Sentences with phrase «jokey turn»

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.

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And his jokey attempts to turn the tables on the press and get them to tell him who we could have signed are not clever, they are incredibly annoying for Arsenal fans who have to pay mega money for the privilege of seeing our team fail to score.

, «Rampage» doesn't take itself seriously, mostly sustaining a jokey, knowingly goofy tone without turning into a so - bad - it's - great creature feature that regularly premieres on the Syfy Channel.

It's amusing at first, but «Terminator Genisys» turns unfortunately jokey and self - referential, to the point that it borders on parody.

The academy has banished the culprit and banned his successors from tweeting and ABC, which broadcasts the show, has turned the fiasco into a jokey promotional tool.

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.

(Turning the discussion about the torture Rockwell's abhorrent officer is said to have inflicted on a black civilian into a jokey back - and - forth is similarly misjudged.)

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.

The jokey performance of Will Forte as a Satanist turned Christian Pastor, and Danny McBride as another befuddled congregation leader don't seem to be doing either side any favor except for the unattractive sideshow all of these faith based gesticulations are eventually reduced to.

After the serious turn that MiGFiG took, I was determined to write something jokey, silly, and non-committal.