Sentences with phrase «gimmickry as»

Since this is in 3 - D, Hurwitz and Schlossberg mildly poke the gimmick («Hasn't 3 - D jumped the shark,» Harold wonders), while director Todd Strauss - Schulson takes full advantage of such gimmickry as eggs and their yolks flying at the camera in slow motion as Harold attempts to escape the protestors» wrath.

Not exact matches

From his position as a TV - show production manager, Marc Sirkin observed Hollywood's huge appetite for gimmickry.

Were Congress to waive the Pay - As - You - Go rules now and deficit - finance the AMT patch, lawmakers would merely be rewarding the budget gimmickry of 2001.

On the positive side, the proposal as described by the governor continues to restrain spending, holding the core state operating funds budget growth to 1.7 percent with an (apparent) minimum of gimmickry.

The governor's proposed $ 98 billion state operating - funds budget for fiscal 2018 again shows growth below the 2 percent line — with help from still more gimmickry, such as a shift of 75 State Police positions into the capital - projects fund.

But McMahon raised serious doubts about Cuomo being able to limit state operations spending to two percent without some cost shifting and other budget r gimmickry, such as moving some state government workers from the operations budget to capital.

Hong crafts his films as if he's simply watching ordinary people, while simultaneously layering his gimmickry over average - seeming lives in order to reveal broader truths.

In a time so inundated with cinematic gimmickry, a filmmaker such as Ingmar Bergman would never succeed.

In addition, the evolving interaction between Tara and her alters as she becomes «co-conscious» with them feels like little more than split - screen gimmickry.

For all the cinematic dreck currently peddling disorienting editing as «action,» no one in good conscience could deride Tarantino for his indulgence in split screens or extreme close ups or smash zooms or any other mode of cinematic gimmickry, when it affords us hauntingly sparse centerpieces such as The Bride's live burial, an aural choir of oppressive dirt, panting whimpers, and futile struggling set to the visual accompaniment of pitch black confinement that stretches on well past any spectator's comfort level.

Unfortunately, given that the thriller plot kicks in for the latter half of the film, which employs such things as cracked security systems, hacked computers, tampered drinks, hidden cameras, women in cages, car chases, and criminal frame jobs, the upper hand is completely lost to cheesy mainstream suspense gimmickry that is both wearisome and distasteful considering the thematic material presented.

Technical gimmickry dominates the day, as Jean - Luc Godard revolutionizes 3 - D with his new avant - garde puzzle Goodbye To Language, and Xavier Dolan invents his own Instagram - like aspect ratio for Mommy.

If the movie emerges as a celebration of its heroine's wits, it is also, ultimately, a defense of her scruples — something it achieves through a deft combination of «Social Network» structural gimmickry and «Steve Jobs» sentimental back story.

Far more than the filmmaker's hectic, ultimately tension - dispersing visual and aural gimmickry, the picture's best special effect remains Franco's performance, which catches the horror and sublimity of a jock humbled while trapped at the bottom of the earth, becoming spiritually whole even as he literally loses parts of himself.

A docudrama mapping the trials of real - life teacher Francois Begaudeau over the course of one year in a rough Paris high school, work shopped and performed by actual students, any concerns of gimmickry or over-earnestness dissipate as the film's searing insight and joyful wit carry the viewer through an all - too - brief 130 minutes.

Overview: It is a luxury four - door sedan with all the bells and whistles, electronic gimcrackery and comfort options one could want — without the gimmickry being overdone as is the case with some of these Japanese luxury cars.

Back at the beginning of his career, customers were paying as little as $ 50 apiece to learn how to «focus» enough to be able to walk over hot coals pain free (a bit of gimmickry that the debunker James Randi tells us has nothing to do with mental preparation and everything to do with the principles of heat conduction).

This marketing gimmickry is about as lame ass as the 4G fraud being committed by cell carriers.

Author Rob Marks notes that critics of Op art who characterize the genre as superficial are ignoring the possibilities that lie beneath the surface: «Faruqee's 2013P - 29, 2013P - 32, and 2013P - 34 (all 2013), for example, could appear as little more than decoration, gimmickry, or novelty....

About 20 years ago, I cofounded the SPEC benchmarking group, formed by a group of computer vendors to improve the usefulness and honesty of benchmarks, as there was a lot of gimmickry.

We were happy to see that the movie treated its premise with a great deal of self - awareness, addressing the fact that the no impact conceit could easily be labeled as gimmickry rather than an earnest experiment to see what one can and can not live without.

I think O'Riley would like that reversal of his nightly opening remarks as it applies to what I regard as sales gimmickry disguised as consumer - oriented «We wan na make less so that you can save more!»