Sentences with phrase «feel jokey»

Not exact matches

Between the jokey dialog you uncover during missions, the opening thank - you screen, and the focus on user - created content, Volume is a charming game: it's the sort of game that makes you feel as though if you ever met the lead designer, you'd pretend to like it just a little more than you actually did.

The jokey tone, then, may work, but by the end, it also feels like it has been a long distraction from the inevitable way that all of this plays out.

I mean, there's definitely stuff that is unreal and insane and absurd and surreal, but just anything that didn't ring emotionally true I tried to avoid it and if anything felt too jokey I tried to avoid it.

In terms of tone, John Michael McDonagh's first film shot outside in the United States feels a bit like the latest U.S. - based film turned in by his filmmaking brother, Martin McDonagh, Seven Psychopaths, another film that I compared to the post-Pulp Fiction clones that came out in the late 1990s, full of bloody violence, brash attitude, and peppered with jokey moments that play to the crowd, such as one of the characters musing on whether a mime will make a sound when he is hit with a car.

In some ways, the jokey, cheesy tone feels like a predecessor to adventure movies of the 2000s, especially The Mummy and its sequels.

From student work like the jokey abstract expressionism of «Disintegrating Pig» (1950) he becomes adept at painting interlocking, jigsaw puzzle - like compositions that look partly like exhilarating aerial views but also feel internalised, elemental, like shifting tectonic plates of colour and form.