Sentences with phrase «only as a genre»

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The glory days were over, and the sixth instalment sold only a fifth as many games as Guitar Hero 5 in its first week, and Activision shut down Guitar Hero operations in February, laying off 500 people and saying the move was «due to continued declines in the music genre.»

But as an exercise in style and genre, the film stands up - if only because Michael Bay's shameless, sweeping, dynamic style has been so influential in Hollywood since.

Wolfenstein — often credited as the game that launched the genre — looks positively rudimentary now, since it limited players to grid - like levels that had only one plane of action.

Chicago's annual Lollapalooza festival is one of the biggest music events the summer, not only drawing some of the world's biggest artists as headliners — this year included J. Cole, Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem and the Red Hot Chili Peppers among others — but also an eclectic, genre - hopping collection of artists who are making the music that matters (where else can you see Chris Stapleton, Leon Bridges, Mute Math, Grimes and a supergroup comprised of Big Boi and Phantogram in the same afternoon?)

They must be appreciated not only in their particular individuality of genre and style, but also as a coherent, internally connected organism of teaching.

There I only gave it a B + as a book of rock criticism, partly on the basis of its too - encyclopedic style, but in retrospect, my sense is the power of its basic ideas will make it something of a classic of the genre.

There are so many blogs today, and the only way to can get known or be noticed is being consistent and persistent, both on social media as well as other online communities relevant to your genre of blogging.

Videos showcase sugar baby essentials such as «Dressing for a Daddy» to how to avoid «Salt Daddies,» a certain genre of daddies who seem saccharine in the beginning only to forgo generosity well into the arrangement.

Edge Studio provides a large library of sample voice over scripts in a variety of genres such as PSA script announcements for voice actor practice and To report adult abuse, call (within New York State only): 1-844-697-3505 or contact the local county Department of Social Services Adult Protective Services.

Not only did that make it the most successful «R» - rated comedy ever, it took over the crown as the third - biggest «R» - rated picture of any genre.

It demands from its viewers not only an appreciation of the Western as a genre but a willingness to experience some difficult and unpleasant scenes.

This decade has seen a significant increase in what can only be described a «prestige genre,» a Sci - Fi or Fantasy film that is treated as serious drama and, usually, with a distinctly more artistic vision than traditional commercial fare.

Östlund has hit a home run with Force Majeure (I realize that reference doesn't make sense but who cares), not only bringing to Cannes one of my new favorite genre - bending dark comedies, but I'm now a fan of his work as well, and I get to explore his past films and learn just how talented of a filmmaker he really is, while keeping an eye on his career.

As with Twilight Saloon, the Japanese musical turns out to be a genre which very often includes sadness and depression, proving that singing and dancing are sometimes the only way to shut out the darkness.

For those unfamiliar with Karpovsky's work, «Rubberneck» only works as a generally watchable, sometimes confounding genre exercise.

MaryAnn is, as far as I have seen, the only critic that has a grasp of what is considered a good movie regardless of genre.

If only the rest of it was as good as the hilarious film - within - the - film «Moonlake Quake», a knowing parody of another genre entirely.

It's not as if fantasy, science - fiction, or detective stories hadn't existed before 1900, but so many of the expectations and conventions that genre fans take for granted today were only created and codified after the turn of the century.

Despite devoting roughly half its running time to Ian and Sofi's relationship, I Origins is ultimately not a romance, or at least, not only a romance: As the plot advances, Cahill's film reveals new incarnations of itself in a variety of genre trappings — sci - fi parable, grisly medical drama, globe - trotting thriller, and even, in one bizarre and possibly genius scene, a Saw-esque horror flick.

franchise only speaks to their impact as disposable entertainment: a genre is ready for parody when it does not take itself too seriously, and I doubt the Zucker or Wayans brothers would dare make a spoof of «Deepwater Horizon» and its ilk.

Our time with ZombieSmash has laid to rest our doubts that the genre had wrung out all it could, as ZombieSmash not only looks gorgeous, in a cute Plants vs Zombies kind of way, but has a number of surprisingly original elements to diversify the tired castle defense gameplay too.

It isn't an accident that Certain Women's closest brush with genre — when attorney Laura's (Laura Dern) enraged client, Fuller (Jared Harris), takes a night watchman hostage — is both the film's only portrait of male indignation, and the only vignette that's deflated in near - comic anticlimax as quickly as it reaches its apex.

Revenge is such a fascinating movie to me because not only does it kick every bit of ass as its title would suggest, but it practically perfects the very genre that inspired it, even after all these years.

Which is all right with us, as we're big fans of the man who was not only, famously, the highest - paid screenwriter in Hollywood at one time, he has also turned out to be a genuinely terrific genre director, with a particularly bright eye for the wit and wisecrackery he writes so well.

And that's a shame, because the only outright drama that Miller made is as deft and compelling as his genre work, a tear - jerking true story about two parents giving up everything to find a cure for their son's disease.

The best films of the year to this point (all genre pieces, as it happens)-- Cloverfield, WALL · E, and Hellboy II — are about gathering rosebuds before the coming storm: Their position is not only that the precious moments are all we have, but that they're enough.

