Sentences with phrase «scatological takes»

In fact, the most compelling things in America owe less to Ligon than to his source materials: Richard Pryor's scatological takes on race, Billie Holiday's coruscating «Strange Fruit» (heard emanating from an installation), and, yes, Mapplethorpe's suite of photographs of black men.

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This one takes a promising comic leading man and makes him act a fool for the sake of acting a fool and rehashes the story of Noah and the ark with lame, predictable jokes — usually of the scatological variety.

To demonstrate their brutality to the audience, the baddies take a blowtorch to the side of a woman's face; to demonstrate Fulci's disdain for his women characters, he doesn't show the penetration in the rape, but he does show in intimate, scatological detail the humiliation, terror, and pain of the victim.

The pigeonholing of Adam Sandler (The Waterboy, Big Daddy) into dumb, scatological comedies has once again denied him another coulda - been good movie that had the potential of taking him to the next level as an actor.

Taking cues from the best Judd Apatow productions, however, beneath all the crass, scatological humor and cringe - inducing scenarios lies a bittersweet story of dreams deferred and the lengths people go to, in order to find validation and acceptance.

The theme is very scatological, and that took a while for me to be okay with, but don't let it get in the way of enjoying this game because there's a lot to dig into.

Famous for its drunken, scatological humor, Conker's Bad Fur Day takes a sobering turn in its final moments