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Escapist in sentence

38 examples of Escapist in a sentence

I kept waiting for this film to improve, but, alack, this is the worst kind of escapist movie: a spun-sugar confection that sinks under the weight of its own ponderous self-importance.
See it and be awed by the star-power of the two leads, the exotic, romantic, photography and music, and the bold adventure of a truly escapist film.
However, the countries within the Iron Curtain apparently enjoyed their escapist musicals just as much as the states had.
What I can tell you is that Cronenberg takes you on a trip down into the world of videogames that acts as a metaphor for any kind of escapist behaviour.
Jan was a sensitive person, but an escapist who isolated himself from the world.
I like this television show and I think that many people watch it as a form of escapist voyeurism...Voyeurism in this case is very positive, and many females in this series are very nice to look at...This show incorporates Las Vegas legends such as Wayne Newton as intermittent characters to authenticate the Las Vegas genre!!
And because of this characteristic weakness even the psychic who can see almost everything cannot do anything down-to-earth, and because of the same weakness the very story of the film is ended in a badly escapist way.
Mix exotic tropical locations, babes in skimpy attire, explosions, good-looking Dudley Do-Right clones, a movie star with his best years behind him (Martin Sheen), a little martial arts and a sexy villainess (Tracy Lor.....er, sorry...Tracy ELIZABETH Lords) and you'd think you'd be in for some escapist fun.
Guilty is the wrong word for it, though, as I'm pretty pleased to be an escapist from time to time.
It's escapist fun and there's nothing wrong with that.
The opening credits make for a brilliant, atmospheric piece of escapist entertainment that's full of little nods to the comic strip.
Nevertheless, this is a fun film, escapist entertainment with the Beltway as the backdrop.
Taking a break from his escapist run in the early '80s, Steven Spielberg directed Whoopi Goldberg in an adaptation of Alice Walker's "The Color Purple", about about the desperate existence of an African-American woman in the 1930s.
This film is harmless escapist fun.
Jane, you must remember, was part of the escapist fantasy of the wartime years, created to boost the morale of the troops.
I am a big fan of escapist romance, and I can forgive a lot of schmaltz and cheesiness in a low budget film if there is a credible connection between the characters and the plot is even halfway believable.
Don't go when you want an evening of escapist fun.
A nice bit of escapist entertainment, this Italian made World War II actioner concerns a group of American prisoners, heading to the stockade for such infractions as desertion and outright murder.
Add in a healthy dose of sex, nudity (blurred out for TV), homoeroticism and violence and you have a cool escapist thriller...Again, not at all what you would expect from a REAL WORLD movie...
A lot of films take the escapist approach to deviate its content from real life; in my opinion that is a perfectly legitimate way to make films, and while Singles certainly has its share of over-the-top moments (which are highly enjoyable), I found it to resemble life more than most genre films.
Actually, I like mindless, escapist fluff comedies, and was prepared for one of those here.
The plot is absolute escapist romantic fare, which I'll leave others to describe.
While I understand the appeal of escapist television, I never understood the fact that this show was ever aired.
I liked the show and wished it could of lasted longer than it did, although I suppose it is a miracle that such a high styled campy escapist detective show like this would even have been revived in the mid-Nineties and went for 27 episodes!
I don't mind mindless, escapist entertainment ... in fact, that's why I rented this DVD.
It's good for what it is, which is a pure escapist popcorn B-movie.
Which is to say, it only makes sense as entertainment--the purest form of escapist entertainment.
It is just escapist fantasy, and there's nothing wrong with that.
I'm now sorry I missed "The Escapist" at Sundance which has also not yet been released commercially this side of the Atlantic.
The movie is basically escapist: showing reality in makeup and looking like whore, very much like Hollywood movies.