Sentences with phrase «much style over substance»

If you have read my reviews with any amount of consistency you know that I mention quite often that games go for far to much style over substance.

Boasts a raw, brave performance by Maria Bello and a stylish cinematography, but suffers from too much style over substance.

Too much style over substance and even though I gave it 2 episodes, only part way through the first I wanted to turn it off.

Unfortunately to say this some of the worst service I have had in a long time Highly unorganised Food very much style over substance

Not exact matches

Though visually beautiful and boasting superb performances from the entire cast, Black Swan, much like the ballet Nina so adores, falters because of its emphasis on melodramatic style over substance.

I much prefer the methodical, story - centric style of Ridley Scott, while Tony prefers style over substance, hitting us with fast - paced editing and flashy montages.

Worst - case scenario: Much of the early buzz surrounding The Hateful Eight focuses on its cinematography, and with the extensive re-writes that have occurred since the first draft of the script leaked online last year, The Hateful Eight could end up as an unfocused example of style over substance.

And this may not have been intentional, but the way it's constructed — style over substance — reflects the very idea of the film itself, because much like its characters, The Neon Demon is hypnotized only by the beauty on the outside.

But because so much of the film is shot this way, it becomes dangerously close to feeling like it's all style over substance, which is a totally valid argument.

Argento's stuff arguably favours style over too much substance, and if that's so, it's never made as much sense as it does here.

Like any coming - of - age teen soap opera, much of the film's appeal is in its vaunting of style over substance — coining whole ways of speaking, dressing and posturing for an impressionable generation brought up on Hollywood tropes — but Heathers embraces its style as an essential keystone to filmmaking, recognizing that even the most bloated melodrama can be sold through a well - manicured image.

Much darker than your average superhero flick, «Batman» goes for style over substance but just about makes a success of it.

As much as I love the old Dante, he was mostly style over substance.

The quirky graphic style attempts to compensate for the familiar, and at times dull gameplay, and much like developer Good - Feel's other Nintendo platformer, Kirby's Epic Yarn on Wii, feels like it is largely adhering to the recent Nintendo trend of style over substance.

TellTale's episodic games are often style over graphical substance — there's usually not too much when it comes to the complexity of the models or animation, and instead, they are highly stylized to look like comic books come to life.

And with so much to criticise about the look of the Lumia 830, it will need to be a phone of substance over style to succeed.