Sentences with phrase «less hokey»

In fact I enjoyed it a lot more than most of the original trilogy, although much of this is down to natural progression with special effects and much less hokey - ass CGI laden action sequences.

It's pretty good, and interestingly enough, less hokey and polished than the remake.

Not exact matches

It found prayer was not effective, and even less effective than the hokey quack medicine «techniques» which at least helped people by giving them positive human attention.

In the hands of a lesser director, a movie that features acrobatic sword battles in which the combatants fly through the air might come across as hokey, but Ang Lee strikes the right balance of wonder and hard - edged realism.

Faced with the unthinkable demise of Stalin, so long revered as nothing less than a god, these Soviet dignitaries panic, plot and go in and out of denial: a bizarre, dysfunctional hokey cokey of the mind.

She isn't great yet with characters on the periphery — Bill is a one - dimensional corporate bad guy / insensitive husband, and it's depressing to see the great Chloë Sevigny cast in a generic role as Owen's mom — but Amos, Diane, and Owen are all vivid and credible enough to support a less - hokey, more rough - hewn narrative.

The less than HD visuals do hamper the immersion factor a bit, but not to the point where it feels completely hokey.