Sentences with phrase «ridiculousness as»

In his first book, Do Travel Writers Go To Hell, he takes readers through a healthy fixing of ridiculousness as he embarks on a debaucherous -LSB-...]

Events in the film escalate in ridiculousness as the film progresses.

Plus, Twin Snakes» cut - scenes are perhaps a bit too over-the-top, often performing feats of anime ridiculousness as easily as one would boil a pot of water.

Carell fosters the laughs and ridiculousness as the larger than life Riggs.

Not exact matches

Regardless of the ridiculousness of his claims, media entities felt they had to entertain them in order to disprove them, and in the process got trapped in the quagmire known as «false equivalence.»

Christine and I sometimes talk about the possibility of going to live in New York someday (temporarily, I'd never want to live in the US permanently, no offence) but even though New York has marriage equality at the state level, it would still be very difficult for us to go there as long as the ridiculousness that is DOMA remains in effect blocking any federal recognition of our marriage.

Either educate yourselves on the utter ridiculousness of religion or help educate everyone else by adhering word - for - word to the «rules» as set forth in either your bible or koran.

You as.sume when I point out the ridiculousness of genesis that it automatically means that I believe the flip side as vehemently as you believe genesis, but that's just in your head.

A movie made by Seth MacFarlane, you may as well expect asinine humor, but unlike the ridiculousness of his TV show — The Family Guy — this movie has to be one of the worst comedy movies I've seen.

I personally wanted to see a Billy vs. Billy's Statue showdown for the ridiculousness factor, but Elland Road is as synonymous with Leeds United as it gets, and it was a worthy victor.

«Somewhere there is a genius in the office of the Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition who came up with the idea and strategy of «ridiculousness» — the insight that you could be so terrible as an opposition that decent people would resign out of sheer self - respect.

It's well documented ridiculousness, but I've quite well made my point and am done with posts as conversation on both this topic and site as well.

Finally for all the film's ridiculousness — enshrined in that cheesy - as - cheddar prologue spoken by Mako — Milius resists the temptation to play the silliness self - consciously (as say Stephen Sommers would), but revels in the earnestness of Conan's personal quest for revenge against Thulsa Doom.

It's almost Monty Python-esque in places, and it's clearly a conscious effort to amp up the ridiculousness, because they repeat one joke here from the first film — a rumble among rival news teams — that works, as both sheer absurdity and satire, in a way that it did not before.

It's resulted in half - hours of television that are daring and singular, where nothing else on TV is able to hit such comedic ridiculousness in the same breath as human insights.

I haven't seen any of the Twilight movies, but I've heard Breaking Dawn is when they stopped even pretending to take themselves seriously and embraced their inner balls - to - the - wall ridiculousness, and as such are actually not that bad to watch... compared to the others, at least.

Writer John Gatins and director Dean Israelite make sure to take the characters» emotions seriously even as they celebrate the ridiculousness of everything else.

Throughout La Vie de bohème, the novel's romanticism is undercut by the ridiculousness of the characters waxing intellectual in their impoverished circumstances, which then makes the few moments of seriousness (such as the final scene, in which Rodolfo's lover dies) refreshing and surprisingly emotional in contrast.

As the movie goes on, Rydell steps up the ridiculousness with each of his lessons, requiring Dave to stop everything and anything that might trigger anger and even make audio notes of any progress he's making.

This kind of ridiculousness is indicative of Savages as a whole.

I'd disagree with the Time Out reviewer that this isn't about anything, I took it as a parody of the «Benefits Street» media culture; using that stereotypical image and amplifying it to the nth degree highlighting it's ridiculousness.

Although Steve Zahn's over-the-top antics as an inept dad elicit laughs, all the adults in this film are exaggerated to the point of ridiculousness.

But by the time you realize the film has fallen almost blissfully into the realm of ridiculousness — such as when Steven tells Bob that, if he doesn't recover soon, he'll shave his son's head and make him eat his hair — you're too involved to look away.

Indeed, the comedian's favoured director Larry Charles (TV's Curb Your Enthusiasm) returns, as does his uneasy combination of slapstick silliness, gross - out gags, juvenile jests, celebrity cameos and political parody, in a film that effortlessly resembles the unruly ridiculousness of his preceding pieces.

Maybe if it had leaned just a little bit harder into its own ridiculousness, I'd have loved it without reserve, but as it is, it's less of a rampage, and more of a slog.

And as far as the jokes, I just think David Slade has been a great influence in turning the franchise away from being far too sincere and has embraced some of its ridiculousness, whereas Chris Weitz went too far trying to make New Moon credible and should be ashamed of himself for the sparkly, skipping in the forest scene, which almost ruined that film.

As with his previous films, Wheatley presents Free Fire with a gleefully dark sense of humor, the ridiculousness of events playing out made all the more senseless when you take into account where everyone's mindset is at.

