Sentences with phrase «of jokey»

It's trapped between the idea of a jokey noir and the occasional fulfillment of that promise.»

Goodman and Arkin are given lots of jokey material — some of which works, some of which doesn't — and it never quite coalesces with the story's real - world implications.

And many of the jokey predicaments — Tonto and Reid buried up to their necks, Tonto and the Lone Ranger forced to rob a bank, Tonto's attempt to warn his blundering captors of their doom or Reid's «burial» at the top of a rickety tower — pay off hilariously.

Berger's film spins off all sorts of jokey asides (Charlie's crime scene training video, a music video from a side project rock band one of the cops fronts), as well as a trial session framing device that features Sherilyn Fenn as a prosecutor and John Landis as the judge, and sometimes these bits don't connect.

The central notion of discovering one's unique personal identity («the only thing that matters is what you choose to be now») takes us back to an earlier China and it's free of jokey references to other movies.

The plot consists of bits: a fiery slugfest, a pause for bonding, a quick weep, and a patch of jokey repartee, before the slugging returns.

They might stop playing football for their company team, because of jokey comments made by their colleagues about their constant stumbling.

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Facing opposition from internet pioneers, online companies, members of Congress and the vast majority of Americans — all of whom are worried about broadband providers offering cut - down packages of services rather than the full internet — he released a jokey video scoffing at their dire predictions.

But Netflix made the Bright sequel official on Wednesday with a jokey Twitter post showing mock auditions of «orc» actors auditioning for roles in the sequel.

Pundits blame everything from neuroscience to Upworthy for this cathartic interruption of advertising's jokey assault on pop culture, when it was actually the jokes that were doing the interrupting.

Roadman Shaq's rap is a bunch of gibberish nonsense mixed with jokey references.

Wall is a forthright, jokey, centre - right politician who unabashedly defends his province and its major industries (potash, grain, and now of course oil & gas).

unhappy, depressed, jokey,... literally any mr men character u can think of

And his jokey attempts to turn the tables on the press and get them to tell him who we could have signed are not clever, they are incredibly annoying for Arsenal fans who have to pay mega money for the privilege of seeing our team fail to score.

Let's just hope that Wenger gets back at Ozil's jokey mockery of his failures in the transfer window thus far, by signing a top class striker for Ozil to feed to glory next season!

He certainly seems to have made some impression in his short time here with the appointment of his backroom team being particularly well received, and the stepping up of the training sessions being very evident on videos released, to replace the usual jokey crossbar challenge and other joviality that came before.

Research from the US and the UK, looking for unique «dad factors», has found that fathers in these countries tend to make learning more fun than mothers, probably because the prevailing culture of masculinity is playful and «jokey».

The governor was in a jokey sort of mood — a far cry from his angry rhetoric in Buffalo yesterday when he went after state worker unions and legislators who might be contemplating playing hooky for the Nov. 29 lame duck session.

But it is this jokey opener that in hindsight was an omen of where the «how to win in 2015» debate would lead during this two - hour discussion.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Mayor Bill de Blasio was all smiles and jokey at a news conference Wednesday about free glasses for some city students, but the latest news out of Albany is no laughing matter.

At this year's White House Correspondents» Association Dinner, the president continued his now famous series of light - hearted singing and jokey press outings with a warning to boy band the Jonas...

They are committed to the task of helping you get fit, and tackle that task head - on, so you don't really get the friendly attitude and jokey camaraderie that are featured in a lot of other exercise programs.

If the person you're sending them to doesn't know you use the winky face in a particular way, they could think you're being rude instead of being jokey or flirty!»

Do: Give them a token present such as a bottle of wine, a jokey stocking filler, or sweet treats to show your thoughtful side without making a declaration of love about it.

I still don't know what kind of response he expected from me — I mean, c» mon — I should stop the jokey conversation, get all serious, place my hand on my heart, and express my reverent agreement?

For a while, it seems as though The Rundown's going to be a whole lot of fun - somewhere along the lines of Lethal Weapon (but not the serious original; the jokey sequels).

