Sentences with phrase «use nostalgia»

I do think many people will like going back to Kanto as well as many others who don't, but I do think it's a clear sign of creative stagnation as I feel it crosses the point where it's nods and references to attempting to use nostalgia to attract / entertain players instead of enticing them with something new.

It's visually ambitious, epic in scale, and knows how to use nostalgia to pull fans of the classic animated film right into its musical wonder.

With a film like «Blade Runner 2049,» you see how nostalgic callbacks can be used to not only engage fans of the previous film but also how to use that nostalgia as a way to build an original, more emotional story that organically builds off the past.

While brands like Coca - Cola and Calvin Klein are taking Millennials back by relaunching»90s faves, others are using nostalgia to demonstrate how they've changed.

I wrote a small appreciation of the show Downton Abbey as using nostalgia astutely as a way of showing us the strengths and weaknesses of aristocracy.

The screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, Michael Arndt and Abrams effectively uses nostalgia and family ties to reset the hero myth that became synonymous with the original films.

STOP PLAYING IT SAFE AND STOP USING THE NOSTALGIA CARD!

Finally, Sonic Mania appears to be using nostalgia properly, appealing to the aesthetics and familiar trappings of the Sega Genesis games while mixing things up and delivering more than just the same thing, but in HD.

Ultimately, companies are using our nostalgia (and a shrewd understanding of human psycholgy) against us to cash in with toys - to - life.

This month the crew from Player 2 are looking back in time to the appeal of retro gaming and how current companies are using nostalgia for their own nefarious means.

The recent announcement of the mini-NES, which will be available this holiday season (rather than Nintendo's code - named NX console), is yet another example of how Nintendo is using nostalgia to forge a path forward.

The Player 2 Podcast — Episode 25: Retro Raiders This month the crew from Player 2 are looking back in time to the appeal of retro gaming and how current companies are using nostalgia for their own nefarious means.

Using nostalgia in a new way, these works incorporate lyrics borrowed from The Great American Songbook and some of the greatest hits of post war American painting.

5 Scent the Air: One subtle way to usher in the holidays is by using the nostalgia of fragrance.

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We may all have some nostalgia over an app that was always a backup of a backup (something you use on a Windows computer when you are too lazy to download anything else or can't remember your login to the Adobe suite of apps).

George Will criticizes me for using my comments on Downton Abbey's «astute nostalgia» to see me giving a conservative defense of the welfare state.

Although they have used feminist language at times, their opposition to pornography stems much more from their nostalgia for a «purer» America, and they disagree with feminists on crucial issues such as sex education and day care.

Certainly there is an uncivil tone to much current political language - although I urge those tempted by nostalgia to read up on the language used in 19th - century American politics.

What is the use of clever brain What is the use of words in books When everywhere I see the dead face of despair, nostalgia and suicide?

What is the use of a clever brain What is the use of words in books When everywhere I see the dead face of despair, nostalgia and suicide?

Nostalgia for the 1960s is of little use in understanding the plight of our cities.

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.

A bit of nostalgia crept in when I saw it and a burning need to use up some very old jars of jam.

I used to eat them as a teenager, so they taste like nostalgia

I used to LOVE frozen fish stick and fish filets as a child but as an adult — well, let's just say that giving in to childhood nostalgia can definitely be a mistake.

For a little nostalgia I used my grandmas stuffing recipe which is simple but has lots of great flavour.

Plus, it's really nice to have the nostalgia of using the same recipes as you always did.

As is, Hamels isn't as impressive as he used to be, so unless he has a Verlander - ish second act up his sleeve, this duo definitely benefits from nostalgia in these rankings.

Perhaps my nostalgia comes from using the product to clean the house we rented for my daughter's home birth.

People just like you want to experience that sense of nostalgia from being around the fun playground toys they used to love, and many of these people are parents and caregivers who want to pass on the fun of the Playplace to another generation.

The main reasons for labeling big Kuiper belt objects as planets are nostalgia — Pluto used to be a planet, how could it not be one now?

There may come a time when we look back on the «ridiculous», overpowerful, hard - to - use PC with nostalgia as part of a long - vanished, decentralised past.

You'll create space in your closet and eliminate the guilt of keeping an ensemble around out of nostalgia when someone else will put it to better use.

Being away from home can be hard, and sad, and full of nostalgia that no amount of money will get one used to.

We can use the mythology of the frontier, he writes, «to reify our nostalgia for a falsely idealized past,» or we can use it as a way of «imagining and speaking truth.»

Combined with beat «em up gameplay and hundreds of different items to use against the hordes, the series» best psycopath bosses and mall setting and a ton of endings and secrets, Dead Rising still holds up today for both newcomers to the franchise and returning fans like me indulging in some gory nostalgia.

Recommendation: An almost perfect film experience, watch Almost Famous for the nostalgia, for the music (there are 50 credited songs used here), for the performances, for the Philip Seymour Hoffman performance (who was sick the entire time), for the plane scene, for Penny Lane — for all of it.

Director John Hyams (The Smashing Machine, Rank) calls it an»80s nostalgia piece, particularly because of the synth soundtrack they decided to use.

Still, it often feels like Yonebayashi's attempt to decode the Studio's DNA, using Robinson's story to illuminate Miyazaki's creative relationship with nostalgia, pastoral settings and European influences.

Whether it's discussing the use of subversion as an attempt to deepen nostalgic characters we've been waiting years to see again in «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» or the possible merits a Bumblebee spinoff set in the 1980's can have in an otherwise bloated and disappointing live - action «Transformers» franchise, nostalgia can be a defining factor as to whether or not a person sees the resurgence of properties of their romanticized past in an optimistic or cynical viewpoint.

Nostalgia is defined by the fact that this used to be how we saw the brutal, stupid - ass Russian Hun, barrelling into the middle of a large country without much of a plan beyond patrolling a position held together by spit, doggedness, and dead boys you're sadly not going to get to buy back.

Olson uses this road to delve into topics both historical and personal: the history of California's formation, an ill - fated trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles to meet a crush, the power of nostalgia, and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, among other topics.

Combat appeals to nostalgia but isn't really very good, hit - or - miss voice acting mostly misses, lame use of big - busted minor characters as promo art because boobs.

Chasing 3000 is a nostalgia - fueled bore that uses baseball history as a backdrop for a formulaic road trip movie.

2011's Sonic Generations made a massive leap in the right direction, using a hefty dose of nostalgia in re-imagining classic levels from the better entries in the series in both 2D classic Sonic style and some actually brilliant 3D levels, each with style specific Sonic designs, one short and chubby, the other lanky with those green eyes!

Indeed, for all of Assayas's personal attachment to this material, Something in the Air isn't significantly more illuminating about the period than something like Almost Famous, which uses the titular song to roughly the same effect, evincing the same impossible nostalgia for a time when everyone was supposedly moving together on one big bus, so to speak.

And writer - director Greg Mottola («Superbad») makes wonderful use of throwback Kennywood, adding to the infectious nostalgia trip.

I reckon plenty of people who played Street Fighter 2 back in the day will see someone playing this on Switch in a pub or whatever and fancy a shot, using the Joy - Cons as fiddly little controllers for short bursts of nostalgia - fuelled fun.

Offensively, the vehicles can pick up one of three Nerf weapons during the standard race mode, which adds to the nostalgia and child - like mentality of the game, but it could have used a few more options for diversity.

The film uses its setting as lazy shorthand: for the nostalgia of lost childhood, the virtues of independence, and the spiritual purity of acoustic rock.