Sentences with phrase «oddball takes»

With the supporting case I'm looking at titles like the aforementioned Pikmin and Rayman along with oddball takes on classic series» as we had with Hyrule Warriors.

We're still not sure if players can keep their attention split throughout an entire game, but we're excited to see how this oddball take on co-op actually plays.

Released in 1993, the game offered an oddball take on the sport that drew in both fans of Madden and gamers who generally didn't play sports titles.»

Not exact matches

It is easy to see how laws enacted in good faith can fail to take the beliefs of oddball groups into account, often unwittingly.

But if you get participation rates up to 40 percent or 50 percent or 60 percent, then taking part will come to seem normal, and some of the behaviors that used to seem commonplace in Harlem — teenage pregnancy, drug use, dropping out of school — will start to seem like the oddball path.

Taking a fresh look at job postings, one «oddball» job description caught his eye.

Consider the oddball doctors who took tobacco money to deny a link between cigarette smoking and cancer, or the handful of scientists who take oil and coal money to discredit global warming science, or the people who have done both.

The courts are racially segregated; I was on the Irish court, which took all the oddballs, but there was also an Italian court, a Jamaican court, a Blood court, etc..

Take a look at Ed Wood, his amazing biopic about the world's worst filmmaker and the oddballs who surround him.

CONTACT MUSIC — Apr 26 — Oddball WEEZER star Rivers Cuomo... «I signed up to eHarmony once, and it took three hours to fill out that online form - so many personal questions.

And he Anyone who's ever had to take public transit knows that seeing weird subway people or the occasional oddball character is par for the course of city life.

Anyone who's ever had to take public transit knows that seeing weird subway people or the occasional oddball character is par for the course of city life.

A young woman orphaned in London is forced to take up residence with a group of oddball relatives at their farm.

But of course, it's Depp who steals the show once again, proving that he's at his best playing eccentric characters like Tonto, and it doesn't take a genius to realize that the oddball Comanche is the juicier of the two lead roles.

But for an atypical take on the human experience, check out these unusual museums and their oddball...

But when it emerged that «Monster House» creator Gil Kenan was set to take charge, The prospects of «Poltergeist» improved immeasurably: his films have precisely the right blend of spooky thrills, oddball invention and emotional heft to suit this story of a young girl abducted by vengeful ghosts.

Once you get through the story, the game really opens up because you're not worrying as much about trying to complete the game, and you can concentrate on things like saving all of those oddball survivors, taking out the wonderfully erratic psychos in the game or having a friend drop in to help you cut and shoot your way through the unbelievable number of zombies that Blue Castle manage to pack into a single space.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

She shares this inside information with the other guests at the table, a decidedly oddball collection: There's the Kepps (Robinson and Kudrow), a boring couple who run a diner together; Walter (Merchant), a weirdo who may or may not have just come straight from prison; Renzo (Revolori), a horny teen who can't help but take terrible advice from his mother; and Jo (Squibb), a retired pot - smoking nanny.

I couldn't help but think that this is a movie better suited to on demand, where people are more willing to take chances on oddball stuff.

The core of the movie is about a sensitive boy and a grumpy girl who plan to meet for a private adventure; he escapes from his scout camp, she temporarily runs away from home, and while this sweet, odd, and adorable romance takes center stage, Anderson (as usual) populates the periphery with all sorts of colorful oddballs.

One of the greatest oddball action movies of all time is getting a four - color take: John Carpenter and Eric Powell have created an on - going Big Trouble In Little China series for BOOM!

With a reputation for being an oddball, no - one batters an eyelid when he starts to take orders from Frank (the bunny) and speak out against authority figures like Patrick Swayze's bizzarro motivational speaker.

I'm one of those oddball folks that considers Fantastic Mr. Fox as Wes Anderson's best film, so next year's Isle of Dogs has me very excited for the auteur to take another dive into the stop motion pool.

He brings his own oddball sincerity and dedicated methodology, and there is no better actor suited to taking on this role than Franco — who nails it from start to finish.

Inherent Vice (Warner, Blu - ray, DVD, Digital HD), Paul Thomas Anderson's loopy take on Thomas Pynchon's dope - infused private eye novel, earned Anderson an Oscar nomination for his ingenious screenplay adaptation and critical raves for the rich pageant of eccentrics and oddballs bouncing through 1970 Los Angeles with a post-sixties hangover.

When Sami's job falls through, he takes a low - end job and joins with a gang of oddball friends in hopes of convincing his childhood sweetheart that he's far more successful than he truly is... or perhaps ever could be.

Given Franco's notorious penchant for performing oddball stunts, many thought his decision to channel Tommy Wiseau in a movie about the making of The Room was just another case of the actor being weird for no good reason, but it appears he actually took the performance very seriously.

