Sentences with phrase «feel hokey»

and none of it weighs her down or makes these little vanity projects feel hokey.

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.

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

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.

The extraordinary thing about Pride is that, underneath the mainstream presentation and heartstring - pulling manipulation (which never feels hokey, since it's largely based in fact), it quietly expands the horizons of queer cinema: Gays are portrayed not as frail victims, but as powerful heroes and defenders, and they aren't sexualized in the slightest (sex and romance are virtual non-factors).

Though the movie isn't afraid to reveal his flaws both as a leader and husband, it doesn't exploit them for unnecessary melodrama either, and that allows Oyelowo to explore the complexities of the character (this is a man that had accepted his fate years before his assassination) without it feeling hokey or contrived.

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i really do enjoy music and i totally know what you mean when you say you are tired of the hokey feel good stuff.

It corrects some of the most blatantly hokey aspects of its predecessor and weaves a storyline that is fundamentally similar yet sufficiently different that it does not feel like a bad carbon copy.

There was a time when Roland Emmerich was one of the biggest directors working in Hollywood, both in terms of box office numbers and spectacle, but lately his FX - heavy blockbusters have started to feel somewhat dated and hokey.

Between the gene therapy concept, ice palace, and invisible Aston Martin, the movie felt a bit hokey.

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

When they finally force The Thing to utter that horribly hokey catchphrase of his, it certainly feels like clobbering time.

And there are a number of revelations and twists that feel annoyingly hokey.

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.

However I feel that White House Down is a much better film for one simple reason; the stupidity and hokey nature is fully embraced and it works because of this.

Previously, it was a few too - hokey moments that detracted, while here, it's that the story feels just a little too forced.

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).

Unfortunately all the exposition comes in the last twenty minutes or so, and not only does this feel awkward, but the backstory's a little hokey.

I also feel that using re purposed mitten clips is really hokey.

To be fair to Milestone their career mode is straightforward and bland in the sense that you earn stars for completing events which in turn unlock more events, so it feels like they attempted to use the Gravel TV show concept to spice things up, but it comes across as hokey, and not in a particularly fun way, despite some knowingly cheesy intros.

The less than HD visuals do hamper the immersion factor a bit, but not to the point where it feels completely hokey.

It feels a bit hokey to make nature paintings, so I'm trying to play up the kitschy imagery; at the same time, I am sincerely interested in delving into all the diversity and visual richness of plants.

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.