Sentences with phrase «movie schlock»

Fortunately, both the Tomb Raider game and film franchises were rebooted to great effect — if not, the series would forever be associated with B movie schlock.

There's no reason to doubt the director's intentions here, however inelegantly he sometimes announces them — his use of Nina Simone's «Strange Fruit» is certainly a bold stroke — but the film's late descent into such deep, abrasive unpleasantness feels entirely unearned after the b - movie schlock that had dominated the earlygoing.

A horror movie in the giallo tradition, The Neon Demon is equal parts art film and B - movie schlock, with the dreamlike underpinnings of a fairytale.

To be honest, for standard horror - science fiction fare, it isn't half - bad for a while, but once the cave - dwelling creatures start to emerge, the movie begins a rapid descent into unappealing, mechanical action - horror clichés, taking what might have been a passable vehicle for genre junkies and turning it into the b - movie schlock.

Enter the Ninja is typical Golan Globus, Cannon films, B - movie schlock, but not completely intolerable, thanks to a dose of self - deprecating humor that lets us know this adventure isn't meant to be taken too seriously.

In fact, The Happening is very much like the basic made - on - the - cheap B - movie schlock that took up residence at your»50s /»60s passion pit.

Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus brought the film rights to the series, hoping to turn Cannon Films from a maker of B - Movie schlock into a major studio.

After some opening images — a shadowy blond figure, complete with trench coat and heels, dumping a corpse off a bridge — that immediately frame its tale of moneyed madness through the greasy lens of B - movie schlock, the film moves to an aging Durst (here renamed David Marks and played by Ryan Gosling) on the witness stand.

Not exact matches

If it's been a while since you've felt the cold blast and hard crunch of midnight - movie meanness, Zahler's shaping up to be your guy — the one selling illicit thrills out of the trunk of a well - restored, vinyl - topped LTD — and with «Brawl,» he sets himself further apart from his more schlock - minded contemporaries in cult cinem

Somehow channeling the tone of both a Lifetime movie and an after - school special, Mothers and Daughters shambles into theaters oozing schlock and melodrama, just in time for Mother's Day.

What do you do when you put Titanic, Gladiator, all sort of disaster movies into a blender... Well, you'll get Pompeii, a film that is so utterly derivative of all films that have gone before it, but somehow made with such enthusiasm by Paul W.S. Anderson, the king of «schlock» cinema that you'll find it somewhat enjoyable.

When I saw it last month, I feared that other critics might view it as a piece of over-the-top emotional schlock, or as an A-List Lifetime movie when it's anything but.

The ensemble is a disappointment, though some truly hardcore horror fans will like a few of the casing choices, such as B - movie scream queen Barbara Crampton (Body Double, Re-Animator) as the mother, schlock writer / director / actor Larry Fessenden (Habit, The Last Winter) as one of the first victims, and director Ti West (Drinking Buddies, Silver Bullets) as one of the significant others.

This movie's premise could easily have lent itself to schlock: Saoirse Ronan is a super-assassin who has been trained to kill by her «father» (Eric Bana) but has never learned about music or art or love, or the joy of painting your toenails.

Thunderbirds owes more to films like Spy Kids and the movie version of Lost in Space than it does to the original television series, so if you like slickly - made family sci - fi schlock targeted at the youngest of the audience members, you may not mind this mostly inferior knock - off.

On the flip side the Aliens are reduced to cheap slasher thrills, just tacky monsters that kill faceless people that no one cares about, real «Friday the 13th» «Critters» B - movie type schlock.

At 7:30, you can head over to Landmark Magnolia and catch a disaster movie nominated for a Best Picture Oscar — from schlock producer Irwin Allen, no less!.

As nifty as some of these elements are, none of the professionalism brought in can cover up the fact that this is still B - movie material at its core which, unlike Pitch Black, can not rise above its schlock nature to ultimately entertain.

What's most frustrating about The Captive is that it includes all the elements for a potentially great Egoyan movie — they're just buried in the mountain of schlock.

But the movie still towers above 90 % of the summer schlock.

The Buzz: I can't believe that a 3D movie would ever end up as my movie of the week, but this one has schlock written all over it.

Dante, a B - movie buff who had gotten his start with schlock king Roger Corman, was the right man to helm genre - bending tales of suburbia for Spielberg.

No good sex goes unpunished in «The Boy Next Door,» breathless, uninspired January junk that feels like the iffiest bits of a Lifetime movie and late - night cable schlock slapped together.

Oscar Wilde's classic novel is turned into a schlock horror movie, totally engulfed by gloomy atmosphere and over-the-top filmmaking.

«Black Dynamite,» which stars Michael Jai White in the titular role, is a send - up of Blaxploitation movies that, unlike the parodies from schlock masters Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg (the guys behind «Meet The Spartans,» «Disaster Movie,» et al), actually reveres its source material.

That schlock classic wouldn't have come within a hundred miles of the Academy Awards in its day; now, in an indirect, multi-mirrored way, even the old guard is seeing the beauty in the B - movie muck.

From Beyond is too well acted and boldly thought through to be considered schlock horror, and makes a strong case for the fact that good taste doesn't always equal good movies.

Timothy Olyphant (The Crazies)-- Typical horror schlock elevated into the second best horror movie of 2010 (behind Let Me In) by three core performances that bring more to the material than the sort of movie ever typically receives.

The Amityville Horror is a film so awful that it begs the question, «Which group is more asinine — families that stay in an overtly horrific haunted house as long as they can or movie studio execs that keep mining from the same empty shaft of ideas for ways to bombard us with abhorrent, unsavory schlock we've all seen dozens of times before?»

Some of that is in director Todd Strauss - Schulson's approach, which, with its camera gymnastics and overly bold palette, is too polished by half for the movie - within - the - movie to come across as the brand of schlock he's trying to recreate (again adding to a feeling of superiority over material that the movie claims to respect — or at least like).

It's apparent that Director Tim Miller wants to turn the «Superhero Movie» on it's ear, but it would take a deft touch to do so without going overboard and turning it into schlock.

0 also represents the strongest indicator, to me, that Resident Evil had abandoned its schlock B - movie horror charm in favor of a more fantastical and anime - lite approach.