Sentences with phrase «as schlocky»

Speaking of terrible movies, our Amazon highlight for the week is about as schlocky as horror films get.

However, what starts out like a new age «religion vs science» battle, ends up as a schlocky pseudo-intellectual gore fest.

By that year, customers had gradually turned their backs on a brand many now saw as schlocky; Coach's share of the handbag business had fallen 12 percentage points, and Kors was No. 1.

Not exact matches

Not a bad schlocky horror flick overall, but the real reason this film is even remotely noteworthy is that it's the directorial debut of Francis Ford Coppola (credited as Francis Coppola in the credits).

American Ultra starts out as if it will be a schlocky stoner comedy.

Other horror films this season have ranged from arty to schlocky, but the scales tip to the latter — and that seems to be what the majority of horror fans like; they consider films such as Clive Barker's «Lord of Illusions» and even a work such as «Species» as essentially «party movies.»

Obviously, there must be a market for somewhat knowingly schlocky B - movies such as this, but it's not one I can understand or support.

While it's not in the same ballpark as the best Disney animated films, this light comedy offers brisk diversion and definitely ascends above the low quality of schlocky, direct - to - video sequels.

Although energetic in a schlocky - pap kind of way, any miniscule chance that something as essentially stupid and poorly written as Antitrust might have had to succeed as a legitimate cautionary paranoia film is fatally hobbled by the performances of teen heartthrobs Ryan Phillippe, Rachael Leigh Cook, and Claire Forlani.

Yes, the movie looks cheesy as hell, and yes the stars are as generically attractive as the ones you'll find in any schlocky teen romance film — star Nick Robinson did first stretch his teen romance acting chops in 2017's tearjerker Everything, Everything — but it's still gives the spotlight to a gay lead in a major motion picture.

Sure, the graphics look dated, the characterization and plot are schlocky as hell and you can't even strafe while you're aiming, but it's only when I return to it that I realize that no one, not even beardy Kratos with his 4K sheen and Leviathan Axe, has reached the same bar.

is mostly a setup to images of various monuments being destroyed by aliens, with Burton following his critically acclaimed Ed Wood with a schlocky sci - fi film that seems as it could have been inspired by Wood himself.

As a graduate of the University of Manitoba with a degree in English Literature, Andrew has grown to appreciate the story and writing behind everything from blockbuster comic book movies to schlocky B - movie action.

As bad as it is, there's the sense that it's genuinely a labour of love, and because of that it has a certain schlocky B - movie style appeal that can draw you iAs bad as it is, there's the sense that it's genuinely a labour of love, and because of that it has a certain schlocky B - movie style appeal that can draw you ias it is, there's the sense that it's genuinely a labour of love, and because of that it has a certain schlocky B - movie style appeal that can draw you in.

Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson is too busy making better paying video game films to repeat his performance as Sarge from 2005's schlocky low - budget Doom movie from Universal Pictures, so this time around we'll get Nina Bergman in a shlocky low - budget Doom movie from Universal 1440 Entertainment.

To demonstrate that this is gimmicky instead of shocking, Dan Duray outlines a short history of artists using blood as a medium, from the seminal to the schlocky.

There are jazzy paintings by the Dutch artist Sedje Hémon that can be read as musical scores; paintings, texts, and scores by the great egalitarian Englishman Cornelius Cardew, who assembled orchestras that included untrained musicians; a video by Ross Birrell and David Harding of a performance of Henryk Górecki's effective but schlocky neo-Romantic Symphony of Sorrowful Songs; the avant - gardism of Avraamov; corny instruments fashioned by Nevin Aladağ from everyday objects; performances of work by the esteemed queer minimalist Julius Eastman; austere and inventive pieces by Alvin Lucier; and many more.