Sentences with phrase «obvious homage»

Phillips pays obvious homage to The Godfather, Easy Rider, Saturday Night Fever, and Dirty Harry, makes a semi-sly reference to insidious pod - child manifesto «Free To Be You and Me» (Owen Wilson meanwhile performs original - Hutch David Soul's schlock classic «Don't Give Up On Us Baby»), and, in the only thing approaching clever, casts Fred «The Hammer» Williamson as the duo's cranky police captain.

Obviously my look today includes one very obvious homage to the Southwest, this super fun straw cactus clutch, but it also includes another serious staple of any desert - dweller's lifestyle... the perfect leather sandal!

interesting puzzles, and the harsh sort of gameplay you should be expecting from a game that pays such obvious homage to the old school dungeon crawlers.

Listen in the first episode of season 3 and you'll hear some blatantly obvious homages.

The most obvious homage is the title, an amalgamation of Final Fight and Streets of Rage, but the ethos goes far beyond just the title.

(The obvious homage to the Scott Brown truck ad also gets points.)

An obvious homage to the lightsaber battle between Luke and Darth Vader in «Return of the Jedi,» the scene made me realize how astonishing it is that, as the Potter story stretched over seven books and 20 hours of film, it occasionally paid a debt to other tales («Lord of the Rings,» too) but always remained very much its own, unique epic.

In addition to the obvious homages to Disney films and Creature from the Black Lagoon, Del Toro explores ostracism and loneliness.

After we get through the obvious homage to Blazing Saddles with the opening credits, we see Seth MacFarlane arriving late to his own dual.

Well, that time comes soon enough, as you find yourself working for the soulless Joja corporation, which is an obvious homage to Amazon and other mega-corps.

The tale takes some farfetched turns, and its notions of love don't run particularly deep, but these sorts of things can be overlooked due to the film's obvious homage to the films of yesteryear, where a girl and a guy could fall madly for each other despite not having more than one conversation.

And the piece is beautifully shot with an obvious homage to Asimov's I, Robot.

While the title sequence tune by composer John Ottman is an obvious homage to the lilting lullaby that opens Rosemary's Baby, the scenes establishing David and Emily's escape into the country are straight ports from Bryan Forbes's The Stepford Wives.

In this intelligently written film, there are fun cameos by: Zelda Rubenstein who plays a helpful librarian with intimate knowledge of local legends; Scott Wilson, who plays Vernon's retired mentor; and the always - great Robert Englund who's the «Ahab» to Vernon, Doc Halloran (an obvious homage to The Shining).

While the unsettling violence and cold ambivalence of Huppert's performance here certainly recalls her work with Haneke (one scene in particular is an obvious homage), it is arguably just as much indebted to Chabrol's love of seedy melodrama and his signature affection for the moral spectacle of social transgression.

But even with the obvious homages to proggy sci - fi classic «2001: A Space Odyssey,» the film has an emotional weight and kick.

Serious Sam is an obvious homage to other games from its time such as Doom and Duke Nukem.

Seriously, this game has an entire introductory sequence that is an obvious homage to the opening credit sequences of James Bond movies while simultaneously putting them to shame.

Well, that time comes soon enough, as you find yourself working for the soulless Joja corporation, which is an obvious homage to Amazon and other mega-corps.

There's much more of an emphasis on atmosphere over narrative, levelling is ability - based instead of experience - based, and even the graphics and music is an obvious homage to that series.

The soundtrack is an obvious homage to the original Xenoblade, too; gone are the contemporary beats of Hiroyuki Sawano that rocked Xenoblade Chronicles X, and instead there are some obvious homages to the original game, with orchestral tracks accompanying your running across the wide open fields, more somber tunes in the claustrophobic areas, and a rocking electric guitar kicking in when battles begin.

For Revelations 2, Capcom digs into their back catalogue with «Ghouls «n Homunculi», an obvious homage to their classic, Ghouls «N Ghosts.

From the obvious homages to the most esoteric of references, Sonic Mania oozes an unmistakeable love for all things Sonic (well, all the good things), and lives up to the very best games the blue hedgehog has ever starred in.

One obvious homage is shown above.

Buckman's work is an obvious homage to Louise Bourgeois; to process the fraught emotions of her own mother's illness and passing, Buckman has drawn strength and inspiration from generations of women's lived experiences as artists, mothers, and individuals with fears and desires.

A squat toilet by Iranian artist Behdad Lahooti is an obvious homage to Duchamp's urinal, except Lahooti has charged his with political meaning by covering it with conjugations of the verb «to be free» in Farsi.

This integration of cultures, creeds and styles is demonstrated in Shire's Hannukkah Lamp, Menorah # 7 (1986), which displays an obvious homage to Bauhaus constructivism with a Memphis pastel palette, and a funky, almost sci - fi, «bad taste» re-envisioning of an ancient ritual artefact in a way that suggests alternative modes of living and practicing spirituality.