Sentences with phrase «obvious comparison»

The original three Star Wars episodes stood as the most obvious comparison for Jackson's trilogy, whose classic literary origins helped them be taken more seriously.

The most obvious comparison for «wunderkind gone sour» in recent memory is M. Night Shyamalan, who was Oscar - nominated at 29 for making The Sixth Sense (the second highest - grossing movie of 1999) but hasn't directed a remotely well - received film since 2002's Signs.

At the mid-point this clever play with conventions descends into the kind of torture porn that presently dominates the genre, with a cruelty that drew obvious comparisons with Michael Haneke's Funny Games (1997).

As similes go, there is not an immediately obvious comparison between Singapore's legal market and an aircraft carrier.

A great newspaper movie of the old - school model, calling up not only obvious comparisons with «All the President's Men» and «Zodiac,» two movies with similar devotion to the sometimes crushingly boring gumshoe part of reportage, but also Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell shouting into adjacent phones in «His Girl Friday.»

A more obvious comparison to Black Mirror, and less successful because of the derivation, is Michael Almereyda's Marjorie Prime, a weaker and less effective version of Season Two's masterful «Be Right Back».

The $ 199.95 Invoke smart speaker from Harmon Kardon is the first to have Microsoft's Cortana onboard, and invites obvious comparisons with Amazon's Echo and Alexa.

Perhaps the most obvious comparison to make would be with Yaya Toure, with both men suffering from a crude misreading of their talents as pure physicality, when in reality both rely on their touch rather than their brawn to put in controlled midfield performances.

«Spotlight» is a great newspaper movie of the old - school model, calling up not only obvious comparisons with «All the President's Men» and «Zodiac,» two movies with similar devotion to the sometimes crushingly boring gumshoe part of reportage, but also Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell shouting into adjacent phones in «His Girl Friday.»

One is the obvious comparison issue — everyone has their favourite analogy for comparing broadband to other examples, from highways to eating too many potatoes at a buffet.

One of the first references that popped up after the deal was announced — other than the obvious comparison to the disastrous Time Warner - AOL merger — was to Verizon's recent attempt to create its own tech - news site, a short - lived effort known as SugarString.

Beyond the obvious comparisons of earnings and revenues to expectations, traders will also focus on forward guidance this week.

An obvious comparison is to Robert Frost's magnificent «Birches.»

Commentators here have been dragging out parallels of other brothers as they struggle to explain what happened, but they seem to have missed the obvious comparison: Jacob and Esau.

I know you are christian, I'm making an obvious comparison between the two.

The obvious comparison, although to a much greater degree is QB.

Puel himself is also in the market at around 33/1 (34.0) which looks rather big considering the obvious comparisons between himself and Arsene Wenger, who will likely have a say in who his successor is, just as Sir Alex did for Manchester United.

No two humans are quite the same, and despite some obvious comparison points (quietude, demeanor, defensive chops, anachronistic personal style, coachability, work ethic), Kawhi is not Tim Duncan.

On today of all days it is an obvious comparison to make, but then football very often has a habit of conveniently ignoring the obvious.

His natural predilection to drive forward with or without the ball draws an obvious comparison to Alves as well as Walker and Trippier.

There is an obvious comparison to make between Schoonmaker and current Michigan tight end Zach Gentry, who came to the Wolverines as a quarterback in 2015.

«Hurricane Katrina, which is the obvious comparison, in many ways was not as impactful as Hurricane Sandy, believe it or not,» said Cuomo.

Silda Wall Spitzer's absence might not be as glaring were it not for the obvious comparison of Huma Abedin, who has been active in Weiner's campaign from the beginning.

When you are looking for a dating site, the obvious comparison is between paid sites and a free online dating service.

Season 3 erupts from the earth in a brutal and mind blowing series of events that feel as grounded and real despite the obvious comparison to a theatrical play.

In the aftermath of the movie's first Cannes screening, many journalists made the obvious comparison with «Footloose,» in which teen rock lover Kevin Bacon runs up against buttoned - up priest John Lithgow.

Despite its obvious comparisons to The Hangover, Last Vegas possesses none of that film's distinctive aesthetic or scattered moments of subversion, and the appearance of Jerry Ferrara as the senior wolfpack's hapless fixer only cements the realization that what it resembles more than anything else is late - period Entourage.

Unlike A Clockwork Orange (the most obvious comparison) or Badlands, the film makes no attempt to link Bronson's violence to any larger trope outside himself.

It's an obvious comparison, but «Dear White People» reminded me of some of Spike Lee's earliest work, specifically «School Daze,» given its college campus setting.

I shouldn't make the obvious comparison but this definitely has the «if Wes Anderson made a horror movie» vibe, though it's really quite charming and enjoyable.

I think An Education will be a more interesting movie (obvious comparison I think), since at least some of the people in that movie have personalities.

There are obvious comparisons to Reservoir Dogs, but not even Tarantino could help himself keep the action confined to a warehouse for an entire running time, let alone stretch out one of his Mexican standoffs to some 70 minutes.

The most obvious comparison is Running Scared, another ultra-violent gangster opus involving a man with a checkered past searching with utter desperation for a boy, encountering all sorts of unsavory situations in his pursuit.

The forecast: A historical epic about African Americans and racism made by a black filmmaker sells for a lot of money at Sundance — the obvious comparison point is to 2016's «The Birth of a Nation.»

The obvious comparisons, though, are to Secret Window, Gore Verbinski's The Ring, and De Niro's own Godsend — put the three together with Adventures in Babysitting and you've got Hide and Seek.

But while those are obvious comparisons, they aren't inaccurate; the film, with it's super small cast and minute - by - minute struggle, really feels in line with the very first episode of The Walking Dead, which featured primarily one man coming to grips with his harrowing reality.

The most obvious comparison to make, of course, is to Woody Allen's black - and - white love - letter to New York Manhattan, but the inky, amorously lit cinematography also complements a score that heavily borrows from the films of the French New Wave — a fitting comparison since Frances Ha is more Stolen Kisses than Tiny Furniture, and one that gives the film a timeless feel that knowingly conflicts with its temporary themes.

The obvious comparison is with Tim Burton's Ed Wood, of course.

The obvious comparison artistically and in terms of commercial prospects is to Celine Sciamma's «Girlhood,» which, like «Divines,» was unveiled in Directors» Fortnight at Cannes.

One part intimate old school Western recalling William Wyler's The Big Country, another reveling in the Italian Spaghetti theatrics directors like Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) and Sergio Corbucci (The Big Silence) practically invented, the movie's most obvious comparison might actually be the works of playwright Tennessee Williams, the scenario at hand owing more to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof than it does Once Upon a Time in the West or Shane.

Audiences will undoubtedly drone over the obvious comparisons to «Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon» with its similar gravity - bending rules and ballet - like fight scenes, but what most Americans don't realize is that this particular genre (Wuxia, which typically incorporates fantastic abilities like flying) has been at the core of Chinese cinema for decades.

Given that it's set during the troubled presidency of Richard Nixon, the obvious comparison is with All The President's Men, the film about that other great Nixon - era scandal, Watergate.

(This, despite the fact that it is a much better movie than, to cite two obvious comparisons, once - frontrunner Avatar and once - co-frontrunner Gravity.)