Sentences with phrase «hokey stories»

Pretty hokey stories I'd say.

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If you've read the sales pitch on the Lipovox and Leptovox websites, the hokey «stories» of how each product was developed no doubt left an impression - it certainly did for me.

... a small, straightforward story that has its heart in the right place, even if its hokey sentimentality keeps it from reaching the finish line.

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

Only when it has 20 minutes left to live does Killing Lincoln knock it off with the hokey structure and melodrama and let the story itself take charge.

A love story between Vlad and wife Mirena (Sarah Gadon, «Enemy») is endlessly hokey, a concoction of cloying clichés.

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...

It's a simple love story between a man and his machine, playing out almost like a straightforward romance, but with a tongue - in - cheek style that gives the audience a wink to tell them it's meant to be a little bit hokey.

The overall execution of the story and some of the reveals take it to a hokey and silly level, which really bring down the quality of the film.

Just when the story gets a bit slow or Efron utters a line of dialogue so hokey that you kind of want to roll your eyes, a song erupts and suddenly everything is exciting again.

Our Take: This story was hokey enough back in the 1980s — it's almost laughable in 2011.

Don't play it for its hokey and forgettable story, but instead dip into Dead Rising 3 whenever you want some mindless, delightfully excessive popcorn entertainment, as Capcom goes all out with the (then) new hardware to offer more elaborate weaponry, over-the-top chaos, and hundreds upon hundreds of zombies.

Those charmed by feel - good Capra films might find this gentle baseball nostalgia pic a winner, while I took a more cynical approach as I found myself unmoved by such a hokey ghostly baseball story.

Previously, it was a few too - hokey moments that detracted, while here, it's that the story feels just a little too forced.

A rousing — and, in light of recent events, a little bittersweet — story of women conquering patriarchy (for a day, anyway), the film, from Little Miss Sunshine directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton, has a righteous kick that excuses a lot of its hokier qualities.

With the numerous ways the characters» stories interact and nearly intersect, the story could have easily turned hokey.

+ 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

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.

The story is good, as is the world it creates, but the writing can get a bit hokey in places and doesn't quite work overall.

Still, while I'm pleased to see Nintendo take big steps — for them — toward immersive and admittedly unique story - telling, Other M is not particularly well - written, is prone to being occasionally hokey and melo - dramatic, and isn't very surprising.

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