Sentences with phrase «hackwork of»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

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.