Sentences with phrase «hokey fun»

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.

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

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At first it was fun in a hokey, over-the-top way, but it gets ridiculous to the point of being annoying eventually.

Again, I'll avoid going into any kind of details that would spoil the fun for those blind to what happens in the last 20 minutes or so, but after the intimate nature of the majority of the film, things jarringly veer into a really hokey, odd area that clashes with the rest of the film in a very unflattering way.

To be fair to Milestone their career mode is straightforward and bland in the sense that you earn stars for completing events which in turn unlock more events, so it feels like they attempted to use the Gravel TV show concept to spice things up, but it comes across as hokey, and not in a particularly fun way, despite some knowingly cheesy intros.