Sentences with word «hackwork»

For his part, Banderas does seem to be having a good time strutting around Chile as the oft - clueless Turk, and he fully commits to the goofiness in a way that's pretty endearing — this isn't the paycheck - cashing hackwork of a past - his - prime action star, at least.

As pure hackwork, it's a failure, with too many glimmers of...

, appears to be corporate hackwork.

The weak link in a busy January weekend, Universal's export - ready offering may not look like much, though powered by criminal stunts that make last month's Sony breach seem amateur, plus action scenes punchy enough to justify the price of admission, it could hardly be called hackwork.

But this Sundance - ratified thriller about a pregnant girl menaced by lurking, bag - headed little monsters is shockingly shoddy work — less auteur experiment than for - hire hackwork.

Before we get to the highs, however, it's our duty (okay, our petty pleasure) to dispense with the lows: Like the artist responsible for our favorite album of the year, we've got a bone to pick, and it's with every execrable entry on the list below — a hall of shame wide enough to accommodate horror hackworks, witless studio comedies, tone - deaf social issue movies, and not one but two «unconventional» Katherine Heigl vehicles.

What a dreadful shame that Eddie Murphy finally came back to play for such enervating hackwork.»

For the most part, Final Exam is a dull but occasionally genuinely endearing piece of unpretentious genre hackwork.

So it's a little depressing to see Lane wasting her time legitimizing hackwork like Untraceable, directed with stone competence and not much else by Gregory Hoblit.

And paying attention to your story and characters will almost certainly introduce originality that will lift you above simple hackwork.

As pure hackwork, it's a failure, with too many glimmers of personality for the filmmaking to ever qualify as anonymous; as an update of a genre classic along the lines of Carpenter's The Thing, it's uninspired.

Enrico is clearly a personal filmmaker — he returns obsessively to themes of time and memory, images of families and homes shattered in the most terrible, irreparable ways — but all his films after Au coeur de la vie... and Zita fail of deftness and suggestibility as visual experiences, being all but indistinguishable from the hackwork of other commercial French filmmakers typified at their best by the «Tradition of Quality» boys.

«The Wiz was directed by Sidney Lumet, who turned in a hackwork job on a deeply compromised project that has no direct relationship to African - American culture.

Between the two, I still slightly favor Jaws for the aesthetics — there's ultimately no excuse for Michael Anderson's hackwork.

When Hollywood treats formal ambition and dramatic complexity as specialty - division afterthoughts, when foreign releases are ghettoized in a handful of big cities, when readers are defined by their lowest - common - denominator indifference — that's a situation where dozens of professional critics expend their collective intelligence finding new ways to snark about Brett Ratner's hackwork or Michael Bay's inhumanity (worthy causes both, but hardly the pinnacle of cultural commentary).

But, hey, at least now the world has an unending stream of half - literate, endlessly derivative and redundant «military SF» hoo - rah junk, zombies of all stripes and levels of decomposition (both the characters and the prose), and tweener apocalypse novels that make you sincerely wish that the world would end to stem the flow of hackwork.