Sentences with word «hokey»

The Images: ♦ Swanndri ♦ Pavlova ♦ Gumboots ♦ Hokey Pokey Ice Cream ♦ Jandals ♦ Monarch Butterfly ♦ No. 8 Wire ♦ Poi ♦ Rugby ♦ Silver Fern ♦ Haka ♦ Feijoas ♦ Kiwi ♦ Pūkeko ♦ Pōhutukawa ♦ Pāua Shell ♦ Kūmara ♦ Hei - Tiki ♦ Koru ♦ Flax Kete ♦ Kiwifruit ♦ Mince Pie and Tomato Sauce ♦ Black Singlet ♦ New Zealand Flag ♦ Pounamu ♦ Fish and Chips Please note that 24 of the images are hand drawn, and 2 (Kiwi and Pūkeko) are digitally drawn.

There's a lot of hokey fun in old pulp stories like Burroughs», but John Carter fails to capture any of that charm.

The true accomplishment of Good Behavior, created by Chad Hodge and Blake Crouch (based on Crouch's novel), is that none of this seems as hokey as it sounds.

It definitely got a little hokey at parts but never enough to take me out of the experience.

Stephanie Kwak's video - «smfoggy» takes an aerial tour of Chinese landmarks, surveyed by two airborne women in a playful jaunt that combines travelogue, rock video and those vintage Chinese action movies with hokey special effects.

There is of course some CGI present throughout which tends to swing from being reasonable (looking back now), to a bit hokey in places, bit plastic looking.

In an effort to make her into a team player, Coach assigns her to the 4x800 relay race and makes the relay team do hokey things like waltz in practice to «learn each others» rhythms.»

At the risk of sounding hokey, you are in my prayers.

The story sequences themselves have a laugh here and there, but they're also a little hokey in spots.

You put your Blu - ray in, your Blu - ray out, in, out, in, out, shake it all about, the Xbox Hokey Cokey continues.

Scripts like that would ordinarily seem hokey if drafted for fictional purposes.

Faced with the unthinkable demise of Stalin, so long revered as nothing less than a god, these Soviet dignitaries panic, plot and go in and out of denial: a bizarre, dysfunctional hokey cokey of the mind.

Yes, it does seem pretty hokey at first blush.

I was surprised by how much the class turned me on, and it didn't feel hokey or awkward.

Whenever plot continuity or development misfires, or lapses into hokey dialogue, the director throws in another dojo display of martial artistry.

There's no smooth segue from its belabored setup from hokey comedy to unctuous soap opera of seedy family secrets.

On paper I'm quite the fan of Torn Tales hokey premise; you take Robin Hood, Snow White and Dr. Jekyll, put them into one place -LSB-...]

Han was never much for hokey religions and ancient weapons, so it's fitting that his movie ditches the mysticism for old - fashioned whiz - bang action.

Unless in a child's bedroom or other, more casual, space I think that drapes should touch the floor so they don't look hokey and dated.

It wouldn't have been difficult for Rampage to fall into the same boat either, seeing as it's based on a property that started out as a Bally Midway arcade title in the 1980s, and was itself a very straightforward riff on hokey B - movies about monsters with bad temperaments.

Sounds so hokey, right?

Dominic West as Lara's father plays his even hokier role with a level of seriousness that the material doesn't quite deserve, but aided in suspending my disbelief in the moment.

At its best the film has the endearingly hokey qualities of a late Eighties straight - to - video romp.

Included: ♦ Swanndri ♦ Pavlova ♦ Gumboots ♦ Hokey Pokey Ice Cream ♦ Jandals ♦ Monarch Butterfly ♦ No. 8 Wire ♦ Poi ♦ Rugby ♦ Silver Fern ♦ Haka ♦ Feijoas ♦ Kiwi ♦ Pūkeko ♦ Pōhutukawa ♦ Pāua Shell ♦ Kūmara ♦ Hei - Tiki ♦ Koru ♦ Harakeke Kete ♦ Kiwifruit ♦ Mince Pie and Tomato Sauce ♦ Black Singlet ♦ New Zealand Flag ♦ Pounamu ♦ Fish and Chips Please note that 24 of the images are hand drawn, and 2 images (Kiwi and Pūkeko) are digitally drawn.

