Sentences with phrase «feels hackneyed»

The pacing is a little odd and the framing of the villain side of the story feels hackneyed even though there's certainly potential for it to be unique.

The film is weakest when it comes to Casey's backstory, which is handled with fragmented flashbacks that feel hackneyed, even trite.

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His typical pattern of writing is to take a hackneyed, obvious notion like the Romantic view of the corrupt city and the innocent country, and twist it into complex, awkward shapes in an attempt to make it express the far denser mood - thought he felt about the city.

Beneath the otherwise hackneyed moral parallels of También la Lluvia, the courageous words of Montesino uneasily occupy the dramatic summit: that moment when the Spanish colonists (and their foils, the Spanish film cast) have to choose whether they will feel, or numb themselves to, the plight of the indigenous.

Even though the prologue informs, «This story takes place in New York City sometime in the early 1990s,» a.k.a. pre-Rudy's Renaissance, this raw view of Manhattan feels hopelessly hackneyed and dated, even if it was Scorsese himself who crafted this original vision twenty - five years ago.

There's a certain Moore - era throwback feel to it — albeit far less hackneyed — and a lot of overly familiar Bond tropes.

It feels very much like a personal remembrance using the hackneyed formula as a clothesline.»

Ti West's period chiller is a modern horror film that feels at once nostalgically hackneyed and invigoratingly fresh.

But this ostensible satire on American cops, crime movies, American values or lack thereof, intellectualism and anti-intellectualism, racism, and so on, is so hackneyed, tired, labored and overstuffed with contempt not only for all of its targets but also its own self that one gets the feeling that the talented Mr. McDonagh has gone mad with rage.

He tries for a lot of things, careening wildly from earnest romance to feel - good comedy to hackneyed suspense, all the while leaving it up to the audience to suss out the moral complexity and existential terror underneath the glossy surface.

David M. Rosenthal's direction is similarly uninspired, and you can practically feel the fatigue of the lead performers straining to elevate the hackneyed material.

Filmmaker Gary Ross has infused The Hunger Games with a low - rent, curiously uncinematic feel that immediately alienates the viewer, with the hands - off atmosphere perpetuated by the director's continuing use of such hackneyed devices as shaky camerawork and extreme closeups.

But that doesn't negate the fact that Cumberbatch's iteration of the character is pretty hackneyed, and that Doctor Strange's scenes are stitched together in a way that feels uninteresting and mechanical, like it's actively trying to hit the same beats as the many Marvel movies that came before it.

As the film moves away from Stanley's initial misanthropic cynicism (something Mr. Firth perfected in his work in «Pride and Prejudice» and Bridget Jones's Diary) to later genuine hope and feeling, the script devolves into hackneyed romantic - comedy conventions, and we lose interest.

(The cheap resolution, with Chris getting Cynthia, feels so hackneyed and tortured because the moment of gratification is as uninvested as the rest of it.)

Following a series of incidents including the near - tragedy that happened when a group of Charedi boys had to be rescued on the Kent coast, we feel that now is the time to shine a light on the serious concerns shared by the Commission, the council and many others who work with children in Hackney and beyond.

But to feel this way — and I hate to say something this hackneyed — you just have to be there.

For example: far from providing a satisfying conclusion to the franchise's third installment, you get the feeling that Nate and Sully's desperate escape from the crumbling ruins of Iram in Drake's Deception would come across as rather hackneyed in a blockbuster movie — something ripped straight from the Michael Bay school of film direction.

Tower Hamlets and Hackney had cut off the grants, because Bryan had made the Whitechapel such an international sensation they no longer felt it was a local gallery.

To support this notion, Hackney first feels compelled to point out more about the junk science funding of people who question the existence of the scientific consensus: