Sentences with phrase «well as parodied»

The same innuendo led the Shake Weight to be featured on The View and Ellen as well as parodied on Saturday Night Live.

«Keanu» works best as a parody of action movies and takes jabs at «John Wick,» «True Romance» (1993), «The Boondock Saints» (1999), «Bad Boys» (1995), and a million other action movies.

That is, the public value of learning is recognized and protected, by enabling an exception to copyright's exclusive monopoly when it comes to «the purpose of research, private study, education» (as well as parody or satire, criticism or review, and news reporting).

Not exact matches

Falstaff at war is a parody of the other knights: too fat to be hoisted onto a horse, he spends the battle as a tubby suit of armor, waddling from tree to tree, justifying his mid-battle feint of death with «the better part of valor is discretion.»

This paraphrase is, I know, a parody that is both unfair and unnuanced, but it serves well enough to make the point that to espouse as one's purpose the promotion of the knowledge and love of God is, in our time, an act that runs against both theological fashion and the spirit of the age.

Anyone familiar with the more intellectual forms of pop criticism (whether of music or film) will recognize it as a parody of the Rolling Stone critic — a parody so good that, for a moment, one is almost convinced the piece is the real thing:

As we know, Christian rap parodies are just not very good.

Whether missionaries translated well or badly — and there are masterpieces as well as outrageous parodies — they made field criteria rather than the values of empire - building their operative standard.

But it is shameful when lack of imagination, failure of insight, and narrowness of mind produce such a parody of what might well be the most glorious of human occasions of meeting: the worship of God the «altogether lovely» (as an old phrase has it) and the altogether loving One.

Now he records a song a day for his Daily Reckless website which he started in 2000 as a parody of Scotland's then best - selling daily the Daily Record.

Contrary to classic cartoon parodies that depicted the bulldog as ferocious and wearing a spiked dog collar, the bulldog is not a vicious dog breed and gets along well with humans, including children, and usually other dog breeds.

Sharp - eyed viewers should watch for parodies of and winking nods to earlier Aardman works, as well as «The Lion King,» «Lady and the Tramp» and other animated classics.

«Tummy Trouble», «Rollercoaster Rabbit», and «Trail Mix - Up» are all included here, but while the opening of Who Framed Roger Rabbit functions as both wild cartoon slapstick and hyperbolic parody of same (as well as something of a precursor to the even more satiric Itchy and Scratchy of The Simpsons), the subsequent shorts, beyond lacking the deft, fluid touch of the movie's animation director Richard Williams, are less clever: orchestrations of mayhem that occasionally pause to wink at themselves.

I believe it's been parodied a few times as well.

«Save The World Telethon» is a parody of old school telethons as an excuse to bring a great night of comedy variety entertainment with the good natured and multitalented Alan Thicke hosting.

It felt like such a parody that it might as well have been directed by those jerks who made DISASTER MOVIE and EPIC MOVIE.

But his talent extends beyond parodying pop culture, as it turns out that he can orchestrate a traditional comic set piece with the best of them.

Lampooning Mexican professional wrestling seems an onanistic pursuit at best insomuch as, clearly, the sport is already busily in the process of self - parody — but letting Jared Hess (single - handedly bringing the Special Olympics to Wes Anderson) tackle it along with Jack Black doing an «oh Ceeesco» accent in skin - tight tights is a particular kind of torture.

It's an over-the-top hack and slash game that parodies other games like it, while remaining as good a game as its competitors (games like Devil May Cry and God of War).

He even describes his constant companion Earl (R.J. Cyler), with whom he makes short film parodies of classic movies, as more of a «co-worker» than a best friend.

But the story is so simple that it's almost unnecessarily long just for the sake of feeling epic, and it's tonally uneven as well, due in part to a few scenes that stray close to parody and some cameos (from Franco Nero, Jonah Hill and Tarantino himself) that are too cheeky for their own good.

If only the rest of it was as good as the hilarious film - within - the - film «Moonlake Quake», a knowing parody of another genre entirely.

and this disappointed me Although Gosling gave it his best shot, I think it's his performance (although he's probably only doing what the director has told him to do) which pushes the film into parody at times and not KST's mother character as suggested by others.

style parody, it hits with some well - written gags and solid performances from Martin, the wonderful Kathleen Turner, David Warner and a vulnerable vocal turn by Sissy Spacek as the brain.

Perhaps intended as loving homage, «The Better Angels» instead borders deeply on self - serious parody, virtually utilizing a checklist of every stylistic trope Edwards» cinematic maharishi uses — hushed ponderous voice - over about the nature of life; that gliding camera; dancing wide - angle shots; jump cuts; dancing in fields; a spiritual connection to nature — and one by one employing them all without a trace of ironic self - awareness.

Yet even a parody of scary movies should be scary (as were the «Scream» series and «The Cabin in the Woods»), but this pic is, well, not bloodless, but still, shall we say «neutral?»

Disguised as a Bob Ross parody, the teaser trailer for Deadpool 2 suddenly explodes with a bunch of brand new footage from the upcoming movie, with shots of new characters like Domino (Zazzie Beetz) as well as old favorites like Weasel (T.J. Miller) and Dopinder the taxi driver (Karan Sorin).

For example, Dan Harmon, who created the TV series Community as well as the BTTF parody cartoon Rick and Morty, spends some time talking about why he thinks the movie works so well, even though it violates some conventional screenwriting rules about the protagonist having a character arc.

And Anne Hathaway delivers a subtly satirical performance as her good sister the White Queen, gently parodying the elegant nature of such an archetype.

Stiller's cancelled sketch shows betray a mastery of aesthetic parody, so it's no surprise that the best parts of Reality Bites tend to zero in on a target, usually some facet of MTV programming; the closing credits of the film are interrupted by a burlesque of the typical Troy - Laney interaction that divines, with formidable accuracy, the network's fate as the Squaresville home of ostensibly trendsetting fare like «My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star» and a deplorable modernization of Wuthering Heights.

This was the first parody to caricature the actors as well as their roles, portraying a Montgomery Clift who stutters and stammers through his part, taking five word balloons to deliver a single line.

Perhaps not (and let's face it, even the most dedicated Bugs fans will have disagreements on this score) but they are all landmarks in their own way and the selection includes my picks for greatest of all Bugs Bunny cartoons: the hilarious highbrow farce «The Rabbit of Seville» (1950), «Rabbit Fire» (1951), which features the greatest verbal sparring (as well as the most insanely surreal identity swaps) of any Bugs cartoon, and the brilliant Wagner parody «What's Opera, Doc?»

There is some additional footage included along with some deleted scenes, as well as outtakes, «Who Holds Tomorrow» (a «Casablanca» television remake), and «Carrotblanca,» a Looney Tunes parody of the film.

The denouement becomes wildly ridiculous as well — to the point where it almost felt like a horror parody to me at times.

An indie - doll property of a different sort, vulgar cable - access handsock show - turned - Fox sitcom «Greg the Bunny» was resurrected on IFC as a series of ten - minute interstitials, collected on DVDs known as «The Best of the Film Parodies.»

Knowles follows in the shoes of Elizabeth Hurley and Heather Graham as Powers» female sidekick and is quite good at capturing the attitude of the Blaxploitation heroines she's parodying.

But the movie makes better use of new additions Morgan Freeman (parodying his saintly airs as a storied civil rights lawyer) and Liam Neeson (as a grocery shopper with some most unusual concerns about Trix cereal).

Considering that its writers / directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are previously responsible for such films as The Starving Games, Disaster Movie, Meet the Spartans and Vampires Suck, you might easily think that their latest effort, Best Night Ever, is yet another parody, this time lampooning the raunchy, similarly themed Hangover series, Bridesmaids and Bachelorette.

Once again reaching out to almost every celebrity he can — Billy Crudup, Zooey Deschanel, Rami Malek, Alex Karpovsky, Andrew Rannells, Jay Duplass, and even Rosie Perez — the parody sequel takes audiences into a world where the issues of the day are locally sourced ingredients, eco-consciousness, thrift store wears, and there are plenty of beards to be found as well.

It comes with a nice booklet too, but is even better when accompanied by the new monograph, Jiří Brdečka: Life — Animation — Magic, likewise issued by a publishing house bearing the name of his classic Western parody, Limonádový Joe, which was a book and play written by Brdečka before he was a party, as co-screenwriter, to its wonderful 1964 adaptation to film (dir.

The problem with that, of course, is that Jasmine is a lot less likable as a result, and though the actress turns in a mostly good performance, it borders on parody at times.

He even describes his constant companion Earl (RJ Cyler), with whom he makes short film parodies of classic movies, as more of a «co-worker» than a best friend.

One sitting through any batch of previews proves the formula extends to trailers as well, cunning exposed in a new video parody.

versions as well as to a bare bones parody that might inspire older students to make a clip of their own.

We'd be shirking our responsibilities as bloggers if we didn't join in, so in keeping with our December tradition, take a look at this list of the best education parodies of 2014!

As he does with his own person, Brooks does a good job of dressing CCSS in gowns of gravitas, covering the pretense and parody at its heart, hiding the large, floppy shoes and bulging, striped pants.

Dave has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as... (more)

She is the author of critically acclaimed novels DREAMS OF THE COMPASS ROSE and LORDS OF RAINBOW, as well as the humorous Jane Austen parodies MANSFIELD PARK AND MUMMIES and NORTHANGER ABBEY AND ANGELS AND DRAGONS.

Most of us love a good parody as much as the next person, but when the parody is making fun of two mainstays of popular reading at the same time the result is just fictional gold.

Verdict: 3 Stars Most of us love a good parody as much as the next person, but when the parody is making fun of two mainstays of popular reading at the same time the result is just fictional gold.