Sentences with phrase «in schlocky»

The modern reboot of a 16 - bit «classic,» this is a game that revels in schlocky, ultra-violent juvenilia.

Tom Cruise's first appearance on the big screen was brief but fun, and suffers only because it comes in a schlocky»80s romance.

There are countless tales to relate from this tragedy, and rather than focus on several in the schlocky manner of a»70s disaster flick, director Juan Antonio Bayona elected to center on the true - life story of María Belón and Enrique Alvarez, a Spanish couple on holiday with their three boys in Thailand when the tsunami hits.

Yes, the movie looks cheesy as hell, and yes the stars are as generically attractive as the ones you'll find in any schlocky teen romance film — star Nick Robinson did first stretch his teen romance acting chops in 2017's tearjerker Everything, Everything — but it's still gives the spotlight to a gay lead in a major motion picture.

Although energetic in a schlocky - pap kind of way, any miniscule chance that something as essentially stupid and poorly written as Antitrust might have had to succeed as a legitimate cautionary paranoia film is fatally hobbled by the performances of teen heartthrobs Ryan Phillippe, Rachael Leigh Cook, and Claire Forlani.

Not exact matches

Not a bad schlocky horror flick overall, but the real reason this film is even remotely noteworthy is that it's the directorial debut of Francis Ford Coppola (credited as Francis Coppola in the credits).

From an opening scene in a prison fist fight to a staunchly bland climax finding him lost in an «unknown» realm when he's forced to shrink himself to fit between molecules (something resembling the resting place of Big Hero 6 mixed with the twilight hour of James Wan's «further»), Scott Lang is never a fully fashioned personality, some accidental prototype linked with schlocky zeal to the film's other do - gooder via a conflicted father / daughter bond.

Good schlocky suspense, thrifty distribution of grue, Angelina disrobed again, and a supporting cast mostly in on the gag... What stops Taking Lives from becoming a guilty pleasure is an ending involving the sadistic stalking and injury of a pregnant woman.

«Sharknado 4» delivers all the schlocky camp you can handle and have come to appreciate in this series.

Kebbel then graduated from the small to the big screen with a series of turns in high - profile but (unfortunately) consistently schlocky and critically maligned Hollywood films.

Tying the film to its basis in reality is a nice touch, but it does little more than make an argument for a thoughtful documentary on the subject, rather than a schlocky, cornball made - for - tv rendition.

If you're still watching these films at this point in the series, you clearly don't care that they're nothing more than schlocky B - movies with plenty of style but little in the way of actual substance.

The third entry in the «Purge» franchise puts presidential campaign paranoia to effective, schlocky use

While it's not in the same ballpark as the best Disney animated films, this light comedy offers brisk diversion and definitely ascends above the low quality of schlocky, direct - to - video sequels.

Featuring a cast including Michael Douglas, Robert DeNiro, Kevin Kline, and Morgan Freeman, there's a sleeper gem lying in wait there somewhere, but we'll see if Turtletaub can follow through more than on his recent rather schlocky efforts («National Treasure,» «The Sorceror's Apprentice»).

Cat People (1982) A charmingly schlocky erotic thriller very loosely based on Jacques Tourneur and Val Lewton's 1942 horror film by the same name, Cat People follows the explosive sexual awakening of Irena Gallier (Nastassja Kinski) who, upon arriving in New Orleans, slowly learns that her desires transform her into a black leopard, placing her and her new zoologist lover (John Heard) in jeopardy.

His films are too beautifully made to be considered B - movies, and too schlocky and fun to be completely mired in pretention.

In this case, it shifted toward the highly professional, sincere, phantasmagoric work of a man who loves Creature From the Black Lagoon more than the people who made that schlocky Universal monster movie from the 1950s.

As a graduate of the University of Manitoba with a degree in English Literature, Andrew has grown to appreciate the story and writing behind everything from blockbuster comic book movies to schlocky B - movie action.

You'd certainly take that colour scheme any day over this schlocky dystopian sci - fier that chains you to the coalface of the dreaded «young adult» genre, where heroes must be «special» on a messianic level and villains are parent - shaped authority figures looking to put young idealists in cages.

Perhaps the most touching song on the album is also the most gauche, the album closer «Pray for Me,» in which Lamar pours out angst and bromides between schlocky refrains sung by the Weeknd.

As bad as it is, there's the sense that it's genuinely a labour of love, and because of that it has a certain schlocky B - movie style appeal that can draw you in.

Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson is too busy making better paying video game films to repeat his performance as Sarge from 2005's schlocky low - budget Doom movie from Universal Pictures, so this time around we'll get Nina Bergman in a shlocky low - budget Doom movie from Universal 1440 Entertainment.

And cooks everything real good in the soup of schlocky Square Enix story with awesome production values.

And it's a tour de force in doing so, because sometimes it does it for schlocky horror, others for sadness, others for humor, others for modeling suicidal depression.