Sentences with phrase «into schlock»

It's apparent that Director Tim Miller wants to turn the «Superhero Movie» on it's ear, but it would take a deft touch to do so without going overboard and turning it into schlock.

Oscar Wilde's classic novel is turned into a schlock horror movie, totally engulfed by gloomy atmosphere and over-the-top filmmaking.

Not exact matches

Somehow channeling the tone of both a Lifetime movie and an after - school special, Mothers and Daughters shambles into theaters oozing schlock and melodrama, just in time for Mother's Day.

What do you do when you put Titanic, Gladiator, all sort of disaster movies into a blender... Well, you'll get Pompeii, a film that is so utterly derivative of all films that have gone before it, but somehow made with such enthusiasm by Paul W.S. Anderson, the king of «schlock» cinema that you'll find it somewhat enjoyable.

As such, it will be up to Caple to make sure Creed 2 doesn't descend into the kind of schlock that marked Rocky IV.

Hope this lives up to its attached names» previous work, and doesn't quickly spiral into fat lonely woman softcore schlock like HBO's supernatural show.

I squeezed Kitty Green's documentary into my Sundance schedule because I wanted a schlock diversion.

Especially when Hellworld has nothing to do with Yul Brynner's robot opus Westworld (and then Futureworld) and a lot to do with the «Bishop of Battle» segment of that early - Eighties schlock anthology flick Nightmares, where players of a video game somehow get sucked into it.

Often called «The Italian Hitchcock,» I find the term «The Italian De Palma» to be closer to the mark, for their obsessions, for their mastery of highly technical mimicries, and, extra-textually, for both auteurs» decades - long slides into mere imitation and schlock.

Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus brought the film rights to the series, hoping to turn Cannon Films from a maker of B - Movie schlock into a major studio.

Jones, who's so violence - adverse he won't squash a spider, is dismayed to discover that the Italian film he's been misled into working on is pure sadistic schlock.

To be honest, for standard horror - science fiction fare, it isn't half - bad for a while, but once the cave - dwelling creatures start to emerge, the movie begins a rapid descent into unappealing, mechanical action - horror clichés, taking what might have been a passable vehicle for genre junkies and turning it into the b - movie schlock.

Terminator: Genisys falls neatly into this category of uninspired fan service cash grabs, but to its credit, it's the cream of the crop when it comes to Hollywood schlock.

Timothy Olyphant (The Crazies)-- Typical horror schlock elevated into the second best horror movie of 2010 (behind Let Me In) by three core performances that bring more to the material than the sort of movie ever typically receives.

There's no reason to doubt the director's intentions here, however inelegantly he sometimes announces them — his use of Nina Simone's «Strange Fruit» is certainly a bold stroke — but the film's late descent into such deep, abrasive unpleasantness feels entirely unearned after the b - movie schlock that had dominated the earlygoing.

It's high concept that devolves into low - grade horror schlock, resulting in one of the most predictable and disappointing endings you'll ever see.

Once maligned as Surrealist schlock, Dalí's prescient forays into popular amusement and unbridled marketeering have lately come to the fore of scholarship on the mustachioed Catalonian.