Sentences with phrase «satire seems»

However, the political satire seems to be a bit less prevalent than the situational comedy, making it slightly less witty, but still very smart.

There seem to be no redeeming features in this film and the element of satire seems to have disappeared altogether.

I apologize if my satire seems hateful but that is due to my belief that fundamentalism in government brings evil and that includes non-religious forms such as pure capitalism, communism, fascism and so on.

Clearly we saw the same film, your critique is good, yet I wonder what you may have thought of those movies in the thirties, Capra & co.The level of satire seemed higher to me.

Not exact matches

There also seems to be something about Trump that immunizes him from even the most visceral satire.

Too bad that all seems to be a bit over your head regardless of how basic the idea of satire might be to most people.

Colin... I am not «confusing» anything... while you are very book - smart, it seems that satire goes right over your head.

When debate about an artist's merit no longer seems to have any point, one is left either with an icon of culture, too sacred to enjoy, or with a target of satire, brought down to our more humdrum level by a vaudeville lampooning of the unapproachable totem, as when graffiti artists paint a moustache on reproductions of the Mona Lisa.

I guess the reason the satire is so funny is because it seems so close to reality.

The purpose of the satire is to demonstrate that what seems to vaccine rejectionists to be compelling «reasoning» is nothing more than nonsense, and logical fallacies.

This might be the only completely untruthful and wholly ignorant statement made in Justin Simien's debut feature Dear White People, which seems far too true - to - life to be called a satire, even though it's billed as such.

He's working in the vein of early Spike Lee, or of Robert Townsend, whose 1987 satire Hollywood Shuffle seemed to herald a new path forward for black filmmakers.

That observation seems uncomfortably true, pointing toward some rock - bottom realism even though The Campaign is not meant to be pointedly political satire.

It's a rich idea for a comedy, even if the filmmakers seem timid about making the pic the full - on satire it might have been.

Roach can't manage the satire and keeps the focus on the mud - slinging until settling on a hackneyed ending that just seems out of place for two men whose actions resulted in a baby being punched instead of being kissed.

In 1997, the first episode of the outrageous animated media satire South Park seemed to summarize the actor's status with a gag in which the two - year - old character Ike is persuaded to jump from a spaceship and fall several feet to the ground when his brother yells «Do your impression of David Caruso's career!»

Critics Consensus: True Blood seems to fully understand its appeal, and its third season provides plenty of graphic thrills, steamy romance, and biting satire for its fans.

Every bit as much a satire as it is a drearily honest and sobering look at our country's broken healthcare system, «Getting On» makes the typical black comedy seem lighthearted in comparison.

But that's just how good Jordan Peele's directing debut is, a thoughtful satire on race relations about a young black man who discovers things aren't what they seem when he visits his white girlfriend's family in the country.

What at first seemed like another excuse to make fun of nerds and techie office culture instead revealed itself to be a near - perfect example of social satire....

When you make a film with overt political satire, it seems like that casting can't be a coincidence.

«State and Main» — his weird take on the Hollywood satire subgenre — is a film we love but no one else seems to, while his subsequent con - game / crime films range from enjoyable («The Spanish Prisoner») to mediocre («Heist»).

Similarly, it's hard to laugh at a Hollywood satire like America's Sweethearts that hasn't figured out what it's satirizing, particularly since it seems vaguely modeled after a subgenre from the 30s.

Crystal and Roberts are the only ones given coherent characters to play, but Roberts isn't an integral part of the would - be Hollywood satire; she seems to function mainly as an afterthought, leaving me to wonder if she had her own writer on the set.

The first two chapters of the Paolo Sorrentino miniseries seem uncomfortably perched between satire and nighttime soap

Captain America is largely fun too, but whereas there was a strong, competent component of character development and storytelling in both the aforementioned films, Captain America seems happier to tease half - assed satire and self - aware winks at the audience.

