Sentences with phrase «gimmickry of»

Sam: I always feel like some people get so distracted by the gimmickry of marketing.

Gone was the gimmickry of five years ago and up on the wall was visually exciting art!

So who the hell was supposed to want the weak gaming spec of the Wii U coupled with the complex gimmickry of the screen - on - a-giant-controller?

For the plain - spoken Western woman, the clotheshorse gimmickry of balls and parties and chaperones is endurable for the right man.

The ceiling for this type of tossed - off entertainment may be fairly low, but all the participants here are game and on the same page regarding the type of movie they're making, and director Warren Sonoda and his behind - the - camera collaborators actually come up with inventive staging tricks to keep the gimmickry of the conceit from getting stale.

Reminiscent of the adhesive gimmickry of Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Color Splash's main appeal hinges on the joys of painting blank spaces with reckless abandon.

Beyond the gimmickry of the penis gags, this is an romantic comedy with wit and charm to burn.

Compelled by Warner Bros. to film Dial M for Murder in 3 - D, Hitchcock perversely refused to throw in the standard in - your - face gimmickry of most stereoscopic films of the era — though watch how he visually emphasizes an important piece of evidence towards the end of the film.

It used to be easy to forgive Ed Miliabnd the blatant gimmickry of policies like an energy price freeze, because you felt they came from a genuine intellectual place.

«The enacted budget avoided much of the fiscal gimmickry of the past to attain budget balance, and it starts to address the long - term implications of the structural imbalance in the state's finances,» DiNapoli said.

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.

Not exact matches

Too often retailers confuse the need to become a destination with the introduction of gimmickry.

While they can reward hardworking employees, options also smack of financial and accounting gimmickry that could someday collapse a company's equity like a house of cards.

Waiving PAYGO now on the grounds that the AMT's growth was «unanticipated» would accept a false claim — that the growth of the AMT was not expected or intended — and would reward the budget gimmickry used in designing the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts.

Action: Say no to always - on voice assistants Who is this for: Anyone who values privacy more than gimmickry How difficult is it: No real effort Tell me more: There's a rash of smart speaker voice assistants on shop shelves these days, marketed in a way that suggests they're a whole lot smarter and more useful than they actually are.

You'll also find warnings about investment fads and fashions, including the recent stampede into exchange traded funds and the rise of indexing gimmickry.

Today, many are wary that the study of ancient and contemporary rhetoric will cause their preaching to become pompous, rigid and loaded with false gimmickry.

And it made me wonder what kind of God would leverage the life of a young man on how well we were to perform this psychological gimmickry, and about a matter that, if we're honest with ourselves, we can't be certain of.

The dishes do not show off, or gesture in the direction of gimmickry.

The Bulls played the part of the overmatched squad, resorting to gimmickry and luck to stay tight, and the Heat were the world - beaters trying to avoid the upset.

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.

Aided by some budgetary gimmickry, the governor through this year has, at least technically, stuck to the 2 percent line — but has also spent any resulting excess cash before it could accumulate into much of a true surplus.

Lib Dem health spokesman Norman Lamb said: «Some of these initiatives smack of gimmickry.

The Liberal Democrats accused the Department of Health of «gimmickry», although welcomed moves to provide patients with the information needed to make an informed choice.

Instead of trafficking in populist gimmickry, Mr Miliband might more usefully spell out how Labour would recast the energy market.

The Harry Potter films are rich enough without any layering of gimmickry.

has a title that reeks of mediocre gimmickry, and indeed this film is more than a little silly.

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.

If you're familiar with writer - director Rian Johnson's prior films, Brick and The Brothers Bloom, then you can be forgiven for assuming that Looper will collapse under the weight of its gimmickry.

Suffice to say that the unveiling of SPECTRE cues a modern - day rewrite of classic Bond mythos, teasing the audience with wry winks to series - affiliated imagery and gimmickry dating back to the Sean Connery era, from white cats to ejector seats.

Though die - hard fans have clearly come to expect this kind of computer - generated gimmickry, with rare exceptions — the half - horse, half - eagle Hippogriffs are a great success — these kooky bits of business are both unconvincing and a distraction from the emotional core that makes the Potter books so special.

The lone soundtrack, French stereo, does an adequate job of conveying the film's varied settings without resorting to excess or gimmickry.

A lot of resources went into making G - Force — a lot of talent, a lot of money, a lot of marketing — and it doesn't have much to show for it, not even some half - way imaginative 3 - D gimmickry.

The elaborations (some would say gimmickry) of Emma Rice's short tenure have been reined back, and a new concentration prevails.

The tension is rooted in psychology rather than gimmickry, and evinces a command of craft that feels old - fashioned in the most refreshing possible sense.

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.

For what it's worth, the action sequences remind mostly of Brosnan - era Bond — which is to say, they're cluttered with a lot of empty noise and gimmickry.

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.

Boasting none of the lyricism, grace or psychological incisiveness of his prior masterworks (Paris, Texas; Wings Of Desire), Wenders» latest is a misbegotten stew of turgid drama and look - at - me 3 - D gimmickry, with the director using his signature special effects to highlight foreground - background dynamics in the most unnecessarily self - conscious manner possiblof the lyricism, grace or psychological incisiveness of his prior masterworks (Paris, Texas; Wings Of Desire), Wenders» latest is a misbegotten stew of turgid drama and look - at - me 3 - D gimmickry, with the director using his signature special effects to highlight foreground - background dynamics in the most unnecessarily self - conscious manner possiblof his prior masterworks (Paris, Texas; Wings Of Desire), Wenders» latest is a misbegotten stew of turgid drama and look - at - me 3 - D gimmickry, with the director using his signature special effects to highlight foreground - background dynamics in the most unnecessarily self - conscious manner possiblOf Desire), Wenders» latest is a misbegotten stew of turgid drama and look - at - me 3 - D gimmickry, with the director using his signature special effects to highlight foreground - background dynamics in the most unnecessarily self - conscious manner possiblof turgid drama and look - at - me 3 - D gimmickry, with the director using his signature special effects to highlight foreground - background dynamics in the most unnecessarily self - conscious manner possible.

Unconvincing CGI wizardry and scratch and smell gimmickry are outdone only by the endless overuse of unfunny time puns.

Unsane takes the handmade appearance of a found footage movie but removes the artificial gimmickry, and only leaves the general sensation that this horrible story feels more «real» than we'd really like it to.

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.

Although its formalism is rigid, the film rises well above gimmickry to become a truly great, unique piece of cinema (and a very fine crime movie to boot), conjuring its own world, commenting on our own and giving the audience something that's palpably new.

At least, the film doesn't overplay its three - dimensionality with an abundance of in - your - face gimmickry, instead allowing planes of depth to be known to somewhat cool effect.

It's clearly smart enough that it could have surpassed movies like «Rain Man» and «Transamerica,» both of which rely too heavily on gimmickry and fail to achieve such fully rounded human representations.

by Walter Chaw An experiment in perceptual distortion that questions the nature of viewership and the law of observation that states, in part, that the nature of the process of observation necessitates a change in the essential quality of the observed, Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal is a hyper - pretentious film - within - a-film-within-a-film conceit so gimmicky it hardly matters that by the end gimmickry is its point.

Spoils doesn't just ape and parody melodramatic»70s television, but all sorts of gimmickry (one scene is in 3D and the first episode is preceded by a half dozen of made - up technical format acknowledgements) and egomaniacal storytellers (Jonrosh kind of resembles Francis Ford Coppola at the height of his vision and power).

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.