Sentences with phrase «pure piece of entertainment»

Historians may scoff, but taken as a pure piece of entertainment, Kingdom of Heaven strikes all the right notes to make this one of the better epics to come out in the post-Lord of the Rings environment.

From the visually compelling opening credits, to the action - packed ending, The Kingdom may have certain flaws in terms of its simplification of complex world events, but taken as a pure piece of entertainment, it is certainly more efficient and intellectually stimulating than most actioners of its ilk.

The Addams Family doesn't pretend to be anything more than a pure piece of entertainment for young and old, with lots of delicious dark humor, kooky characters, and a great deal of side jokes to keep the laughs coming, even if the plot isn't particularly gripping.

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But on a pure pop level, as a piece of big - time mainstream entertainment, let us also celebrate this:

The powerhouse ensemble is more than up to the task, Edgerton, Ejogo and Keough all having moments of pure, unadulterated terrifying paranoia where their emotions leap off the screen as if we're watching a documentary and not a fictional piece of genre entertainment.

On balance, though, Django Unchained is fine entertainment, full of memorable performances (Waltz is excellent), great cameos by personalities forgotten by everyone except Tarantino (e.g. Lee Horsley, TV's Matt Houston back in the»80s; Franco Nero, the original Django in the 1966 movie), and crackerjack set - pieces (the sequence with Don Johnson's Big Daddy leading a charge of bumbling racists is pure comic gold).

In the end, John Q is completely manufactured hogwash — an expensive piece of pure propaganda disguised as entertainment with a message that could have been compelling had the events seemed remotely close to what might happen in reality.