And though second billed in the credits, Mr. Lennon is not so much co-star as an impish member of the company, an ensemble of oddballs goofing behind the ineffectual strutting of Lt. Goodbody (Michael Crawford, from Lester's earlier film The Knack... and How to Get It and later to star in Andrew Lloyd Webber's «Phantom Of The Opera») spouting his memoirs to the sympathetic German officer that has taken him prisoner.

Goldblum always manages to find a strange harmony between taking material seriously and deploying just enough oddball sensibility.

Working alongside Wilson creator Clowes, Johnson has a tough time balancing the films tonal shifts between oddball comedy, life affirming drama and romantically tinged musings and it often feels like the film is uncomfortable in its own skin as we're taken along from scene to scene and scenarios that worked in the graphic novel don't quite come across as well in the film treatment.

An astonishingly terrible debut, Killing Gunther follows several assassins, led by Taran Killam's Blake, as they come together to take down a fearsome and mysterious hitman called Gunther (Arnold Schwarzenegger)- with the film detailing the oddball crew's ongoing efforts at finding and killing Schwarzenegger's slippery character.

CURTAIN takes that route while still filling out the cast with an assortment of oddballs.

Points go to Sylvester McCoy who, coming from the school of Doctor Who, takes this oddball humour and works really well with it.

Tentatively attracted by his looks and oddball charm, she is quickly repulsed when Travis takes her to a high - end pornographic movie theater.

Celine Sciamma «s wonderful «Girlhood,» Jennifer Kent «s terrific «The Babadook,» Eskil Vogt «s shimmering «Blind,» John Michael McDonagh «s flawed but interesting «Calvary,» Amma Assante «s fresh take on the period drama «Belle,» Riley Stearns ««Faults «starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Noah Buschel «s «Glass Chin,» Angus MacLachlan «s Tribeca hit «Goodbye To All That, «the Zellner Brothers» oddball, offbeat «Kumiko the Treasure Hunter «and LGBT doc «Mala Mala «all made it onto an earlier incarnation of this list, so that should give you an idea of the kind of backstage horse trading that goes on...

In a clever twist on the found footage genre, the entire film takes place from the perspective of Brice's video camera as viewers slowly begin to suspect that the oddball client Josef might be more sinister than he initially seems.

An oddball sense of comedy has long been the Coens» hallmark, but the movie takes itself so painfully seriously that it's rarely funny.

Michael takes her up on the generous offer, as much because he was instantly smitten, as for the company of like - minded oddballs.

If you had the chance to thrash a fearsome Porsche 911 GT2 RS and an oddball Nissan Juke R around a track and down a drag strip you'd take it wouldn't you?

Brain Volumes Australopithecus: 350cc, 3 million years ago Homo erectus: 800cc, 1.5 million years ago Homo sapiens: 1,350 cc, Today Chimpanzee: 450cc, Today Just look at the facts: it took just over three million years for us to evolve from a creature that looked a bit like a chimpanzee into the disfigured oddballs we are today: naked, sweaty, upright, chatty, brainy weirdoes.

Every week or so, I take a journey down to the local fish wholesalers, where I purchase assorted feeders, dry goods and the occasional oddball fish — herp people are big on things like lungfish, electric eels, and the like.

WGTC writes: We take a look back at 9 very underrated video games, from oddball crime thrillers to big budget offerings that didn't get a fare shake.

Today, we take a look as to where is Rayman and why it is so important for the oddball character to be part of Ubisoft's success.»

There's a huge amount of content and variety in Yooka - Laylee, whether you're chatting with oddball characters, battling hulking bosses, taking on minecart challenges, arcade games, quiz shows, multiplayer games... and much more!

Along with the cult classics, there are some oddballs that are so obscure that even if they were denied home release indefinitely, Capcom might be forgiven for not taking the risk with them.

Added though, are VIP, where one person on each team is designated the VIP and only his death nets your team points; ASE Ball, which is similar to Oddball in Halo, where you gets points the longer you hold the ASE; Bounty Hunter, which takes Assassin Creed: Brotherhood's multiplayer mode (every player has a target and you only get points for killing that person); and Annexation, where teams try to take and hold a series of control points.

After taking a look at the Xbox brand's of 1st - party protagonists and antagonists, one sticks out as the perfect oddball choice for Soul Calibur VI.

Critics and fans have taken to «The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild» and «Super Mario Odyssey» while oddball sports game «Arms» has been welcomed as an innovative essential just as «Splatoon» was on the Wii U.

which took a deeper look into the history of this game and how it stands in the Mario series, «pulling up a few vegetables» of his own and sharing a fresh and unique viewpoint on the Mario series» oddball.