Sentences with phrase «parody elements»

The humor is rarely very funny, as much of it appeals to a much younger audience than what we're led to believe by its much stronger parody elements.

The parody elements are used far too little, and the the bland characters and predictable plot that the film chooses to focus on will likely bore older audiences.

The parody element of Deadpool is refreshing: a superhero film that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Not infrequently the literary form parodies elements in the secular hero tale.

Not exact matches

The keystone element of the effort was a parody music video, a fresh new take on corporate video production.

Like 2001, and not like Mission to Mars, Prometheus has no element of parody in its depiction of human grandiosity.

The problem refers to the dilemma faced by courts and schools when a student's online bullying speech contains «elements of parody cloaked in violence,» Holden writes.

The story itself uses the parody of horror cliches to its advantage to create a plot that is classic suspense / thriller inspired alongside comedic elements that don't interrupt the plot but rather compliment it.

So self - serious that it became an unwitting parody of the beloved first season, the return of «True Detective» struck an uncomfortable compromise between wild, fantastical elements (a corpse with its eyes burned out, an assailant in a bird's head mask) and social realism (online porn, PTSD, substance abuse)-- and in the process exposed Nic Pizzolatto's writing as a bunch of risible blather masquerading as poetry.

There's elements of parody, slapstick and dramedy, but they don't mesh together at all.

Goblinz Studio has sprinkled in tile - based movement, turn - based combat, crafting, and RPG elements, all topped off with a healthy dose of humor to give it that «parody» feel.

I also knew all of these elements would add up to nothing more than a parody of the Bond films if I didn't also have a good story.

Heck, the «parody» element in itself would usually make them less likely to risk trying to shut it down.

It contained multiple video game parodies as it took gameplay elements and familiar locations from the past seven years of gaming.

Megadimension Neptunia VII is a mixed bag, with great combat elements and parody sadly shuffled together with overly padded plot, repetitive boss fights, and boring story presentation.

Being a DayZ parody, survival is the key element in either mode — with health and hunger meters to take into consideration as you try to survive for as many days as you can.

In Meyer Vaisman's paintings the volumetric stacking of canvases or layering of compositional elements, and the ersatz texturing of surfaces - a photomechanical imprinting of a magnified reproduction of canvas weave borrowed from a commercial Letratone ¨ pattern sheet - parody the modernist ethos about flatness and truth to materials.

Incorporating elements of photography and sculpture, he describes these largely figurative works as «parodies of what a painting is supposed to be».

He constructs narratives that seem to often contain elements of comedy and parody.

The paintings are part of a larger series, which takes the parody on abstraction further by proposing different combinations of the same elements.

Join your fellow late night culture seekers at these special 64 - minute viewing parties of The Visitors, Ragnar Kjartansson's video installation that incorporates elements of theater, music and visual art, testing the boundaries between reality and fiction, melancholy and parody.

Mind you, it's difficult not to sense a faint element of self - parody when encountering sentences, like the following, on NEF's website: «At heart, the HPI is a measure of efficiency.

For example, the Advocate General pointed out in his Opinion that there are two elements to the nature of parody: a structural one (which concerns the distinction between a mere copy and a separate original creation) and a functional one (which concerns the purpose of the parody, its effect and content).

The structural feature of parody means that «of course, a parody, apart from copying certain elements of the original work, should» display an original character of its own»».