, and with the Thomistic doctrine that homo prima causa mali.17 It is rather to be feared that Hartshorne does not take account of the full complexity of the view he parodies.