Sentences with phrase «campy movie»

If you're like me, then you'll love the premise behind ACE Team's The Deadly Tower of Monsters, an over-the-top action game that is full of campy movie tropes.

In some of the more creative and unique categories of the Dorian Awards, the Campy Movie of the Year nominees are: Baywatch, The Disaster Artist, The Greatest Showman, I, Tonya and mother!

Seyfried tries to give a campy movie real heart as a girl who never knew her father and who yearns to know which of her mother's faded summer flings is the guy.

Not exact matches

Every Tuesday, the Alamo Drafthouse on 6th Street does a screening of a horror movie, usually something obscure and campy.

When naming this polish, the KBShimmer team learned that Holly is a huge straight - to - DVD scary movie fan, so they knew that there had to be a tie - in with a campy horror name!

Movies (anything campy) I have a big personality.

The show's overall tone is less campy than the Flash Gordon movie, but it's more mature, and entertaining, than the old «Battlestar Galactica» or «Buck Rogers in the 25th Century» series.

But even other «minor» flaws in the editing, lighting and shaky camera - work are not in any way less responsible for this movie turning out to be the most campy thriller with a decent cast I've seen in quite some time.

Cheesy, campy, funny and sad all in the same scene sometimes.For a movie I stumbled into this was a frigin awesome mistake and one I am happy I made.

I expected a fun, campy - type film with such talents as MacLaine and Posey, but this movie was so campy that it became cheesy.

From the shoddy editing to the campy screen writing (if it wasn't completely improvised, hard to tell when no real actors were actually hired), Dead man's shoes never aspires to be much more than a low budget B - movie at best.

Shaun returns Eddie's discrediting paternalism with her own clapbacks, of course, which is where the fun of this movie lies — in the campy and habitual nature of its generic retreading.

The result is a great - looking movie with an awkward balance of pulp noir and campy self - awareness.

Although the acting isn't what you might consider formidable, it works for the sort of campy film that this is, precisely because it is a bit of a throwback to b - movies.

Dozens of jumpsuited bad guys dangle from zero - gravity wires, yet the movie rarely gets off the ground — here's where Roger Moore's arched eyebrow becomes campier than a pitched tent.

And every time Theron is on screen, the movie gets crazy campy, and therefore, at least somewhat interesting.

While cult films range from campy science fiction to highly graphic horror movies and just about everything in between, there are a few characteristics that most cult films share:

It's rare to attend a movie these days and see 95 percent of the audience stay through the end credits just to watch six people dressed in campy garb singing ABBA tunes and trying to dance.

For the most part, Detective Pikachu lovingly plays with the idea of a gumshoe detective story by way of Pokémon and treads the line between lighthearted fun and campy storytelling in an entertaining way — which makes all the more sense given that the game will be getting a movie adaptation with Ryan Reynolds.

It's a modern day salute to the campy, goofy fun the action movies of the past used to have, while keeping a slick, modern set of effects that directors of days gone by could only dream about.

This was enjoyable in a campy way, even if I'd say it was, looking at things realistically, a below average movie.

Jason and Brandon Trost's intentionally campy homage to classic underdog sports movies like «Rocky» and «The Karate Kid» (as well as other films ranging from «The Warriors» to John Carpenter's 80s oeuvre) is one of the strangest movies you'll ever see.

At the time, the horror market was dominated by stylish Hammer productions and campy B - movie fare, making a serious horror film aimed at adults a terrifying anomaly.

When it comes to campy, over-the-top horror movies that should theoretically make good games, nothing really tops Army of Darkness.

Based on the campy B - movie Army of Darkness, a particularly popular entry in the cult classic Evil Dead franchise, the video game incarnation is a castle defense game with some very light RPG elements.

The Forbidden Room, partly shot concurrently with that project, is a collection of scenes and movie clichés reworked with campy exaggeration and absurd, cartoonish twists.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Raunchy Adaptation of Classic TV Series Arrives on Home Video Whenever a classic television series is made into a movie, the buzz always seems to be about whether the screen version will be a creative variation on the theme or merely a campy, cornball, take - the - money - and - run ripoff trading in familiar formulas and shopworn cliches.

What makes «Funny Games» different than any other campy - scary horror movie that gets off on tormenting its characters and teasing its audience?

Whenever a classic television series is made into a movie, the buzz always seems to be about whether the screen version will be a creative variation on the theme or merely a campy, cornball, take - the - money - and - run ripoff trading in familiar formulas and shopworn cliches.

I remember the campy original from my childhood, and I can safely say this is a much better movie.

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It is rumored that Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead, Army of Darkness) was supposed to have played the lead here, which should tell you enough about the intent from the outset to make the movie as campy as possible.

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Critics described the movie as campy, fun, and delightful — adjectives rarely heard about period pieces.

In addition to it having a very enjoyable balance between dark character drama and campy fun, it is also a delightful Christmas movie.

The movie is straightforward without a hint of irony but also manages to never take itself too seriously by having some mildly campy fun in process.

Critics still debate whether this was supposed to be a campy, obviously silly movie, or if it was a serious project gone wrong.

Though it gets listed as a drama, there is a campy, tongue - in - cheek nature to the movie that suggests that we take what we see mostly as a fun genre exercise, and certainly the winking nature of the performances keeps the tone fairly light, despite some rather dark and dreary thematic material.

The gore is slightly graphic, but there is a campy feel to most of the movie.

Often campy, the movie isn't, until its end, campy enough, turning its final sting into more a confirmation of the sobriety of its build than the release of revulsion that I suspect was the intention.

Perhaps if the movie had followed its comedic tendencies into more of the campy horror territory, it could have worked.

There probably is an audience out there for a movie like The Covenant, and that audience probably consists of younger viewers that enjoy campy teen horror films like The Lost Boys and The Craft, both films from which The Covenant seems to crib without much effort to hide.

I don't care how cheesy or campy it is, «True Lies» is STILL one of my favorite movies... «Jump, Dana!»

I wish this movie was at the very least campy.

Not campy enough, not smart enough — this is a movie that paces back and forth, unable to commit to any one direction.

First up is Dr. Baxter Stockman, a mad scientist portrayed to campy perfection by Tyler Perry (continuing to absolutely slay his supporting performances in other people's movies).

Now we've got Kingsman: The Golden Circle, a movie which doubles down harder on the campy violence than we ever could have asked — and even that doesn't manage to quite save it.

That being said, go into this movie knowing that it is a campy, corny, over the top superhero / action / comedy that is just about crazy shooting sequences and one - liners, and you'll be fine.

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While Zemeckis, who co-wrote the film with Christopher Browne, makes sure the movie looks wondrous, most of the characters are campy caricatures, especially after Petit and company touch down in the Big Apple and mingle with the Noo Yawk folk.