Sentences with phrase «fi schlock»

The story is standard individual vs. greedy corporation, sci - fi schlock and isn't particularly engaging, but it's safe.

Writer / director Joe Begos has fashioned Almost Human, his debut feature, as a love letter to 80s horror / sci - fi schlock.

by Walter Chaw A cacophonous mess of misguided revisionism and misplaced emphasis, Simon Wells's (and an uncredited Gore Verbinski's) updating of H.G. Wells's poli - sci - fi schlock masterpiece The Time Machine is a miasmic disaster, a sinkhole of shrug - worthy special effects, matte paintings, relentless music, and dangling plotlines and motivations.

But the best lines and memorable scene - stealing belong to his Hollywood confederates, semi-retired producer Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) and John Chambers (John Goodman), who once won an Oscar for best makeup but has been reduced to shepherding sci - fi schlock on the back end of the studio lot.

Thunderbirds owes more to films like Spy Kids and the movie version of Lost in Space than it does to the original television series, so if you like slickly - made family sci - fi schlock targeted at the youngest of the audience members, you may not mind this mostly inferior knock - off.

Not exact matches

And people will continue to wonder why gaming has such a hard time climbing out of the cultural ghetto inhabited by schlock sci - fi and superhero comics.