Sentences with phrase «at style over substance»

With the major exception of Pan's Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro has always excelled at style over substance, producing gorgeously imagined films with tiresome scripts, clichéd stories and cardboard cut - out villains.

Not exact matches

when u see guys like ramsey playing (not jus this game) who prefers style over substance, losing possession in centre and leading to goals, then u know team has a problem.if u were to lose possession and try to be stylish, u wud get instantly removed at a team like barca, real.u cant hav players who lose possession, do wayward passes and yet expect to win.both things cant co-exist....

His contributions at Middlesbrough and Aston Villa were a largely disappointing and sporadic style over substance.

As it stands, you're looking at a massive amount of style over not a great deal of substance.

Bad... very very bad... boring waste of money to rent online... we hoped and hoped that at some point it would become at least entertaining... nope... just stupid and then more stupid... really disappointed that Ryan Gosling would appear in something this dense... Style over substance doesn't really tell the half of it: you can bathe a corpse in groovy light and dress it in an expensive suit, but in the end that rotting smell just won't go away.

I don't think it was style over substance at all.

This style over substance critique is nothing new in the film world, nor is it restricted to this particular genre, as Chen hints at in the last sentence above.

Now, I liked Drive quite a lot — it was a case of style over substance and got a bit ridiculous at times, but it worked, it was cool and it was brooding yet exciting.

Rather than putting style over substance, its style was the substance, director Matthew Vaughn pulling out every trick in the book to poke fun at the stuffy clichés of Bond - era spy films while leaning hard into its R rating to sometimes grotesque results.

On the one hand, I was grateful that the film was so nice to look at because I would have been bored senseless otherwise, and yet this is a prime example of style over substance.

Substance over style seems to be the best way to tell this story, and while Liman and Cruise are both good at what they do, we're wondering if they were the right choices for a movie like this.

With the priority being substance over style, the Mazda5 is not particularly pretty, but a mild restyling for 2008 has made it at least attractive, especially in the loaded Grand Touring trim of the test vehicle.

Here's hoping Ready at Dawn learn how to construct a proper next - gen experience because as it stands, the Order: 1886 remains the strongest case this generation for style over substance in every sense of the term.

I was initially concerned that this would be another case of style over substance (I'm looking at you, Alice) or, God forbid, a sly propaganda piece for the Republican Party, but the demo and reviews have eased my worries.

The quirky graphic style attempts to compensate for the familiar, and at times dull gameplay, and much like developer Good - Feel's other Nintendo platformer, Kirby's Epic Yarn on Wii, feels like it is largely adhering to the recent Nintendo trend of style over substance.