Sentences with phrase «as hokey»

But the reality is that gimmicks like these are more likely to hurt than to help, because they generally come across as hokey or overly aggressive.

That's right: As hokey as it sounds, the solution to the shopping season's excesses may lie in the very message of Thanksgiving itself.

It's not unbearably horrible, but at times the dialogue came across as hokey and cheesy.

To be fair to Milestone their career mode is straightforward and bland in the sense that you earn stars for completing events which in turn unlock more events, so it feels like they attempted to use the Gravel TV show concept to spice things up, but it comes across as hokey, and not in a particularly fun way, despite some knowingly cheesy intros.

«For example, making up a dance routine for something as simple as the Hokey Cokey to impress our friends, figuring out how to streamline a supply chain business process, developing a computer simulation to model how a new antibiotic will impact on the immune system, or just doing long multiplication, are all examples of using algorithms to solve problems.

Even for a Disney film, dialogue rarely comes as hokey or situations as hackneyed as in this film.

It's not unbearably horrible, but at times the dialogue came across as hokey and cheesy.

Many scenes come - off as hokey, including several sledding rides, practically every scene involving Jonas» zombie - like parents (played by Alexander Skarsgard and Katie Holmes) and his naive girlfriend Fiona (Odeya Rush), and a hologram cameo performance by singer Taylor Swift, who plays the piano while trying to act alongside the veteran Bridges.

It's not as hokey or maudlin as it sounds.

Herman Melville, onetime sailor, never set foot on Nantucket before publishing Moby - Dick, but in In The Heart Of The Sea — which adapts Nathaniel Philbrick's non-fiction book about the Essex whaleship disaster as a hokey origin story for Melville's novel — he arrives on the island, hoping to find the man who had been the...

In the hands of a lesser director, a movie that features acrobatic sword battles in which the combatants fly through the air might come across as hokey, but Ang Lee strikes the right balance of wonder and hard - edged realism.

It can be very easy sometimes to find some reasoning that allows us to do something that we are predisposed to wanting to do, so sometimes a good old fashioned wwjd (as hokey as that sounds) can blow up our thinking.

This Is Us makes us cry almost every single episode — purposely — but the show isn't as hokey as people may want us to believe.

makes us cry almost every single episode — purposely — but the show isn't as hokey as people may want us to believe.

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It has hosted events ranging from the holy — mass performed by Pope John Paul II — to the hokey, such as WrestleMania III.

Think about the Apple store, for instance — would it look half as appealing if it had all the hokey fake wood and exposed brick of an Urban Outfitters?

Welcome to real - life screenwriting 101 — the class where the moviemaking is hokey, but the underlying facts are as true as they come.

That strategy applies to the Bible as well and I saved myself much more than $ 12... talk about «hokey nonsense».

As such your claim that we need a CF and DM is no better than a claim that could be made by a hokey fan on football matters.

He can also dance to music and may enjoy singing and movement games such as «The Hokey Pokey.»

It's hokey as all get out, but the reason that Real Steel succeeds is because of the dedicated performances, assured direction and sincere approach to the material.

The suggestion is that Laura is herself a survivor of childhood abuse, which is never fully spelled out but is used as a shortcut to some fairly hokey showdowns.

While action scenes from such military fare as «The Last Ship» come off as a bit hokey, that's not the case with Six.

Emerges as an engaging if occasionally hokey inspirational melodrama about the importance of community in the face of life's disappointments.

If that sounds too brittle a dramatic core, Berg tempers the spartan ideal with some pretty hokey but probably authentic touches: the soldiers quote Ron Burgundy, bellyache about domestic chores back home, Skype their families and, in a scene that is later echoed darkly, argue over whether to shave off a comrade's eyebrows as a forfeit.

Amy Irving stars as a widowed English teacher wooed by a suave lawyer (Antonio Fagundes), and there are other lovelorns all loose ly connected by friendships who figure in the plot's stubbornly hokey romantic turns.

A hokey young star of Western shoot - «em - ups (Alden Ehrenreich) is awkwardly rebranded as the leading man for a society picture being directed by a noted aesthete (Ralph Fiennes).

As usual we get more dodgy looking bluescreen shots and yet more hokey looking shaky sets which I have come to accept (sign of the franchise I'm afraid).

In fact, as «Walter Mitty» ascends towards its climax, it becomes like a series of would - be anthemic and life - affirming music video montages that ring either silly, hokey or false (and occasionally even unintentionally funny).

Jeff Goldblum's queasily eloquent performance as a genetically modified scientist, along with that of Geena Davis as a charmed journalist who becomes worried about him, elevate this remake well above its hokey»50s predecessor.

