Sentences with phrase «more schlocky»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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»).

In this case, it shifted toward the highly professional, sincere, phantasmagoric work of a man who loves Creature From the Black Lagoon more than the people who made that schlocky Universal monster movie from the 1950s.

While both Not a Hero and End of Zoe are competently built, they replace the genuine horror and more nuanced characters of the main game with schlocky action and dumb wish fulfillment.

There are jazzy paintings by the Dutch artist Sedje Hémon that can be read as musical scores; paintings, texts, and scores by the great egalitarian Englishman Cornelius Cardew, who assembled orchestras that included untrained musicians; a video by Ross Birrell and David Harding of a performance of Henryk Górecki's effective but schlocky neo-Romantic Symphony of Sorrowful Songs; the avant - gardism of Avraamov; corny instruments fashioned by Nevin Aladağ from everyday objects; performances of work by the esteemed queer minimalist Julius Eastman; austere and inventive pieces by Alvin Lucier; and many more.