Ultimately, Collateral Damage serves as little more than a mindless action film with some form of a message, though its resilience to the ridiculousness running rampant is rather moot.

The Commuter would not be half as much fun if it explicitly pointed out those references or acknowledged its own ridiculousness, in the manner of other contemporary, self - aware Hollywood action movies.

Wrapping itself with references to movie tropes, such as its overt allusion to classic Christmas tales like A Christmas Carol — in which Michael Shannon appears in a drug - deal version of Ghosts of Christmas Past / Present / Future — it never avidly mocks the traditions but instead embraces its ridiculousness, alongside Rogen's trademark crass humour.

Above all, however, is the rampant ridiculousness of it all, rooted as it is in shaky Hollywood pseudo-science.

As far as the film goes, Key & Peele bring their long established chemistry to their roles and are able to present and execute some hit and miss comedy, but overall this film is extremely over the top, outrageous and pure ridiculousnesAs far as the film goes, Key & Peele bring their long established chemistry to their roles and are able to present and execute some hit and miss comedy, but overall this film is extremely over the top, outrageous and pure ridiculousnesas the film goes, Key & Peele bring their long established chemistry to their roles and are able to present and execute some hit and miss comedy, but overall this film is extremely over the top, outrageous and pure ridiculousness.

While the director's vision gets to grips with the source material's intended ridiculousness by Lovecraft, it is hard to imagine this batshit craziness working half as well if he had not put together such a great ensemble cast.

It's a credit to the film's sober, down - to - earth tone that Lars And The Real Girl isn't as insufferably precious as it sounds; everyone onscreen cares enough about Gosling's plight to keep the story's basic ridiculousness from seeming too cartoonish.

Not long ago, I offered up a retrospective review of the minor 1980s hit, Soul Man, in which I somewhat questioned the merit of the filmmakers for adopting this formula: exploit as many stereotypes against Black people for easy laughs, because in the end, it will go for affirmation of the ridiculousness of such stereotypes.

It really helps as well that the filmmakers are willing to embrace the ridiculousness of the concept in a big way.

Children will delight in the way the author highlights the ridiculousness of the adults in Nanny Piggins» world, while classroom teachers can read each chapter as a standalone story within a lesson, or the book as an ongoing whole over the course of days or weeks.

But a look at the broad changes wrought by technology and the advance of the knowledge - based economy more than prove the ridiculousness of the assertions made by Gardner (and pushed by folks such as Harvard's Ronald Ferguson and Robert Schwartz in their Pathways to Prosperity report released earlier this year) shows that this is not anything close to reality.

In her writings, nowhere does Kopp reflect upon the patent ridiculousness of her expectation that loads of cash donated by corporations that exploit inequalities across the world — such as Union Carbide and Mobil, two of TFA's earliest contributors — will help her solve some of the gravest injustices endemic to American society.

Time, as well as the disasterous consequences, will out this policy for its ridiculousness!

While the M3 puts out 192 hp and 170 lb ft, the detuned - for - the - U.S. Mercedes makes 167 hp and 162 lb ft.. But the Mercedes uses an engine was designed by Cosworth and, as Cammisa says, was over-engineered to the point of ridiculousness, like other Benz cars of the time.

I don't mind paying a buyer's agent (but not 2.5 - 3 % as this is what I paid 12 years ago and housing prices have doubled but the work to sell a house hasn't, nor has anyone else's wages), but this ridiculousness of paying a listing agent 2.5 % -3 % for simply listing a house has got to stop and it soon will.

I'm sure I've mentioned a time or fifty that Casa Mir is home to as many rescued dogs as my husband will tolerate (currently: two), and furthermore that my special snowflakes of tiny canine ridiculousness both have food allergies.

It seems to have a more realistic - horror vibe than the previous games, though as we saw as our hero combined a sledgehammer and chainsaw, the ridiculousness will still be there.

If you wanted a more serious story, you won't get it here, as the game seems to want to be more humorous to match the ridiculousness of its rhythmic combat arts concept.

And as you can see, they certainly went full in on the ridiculousness here.

But now, New Mario Bros is kicking all sorts of ass, and Link's Choo Choo ridiculousness isn't nearly as disappointing as I expected from the brief hour I spent with it.

Simultaneously Twisted Pixel's most sophisticated and ambitious game, as well as its most amateurish and home - spun, The Gunstringer stitches Wild West handicraft, enthusiastically low - budget live - action, and simple, tactile Kinect controls into an experience that's gleeful in its ridiculousness.

Where movies like The Fast and the Furious don't take themselves too seriously, and much of the entertainment value comes from the sheer ridiculousness of it all, Payback takes itself far too serious to be enjoyable and the moments that it doesn't come off as hacky attempts at humor and pot shots at popular culture.

This game oozes sci - fi and takes a page from J.J. Abrams as the amount of lens flares in the galaxy verges on the point of ridiculousness.