Sentences with phrase «like hacky»

You may remember that we first learned of this movie from the Sony Hack, where these plans read like a hacky movie pitch featured in an SNL skit.

He's simply trying to get a base acknowledgment of recognition from his audience, like a hacky stand - up comedian that's coasting on nostalgia so he doesn't have to write punchlines.

Or do you land with a thud or like a hacky sack?

You can pin those to the screen, but it still feels like the hacky workaround that it is.

Not exact matches

Some of the children liked to play hacky sack.

Like Gleeson and Byrne, Gluck seems to recognize his film's inherent frivolousness, frequently calling attention to some of the screenplay's plot mechanics and hacky tropes — at one point even hanging a lampshade on Peter's famous blue jacket, in acknowledgement of the object's trite value as an emotional symbold.

Blonde bombshell divides friends, failed writer provides hacky narration, crime unfolds exactly like you think it will.

It's so obvious and hacky to make fun of Kevin James and his movies but... it's difficult not to when you release things like what you see above.

To aficionados of hacky late - night talk - show jokes of the early»90s, a Tonya Harding biopic sounds like something that should turn up on a DTV double feature with To Buttafuoco Or Not To Buttafuoco.

When Marlin tries to entertain, the result is a calamity that plays like Brooks» early years as a stand - up deconstructionist, producing comedy by utterly dismantling hacky gags.

But it seems wrong to give your Space Marine a bunch of cool hacky tools like chainswords without making wading into melee the right choice at least some of the time.

Where movies like The Fast and the Furious don't take themselves too seriously, and much of the entertainment value comes from the sheer ridiculousness of it all, Payback takes itself far too serious to be enjoyable and the moments that it doesn't come off as hacky attempts at humor and pot shots at popular culture.