Sentences with phrase «many schlocky»

By that year, customers had gradually turned their backs on a brand many now saw as schlocky; Coach's share of the handbag business had fallen 12 percentage points, and Kors was No. 1.

While often captivating, repetitive, and a bit schlocky, there's a lot that any sales professional can learn from infomercials about pitching a product.

The Syfy Channel knows a good thing when it sees it, even if that thing is a schlocky action - horror movie.

Nicklaus, Reilly says, should quit playing competitive golf before he besmirches his «glorious career» with «schlocky victories on the Senior tour.»

With a boutique hotel and a Stumptown café on the horizon, stubbornly schlocky West 8th Street may be turning the corner.

It does have some really schlocky aspects with the plotting and some of the cgi, but overall it's an interesting and semi complex film.

This unapologetically silly, schlocky, and super-gory with a capital «soup» sequel makes for a perfect B - movie rental.

It's a very schlocky film with laughable screenwriting and ham - handed actors, but it's fun when it needs to be.

What happened - did Matthew McConaughey roll out of bed one morning and decide that, after smiling through one too many schlocky movies, playing the pretty boy opposite Sandra - Kate - Jennifer, he wanted to do something decent?

Anyway, it's not a great movie, but like always has some entertainment value for being so schlocky, so see it for that reason.

Not a bad schlocky horror flick overall, but the real reason this film is even remotely noteworthy is that it's the directorial debut of Francis Ford Coppola (credited as Francis Coppola in the credits).

From an opening scene in a prison fist fight to a staunchly bland climax finding him lost in an «unknown» realm when he's forced to shrink himself to fit between molecules (something resembling the resting place of Big Hero 6 mixed with the twilight hour of James Wan's «further»), Scott Lang is never a fully fashioned personality, some accidental prototype linked with schlocky zeal to the film's other do - gooder via a conflicted father / daughter bond.

Good schlocky suspense, thrifty distribution of grue, Angelina disrobed again, and a supporting cast mostly in on the gag... What stops Taking Lives from becoming a guilty pleasure is an ending involving the sadistic stalking and injury of a pregnant woman.

, croons an electrifying if schlocky spy song, heavy on John Barry's brass and ominousness.

American Ultra starts out as if it will be a schlocky stoner comedy.

Other horror films this season have ranged from arty to schlocky, but the scales tip to the latter — and that seems to be what the majority of horror fans like; they consider films such as Clive Barker's «Lord of Illusions» and even a work such as «Species» as essentially «party movies.»

Also on the nonfiction front, but decidedly more schlocky and a bit naughty and raunchy, is «Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore,» seeing release on Blu - ray alongside «The Blood Trilogy,» a one - disc DVD compilation of three of the director's cult classics.

«Sharknado 4» delivers all the schlocky camp you can handle and have come to appreciate in this series.

Kebbel then graduated from the small to the big screen with a series of turns in high - profile but (unfortunately) consistently schlocky and critically maligned Hollywood films.

Closing Thoughts - Return to Never Land is a schlocky sequel that lacks every winning quality of Peter Pan.

Ever the underdog, Steve Rogers single - mindedly focuses on what's best for everyone else and while subsequent films introduce more nuance to the character, The First Avenger remains a fun if somewhat schlocky introduction to what makes Captain America tick.

Zoom wasn't screened to critics upon its initial release, and given the derivative, schlocky nature of it, that isn't too surprising.

Tying the film to its basis in reality is a nice touch, but it does little more than make an argument for a thoughtful documentary on the subject, rather than a schlocky, cornball made - for - tv rendition.

If you're still watching these films at this point in the series, you clearly don't care that they're nothing more than schlocky B - movies with plenty of style but little in the way of actual substance.

Obviously, there must be a market for somewhat knowingly schlocky B - movies such as this, but it's not one I can understand or support.

What if those schlocky Adam Sandler movies that you either think are funny or you don't really aren't just schlocky Adam Sandler movies that you either think are funny or you don't?

The third entry in the «Purge» franchise puts presidential campaign paranoia to effective, schlocky use

The Game is an unlikely triumph for screenwriters John Brancato and Michael Ferris, a partnership that for years had toiled on schlocky direct - to - video action, horror, and sci - fi fare that you've probably never heard of: Watchers II, Mindwarp, Severed Ties, Interceptor.

