Sentences with phrase «of style over substance»

Unfortunately, the game has a severe case of style over substance, as its core gameplay is not as fun and whimsical as you might expect.

His film is a triumph, but it may be a triumph of style over substance.

If you're looking for a 50s example of style over substance, you've found it.

Despite some entertaining moments, Now You See Me 2 is largely an exercise of style over substance when it's all said and done.

Dig deep, and we find there is a little bit of style over substance creeping in.

But that's more a question of style over substance.

Despite looking good, it's a case of style over substance.

Overall, Alien is a triumph of style over substance, of lean over fat.

A total victory of style over substance from first time Director Joseph Kosinski that's really awe - inspiring big screen fun.

strange very talky thriller... very good acting by all... a film of style over substance I think... good soundtrack and an excellent slow - motion action sequence when someone gets shot in a car but has a very ABRUBT ending that confuses!

But the actual product in practice was one of the best and emptiest examples of style over substance in recent memory.

Finally, the Republican Party got stuck in a loop of style over substance.

It's a manifesto of style over substance.

You just watch one carefully constructed but emotionally vacant image piled up on another - sometimes with regard to an overall effect, but often just for the sake of style over substance.

Blade: Trinity is still hampered by the same elements that made the first two films substandard fare, namely, the heavy emphasis on doing everything the cool way, in a heavily over-the-top display of style over substance.

A true visionary of style over substance, Wright has cultivated quite the niche following with his Cornetto Trilogy as well as 2010's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.

It's also a glowering action reunion for her and director Francis Lawrence, who helmed a triptych of Hunger Games movies, and, by most accounts, is a Soviet tank - full of style over substance.

Equally indebted to Martin Scorsese, Guy Ritchie, and Giorgio Armani, London Boulevard represents the apotheosis of style over substance, the kind of gangster flick where the cut of a killer's suit is as important as the motive for his crime.

A vanquishing of style over substance, a valentine to Hong Kong at a specific point in time, there's no other film quite like it.

Blade Runner 2049 is currently dividing audiences, who aren't sure if the sequel is a masterpiece or a mess of style over substance.

-- Bob Turnbull [LIKED] Just like The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears, Let the Corpses Tan is an invasion of the senses, with the film having a whole lot of style over substance.

His last film, «Deliver Us From Evil,» was intriguing in concept but disastrous in execution, a paragon of style over substance that squandered a perfectly good cast.

Winding Refn continues his championing of style over substance.

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.

But while Devastation may both look and sound the part, genuinely resembling the «80s cartoon series in its garishly coloured glory, there is a hint of style over substance about it.

Suffering from a bad case of Style over Substance perhaps?

Unfortunately, it's a case of style over substance because, although it's reasonably accomplished in most areas, the BMW 3 Series, Audi A4 and Mercedes C - Class are all much better prospects.

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.

It's definitely a game that reeks of style over substance, even though there are areas that are very well done, such as animations, the soundtrack, and some excellent voice acting also.

We'd love to say that Keiji Inafune, Sony's Japan Studio and Marvelous AQL have finally cracked that code - but although Soul Sacrifice has a lot going for it, it falls into the trap of style over substance.

Headings are usually a matter of style over substance.

I think it gets tiresome to refer to certain movies as triumphs of style over substance, but that cliché truly applies to 300.

Without question, Bay's films are victories of style over substance, but that's not always a bad thing, especially when the style is as fun as The Rock.

And yet, Richie managed to make a film that could be a key example of style over substance and is a case study in why that's such a problem when you ask audiences to invest time and money into a feature film.

Final Verdict: A serious case of style over substance.

Among the high - profile changes was a decision to have Peter Mansbridge stand up while presenting The National, which was derided as a triumph of style over substance.

Dismissing David Cameron's Conservative party manifesto as one «of style over substance», Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said he was determined to offer «something different» to the British people.

Originally envisioned as the third installment of the Demons franchise, The Church instead earned acclaim as an atmospheric exercise in meditative religious apocalyptic paranoia despite being criticized by some as another case of style over substance (a criticism frequently made of his mentors).

It's a generic crime thriller in just about every way, and although it looks great and features a couple of nifty gunfights, the film is ultimately a case of style over substance, and one that its top - notch British ensemble is unable to rescue.

This is a dark, brooding film, and certainly a case of style over substance.

Sure, it's well - acted and beautiful to watch, but Another Earth seems to be a clear cut case of style over substance.

A generic crime thriller in just about every way, «Welcome to the Punch» looks great and features a couple of nifty gunfights, but it's ultimately a case of style over substance, and one that its top - notch British ensemble is unable to rescue.

Even harder to believe though is that some critics attacked Dark City upon its release for being a case of style over substance.

Though arguably a case of style over substance, it can not be denied that this is at the very least a brilliantly conceived and constructed piece of film making.