Sentences with phrase «obvious debt»

Thus while his Innerspace is in obvious debt to such innocuous Saturday afternoon fare as 1968's Fantastic Voyage and 1957's The Incredible Shrinking Man, it's kind of coarse — like The Incredible Shrinking Man might've been 15 years later, or like the rest of Dante's oeuvre, including Matinee, is.

Critics Consensus: Gringo rounds up a bafflingly overqualified cast for a misfire of a comedy that's fatally undermined by its messy plot, poorly conceived characters, and obvious debts to better films.

Gringo's obvious debt to the works of Tarantino and the Coen brothers give it a tone that's too arch and haphazard to keep the audience rooted in its characters.

Critic Consensus: Gringo rounds up a bafflingly overqualified cast for a misfire of a comedy that's fatally undermined by its messy plot, poorly conceived characters, and obvious debts to better films.

But any resemblance to America's current political plight, intentional or otherwise, is far slighter than the obvious debt the computer - generated carnage owes to the September 11th attacks, which are repeatedly and graphically evoked in the Chicago - set finale, with its crumbling towers and ash - clouds that swell and billow down city blocks.

by Walter Chaw Ferociously patriotic but lacking in the epic scope suggested by its obvious debt to Sergio Leone's late masterpieces, pastiche - meister Robert Rodriguez's Once Upon a Time in Mexico is a magnification of John Woo in a lot of the same ways that Woo was a magnification of Leone — a post-post modern exercise bound together with a compelling sense of style but an alarming dearth of even the basics of sense.

Yes, it's a bit derivative, owing an obvious debt to Gareth Edwards's Monsters from 2010 and a slightly less obvious one to John Hillcoat's post-apocalypse drama, The Road (2009).

With an obvious debt to Willy Lowman, the traveling salesman / father icon of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Daniel Wallace takes the story a bit further, allowing his protagonist to act out and attempt to act through the exaggerated yet serious dynamics of this father / son relationship while inviting the reader to symbolically do the same.

Tanner's Raising of Lazarus owes an obvious debt to Rembrandt, but what other painters made an impression on him?

Indeed, the largest group, begun in 2013, owes an obvious debt to the vertigo - inducing Op paintings of Bridget Riley.

Their all - over smears have an obvious debt to Abstract Expressionism, perhaps closest in style to those like Alfred Leslie and Jim Dine who pushed into Pop Art and realism — or like Wayne Gonzales and his grisaille parking lots today.

However, despite this painting's obvious debt to physicality of paint and the effect of gravity upon it, «Waterfall» retains a sense of delicacy, creating a tension between the tempestuous and tranquil aspects of the natural world.

In turn, his paintings from 1976 through the 1980s have an obvious debt to late Rothko, and he worked on the floor like Jackson Pollock.

They're not in any obvious debt to anything, and they seem to be things that you have to find each time.

Shrobe has an obvious debt to Modernism as well as to older art.

The boring Night and Day (2008), a twenty - minute - plus video installation of a series of Chinese paper lanterns resembling the solar system's planets switching on and off, owes an obvious debt to Creed's Work No. 227, the lights going on and off, which won the Turner Prize in 2001.

It is hard not to be enamoured with the vibrancy of these paintings, but I find it hard to believe that no one mentions the obvious debts she incurs in their genesis.

These have an obvious debt to Vija Celmins, but their low horizons extend the floor sculpture into perspectival space.

His line owes an obvious debt to de Kooning — «The way he used that line,» Diebenkorn once exclaimed, «that was really it for me!»