Sentences with phrase «on mythos»

This new take on the mythos of the series is apparently «filled with a satirical sense of humor, offering a potent counterpoint to the bleak surface trappings of the setting.»

Any monsters with a symbol matching the Mythos Card will activate during this phase, and will then proceed to move one space along the black or white arrows depending on which color the symbol is located within on the Mythos Card.

On Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 7:00 p.m., the Cannon Beach History Center & Museum welcomes Oregon author and Professor Dr. Doug Deur for a presentation on the mythos of Oregon.

From this point on Mythos seemed to have random aggressive reactions to dogs, some he would walk by without a care in the world, some he would lunge at, and for the longest time we didn't know what it was that really triggered him.

Followed Runic from back as flagship seattle working on mythos and I love their single player action rpg Torchlight!

Based on the mythos of the graphic novels and TV show of the same name, The Walking Dead: Part I - A New Day centers on new protagonist, Lee Everett.

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In our own day, inspired by centuries of moral fiction and visual mythos, novelists and rock composers have made her Jesus» faithful Greek or Eurasian prostitute, anguished because he won't love her and she doesn't know how to love him; earthy, beautiful, the saintly hooker who spices the story of the Galilean on his way to Superstardom.

(On the relation between mythology, philosophy, and science, cf. J. J. Bachofen, Der Mythos von Orient und Okzident, Munich, 1926; Leopold Ziegler, Ueberlieferung, Leipzig, 1940; Georg Koepgen, Die Gnosis des Christentums, Leipzig, 1940.)

Frye goes on: «Analogically, then, the symbol is a monad, all symbols being united in a single infinite and eternal verbal symbol which is as dianoia, the Logos, and, as mythos, total creative act.

This is a well - scripted comedy that takes the superhero mythos and turns it on its ear, creating an experience that, while somewhat predictable, is also very funny.

Whether you look at this whirling dervish and see a gleefully grandiose entertainment or a depressing exemplar of the culturally degraded present moment will depend on your investment — in all senses of that term — in Marvel's carefully cultivated mythos.

Unlike video game adaptations like the Tomb Raider series or Assassins Creed, which have to contend with years of accreted mythos and complicated character - building, Rampage was always going to be on pretty safe ground, as long as it featured a giant ape, lizard, and wolf pounding some buildings to powder.

I can't defend it on an inventiveness level, but «Child's Play 3» is an inimitably sinister, underrated trek back to the Good Guy mythos and the funhouse finale is like a florid Dario Argento throwback with red and purple gel lighting galore.

However, before we carry on about sequels and / or related upcoming monster movie reboots, we first need to see if Dracula Untold goes over well enough to warrant this iteration of the Dracula mythos being continued.

Teaser trailers have revealed that this modernized interpretation of the Superman origin and mythos will include some deep, probing questions about what it is to live as a god - like orphan on an alien world; however, we've seen little to no action from this Superhero blockbuster.

Ragnarok still favors bathos over emotional culmination, jest over zest, toilet humor over deadpan humor, broad strokes over character - driven subplots, saucy rewrites over respectful updates on Norse mythos.

The other decided on a safer approach that looked back at the former series» high point while adding little to the mythos he so clearly admired.

But whereas Transformers made some use of existing mythos and characters, Battleship was starting from scratch, with nothing more than a familiar title and the notion of ships firing shots at one another to go on.

No, this wickedly endearing effort takes on the man, and the mythos behind the man, and then, for good measure, the woman behind both that made them legendary.

So we enter Emmerich's long - gestating stab at the Shakespeare mythos, which focuses on de Vere (Rhys Ifans, giving better than he gets) in the closing days of Elizabeth I's (Vanessa Redgrave) regime.

This new take on the iconic Marvel Comics mythos assembled an impressive lineup of young, up - and - coming actors, such as Michael B. Jordan and Miles Teller.

by Walter Chaw A genuinely good updating of the James Bond mythos from plastic, moldering relic to bloody, sweaty sociopath drunk on his own virility and general misanthropy, Martin Campbell's Casino Royale — though the umpteenth chapter in a decades - old testosterone fever dream — is very much a part of this day and age.

The guys go over some of the most notable Frankenstein mythos entries in cinema (the 1931 classic, Mel Brooks» Young Frankenstein, The Hammer entries, etc) and touch on some of their favorites.

