Sentences with phrase «make odd choices»

The Weinsteins are often praised for being the masters of Hollywood promotions, but they make odd choices in which films they choose to promote and which ones they allow to die.

Statistics Canada makes some odd choices when it comes to data collection and many useful series are released with a substantial lag.

Previously only released on the Game Boy Advance outside of Japan, Namco Bandai has made the odd choice to revive the classic RPG Tales of Phantasia on iOS.

This fluffy featurette makes the odd choice of pretending that Tia and Tamera Mowry are in fact real - life witches.

They gave it a lukewarm 6/10, making it an odd choice for a Virtual Console re-release.

Buick has made some odd choices for standard equipment convenience items.

Though the volume rocker and power buttons look attractive in gunmetal gray, Dell made the odd choice of placing them on the left side, the opposite of most small tablets and phones.

Not exact matches

It is only the odd and rare individual who has made a choice to have done with wants — to turn back to needs.

I find it odd that the American evangelical producers would make the choice to cast a dark skinned man as Satan.

Also agree that the high - proof rum is an odd choice, it's like making chocolate scented lighter fluid.

That may seem like an odd choice for a 21 - year - old's last kollege vacay, and it was, but it was hands down one of the best decisions I've ever made.

What's the point of paying a third choice striker (should we get Aubameyang), over 100k p / w to make an odd appearance for 20 mins?

«It seems like an odd choice to ask people to make, to choose between two benefits scenarios really that clearly benefit you one way or the other depending on when you would be injured if you were to be injured,» Lander said.

While the dry onion soup mix might seem like an odd choice, it really gives the dish a richer flavor (which makes me feel much more gourmet than I actually am).

While it seems like an odd choice for spring, I think it makes a great transition shade from winter to spring and looks really pretty with a gold eye for a night out.

Brad Pitt, although he makes an odd haircut choice, is steady as a straight arrow family man and is as indestructible as Bruce Willis in a Die Hard movie.

Destiny 2 is mechanically a fantastic shooter, but a threadbare plot and some odd choices after the campaign wraps up make it more of a foundation to build on.

A.D.: The Bible Continues makes odd, sometimes debilitating choices («What is it about this Jesus?»

This is an odd choice that risks being silly, but the eyeholes on the sheet make it expressive.

One very odd part of Pixel Gear is that the main screen makes you specifically choose Single Player, but there is no other choice available.

It was an odd choice, considering Microsoft makes a Windows RT version of its Surface tablet — which I also own — but I found the slim Asus tablet more geared towards gaming than Microsoft's big - and - bulky device.

The Light Between Oceans is a laughable melodrama, and it ends up being quite an odd choice of material for Cianfrance, as he delivers it all with his usual grit and seriousness, making it seem even more daft as it is played so unrelentingly straight.

Thankfully his directorial debut «Searching for Bobby Fischer,» largely avoids the latter (aside from the odd overegged moment) and delivers a genuinely heartwarming story of a young chess prodigy growing up in the shadow of the great Bobby Fischer's disappearance, and the choice he has to make between chess and, well, everything else.

For all of his obvious skills and uncommon talent as a visual storyteller, Kosinski's first two films were short on character depth and emotional engagement, but whether a function of Kosinski's innate preferences for spectacle over substance or simply script - related issues, Kosinski's feature - film output made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earlier.

Now, LaBute would seem an odd choice for a family comedy, having made his name with far darker, crueler humor in movies like «In the Company of Men» and «The Shape of Things.»

It's a very odd casting choice and makes Peter sound too mature and old enough to know better.

That said, if Feig intends to up the scariness factor, and make his Ghostbusters run the gauntlet, his casting choices seem odd.

The reason why I said «controversial» is because Polyphony Digital has made some very odd choices for the newest Gran Turismo.

ABC Family, once again, is doing their 25 days of Christmas, and they've made a few odd choices with their lineup this year.

Although not quite as sharp and clever as the aforementioned Heckerling vehicle, Clueless, I Could Never Be Your Woman (its rather odd choice for a title is derived from a lyric to the 1997 White Town song, «Your Woman», covered by Tyler James in 2005, the same year this was filmed), is actually quite inventive in its own fashion, with Heckerling drawing upon her own experience in being an older woman working in a youth - oriented industry, making entertainment meant to appeal to people about 30 years her junior.

As the director of The Help, Tate Taylor may seem like an odd choice to make a movie based on Paula Hawkins» sexy mystery thriller bestseller.

Derrickson allows his cast to work their skills into the film while the director himself, who once seemed an odd choice (Sinister was beforehand his best film) showcases a talent for the imaginative that makes you hope he too will return for the next instalment in this magic infused universe.

For a guy who's made his career directing down to earth, slice of life movies like The Descendants and About Schmidt and Nebraska and Sideways, a high concept science fiction - tinged experiment like Downsizing seems like an odd, but possibly exciting choice.

Not bad or good enough to provoke an extreme reaction, making the choice of an embargo an odd one.

Despite the odd choices made by writer and director, it's clear Ms. Streep is loving her time on stage... her version of Dobie Gray's «Drift Away» is alone worth the price of a ticket.

Despite the odd choice of making the Defender arcade machine green, they did a good job at emulating a dumbed - down version of the real thing, complete with Defender artwork and joystick.

But here's the odd thing: presumably, middle class families have a decent amount of information at hand when making school choices.

The diesel engine tested here doesn't feel as keen as its torque figure suggests, but as a cheap to run company car choice it's hard to fault, with little fuss at motorway speeds and just enough grunt to make the odd country lane interesting.

Making heavy, active seats a standard feature on a high - performance sport sedan — where every pound of extra weight makes a difference — seems like an odd choice by Audi.

It's an odd choice for Nissan to lump in the sunroof with the safety tech, but no one ever said that option packages have to make sense.

Fortunately they have also thrown in just enough luxuries to make the odd little crossover a semi-practical choice.

Just look past the crazy paint and the odd choices made for the interior, and it's difficult to think of a better way to outfit a Sorento for off - roading.

Sony made a very odd design choice with the new sleep covers and other cover accessories.

Look closely to what already exists in your genre and make the choice to look different even if it's slightly uncomfortable and a bit nerve wracking to be the odd duck in your category.

And while lots of big games are making the same choice, it always seemed odd that FIFA, of all games, would market with Xbox in the first place.

In a weird choice, you can't pick your weapon loadout for each mission, it's a very odd choice for Codemasters to have made, and it's frankly irritating as you often find yourself using a gun you don't like.

The choice of white on black makes it rather hard to tell, as do the odd arm movements.

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An odd stylistic choice has been made to project some dialogue on walls ala Splinter Cell Conviction but it's inconsistent and more puzzling than affecting.

While there's definitely some performance issues and a couple of odd design choices, I honestly believe that the gameplay systems and the way they interact with each other while creating the story, more than make up for any janky issues.