Though for those looking for a more bland entry in the rancid man - child genre and one that has of all things, Tyson singing a Phil Collins song, this might be their kind of unsophisticated and easy - to - take jokey movie.

Between the jokey dialog you uncover during missions, the opening thank - you screen, and the focus on user - created content, Volume is a charming game: it's the sort of game that makes you feel as though if you ever met the lead designer, you'd pretend to like it just a little more than you actually did.

Greg comes off as simply incompetent as he flatly fumbles through a scene from «Waiting for Godot,» one of the movie's first jokey meta - moments.

An exhilarating update of «Flash Gordon,» very much in the same half - jokey, half - earnest mood, but backed by special effects that, for once, really work and are intelligently integrated with the story.

While the studio's films demonstrated plenty of comic flair right from the start of its shared - universe experiment, with 2008's Iron Man, recent efforts have veered too far into bland, jokey listlessness; frivolity has trumped lightheartedness, pandering has replaced irreverence.

The jokey tone, then, may work, but by the end, it also feels like it has been a long distraction from the inevitable way that all of this plays out.

It includes more than a dozen storylines, some built within the confines of others, and some just little jokey asides.

Witty without being jokey, sad without being blatantly tearjerking, this is that sort of film so unforgiving that audiences stayed away in droves.

One could, if one was being kind, assume that the makers of Gringo were aiming for that elusive jokey crime thriller tone so brilliantly achieved by Midnight Run.

2 borders on being overly jokey at times, with several gags that come thisclose to overstaying there welcome, it tows the line in favor of great laughs.

As Esti accompanies Ronit on a visit to her father's, the women's conversation is suddenly the jokey banter of two old friends.

A kind of home movie with hidden depths, Laurie Anderson's Heart of a Dog (5 *, No Cert, IFI, 75 mins) is discursive, whimsical, jokey, profound: it will infuriate some, but I loved it.

When you cut down Cars as to why it worked, it wasn't for the technical stuff, or the predictable plot, but because we enjoyed the characters the depiction of small town America represented by Radiator Springs, and some clever sight gags and jokey allusions to the world of automobiles themselves.

And the hard - bitten dialogue is jokier and softer, lacking the sucker punch prose of the original.

What had started as a frisky romance built of the alluring but classically patronizing male - director / female - star relationship quickly devolves into a jokey wade into a petulant, misanthropic mind.

In Johnson's most regretted elision, Tom Hardy has a jokey, typically unintelligible cameo as a Storm Trooper, but before that happens Finn, Rose, and BB - 8 make their way through «the Star Wars version of Jack Lemmon's office in The Apartment movie.»

The primary reason to watch this at all is for the jokey, wink - wink, nudge - nudge chemistry of the all - star cast.

But for the most part, the tone is as in - jokey and off the cuff as a Hope - Crosby - Lamour vehicle of yore: The Road to Asgard, perhaps.

At heart, Tusk is really little more than a jokey riff on The Human Centipede, its mad - scientist character obsessed with creating not a surgical conga line, but a kind of shrieking man - walrus.

Jimmy Kimmel kicked off the show with a jokey, tension - defusing acknowledgment of last year's never - to - be-repeated mistakes.

MONDELLO: Director David Leitch, who's listed in the jokey opening credits not by name but as one of the guys who killed the dog in «John Wick,» keeps both the action and the fourth wall breaking fairly nonstop.

Hitting that sweet spot between comedy and tragedy, this faith - restoring German film conjures moments of surreal hilarity out of a somewhat bleak situation: an estranged dad adopts a jokey new persona in an effort to connect with his miserable, corporate - slave daughter, with increasingly unpredictable results.

SyFy and The Asylum have flooded the marketplace with terrible «Sharknado» films and other jokey, awful CGI - infused tales of mutant sharks on the rampage, so it's high time to return to the simple horror that can be found when a person is forced to go up against a great white in the open water.

Josh Brolin is a Southern gentleman, all slow drawls and jokey asides as he joins a team of equally...