Sentences with phrase «hoary genre»
His screenplay is a hopelessly melodramatic regurgitation of hackneyed clichés from the hoary genre of boxing films.
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With a screenplay that is a hopelessly melodramatic regurgitation of hackneyed clichés from the hoary genre of boxing films, director Antone Fuqua's Southpaw is a disappointment.
But the temporarily pluralized title made some sense: As in last year's Prisoners, which similarly treated hoary genre material with poker - faced seriousness, there's a sense that all of the characters are trapped — by their guilt, by their grief, by their obsessions.
Not exact matches
Though it's hard to deny the effectiveness of Anna Faris» energetically go - for - broke performance, The House Bunny's reliance on some of the most eye - rollingly hoary cliches within the romantic - comedy genre proves instrumental in cementing its ultimate downfall.
Untraceable's been infused with a by - the - numbers sensibility that's evident virtually from the word go, as screenwriters Robert Fyvolent, Mark Brinker, and Allison Burnett place an almost relentless emphasis on some of the hoariest elements that the genre has to offer (ie the plucky partner that inevitably winds up in the killer's clutches).
It makes for an unexpectedly welcome form of dramatic escape: the character study breaking free from a hoary old movie genre.
It was on Xbox 360 that Gears of War made cover shooters the signature genre of the era (and, in Horde Mode, added a new standard to multiplayer gaming, alongside hoary stalwarts like Team Deathmatch).