Sentences with word «jokey»

The central notion of discovering one's unique personal identity («the only thing that matters is what you choose to be now») takes us back to an earlier China and it's free of jokey references to other movies.
In terms of tone, John Michael McDonagh's first film shot outside in the United States feels a bit like the latest U.S. - based film turned in by his filmmaking brother, Martin McDonagh, Seven Psychopaths, another film that I compared to the post-Pulp Fiction clones that came out in the late 1990s, full of bloody violence, brash attitude, and peppered with jokey moments that play to the crowd, such as one of the characters musing on whether a mime will make a sound when he is hit with a car.
Marvel has perhaps become too reliant on its loose, jokey tone in recent years, and it's easy to criticize Ragnarok on similar grounds.
It's basic AI companion stuff but the way Naughty Dog seamlessly segues in jokey dialogue and plot chatter with these action sequences underline the lead characters» physical and emotional reliance on his friends.
Even classics like The Howling and American Werewolf in London are too jokey for my taste.
As jokey as his persona may be, Legere says, his Twitter work is «very serious business.»
Roadman Shaq's rap is a bunch of gibberish nonsense mixed with jokey references.
2 borders on being overly jokey at times, with several gags that come thisclose to overstaying there welcome, it tows the line in favor of great laughs.
-- or even jokey things like «Is Santa Claus real?»
Paladin's Quest isn't really meant to be a parody but it does have its odd jokey moments.
Atrocities are followed by jokey riffs and sight gags, and what links them is not a creative sensibility (as would be the case in a Quentin Tarantino movie) but a carnival barker's desperate need to hold on to a distracted audience's attention.»
It includes more than a dozen storylines, some built within the confines of others, and some just little jokey asides.
«Adam and Drew: Back Together Again» (2:21) observes the stars» reunion with jokey remarks and some behind - the - scenes footage.
Under Pressure takes a more serious tone than Tangled Up In Blue and it has far less jokey dialogue options.
Vaughn and Ritchie return for a selection of sixteen indeed - redundant deleted scenes, their optional comments more jokey («Who directed Butch Cassidy?»
But to seize and insist upon the perceived jokey qualities of Hammons's art and persona resists the deeper significance of his output over the past 50 years.
«Some movies can be so jokey that you don't really care about the nemesis and the plot just thins out.
They might stop playing football for their company team, because of jokey comments made by their colleagues about their constant stumbling.
Twisted Pixel, a developer best known for making jokey games with mediocre gameplay, is trying something radically different with Wilson's Heart.
The movie's characters are occasionally flippant within the strict confines of the material, but the movie is rarely jokey about itself.
They are committed to the task of helping you get fit, and tackle that task head - on, so you don't really get the friendly attitude and jokey camaraderie that are featured in a lot of other exercise programs.
Though for those looking for a more bland entry in the rancid man - child genre and one that has of all things, Tyson singing a Phil Collins song, this might be their kind of unsophisticated and easy - to - take jokey movie.
Berger's film spins off all sorts of jokey asides (Charlie's crime scene training video, a music video from a side project rock band one of the cops fronts), as well as a trial session framing device that features Sherilyn Fenn as a prosecutor and John Landis as the judge, and sometimes these bits don't connect.
At first, though, the room is just an ordinary waiting area, where jokey singer Tiger (Callum Turner), nervous bassist Pat (Anton Yelchin), level - headed guitarist Sam (Alia Shawkat), and hotheaded drummer Reece (Joe Cole) prepare for a replacement gig, the final stop on an aborted tour.
The story swells and reaches great heights when it deals with personal drama, but all of that emotion dries up every time Jess and Milly exchange jokey banter.
A historic camaraderie clearly emerges among these long - term collaborators, which lends this a welcome jokey atmosphere.
Though a few of the poems, such as William Cowper's «The Snail,» might be a challenge for some kids, the majority of selections are short, a little bit jokey, and a lot of fun to read out loud.
Divided into several chapters, with jokey titles that don't really survive translation, the film begins with Jean - Luc enjoying his prime.
It has to be casual yet attentive, funny but not jokey, and sincere without the schmaltz.
He certainly seems to have made some impression in his short time here with the appointment of his backroom team being particularly well received, and the stepping up of the training sessions being very evident on videos released, to replace the usual jokey crossbar challenge and other joviality that came before.
Frank West's jokey manner fits the sandbox mode well, but his detached, ironic worldview doesn't land the way the rest of the series does.
The jokes feel jokey and fake, as opposed to quippy and fresh.
-- are often explored in the service of an overly jokey screenplay that lacks the sharpness of Allen's best work.
Unlike the excessively jokey Iron Man 2, Thor comes across as natural and maintains a positive balance.
It takes a really tired and almost jokey concept and turns it into a very grim movie on survival and in the end gives you a pretty mean popcorn movie.
I actually think the secret joke of the very jokey The Cabin in the Woods is that the blood ritual revolves around the sacrifice of each member of the Scooby gang except Willow.
There are a few amusing moments in «North,» mainly involving jokey references to other movies, but they are overshadowed by a dubious plot turn involving a full - scale revolt of America's children inspired by North's antics.
This is the least egotistical, knowing, in - jokey Turner Prize I've seen.
The UK version also gives you British English spellings and jokey Easter eggs relating to British cultural touchstones like «Monty Python,» among a number of other uniquely UK - focused features.
Greg comes off as simply incompetent as he flatly fumbles through a scene from «Waiting for Godot,» one of the movie's first jokey meta - moments.
When you cut down Cars as to why it worked, it wasn't for the technical stuff, or the predictable plot, but because we enjoyed the characters the depiction of small town America represented by Radiator Springs, and some clever sight gags and jokey allusions to the world of automobiles themselves.
The result is a terrifically human slice of sci - fi, which makes space travel plausible without taking itself too seriously, Damon's jokey turn accompanied by cute touches on the road to survival (the use of a tarpaulin being the cheekiest) and on the soundtrack; I never imagined I'd hear Abba's Waterloo in a space drama.
Lassnig helped to create today's jokey idea of painting as a consciously ham - fisted performance.
If a moderator is going to take a little jokey dig at someone, trust me, it's going to be the woman.
Pundits blame everything from neuroscience to Upworthy for this cathartic interruption of advertising's jokey assault on pop culture, when it was actually the jokes that were doing the interrupting.
Jokey plastic packaging combines modern design and attractive graphic decoration - IML - In Mould Labeling, digital prints and offset prints - with practical, resource - saving handling.

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