Sentences with phrase «like scattershot»

Earning coins in the Run and Gun levels let you equip guns like scattershot, or even opt for extra health.
THE DVD Fox DVD's presentation of One Last Score features a cropped full - frame video transfer that looks a great deal like the scattershot presentations of Artisan DVD in general, and The Shipment's in particular.

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This is far more targeted than the traditional model for drug development, which includes such scattershot methods as screening natural elements like soil from a plateau in Norway and then asking, What might this do?
Or, like the curveball and slider release points for Greinke, there's a little bit of a scattershot pattern because no pitcher can have flawless mechanics.
Like most third world or disadvantaged artists, Piňero acquisitioned the art of the ruling class: Of the three poems recited in their entirety over the course of Leon Ichaso's scattershot biopic Piňero, the first of them hijacks Percy Shelley's 1819 «Ode to the West Wind» (in its shift from Shelley's «withered leaves to quicken a new birth» to Piňero's «candy wrappers in the wind») and the last of them Longfellow's «My Lost Youth.»
Just like most films based on improvisational performances, the laughs are scattershot, with some bits working better than the others.
He goes as far as integrating snippets of anime, clips stylized like J - POP videos, and an opening credits sequence rife with comic book action bubbles into his scattershot visual melting pot.
Next Movie is lazy, lacks ambition, and is consummately scattershot in its thinking — just like your stereotypical stoner.
While those new additions come in the form of talented veteran stars like Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines, Susan Sarandon, and Peter Gallagher, the film's decision to shift the focus away from the relationship of its original three women to their tattered bonds with their even worse mothers results in a disappointingly uneven and scattershot comedy.
The domestic scenes, where Cage surrounded by comedians like Paul Scheer and Will Sasso as his mates, and where he gets all Zero Dark Flirty with McLendon - Covey, are far more interesting than the foreign ones, where a riff - laden cameo by Rainn Wilson sums up the more scattershot approach.
I realize that asking for restraint in a movie like this is kind of clueless, too, but great gobs of this movie about the famously obtuse newscaster are scattershot and dim and obvious.
The other three, a frantically scattershot Winslet and Foster especially, feel very much like they're acting to the cheap seats in the back of a theatre on Broadway.
Every one of his comedies is merely a set - up for veteran character comedians to use as a palette for continuous ad - libbing, which results in scattershot jokes that feel like the dregs relegated to deleted scenes in most finely - honed comedies.
Swallowing his Mexican accent so that he sounds like Pee - Wee Herman's masculine bellhop from Pee - Wee's Big Adventure, the overexposed, generally unpleasant Gael García Bernal plays Elvis — no, not that Elvis (the pic's cheeky title and scattershot allusions notwithstanding), but a sailor who takes his leave of the Navy and tracks down his deadbeat dad, David (William Hurt, who could only be Bernal's biological father in the same metaverse where Marc Anthony sired Dakota Fanning), now a pastor living in Corpus Christi.
There's enough basic structure in place for The Slammin» Salmon to be amusing, but too large a portion of its jokes and banter feel like first - draft placeholder material, and its consistently scattershot staging and execution too often undercuts whatever comedic momentum it starts to accrue.
This Mad Men — like ambition — to explore the professional conflicts of a group of highly creative people, the sweeping changes in society they're reflecting and responding to, and the conflicted genius suffering from imposter syndrome at its center — might have been better fit for the length of a series, and indeed series like Showtime's I'm Dying Up Here and HBO's classic The Larry Sanders Show convey the combination of internal competitiveness and group cohesion that powers comedy scenes like the Lampooners» more effectively than AFASG's scattershot approach.
Director Zach Snyder's finished product is, like his Man of Steel and others, very long, heavy, cluttered, scattershot movie laden with seriousness, explosions, boring CGI creatures, and a thundering musical score.
Syro feels like the logical culmination of these efforts, as the genre he's bending and perfecting this time is the amorphous one that he instinctively spent his career creating: a bubble - and - spazz hybrid of acid squelches, spongecake melodies, and scattershot rhythms.»
Whereas Deadpool was haywire and undisciplined in every way, giving it the scattershot inauthenticity of a comedy sketch, Deadpool 2 feels like a real movie, creating a more suitable canvas for convention breaking and subversion.
Or in this upscale neighborhood, watched various illegal aliens hustle like dung beetles back and forth across the thick St. Augustine lawns through scattershot swarms of gnats.
The discussions may have been no more than a desperate BlackBerry trying to gauge interest from Mark Zuckerberg's empire; Facebook's hardware efforts have been scattershot at best, making this seem like an awfully strange fit.
And fiery scattershot commentary, like Gross's blog post, might be the spark.
Long - time fans of the series will recognize the return of the series» mainstay weapons like the plasma pistol, battle rifle and BR, but there area also new weapons like the saw and the promethean scattershot thrown into the mix.
On the evidence of this outing, teasingly dubbed «Escalator to Common Art,» Yetter's practice is a rather scattershot affair, while Hoyt's revolves around an almost Zen - like introspective focus.
Our industry tends to be somewhat scattershot or non-focused, like throwing spaghetti up against the wall and going with what sticks.
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