The extraordinary thing about Pride is that, underneath the mainstream presentation and heartstring - pulling manipulation (which never feels hokey, since it's largely based in fact), it quietly expands the horizons of queer cinema: Gays are portrayed not as frail victims, but as powerful heroes and defenders, and they aren't sexualized in the slightest (sex and romance are virtual non-factors).

It's hokey and predictable, but it's also plenty watchable and even slightly diverting, not merely as unintentional laughing fodder.

Don't play it for its hokey and forgettable story, but instead dip into Dead Rising 3 whenever you want some mindless, delightfully excessive popcorn entertainment, as Capcom goes all out with the (then) new hardware to offer more elaborate weaponry, over-the-top chaos, and hundreds upon hundreds of zombies.

That it succeeds in capturing the essence of the hokey adventure and horror films of the 1930s, I'll grant you, so long as you grant me the fact that its source material isn't exactly quality filmmaking either.

Though the movie isn't afraid to reveal his flaws both as a leader and husband, it doesn't exploit them for unnecessary melodrama either, and that allows Oyelowo to explore the complexities of the character (this is a man that had accepted his fate years before his assassination) without it feeling hokey or contrived.

Wrote Morris: «The movie could be about grace and vengeance, but they're presented as hoary lessons and hokey contrivances... There's no reckoning with anything, no introspection, just escalating mayhem.»

But if you're going to have a comic book depth, it's not a bad choice to bring aboard Ron Underwood to direct, as he has proven to be able to elevate hokey material into entertaining fare, as he did with Tremors and Heart and Souls.

It certainly came bearing a seemingly reliable pedigree of talent, with Pixar's Andrew Stanton (late of Finding Nemo and WALL - E) as director, providing enough of that trademarked hokey, winking self - deprecation that otherwise seems to sell well, and even some script - doctoring by novelist Michael Chabon.

Those charmed by feel - good Capra films might find this gentle baseball nostalgia pic a winner, while I took a more cynical approach as I found myself unmoved by such a hokey ghostly baseball story.

What could be an interesting reflection on an actress's breakout feature film experience is rendered kind of hokey because Howard's narration is overdramatic, as are the images and James Newton Howard score selections that are set to it.

Faced with the unthinkable demise of Stalin, so long revered as nothing less than a god, these Soviet dignitaries panic, plot and go in and out of denial: a bizarre, dysfunctional hokey cokey of the mind.

Sure, it sounds hokey, but it does pave the way for one of the movie's best qualities: James Woods again lends voice to a Disney villain as Benedict, the leader of the enigmatic evil plot.

As Horacia puts two and two together at a key point late in the film, Diaz gives his own spin on a hokey, century - old visual trope by placing the entire scene out of focus; his heroine only comes into sharp definition as she walks away, toward the camerAs Horacia puts two and two together at a key point late in the film, Diaz gives his own spin on a hokey, century - old visual trope by placing the entire scene out of focus; his heroine only comes into sharp definition as she walks away, toward the cameras she walks away, toward the camera.

It's perhaps a commentary on the lengths to which a teenager will go to feel some sense of normalcy in high school, but the screenplay's depiction of those concerns feels far too hokey for it to have any impact (Her dad, played by Ryan Phillippe, embarrasses her in his self - employed garbage - hoarding, and the there's not a single interaction among the teenage characters that comes across as legitimate).

And while Gandhi wasn't a bad biopic, its near domination of the technical awards stole the spotlight from pioneering scifi flicks such as Blade Runner - whose set design set the template for cinematic dystopias to come - and Tron, whose now - hokey light - bright costumes framed how future audiences would perceive virtual reality worlds.

On the minus side, director Brad Peyton is known for churning out duds such as San Andreas and Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, not to mention that the trailer for this one contains several hokey special effects.

Alfred Molina plays a far dopier role as an Afghan politician somewhat obsessed with Fey's character, but that whole storyline is so jokey (and hokey) it's hard to take it too seriously.

This failure - to - fame yarn known as Longshot is a tad hokey and you spend more time watching cut - scenes than playing ball to affect the narrative.

As Hughes did repeatedly, Gluck and «Easy A» manage to teach those lessons without getting preachy and without getting hokey.

She isn't great yet with characters on the periphery — Bill is a one - dimensional corporate bad guy / insensitive husband, and it's depressing to see the great Chloë Sevigny cast in a generic role as Owen's mom — but Amos, Diane, and Owen are all vivid and credible enough to support a less - hokey, more rough - hewn narrative.