These scenes — which genuinely feel endless — are driven by hokey, hoary computer effects that stand apart from the otherwise tactile world this film creates.

Pretty hokey stories I'd say.

The script gets hokey, but Goldbacher is a superb visual storyteller, capturing intimate moments with breathtaking acuity.

It actually sounds really hokey... but when you try to put it in practice, it's really powerful.

The whole thing is pretty hokey and like I said before it is very predictable.

With two little words — «They're here» — a pipsqueak Heather O'Rourke brought the haunted - house subgenre back from the great beyond, after William Castle's dime - store hokey fun laid it to rest in the early 1960s.

The movie has a great message about the power of music, and despite the fact that it's very hokey at times, it's also uplifting and moving.

Ejiofor's strained relationship with the Russians is an interesting flourish, and the questionably cast Kate Winslet and her blonde mane might have seemed less hokey had we come to understand her as more than a ruthless interim mob ruler.

Of course, Refn isn't one to peddle such hokey Old Testament wisdom.

Of course, now that it's twenty - five years old, Nick Castle's charmingly hokey movie probably appeals more to a nostalgic crowd of 33 - 38 year - old men.

Marshall veers wildly between hokey moments that are meant to be humorous and saccharine moments that are meant to be sentimental.

Directed by Harold Becker, photographed by Gordon Willis, written by Aaron Sorkin, featuring Anne Bancroft and George C. Scott, reading the credit list is in truth probably more exciting than watching the film, whose fairly hokey plot is far too convoluted to go into in any great depth, but essentially it's another retread on the old psychological thriller format seen in Cape Fear, Dead Calm and so many other films over the years.

The Young Adult movie genre has gotten something of a stigma since Twilight invaded the mainstream, and most moviegoers approach any film within that genre - specifically the YA supernatural sub-genre - with a very critical eye for quality storytelling over hokey romance fantasy and skewed supernatural mythology.

This takedown of capitalism could easily slide into hokey, but Marche guides the narrative with immense skill.

It's quite amazing to see how effective the somewhat hokey material, which usually comes across as utterly ridiculous in other movies, is when real, cutting emotion is actually involved.

Some will love the film for its scope, ideas, and passion; some will find it to be overbearing, over-stuffed, and too hokey with its uses of fate and coincidence in the latter third; and others will merely be left cold by its staggering ambition, leaving with only appreciation for its effort.

Of course, there's probably something sort of hokey about a martial arts tournament that determines the fate of the world that is fought by movie stars, demons, ice ninjas, and thundergods, so maybe it all balances out.

«We're being reared on the notion of our own individuality and the belief that we need tools and filters to find other like - minded individuals, rather than put our faith in supposedly hokey old adages like «opposites attract»,» says Mintel's Richard Cope.

These three possibilities are somewhat at odds with one another: the interpersonal relationships of Walsh's truckers on the Warners back lot are far from the closeted group dynamics of Hawks's aviators within a metaphysical void conjured out of hokey sets at Columbia, while Kubrick's film focuses on the relationship between humans and their artifacts.

Sure, it's not an award - winning story by any means, but provided you don't take it too seriously, which the slightly hokey voice acting helps to ensure, then you shouldn't have a problem with it.

gallery through April 28, an environment that evokes the jarring temporal disjunctions and hokey nostalgia of a «Twin...

Critics Consensus: Harmlessly hokey yet never much more than mediocre, Hocus Pocus is a muddled family - friendly effort that fails to live up to the talents of its impressive cast.

We drove by the Reichstag (Germany's parliament building) and former «Checkpoint Charlie» (a little hokey now — actors dressed in fake soldier uniforms charge tourists to have their photos taken).