For some Anglo - Saxon spectators who only discovered Assayas with Irma Vep (1996), a worn - out cliché reigns supreme — that there would be «two Olivier Assayas»: one exquisitely crafting intimate family or relationship dramas, such as Fin août, début septembre (Late August, Early September, 1998) or L'Heure d'été (Summer Hours, 2008); and one coining genre fictions sweeping several countries and dealing head - on with globalisation: demonlover (2002) or Boarding Gate (2007).

The various connected stories not only take place over different time periods, but traverse different genres as well, with many of the actors playing multiple roles in different races and genders.

This decade has seen a significant increase in what can only be described a «prestige genre,» a Sci - Fi or Fantasy film that is treated as serious drama and, usually, with a distinctly more artistic vision than...

Another remake of a 1970s genre film, «Walking Tall» stars Johnson as a soldier returning home to his small town, only to discover that criminal corruption runs rampant.

Given that Germany, with few exceptions such as the comedy genre and the history film, does not have a well - established genre film tradition anymore (at least not on the big screen), the only way to rejuvenate such a tradition is by explicitly committing to producing many genre films for the cinema.

Lego Dimensions is the most playful of the toys - to - life games as well, the only game in the genre that asks its players to do more than place a figure on a pad and forget about it.

With Barker's status as one of the most prominent openly gay figures in genre fiction at the back of the mind, that Candyman is something of an elegiac lament for the outcasts and the sexually humiliated only augments its status as one of the best of the end - of - the - eighties / start - of - the - nineties body mortification films.

by Walter Chaw From John Ford to Akira Kurosawa to Sergio Leone then back to the United States with Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, trace the odd, international lineage of the American western genre as the seeds of its own completion are sown by Ford, only to be harvested a few decades down the line with a singular bloodbath south of the proverbial border.

It has not only redefined the mystery genre but storytelling as a whole.

With the PSVR still in its first year of release, Amuletor enters a relatively sparse field of competition and stands out as one of the only PSVR entries in the tower defense genre.

Where 28 Days Later... was saddled with ambition that exceeded its reach and, in Danny Boyle, a director who not only disdained the genre but has otherwise proven himself a grade - A tool as well, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's sequel 28 Weeks Later is brutally graceful in its vision of a nuclear family's dissolution as the metaphor for a broader, collective unrest.

Whilst playing Call of Juarez I couldn't help but think of Clint Eastwood classic «The Good, the Bad and the Ugly», not only as a good representative of the western genre but also at how appropriate the title seemed.

Language: English Genre: Action / Drama MPAA rating: R Director: John McTiernan Actors: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Irons Plot: McClane is back trying to stop terrorists, only this time he has to play games as a bomb squad with an unwanting friend (Jackson) around NYC.

Not only can hardcore horror provide a corrective to «torture porn's ostensible «extremity», and the meanings of «torture porn» as a categorising term,» 4 it can also provide a redefinition of the boundaries of the genre within the context of contemporary U.S. horror.

A great comedy with A great cast.the Broken Lizard group is too good and funny, as always.this would definetaly be one of the funniest films i have ever seen.Broken Lizard delievers again with this super comedy.many people don't like dumb comedy, but you'll love this dub comedy.not only can this film do new things to the genre, but it creates something better: A comedy with actually lovabe characters.

And if Cut Bank is meant only as a pulpy genre exercise, Shakman's competence in various modes actually works to strip the film of any sense of coherent vision.

Made just before digital effects and other new technologies began crowding out old school filmmaking techniques, this 1984 adventure still holds up as a great example of its genre, but may only be suitable for your oldest teens.

This is a Netflix original film that has been described as a modern cop thriller / drama, only with fantastical elements to give it an interesting genre element.

Perhaps only genre fans will recognize this unshakable film as the manna it is, but that would be a shame.

Forget the pubescent wranglings of Twilight; together with Jim Jarmusch's sumptuous, romantic odyssey Only Lovers Left Alive and Jemaine Clement's and Taika Waititi's hilarious spoof What We Do in the Shadows, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night marks an exciting new dawn for the vampire genre as an entirely adult proposition.

The switch to more genre - based material doesn't work as well as the other tonal shifts throughout Vic + Flo Saw A Bear, but it's only a slight step down in terms of enjoyment.

It's the only viable approach to the Captain John Smith / Pocahontas story in a minefield of debris strewn by not only our Western genre tradition, but also our newer guilt at how American Indians have been (and continue to be) portrayed in our culture: the most bestial, savage notions of the Natural have come around to their personification as an unsullied, Edenic embodiment of an impossibly harmonious nature.

Much will be said about the gender mechanics Garland is playing with here and the way in which he implicates his presumably largely male audience for indulging in a genre that has long relegated women to secondary roles as sexual objects, good only insofar as they can be acted upon.

She talked about how she feels about the impact of her character and whether she'd add onto her range as an actress by not only doing more award contender films but also maybe still playing with genre, specifically if she'd be open to playing in the Disney Marvel sandbox with the likes of Chris Pratt and Bradley Cooper: