Sentences with phrase «hokey movie»

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.

But practically every line of dialogue delivered by Jaeden Lieberher (who co-starred with Watts in «St. Vincent») is either correcting someone or saying something profound, including in one of the hokiest movie classroom presentation speeches I've ever heard.

Not exact matches

M. Night Shyamalan has directed movies that are surprising, hokey, suspenseful, sentimental, clever, touching or cheesy.

There are other hokey acting and script moments that keep the movie from growing beyond its B - movie roots.

These movies have become one big joke, with hokey acting, slapdash visuals and Kindergarten dialogue.

In the hands of a lesser director, a movie that features acrobatic sword battles in which the combatants fly through the air might come across as hokey, but Ang Lee strikes the right balance of wonder and hard - edged realism.

Sobieski (whose recent choices in movie roles are increasingly disappointing) and Skarsgard do what they can with the hokey script.

Between the gene therapy concept, ice palace, and invisible Aston Martin, the movie felt a bit hokey.

One extraordinary, discombobulating sequence sees the film transform into a Youtube video of a hokey»90s TV movie about a Victor Hugo séance.

They did this movie dirty, cutting terrible trailers that made the movie look hokey and trite and Paddington himself a demonic hellbeast unleashed from our nightmares.

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial may feel hokey to modern audiences, but it's one of many movies directed by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas that had a huge impact on my childhood and on my creative sensibilities.

Though the movie isn't afraid to reveal his flaws both as a leader and husband, it doesn't exploit them for unnecessary melodrama either, and that allows Oyelowo to explore the complexities of the character (this is a man that had accepted his fate years before his assassination) without it feeling hokey or contrived.

Wrote Morris: «The movie could be about grace and vengeance, but they're presented as hoary lessons and hokey contrivances... There's no reckoning with anything, no introspection, just escalating mayhem.»

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.

The first half of this movie is so hokey you'd almost believe it's camp (until you realize that Mel Gibson's religion doesn't believe in camp).

Sure, it sounds hokey, but it does pave the way for one of the movie's best qualities: James Woods again lends voice to a Disney villain as Benedict, the leader of the enigmatic evil plot.

In the hands of anyone else, it would be hokey, but Anderson makes it work, like he does for the rest of the movie.

It's never hokey or over-the-top; the rapid pace of the film and its ever - quotable lines are ridiculously enduring — this is the kind of movie that never, ever gets old.

It's a hard movie to dislike, despite a good deal of clichés and hokey moments.

Overall, I struggle with how much I dearly love this movie and how hokey it is.