Release: Friday, March 25, 2016 [Theater] Written by: Chris Terrio; David S. Goyer Directed by: Zack Snyder I see civil war erupting between the die - hards and the casual - hards (and let me quickly interrupt myself here: casual - hards are people like me who don't really have a firm grasp on either the mythos or even all of the character trajectories... Continue reading Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

The latter are shorter and more structured than their Con counterpart, but manages to leave a similar impression — namely, that Man of Steel aims to offer a nuanced and serious take on the Superman mythos, befitting the contemporary age of superhero movies (and influenced by DC Comics» «New 52 ″ reboot).

What follows in «Jigsaw» is academic, a thin variation on a tired theme that feels especially needless given that the most recent addition to the mythos was released seven years ago.

The game provides no mythos to chew on, no interesting concepts to discuss with your fellow players.

Wakanda is fictional, vibrantly brought to the big screen by writer / director Ryan Coogler (Creed, Fruitvale Station) and his co-writer Joe Robert Cole, drawing on decades of Marvel Comics mythos.

Batman Ninja — The completely unimaginatively - named Batman Ninja is an interesting new take on the Batman Mythos.

And with Lawrence Kasdan, who co-wrote «The Empire Strikes Back» and «The Force Awakens,» and his son Jonathan on board as co-screenwriters, «Solo» is well - grounded in the «Star Wars» mythos.

While he's an integral part of the Batman mythos, he's often used as a plot device that simply exists to give Batman information on whatever crime he's attempting to solve.

Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant offers a refreshingly original take on the vampire mythos while providing an entertaining platform for a somewhat unpolished teen - movie.

So we don't know how much about this re-imagining of the King Kong mythos beyond the fact that Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, John Goodman, Tom Wilkinson, John C. Reilly, Samuel L. Jackson, Shea Whigham, and Samuel L. Jackson will presumably come face - to - face with a massive gorilla on an isolated and deadly island.

The latter includes tweets, blurbs, «paid editorial» in reputable newspapers, explicating and celebrating the film and its mythos, online features speculating on the film's loose ends and on where Marvel movies can possibly go next, and fan commentary parsing with Talmudic exactitude the sources of individual images or moments in the film, tracing them back to specific frames in specific issues of specific comics.

The silver screen X-Men mythos has become a convoluted mess of timelines, narratives, and tenuous connections, and that is why Logan is not going to focus on them.

Not good art because they seldom have anything to say about the society that spawned them (and because the directors of these messes are generally assclowns) and not good travelogues, either, what these little straight - to - home penny dreadfuls tend to be are tired variations on the same quasi-Christian mythos, tarted up with surprisingly good production values and the kind of cheap thrills that kept EC Comics, then Hammer Films, then Italian giallos, in business.

Mixing loosely interpreted Newtonian Physics and magnetic field principles with a story unashamedly rooted in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, this is a game that would be quite easy to overlook amidst the myriad platformers on the market.

And, they're relatively new to the Black Panther mythos, having been introduced by writer Ta - Nehisi Coates for his ongoing run on the Black Panther comic book with designs from Brian Stelfreeze, who drew the series» first arc.

14 Gods have been included: Zeus, Hera, Posieden, Demeter, Hestia, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Ares, Apollo, Artemis, Athena, Hermes, Dionysus and Hades Cards are ornately decorated Card Statistics are editable Statistics are based on research from Steven Fry's Mythos.

The German automaker is offering three new exterior colours on the new top - end variant inclusive of Florett silver, Mythos black and monsoon grey.

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Gritty, clever, and gonzo, this fresh take on the vampire mythos gets darker and creepier as the pages turn.

Masculinity and virility are closely tied in many human cultures and passed on through the generations via cultural mythos, perceived gender roles, and media.

Platforms: PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 Reviewed On: PC Developer: Firaxis Games Publisher: 2K Singleplayer: Yes Multiplayer: Yes No - one would have believed, in the last years of the twentieth century, that Mythos Games would create UFO: Enemy Unknown, one of the greatest tactical sci - fi titles of its age.

Indeed, managing the creature count is important because if a Mythos Card tells you to open a Gate at a location where one is already active a Monster Surge occurs, meaning horrible beasts immediately spawn from every single open Gate currently on the board.

Indeed, the concept of grimoire (additional text content that gives the player more backstory on the world) seems to come from the remains of that original plot and mythos.

Others might be interested in Marvelous» take on musou, with Fate / EXTELLA: The Umbral Star bringing its visual novel - inspired mythos onto Sony systems.

Items like Randall's journal entries and certain individuals I.D. Cards are strewn about the game's many chapters, and serve to expand on the game's mythos, though they're really mostly about Randall's background.

It was a cautionary tale more than a celebration of fell powers, and the details present in side quests and offhand remarks made it clear that the developers of Shadow of Mordor knew exactly where the game was celebrating Tolkien's mythos and where it was turning that mythos on its head.