Sentences with phrase «to a modern audience»

Perhaps the story has simply lost its punch for modern audiences, especially on a high - flying budget.

The comparison between film and video games comes from the way in which modern audiences consume stories.

Personal branding is becoming increasingly important because modern audiences tend to trust people more than corporations.

The key to success has been the focus on attracting a smart and modern audience consisting of British Asian professionals.

Everything in the story is understood, but it's another layer of authenticity that challenges modern audiences.

Its probably near impossible for modern audiences to understand the impact both the song and the movie had on the general public, but it was seismic.

The key to success has been the focus on attracting a smart and modern audience consisting of.

Combining unapologetically over-the-top destruction and a dark cyberpunk setting, the breakout FPS from Flying Wild Hog (Shadow Warrior 1 & 2) gets reenergized for modern audiences with an upgraded visual engine and rebalanced gameplay, along with new enemies and weaponry (cyber-katana!).

premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2008, receiving rave reviews and helping to bring attention to films that might have continued to go unappreciated by modern audiences.

The rotating bezel is still one of the most unique features on a smartwatch that takes something old (the dial on divers watches) and reworks it for a more modern audience who wants something «smarter.»

Tarantino's frequent use of the N - word will no doubt inspire both challenges and defenses — I'd argue that, as it was in «Django Unchained,» the term allows modern audiences to experience period racism that much more vividly — and there's also the matter of Jennifer Jason Leigh, who spends much of the movie getting punched in the face by various characters.

They've got to please stubborn, obsessive SYSTEM SHOCK vets as well as modern audience, all the whilst ensuring that the game is profitable.

Rosenbaum took the time to praise DVDs for giving modern audiences a first chance as it were to experience a wide variety of films, but Dave Kehr counter-argued in the comments on Kevin's blog, as well as at his own site.

But it's tough to say if modern audiences will understand what del Toro is riffing on here, or even whether he does it successfully.

Going even further, I learned aspects of game design that resonated with a more modern audience through World of Warcraft.

Part of its impact is lost on modern audiences, namely because this is from 1927, it's silent, and in sepia tones, as opposed to being modern, cgi - heavy, in color, and loaded up with balls to the wall sound effects.

That unique perspective — and star Chiwetel Ejiofor's ability to convey it in his portrayal of Solomon — is McQueen's greatest asset, not least because it negates the need for peripheral characters to articulate objections to slavery for the benefit of modern audiences.

Winona Ryder has been flogging the possibility of a Heathers sequel for years now, and there have also been rumours of a remake, but this week it seems that the 1988 cult classic will finally be re-invented for modern audiences in a slightly different way: on the small screen.

Kings wasn't a perfect show — and was polarizing among TV critics — but the attempt to bring the story of David and Saul to modern audiences through a compelling drama makes it one of the most unique (though largely forgotten) Old Testament adaptations ever to come out of Hollywood.

His last decade of films «W.» (too soon), «World Trade Center» (way too soon), «Alexander» (a disaster) and the sequel to his 1987 «Wall Street» proved he is completely out of touch with what modern audiences want in a cinematic experience.

TheWrap's Alonso Duralde said Villeneuve crafted «many moments of breathless tension... Here's hoping modern audiences take to the new «Blade Runner» with more enthusiasm than they did in 1982, because this sequel proves that this world merits repeat visits.»

The right sights and sounds are enough to achieve this wake - up call to modern audiences so far removed from nature and embedded in the teched - up present day.

The frequency with which meanings were so quickly forgotten is a testament to the exhibition's success in translating for modern audiences not just the history behind the making of these canvases (some of which have never been seen stateside), but also their changing historiography decades and even centuries later, which takes the viewer right up to the present day and allows one to look for him - or herself.

Hence the trial scene in Act IV, which so unsettles modern audiences, manifests not the failure of Shakespeare's art, but rather its triumph.

Wright communicates cogently to the postmodern audience like Lewis did to the late modern audience, but the style and substance of their writing differs notably because of their respective vocations: the former as a New Testament scholar and the latter as a Medieval and Renaissance Literature scholar.

