Sentences with phrase «of schlocky»

And cooks everything real good in the soup of schlocky Square Enix story with awesome production values.

Their inclusion, presumably, was to add a sense of increased grandeur or weight to these characters, but all it left me with was a feeling the lore had been thrown out the window for the sake of a couple of schlocky and unnecessary reveals.

When you read the official description of State of Mind, it sounds like the description of a schlocky daytime telenovela; «You are Richard Nolan, a father and journalist from Berlin who discovers that he has been subject to an accident.

The digital speedometer makes things clearer, but it is — no joke — the same tall, gray numbering used on a slew of schlocky action movie posters, especially «2012.»

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Too choppily paced to be considered an intentional slow - burner, not parodic enough to warrant comparisons to Edgar Wright's Cornetto Trilogy, and not poorly acted enough to generate entertainment of a purely schlocky nature, Australian writer / director Kriv Stenders» thriller regrettably makes precious little out of its great potential.

The mental image of a perfunctory, bland, occasionally schlocky affair that you're having is pretty much spot on.

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.

As a graduate of the University of Manitoba with a degree in English Literature, Andrew has grown to appreciate the story and writing behind everything from blockbuster comic book movies to schlocky B - movie action.

You'd certainly take that colour scheme any day over this schlocky dystopian sci - fier that chains you to the coalface of the dreaded «young adult» genre, where heroes must be «special» on a messianic level and villains are parent - shaped authority figures looking to put young idealists in cages.

Lunar Park is a mash - up of fake memoir, schlocky horror splatter-fest and straight - ahead traditional novel about fathers and sons.

As bad as it is, there's the sense that it's genuinely a labour of love, and because of that it has a certain schlocky B - movie style appeal that can draw you in.

It's not astounding, but Slither is a neat little horror film with a knowing schlocky attitude and good sense of humour.

The modern reboot of a 16 - bit «classic,» this is a game that revels in schlocky, ultra-violent juvenilia.

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.

Despite its use of live - action cutscenes — weird throwbacks nowadays — and casting of cult favourites like Tom Savini and Lloyd Kaufman, Twisted Pixel is unable to realise its vision of creating a schlocky B - movie.

Speaking of terrible movies, our Amazon highlight for the week is about as schlocky as horror films get.

Of course, it helps that Resi 4 was also a bombastic mix of shotgun - toting action, schlocky B - movie dialogue and oblique puzzlinOf course, it helps that Resi 4 was also a bombastic mix of shotgun - toting action, schlocky B - movie dialogue and oblique puzzlinof shotgun - toting action, schlocky B - movie dialogue and oblique puzzling.

To demonstrate that this is gimmicky instead of shocking, Dan Duray outlines a short history of artists using blood as a medium, from the seminal to the schlocky.

George Condo Crazy and to be honest, really fascinating American painter, schlocky and sensational, this show promises to one of the autumn's best surprises.

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.

By that time his reputation was already tarnished by his production of art for schlocky galleries, and by a stream of arguably undiscriminating society portraits.

Or do they want to get into the lower end of the market and sell schlocky merchandise?»

«It's schlocky — the worst kind of vanity on display,» he said.

You have the opportunity to repair the tarnished image of lawyers, not through schlocky advertisements, but by taking stock of your environment, using new tools, methods and processes and re-envisioning what lawyers can be to their communities.

The name came from the schlocky space adventure Barbarella and refers to a seething lake of evil slime, which was itself a shameless mimicking of the lava lamp effect.