Sentences with phrase «by hokey»

While the Boogeyman plays on a common childhood fear, the conclusion will likely leave more audience members horrified about the price they paid for their ticket than terrified by this hokey closet dweller.

These scenes — which genuinely feel endless — are driven by hokey, hoary computer effects that stand apart from the otherwise tactile world this film creates.

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.

Not exact matches

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

Led by the charming Bill Paxton and the always - stellar Helen Hunt, with supporting performances by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Cary Elwes, the film transcends its hokey storyline to become a first - rate entertainment.

Do you honestly think that hokey picture of Jesus knocking at the door, holding up his lamp by William Hunt (an English Victorian) is an historical depiction?

To someone determined to be cynical, it would have sounded sentimental, antiquated, even hokey — especially since it was sung by four young men in orange suits, faces trimmed with lush mustaches, each sporting his own unattached hand microphone.

I can understand an Iron Age Palestinian sheep herder thinking he could avoid death by pleasing some hokey sky - fairy, but educated people today?

I have very little doubt that our generation will be looked back upon with jaw - dropping incredulity by future historians who will marvel at how, in the 21st century, having peered at the mind numbing infinity from Hubble, delved into the quantum irrationality of CERN and unraveled the beautiful simplicity of the DNA codons, we still made important life decisions based upon the presumed wishes of some hokey, invisible, all - powerful sky - fairy dreamed up by some illiterate Arab tribesmen in a tent in the Middle East 2,000 years ago.

It found prayer was not effective, and even less effective than the hokey quack medicine «techniques» which at least helped people by giving them positive human attention.

You don't see anything deeply inane about basing 21st Century health care policy on the perceived $ exual wishes of some hokey Bronze Age sky - god invented by ignorant Palestinian farmers 2,000 years ago?

I was surprised by how much the class turned me on, and it didn't feel hokey or awkward.

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The main problems with this hokey and overwrought mishap are the beyond ridiculous storyline which scoffs the whole idea of suspension of disbelief, the cringeworthy and repetitive script and the annoying, over the top acting by Bridges.

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).

Masters of the Universe is, by and large, a weak fantasy / action film, full of leaden plotting, bad acting, and hokey characterizations that will most likely please no one but the most forgiving fans of the He - Man mythos.

You have your Bond girls, an evil villain, gadgets, a sultry theme song written and performed by Adele, and intense action sequences without any of it feeling hokey and gimmicky.

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.

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial may feel hokey to modern audiences, but it's one of many movies directed by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas that had a huge impact on my childhood and on my creative sensibilities.

But the adaptation (by Hillcoat compadre Nick Cave) is a hokey piece of pop history that wearyingly insists upon its own mythos like a comic - book blockbuster.

One could at least give the script by Schenk (Turkey Shoot, Barquero) and Simon (Phase IV, Marooned) some credit for taking the basic premise into a different direction, but not when that direction is this predictable and hokey.

What You Need to Know: Judging strictly from the logline, this may seem like a hokey Screen Gems thriller that doesn't belong on any list of anticipation whatsoever, save for one authored by the Babysitters Club.

While the Radiohead scene was genius, several of the subsequent song choices, aside from the new material co-written by Paul Williams (yes, that Paul Williams), are hokey.

All of these efforts are nearly undone by comic book - style writing, with hokey one - dimensional characters and cliché after cliché in the plot.

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.

But practically every line of dialogue delivered by Jaeden Lieberher (who co-starred with Watts in «St. Vincent») is either correcting someone or saying something profound, including in one of the hokiest movie classroom presentation speeches I've ever heard.

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 camera.

After six films, I've just learned to embrace the hokey qualities for the sake of the overall adventure, and I become absorbed by the rousing confrontations and fantastic battles between good and evil.

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).

With very dark lighting and some interesting amber color schemes, Hyams sets the right mood in terms of appearance, but the hokey script by Andrew Marlowe (Air Force One) creates nothing but laughable lines and phony situations that have no logic.

Directed by Martin Campbell who also handed the original TV version, The Edge of Darkness is a political potboiler / revenge flick featuring an uneven mix of hokey sentiment (ala the ghost of Emma intermittently appearing to daddy) and two - fisted fare (ala Gibson kicking butt).

The script, by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeeley (with a light, uncredited polish by Avengers director Joss Whedon), is sharp enough to remain just this side of hokey.

We drove by the Reichstag (Germany's parliament building) and former «Checkpoint Charlie» (a little hokey now — actors dressed in fake soldier uniforms charge tourists to have their photos taken).

Sure, it's not an award - winning story by any means, but provided you don't take it too seriously, which the slightly hokey voice acting helps to ensure, then you shouldn't have a problem with it.

I don't know if Type - 0's source material was too hokey to begin with or if there just wasn't enough time to make it all sound natural, but the dialogue that builds its narrative is beset by its off - kilter delivery (though the original Japanese language voice track is available).

I almost got bored, but was drawn back in when it became obvious that there was a clear IPCC intent seemingly supported by the scientists themselves, to paint a fraudulent picture of past temperatures by the strange structuring of the hokey - stick chart — it inferred a stable past temperature, but I knew it had been naturally oscillatory.

Perhaps «The Wegman Chimera» could be a working title, or maybe «The Hokey, Slick Delusion (aka Wegman Report)» by Lord Montford (with a Wayforward by Judith Curry?)

Further, ever since his Hokey Stick chart that showed no MWP or LIA was debunked by Steve McIntyre, Mann has been desperate to resurrect his greatly diminished reputation.

At a glans the 2009 graph by Mann et al. doesn't look anything like the «hokey stick» (or are the most recent decades still differing from the others?).

At risk of sounding hokey, I like to «greet the day» by stepping outside on the porch, looking at the sky, feeling the temperature (which saves me checking on my phone later to know how I should dress), and simply taking a moment to see how the day feels.