Sentences with phrase «hokey sets»

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.

Add to this some really vomit inducing romance with Picard, really hokey sets, really fake plastic looking props, hokey fights and the very annoying practically perfect farm civilisation in their typically «I'm a goodie» beige / white loose fit garments.

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In a half - hour, they have to convert you (which trivializes what conversion means), heal you (which is hokey), promise success (people on the shows have overcome alcoholism, are Miss America, or play in the NFL), and entertain (so they find ever more expensive sets with more fountains and glamour (which detract from the world of the suffering.)

As usual we get more dodgy looking bluescreen shots and yet more hokey looking shaky sets which I have come to accept (sign of the franchise I'm afraid).

Herman Melville, onetime sailor, never set foot on Nantucket before publishing Moby - Dick, but in In The Heart Of The Sea — which adapts Nathaniel Philbrick's non-fiction book about the Essex whaleship disaster as a hokey origin story for Melville's novel — he arrives on the island, hoping to find the man who had been the...

What could be an interesting reflection on an actress's breakout feature film experience is rendered kind of hokey because Howard's narration is overdramatic, as are the images and James Newton Howard score selections that are set to it.

The set up is a little hokey — we all know that this patchwork family are going to have to share a combi van so that young Olive (Breslin) can make it to the Little Miss Sunshine Competition some distance cross country, we just have to wait for the characters to realise this.

And while Gandhi wasn't a bad biopic, its near domination of the technical awards stole the spotlight from pioneering scifi flicks such as Blade Runner - whose set design set the template for cinematic dystopias to come - and Tron, whose now - hokey light - bright costumes framed how future audiences would perceive virtual reality worlds.

With very dark lighting and some interesting amber color schemes, Hyams sets the right mood in terms of appearance, but the hokey script by Andrew Marlowe (Air Force One) creates nothing but laughable lines and phony situations that have no logic.

+ Great story and setting + Background music and ambient sound effects are excellent + Fun zombie gamelplay - Very dark visuals in a majority of the game - Voice actors sound very hokey