Sentences with phrase «like minor classics»

Irrational Man is so clumsily staged and lethargically paced that it makes such clunkers as «Small Time Crooks» and «Cassandra's Dream» look like minor classics.

It's a shame, when a little extra consumer demand for higher quality might see more tablets like the minor classic LG G Pad 8.3 arrive at a low price.

Not exact matches

But as a comic allegory of what it's like to be an adolescent girl who comes into sexual and social power that she doesn't know what the heck to do with, it is a minor classic.

I suppose I could choose the great movies that have made me laugh the most — the first that come to mind, such as: a Keaton («Sherlock, Jr.» or «Steamboat Bill, Jr.»), a Fields («It's A Gift» or «The Bank Dick»), a Marx Bros. («Animal Crackers» or «Duck Soup»), a Sturges («The Lady Eve» or «Miracle of Morgan's Creek»), and, let's say, a classic comedy (preferably starring Cary Grant or Barbara Stanwyck or Jean Arthur, and written and / or directed by Ernst Lubitsch or Howard Hawks or Billy Wilder or Mitchell Leisen, like «Trouble in Paradise» or «Heaven Can Wait» (1943) or «Bringing Up Baby» or «His Girl Friday» or «The Major and the Minor» or «Some Like It Hot» or «Easy Living» or «Ball of Fire».like «Trouble in Paradise» or «Heaven Can Wait» (1943) or «Bringing Up Baby» or «His Girl Friday» or «The Major and the Minor» or «Some Like It Hot» or «Easy Living» or «Ball of Fire».Like It Hot» or «Easy Living» or «Ball of Fire»...).

Opening with a torrential rainstorm similar to the one that begins Suspiria, Toolbox Murders is, in fact, a fairly transparent Argento pastiche, though it plays a lot more like the English dub of one of the director's many late - career misfires than like classic Argento: the poor exposition is corny instead of poetically abstract (ditto the chasms in logic); the big bad's motive is maddeningly simple yet inscrutable; and the technique has minor virtues as opposed to being virtuoso.

Peter called it «Can't Hardly Wait meets John Hughes,» and that's exactly what it looks like — familiar, perhaps, but sweet and smart enough to become a minor high school classic in its own right.

Other than those minor qualms, however, the rest of the stages are lively and play like most classic platform games.

It looks like the HD remaster has successfully brought the classic game to modern consoles, though it hasn't come without a few minor concessions.

The D - Pad does suffice for menu navigation and performing minor actions, to it will work well in games that use the Classic Controller like Super Smash Bros..

Locomalito, the Spanish indie developer behind last June's excellent 16 - bit - style shoot»em up Hydorah, has posted a video for his latest project, a «minor» ZX Spectrum-esque platformer directly inspired by microcomputer classics like Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy.

Sacred Tears TRUE plays out like your classic JRPG, plenty of humor, conspiracy, and minor plot turning into something much bigger.

Apart from the classic free - for - all and the like, PvP mode of FO boasts a number of cool scenarios like «Soul King» where you play as a soul and take control over one of the bots to send the rest of your bodiless companions to oblivion, or «Armored Front» - a typical secure - the - point scenario with a «minor» addition: each team has a huge war machine at their disposal to turn everything into ashes.

It seems like a cheap shot to tear apart little inconsequential glitches in such detail, but when a classic game like Sonic the Hedgehog that is so deeply ingrained into gamer DNA is presented with even minor defects, one's gaming «Spidey sense» can't help but tingle that something is just not right.