And to those still doing a double - take from two paragraphs above — yes, this sumptuous period piece is from the filmmaker behind «The Day After Tomorrow,» «Independence Day,» «2012» and other schlocky blockbusters.

However, what starts out like a new age «religion vs science» battle, ends up as a schlocky pseudo-intellectual gore fest.

While it's not in the same ballpark as the best Disney animated films, this light comedy offers brisk diversion and definitely ascends above the low quality of schlocky, direct - to - video sequels.

These kinds of inconsistencies are an annoyance, but this is a fairly schlocky film, so you just have to swallow them down for the sake of the action.

Kate Winslet's hit rate with Toronto debuts has been patchy over recent years, following schlocky potboiler Labor Day and gardening curio A Little Chaos.

Although energetic in a schlocky - pap kind of way, any miniscule chance that something as essentially stupid and poorly written as Antitrust might have had to succeed as a legitimate cautionary paranoia film is fatally hobbled by the performances of teen heartthrobs Ryan Phillippe, Rachael Leigh Cook, and Claire Forlani.

The actors are cast based more on looks than talent, the special effects are (if nothing else) well - rendered, and there is a kinetic energy produced by the hard - driving rock soundtrack and music video - style editing — surface pleasures strictly for people that don't want to have to think while watching their schlocky, b - movie fare.

But it seems like the biggest fans of the network's schlocky low - budget productions are those entertained by their egregiousness.

Featuring a cast including Michael Douglas, Robert DeNiro, Kevin Kline, and Morgan Freeman, there's a sleeper gem lying in wait there somewhere, but we'll see if Turtletaub can follow through more than on his recent rather schlocky efforts («National Treasure,» «The Sorceror's Apprentice»).

Yes, the movie looks cheesy as hell, and yes the stars are as generically attractive as the ones you'll find in any schlocky teen romance film — star Nick Robinson did first stretch his teen romance acting chops in 2017's tearjerker Everything, Everything — but it's still gives the spotlight to a gay lead in a major motion picture.

But for the rest of us, this laugh-less, schlocky parade of ill - conceived gags has the entertainment value of, well, hanging out with a bunch of pre-teen skater homies for an hour and a half.

Perhaps the oddest thing about Straight Outta Compton, an otherwise enjoyable cinematic novelty about the 1980s rap group Niggaz with Attitude (NWA), is the bizarrely schlocky and self - serving montage right at the end.

Either a terrible A-list movie or a great B - movie, depending on your point of view, Anaconda is by all accounts one of the schlockiest large budget releases to ever come from a major studio.

Sure, the graphics look dated, the characterization and plot are schlocky as hell and you can't even strafe while you're aiming, but it's only when I return to it that I realize that no one, not even beardy Kratos with his 4K sheen and Leviathan Axe, has reached the same bar.

Eyeborgs might sound schlocky, but the potential for derisible special effects hampering its effectiveness actually ranks far down on the list of problems.

Cat People (1982) A charmingly schlocky erotic thriller very loosely based on Jacques Tourneur and Val Lewton's 1942 horror film by the same name, Cat People follows the explosive sexual awakening of Irena Gallier (Nastassja Kinski) who, upon arriving in New Orleans, slowly learns that her desires transform her into a black leopard, placing her and her new zoologist lover (John Heard) in jeopardy.

There are countless tales to relate from this tragedy, and rather than focus on several in the schlocky manner of a»70s disaster flick, director Juan Antonio Bayona elected to center on the true - life story of María Belón and Enrique Alvarez, a Spanish couple on holiday with their three boys in Thailand when the tsunami hits.

His films are too beautifully made to be considered B - movies, and too schlocky and fun to be completely mired in pretention.

What finally made it to the screen, however, is instead a schlocky vehicle for its stars, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

is mostly a setup to images of various monuments being destroyed by aliens, with Burton following his critically acclaimed Ed Wood with a schlocky sci - fi film that seems as it could have been inspired by Wood himself.

It's fun to see the directors give the wacky premise a blown out of proportion big screen treatment with actors like Tatum and Redmayne clearly embracing the schlocky material.

There are myriad reasons why the term «torture porn» never made sense and one of the most important is the irrevocable impact Herschell Gordon Lewis's schlocky gore cinema had on American movies.