Sentences with phrase «than the nostalgia of»

SEE THIS MOVIE IF: for no other reason than the nostalgia of seeing Pacino, Walken and Arkin on screen together.

Not exact matches

The future demands from us something more than a nostalgia for some rose - tinted version of a past that did not really exist in any case.»

Super Nintendo nostalgia seems, these days, to be much more powerful than the longing for the days of 8 - bit, so such a product could be far more successful than the NES Classic.

Heirlooms can raise more than feelings of nostalgia.

And he concludes, «Each new book by [Mailer] is worse than the last: he has become a bibliographer's definition of nostalgia.

Nostalgia for the rural past of Anglo - Americans, when «community» was more of a reality than in the modern suburbs, has even invaded the mass media of late.

The Mighty Ducks does not hold up as a «good» movie, but if you are looking for the ultimate piece of early «90s sports nostalgia, there is no one better to deliver it than Emilio Estevez and his ragtag team of hockey cast - offs.

I'm all for a rigorously selective form of nostalgia, and that kind of nostalgia, practiced by our most astute social critics, is less blinding than liberating.

The Monarch's ancient title articulates that principle — symbolically, yes, but as she said herself the worth of such symbols is measured in a whole lot more than conservatism or nostalgia.

Thus John Paul's concern with Jews and Judaism was more than nostalgia for his prewar childhood and youth, and more than sympathy for the common plight of Polish Jews and Polish Catholics during the war.

Many Christians (I am one of them) may feel nostalgic for a culture that is more God - oriented than ours, but this religious nostalgia must not be allowed to fly us on a magic carpet to a mystical fata morgana.

, was meant to be a defense of distributism — but it is exactly the kind of defense that has made distributism seem like nothing more than charming nostalgia.

I love Church history — but fear we put up with a naïve nostalgia of a former glory rather than participate in writing our own story today.

Promoting a brittle presentmindedness, the idea of progress weakens «the inclination to make intelligent provision for the future, and nostalgia, its ideological twin, undermines the ability to make intelligent use of the past» Distinguishing carefully between nostalgia and an appropriately critical historic memory, Lasch laments the ways in which — driven by progress, even driven a bit mad by it — we can do no better than issue a «communitarian counterpoint» to attempt to right the balance and to retain, at least here and there, smidgens of civic virtue.

i read your post as more a story about life, nostalgia and relationships than about food, of course the pizza is what tied it all together.

As long as nostalgia doesn't get in the way of restraint, the Heat and Wade should be headed for a much happier ending than his first stint with the team.

Caring for our clothes is so much more important than a moment of nostalgia for a past generation.

Quite often it's the feeling of nostalgia that moves the heart more than the actual person.

Nostalgia is denial - denial of the painful present... the name for this denial is golden age thinking - the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one ones living in - its a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present.

The show plays like a slapdash effort, conceived less by creative spark than as the product of focus - group testing, with a dash of nostalgia thrown in.

Moviegoers hoping for something — anything — to take away from «Nostalgia» (other than a vague feeling of dysphoria, tinged with ennui) will not be similarly compensated.

I got the Wind Waker HD box set and Super Mario 3D world for Christmas, and both are not only incredible in their own right, they also represent everything that is good and exciting about the Wii U. Super Mario 3D world is hands down better than any of the «New» Mario side scroller series; mixing genuine ingenuity with the perfect degree of nostalgia and family fun.

It's unfortunate, then, that Yooka - Laylee is no more than a mediocre attempt to capture nostalgia from the days of yore.

This is one of those rare movies that I think I enjoyed more over time rather than think it is not as good, or like it as a nostalgia piece.

Mark Pellington's Nostalgia is less a living, breathing film than a presentation of sentiments revolving around a pat question: Are the objects of our lives merely detritus, or are they vital to our identities?

While I did have high hopes for a 3DS collection of 100 of the «best» minigames, Mario Party: The Top 100 is nothing more than a disappointing cash in from an aging franchise that relies more on nostalgia than great gameplay.

A little more on the biopic spectrum than a lavish stage - to - screen production as most cinematized musicals tend to be, Jersey Boys evokes the same nostalgia putting on a record of The

Though the film is clearly based around 80s nostalgia, the content of the film is more valid now than it ever would've been before.

