Sentences with phrase «old tropes with»

I still enjoyed the first movie more, but that's only because it introduced me to the world and the characters so brilliantly, engaging me in the quirky relationship between boy and dragon, mixing age - old tropes with oodles of heart.

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Do not concern yourself with the tired old trope about jump - shooting teams in the playoffs.

Bowed down with the weight of the past, rushing through their stories to solemnly validate that heritage, they rob us of the moments in the present when those same old reliable tropes can kindle once again.

Sheridan again displays flair in his writing, breathing life into old crime movie tropes with three - dimensional characters

The film starts off gloriously enough with a brilliantly filmed action piece set in Mexico City's Day of the Dead parade, but Mendes and crew soon settle into a muddled, anti-climactic mishmash of old tropes and familiar ideas.

Attenborough's heartfelt admiration for the man's philosophy of resistance through peace is indisputable, yet it is expressed exclusively in conventional coffee - book epic tropes that render it a swollen underdog tale, with Gandhi as the exotic center of a huge, guest - star cast of Hollywood Yanks (Martin Sheen, Candice Bergen) lending liberal cred and old - pro Brits (Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard) supplying Imperial villainy.

Writer - director - star Michael Rosenbaum indulges in countless old - hat genre tropes in Back In The Day, a tale of an average Joe who goes home for his high - school reunion, pals around with buddies, and tries to rekindle a romance with his ex.

If director Bruce McDonald proved anything with acclaimed genre darling Pontypool, it's that he's not afraid to think way outside of the box when it comes to deconstructing old tropes.

Find reason there for the caricatured white trash pastiches serving as Maggie's family (and additional pathos in Maggie's need for a father figure), the boxing - trainer archetype, the old fighter Scrap (blind in one eye and living in a tiny room at the gym), the evil Drago Eastern Bloc nemesis, and the rags - to - riches sports story into noble - cripple tropes that worked in 1962 with Requiem for a Heavyweight.

The horror - film tropes resurface only intermittently in their later films: a hand bursting out of the ground, recalling the final shot of Carrie, during the prison break in 1987's Raising Arizona (a shot also used in The Evil Dead); the wood chipper that in Fargo (1996) is put to the grisly use that Marty had intended for his incinerator; Anton Chigurh's slasher murders in No Country for Old Men (2007); and, most acutely of all, in Barton Fink (1991), a film about a writer's worst nightmare, writer's block, complete with sweating wallpaper, expanding plumes of blood, and a hellfire climax.

Right under their nose, their 15 year old son Chris (Travis Trope) is sexting with Hannah (Olivia Crocicchia) but he has been so far desensitized by hard core smut online (we're talking humiliation, bondage and then some) that having any normal teenage encounter is not possible.

Maybe this is why the filmmakers have jettisoned most of the old fogy Gene Roddenberry tropes and pitched their cybertent with the under - 25 set — the Twitter Trekkies.

-- but it's shot through with an infectious exuberance and attention to detail that reinvigorates old tropes.»

That subtle leaning on tropes but using them as springboards for substance as well as style is what gives Hap and Leonard its intriguing, engaging appeal; Purefoy's East Texas charm and Kenneth Williams» hot - tempered intensity fit together like old friends really do, with each one enjoying the chance to deliver the pulpy dialogue.

And I guess that's just stayed with me... using those old, conventional Hollywood tropes and then just turning them upside down, or inside out.»

(In a clever subversion of an old trope, this film offers a small - town diner where a table full of gossipy old men — with Bruce Dern as their ringleader — pass judgment on everyone's comings and goings.)

This raunchy look at growing up in a broken home hits all of the classic tropes with panache — living in the shadow of an older sibling, an absentee mother, nursing a crush on the high - school bad boy and the student - teacher friendship.

The film's plot also feels like a derivative and Goth - infused mash - up of the age - old werewolf vs. vampire trope, mixed with the bullets and leather stylings of The Matrix (as it happens, Underworld's 2003 theatrical release was sandwiched by the two Matrix sequels).

Blame and One Percent More Humid repeat the tired trope of female students having affairs with their older male teachers, a familiar storyline on just about every teen - oriented TV series, though their emphasis on the strengths and dangers of teen girl friendships was strong.

Certainly, the old tropes of historic publishing remain — the feel and smell of a book, the pleasure of holding it, the sense of tradition you get sitting by a fire with a novel.

This was a fun read, in the way that the older Harlequin Presents books can be (a good story and not tied down with the typical overused tropes).

The first major deviation from the Souls series is the setting, with Bloodborne eschewing many of the fantasy realm tropes in favour of a grim, Victorian London-esque environment that conjures up fond memories of the old PSX Nightmare Creatures.

Similarly, the game feels ancient in the way it's designed and comes with some tropes synonymous with the classic action platformers of the PlayStation 2 — and honestly, I appreciated it all the more for having that gritty, low - poly, old school look and feel.

By subverting old - school gaming tropes with unique hacking mechanics, Hack «n» Slash allows non-programmer players to experience that same sense of mystery and discovery.

Despite these claims, Tokyo RPG Factory shows that with its old - school turn based battle system and typical RPG adventure tropes, I Am Setsuna proves that it still has what it takes to contend with the big boys.

You're rarely short of things to entertain yourself with in The Witcher 3's quasi-open world, then, and all the better that you're in a universe that involves the supernatural without leaning on the same old Tolkien fantasy tropes.

Insofar as the new abstract painters employ old tropes and methods with a certain insouciant abandon, one might call them the new casualists.

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