, the story in Barton Fink seems to be far less political in their satire and a lot more personally charged (Spoilers to follow!).

Downsizing, his new satire about a man (Matt Damon) who joins a community that have shrunk themselves, premiered at Venice to the kind of reviews that seem startling until you remember all the reviews for all the other Payne directed movies.

A darkly comical satire about affluence might seem a bit ill - timed during a global recession.

Directed by one of the architects of the 1960s British New Wave, John Schlesinger, who exploded on the American Cinema scene with 1969's Midnight Cowboy and showed how adept he was in many genres, from thrillers like Marathon Man to British Satire Cold Comfort Farm, The Believers would seem to be somewhat in his wheelhouse.

On the whole, however, with S1m0ne Niccol makes what seems like a preposterous idea not only fresh and entertaining, but most of all reveals said idea to be not at all far removed from reality — as any good satire should.

That the movie reteams a number of collaborators from Comedy Central's «Key and Peele» — including director Peter Atencio and screenwriters Peele and Alex Rubens — would seem to bear out the notion that their distinctive brand of double - edged satire is best served and consumed in five - minute sketches.

The third act really picks up interest and the satire sharpens at the end, but compared to a social commentary like «Network,» «The King of Comedy» still seems lacking.

Downsizing isn't perfect, though, and while it seems at times like the film is making a feint toward satire, it never really gets there.

These silly fantasies practically seem like satires anyway, so when the comic genius of writer / director David Wain ponders them, and casts Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler as the «couple,» the funny will fly.

Network (1976, Sidney Lumet): This scalding satire of the media seems timelier than ever in the age of reality TV.

However, just as Payne seems to be about to sink his teeth into this story destined to be a scathing satire (sort of High Rise meets Ant - Man), he loses his nerve.

At first glance, it would seem like an amusing premise for a satire, yet for large stretches the film takes itself seriously on the one hand, then completely goes for bad over-the-top theatrics and schlock in the other.

He's an auteur with a delectably skewed vision of the world, so Maps to the Stars, written by cult author Bruce Wagner, seems a perfect match: An unrelenting showbiz satire, it follows the famous Weiss family, a clan of corrupted, mentally unstable Hollywood types, and their strange, fucked up lives.

As well as the relevance of this kind of political comedy at a time in which, he says, the American administration seems to be beyond satire.

Celine Dion looks radiant singing the soaring lyrics to «Ashes,» an inspiring power ballad that seems like it would have little to do with the tongue - in - cheek superhero satire.

For every modest success (the 2004 workplace comedy «In Good Company») there seems to be an equal and opposite modest flop (the 2006 over-reaching satire «American Dreamz»).

YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS Director Neil LaBute («In the Company of Men») has made a desperate, foolish and boyishly tasteless film about middle - class sexual transgression that seems intended as a satire — but a satire of what?

a lot of people criticize the film because its not as sharp of a hollywood satire as they wanted, but to me thats not the problem — it seemed to me more about getting caught up in hollywood than hollywood itself.

WHY: Though it seemed unlikely that Universal would even greenlight a sequel to Matthew Vaughn's punk - rock satire of the superhero genre due to the more sadistic nature of the story, director Jeff Wadlow has done an admirable job adapting it for the big screen.

This seems like a provocative and amusing comedy with biting racial humor and political satire done extremely well, and that's not always easy to do.

While Woody Allen has continued to churn out a movie a year for most of his career, his recent films seem to have narrowed in scope, losing some of the sharp - witted satire that marked many of his earlier films.

Continuing to show a late - career hunger for genre experimentation, Martin Scorsese follows his highly - decorated 3D fantasy Hugo with The Wolf of Wall Street, a brash, rise - and - fall stock - market satire that seems to boast more comedy than the filmmaker's typical hard - hitting drama.

Nadine Labaki's drama might first seem like a satire — small children are jailed; others are married.

Intended, it seems, as a sharp political satire, Butter achieves something a little sloppier and harder to pin down.