Baumbach sympathizes with Josh's moony nostalgia for his bygone years, but he also makes him the moviemaker equivalent of a perpetual grad student: For seven years he's been working on a documentary on «power in America» that runs more than six hours.

Perhaps it's nostalgia, if not for the simpler thrills of childhood viewings (this was my first time seeing the film) than for the off - the - wall, predictable, and good - natured stories that the Disney studio has long dabbled in.

Anyways, it's a weird thing to talk about nostalgia with the Sonic games, since I'm a bigger fan of the 3D era rather than the Genesis / CD one.

Chuck Norris vs. Communism is a history lesson, decorated in nostalgia, telling the story of people who were more like us than we ever realized.

Joining the ranks of The Diary of a Teenage Girl and The Edge of Seventeen as a refreshing woman - centered coming - of - age film (and offering more depth than either), Lady Bird captures a recent era with precision and a hint of nostalgia that's not distracting: Clunky flip phones and «Cry Me a River» blend right in.

Still, there's not enough here to tell us whether this'll be a more successful work than Wiseau's last project, The Neighbors, or if its stream of random, noir - y images and odd line readings can amount to something more than just a new dose of nostalgia for Room fanatics.

Rather than stick to the vanilla early 90s cast like the nostalgia trip that is Sonic Mania, Sonic Forces brings back a bunch of characters introduced in games like Knuckles» Chaotix, Sonic Adventure and even Sonic 06.

Sidestepping nostalgia, Dazed and Confused is less about «the best years of our lives» than the boredom, angst, and excitement of teenagers waiting... for something to happen.

You'll hear many new versions of familiar Mario songs, so there's more than enough nostalgia to keep fans engaged.

This isn't a nostalgia trip through another film's highlights, à la the franchise reset J.J. Abrams offered two years ago -LSB-...] More than replicating the specifics of [The Empire Strikes Back], The Last Jedi preserves its general values, its spectacle and mysticism and downbeat Shakespearean drama.»

David Lynch often seemed to be saying with The Return, «All of this is much darker than you remember,» and Dern called out our rose - colored nostalgia through the pessimism that pervaded Diane, even the way she carefully spoke and moved.

Though Less Than Zero seems, despite its sterile apocalyptic blight, almost naïve in the wake of Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream, it retains (especially in retrospect, given the lost spirit of the Eighties and Robert Downey Jr.'s offscreen problems), something approaching the laden nostalgia of Romanticism.

Though there are a few moments of «was this ever cool» cheeseball nostalgia sprinkled here and again, All the Right Moves is teeth - clenchingly awful: half «The White Shadow», half somehow more embarrassing and dated than even that popular TV series.

In some ways, Scott takes nostalgia further than Gary, his entire perspective shaped by a fondness for things of which he has no strong personal memory.

As with the original Tron, special effects junkies will relish it more than most, and there is undoubtedly a nostalgia factor that will kick this up a notch or two in the mind of those who fondly remember seeing the original in their youth.

But it's more of an exercise in nostalgia than Eastwood's film, and not nearly as genre - defining / killing.

Sciamma, thanks to a quietly powerful performance from Toure, represents more than just the bittersweet romance and nostalgia generally associated with the coming of age film.

With more of a sense of nostalgia rather than relevance, the film lacks a compelling narrative, and thus lacks the depth of many of Linklater's recent projects.

For instance, one would expect the return of Legolas (Orlando Bloom) to kick in some much needed nostalgia for the series but he, worse so than Ian McKellen «s performance of Gandalf, seemingly lacks interest in the role and his apathy shines a bright hole where there ought to be life.

But a movie has to be something more than a parade of nostalgia - inducing images.

Making characters from a 12 - year old game live up to the nostalgia filter is no easy task but Double Fine does a double fine job in this case (I'll see myself out), because of the way they handle the player's VR enhanced perspective you're able to see more of the detailed and wild environments of Psychonauts than ever before.

But rather than scale the obstacles in its path, Ghostbusters dispenses a powerful proton pack of carefully constructed charisma, nostalgia - fueled callbacks and no - holds - barred performances, blasting the besmirching naysayers to smithereens like cardboard cutouts of Slimer in a Chinatown back alley.