Sentences with phrase «by genre formulas»

Not exact matches

As such, «The Dark Horse» is as good a title as any for a film that takes an overplayed genre — the inspirational mentor story — and still manages to surprise, sneaking up to deliver a powerful emotional experience within a formula we all know by heart: After suffering a nervous breakdown, a Maori chess champ volunteers to coach a group of disadvantaged kids.

Rather than playing up the gratuitous pointlessness of cash - in sequels like itself, however, Craven's latest merely adheres to the very convoluted whodunit formula (and mounds of inane exposition) that it outwardly addresses via a from - the - grave video recording by Jamie Kennedy's genre know - it - all.

Chair Entertainment's Shadow Complex is a rare entry in the genre trail - blazed by Nintendo's Metroid, the side - scrolling action - adventure - explore formula later successfully aped by Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

Played extremely straight by Hutton and with a satisfyingly reserved level of camp by Boyle and Oliver Platt (as a corporate dirtbag), The Temp walks the tightrope of pointed satire for a delirious stretch before being swallowed whole by the great beast known as Faye Dunaway (chewing scenery) and the twisty genre formulas of its conclusion.

Directed by The Taking Of Deborah Logan's Adam Robitel, Insidious: The Last Key is one of the weakest films to come out of Wan's genre factory, reducing the producer's formula of creepy houses, jump scares, and derivative horror imagery to its least interesting essentials.

That's because while Clark's successful, seductive, and I guess unpremeditated iteration of the giallo formula (whodunit structure, operatic set - pieces, abundance of shots from the killer's P.O.V.) as established by Mario Bava and his peers sparked a genre unto itself in America, the more pioneering copycats, lacking Clark's flair for interpersonal dynamics, so grotesquely oversimplified Black Christmas as to discard its most distinguishing feature: its empathy.

The film follows the tired formula of the genre spawned by «Jaws», as the four wander the lake and its shore, looking for the croc.

Cowritten by Black and Anthony Bagarozzi, this nonstop - hilarious buddy - cop film is both a committed rekindling of the old formula Black aced throughout his career and a playful wink to the genre, bouncily walking on the fine line with occasional backflips.

The MatchMaker is a very by - the - numbers rom - com (despite the tagline of it being a romantic comedy for people who don't like them) that is only modestly successful for genre fans because it embraces the tried - and - true formula to a tee.

Genre films become what they are by following in the footsteps of others, playing off similar tropes and script mechanics in an effort to improve on the formula or find a new and interesting way to spin it.

It doesn't kill the film, because by this point we have already been entertained enough to allow for the formula indulgences of the genre, and also Badham's skill at directing violent action.

You can fix your targeting by using the formula, «Readers who love x, y and z will love this theme, genre, keyword.»

But Crais, while working within the constraints of the genre, still found his own winning formula by creating a unique chemistry between his heroes.

By actually copying them out you will quickly grasp the «formula» of the genre, whether it is crime fiction, entrepreneurship or children's books.

The point and click genre is difficulty in that it's hard to imagine any major improvements being made these days to the formula, but this is certainly one area that can be built upon and for future titles I'd like to see Daedalic work on their animation so that it can match the high - quality standards set by the art style.

This is by no means a bad thing: Deponia was a fantastic point - and - click game with very few flaws, so there was really no reason to try to change the formula all that much, and anyway, there's no a whole lot that can be changed in the genre.

With the gameplay formula not straying too far from familiar ground, however, the game developed by Pendulo Studios will hardly appeal to those who don't enjoy this classic genre.

This turned out to be a massive success, and Tango Gamework's The Evil Within 2 achieves this same honor by reinventing the survival - horror genre with a few experimental changes to the formula that everyone is already familiar with.

By all accounts, though, Medieval Defenders sticks to the script of the tower defense genre, never deviating from the original formula.

What it lacks in innovation to the genre it greatly makes up for by being close to perfection on the genre formula.

These games, and others, prove that the constellation of game mechanics established by the Souls series is not a formula to be copied, but its own discrete genre within which anything is possible.