Modern audiences know Cooper best as the apoplectic Perry White in the Christopher Reeve Superman films.

It's smart, pro-artistic comedy masquerading as insipid farce, a wolf in clown's clothing, and rigorously Dadaistic in ways modern audiences aren't likely to note.

The latter remains a special film not just for a lot of viewers, but its maker too; speaking with Collider, Proyas gave his thoughts on the idea of remaking it for modern audiences when questioned on the current efforts.

«The Dark Tower» will be his first major Hollywood production, and it looks like he's playing with a lot of the CGI tools modern audiences are familiar with.

A more cynical modern audience will still be prepared to accept the overly sentimental speeches and emotionally manipulative «big moments».

Singer and comedian Geraldine Quinn joins the Hyphenates to review the films of November 2012, ask how much modern audiences care about continuity, and get stuck into the films of Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki.

The richness of Ebert's history sparked a filmed incarnation, helmed by acclaimed documentarian Steve James (whose breakthrough work Hoop Dreams reached modern audiences in no small part through Ebert's praise) and produced by the likes of Martin Scorsese and Steven Zaillian.

Virtually indescribable to modern audiences despite its familiar elements, Dead & Buried is a Darwinian fossil of the horror cinema, whose DNA has been perverted by the progressive commercialization of the culture and weakening of the intellectual position.

Forbidden Planet is one of the few «historically important» movies which are not deathly dull for modern audiences today and rather enjoyable on its own terms and not as a film school lecture.

It goes without saying that there have been a number of great and enduring contenders in this category with genre clichés modern audiences are instinctively ingrained with, but is there anything else to be expressed within this set - up?

The idea that a silent, black and white film could charm modern audiences seemed far - fetched until The Artist came along.

While this was also the case with many of the big films from those glory days (and perhaps is part of this production's mocking of that era), I'm not sure modern audiences will be bamboozled enough to overlook that deficiency.

Rather, by making movies that smartly and distinctly bridge that eternal art / commerce gap and appeal to inclusive modern audiences, they are working to ensure the franchises are for all of us.

Screen farce, like screen pornography, may involve culturally embarrassing examinations of audience metabolism and endurance, examinations which may explain why modern audiences are seldom moved as emotionally as they think guiltily they ought to be by the five - act tragedies of Shakespeare.

In fact, it actually harms its story by making it seem a bit silly and kind of shallow, especially since it's aiming to entice modern audiences who thrive on «bad guy gets it!»

He deserves to be remembered as one of «the greats» and if modern audiences watched The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, even though it's about 70 years old, they would find that the comedy holds up remarkably well.

But director Luca Guadagnino and screenwriter James Ivory made a very serious tactical error in underestimating the homophobia of most modern audiences.

Though modern audiences might notice that The Texas Chain Saw Massacre isn't as polished as its later imitators, that low - budget aesthetic adds to the film's grindhouse appeal and is part of why it's considered one of the most influential horror films ever made.

It's certainly debatable whether modern audiences can be bothered to care about a character whose TV heyday ended in the late «60s, but Rogen's passion for the source material is obvious, and even though this is being dumped in the icy January graveyard, we're curious to see director Michel Gondry's take on the 3D action genre.

This cozy family drama may be too gentle for unsuspecting modern audiences, but for those who know it, it still goes down nice and smooth like lemonade on a warm summer's day.

James Cameron is looking to bring the Terminator franchise back by doing one simple thing: making it relevant to modern audiences again.

The film A decade before «Basic Instinct» launched the era of the mainstream erotic thriller, Lawrence Kasdan reinvented film noir for a sophisticated modern audience with this sweaty tale of scheming femmes fatales.

It has something to say to modern audiences grappling with identity politics and intersectionality.

Never mind that the film is bookended with shots of the ash - preserved victims, they nonetheless leave very little to be preserved in the name of satisfying modern audiences» demand for disaster porn.