Sentences with phrase «even hokier»

Today, Resident Evil is a legendary game for countless reasons: the hokey live - action prologue and even hokier voice acting throughout, the fabulously cheesy dialogue, and — oh yeah — its trendsetting survival horror gameplay.

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.

You know where this scene is headed every second, yet even this hokey wish - fulfillment works.

Not exact matches

Even the Windows Phone mobile OS makes the current iOS 6 look hokey and dated.

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.

... a small, straightforward story that has its heart in the right place, even if its hokey sentimentality keeps it from reaching the finish line.

In fact, as «Walter Mitty» ascends towards its climax, it becomes like a series of would - be anthemic and life - affirming music video montages that ring either silly, hokey or false (and occasionally even unintentionally funny).

It's hokey and predictable, but it's also plenty watchable and even slightly diverting, not merely as unintentional laughing fodder.

But considering the hokey nature of the source material, even the ragged edges work in the film's favour.

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.

The thing is, Star Wars has always been a bit messy, a little hokey even.

Even for a Disney film, dialogue rarely comes as hokey or situations as hackneyed as in this film.

To this day, over twelve years after MBH98, Mann still refuses to disclose his Hokey Stick methodology, even after Steve McIntyre proved that he had used the Tijlander data upside down, and many other equally egregious blunders.

Even a bit hokey.