Sentences with phrase «on gimmickry»

It's clearly smart enough that it could have surpassed movies like «Rain Man» and «Transamerica,» both of which rely too heavily on gimmickry and fail to achieve such fully rounded human representations.

Not exact matches

Waiving PAYGO now on the grounds that the AMT's growth was «unanticipated» would accept a false claim — that the growth of the AMT was not expected or intended — and would reward the budget gimmickry used in designing the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts.

Action: Say no to always - on voice assistants Who is this for: Anyone who values privacy more than gimmickry How difficult is it: No real effort Tell me more: There's a rash of smart speaker voice assistants on shop shelves these days, marketed in a way that suggests they're a whole lot smarter and more useful than they actually are.

And it made me wonder what kind of God would leverage the life of a young man on how well we were to perform this psychological gimmickry, and about a matter that, if we're honest with ourselves, we can't be certain of.

On the positive side, the proposal as described by the governor continues to restrain spending, holding the core state operating funds budget growth to 1.7 percent with an (apparent) minimum of gimmickry.

The movie is heavy on shock and gimmickry, thanks to Renny Harlin's frenetic and flamboyant direction.

For all the cinematic dreck currently peddling disorienting editing as «action,» no one in good conscience could deride Tarantino for his indulgence in split screens or extreme close ups or smash zooms or any other mode of cinematic gimmickry, when it affords us hauntingly sparse centerpieces such as The Bride's live burial, an aural choir of oppressive dirt, panting whimpers, and futile struggling set to the visual accompaniment of pitch black confinement that stretches on well past any spectator's comfort level.

With vulnerability and pain snapping straight into big laughs, IRON MAN 3 has the potential for some serious emotional whiplash, but where things occasionally steer off - track and threaten to go a little «Carry On Marvel», the choice to steep the antagonists in such deep - rooted realism prevents this comic book outing from predictable gimmickry.

His small but distinctive oeuvre sets an example, not simply to that oft - cited cliché the «maverick» strain in American indiedom, but to an industry grown complacent on technology, genre gimmickry and opening weekends.

Unfriended has the potential to rely on computer - generated gimmickry and «teen speak» but doesn't.

Reminiscent of the adhesive gimmickry of Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Color Splash's main appeal hinges on the joys of painting blank spaces with reckless abandon.

The ceiling for this type of tossed - off entertainment may be fairly low, but all the participants here are game and on the same page regarding the type of movie they're making, and director Warren Sonoda and his behind - the - camera collaborators actually come up with inventive staging tricks to keep the gimmickry of the conceit from getting stale.

Although its formalism is rigid, the film rises well above gimmickry to become a truly great, unique piece of cinema (and a very fine crime movie to boot), conjuring its own world, commenting on our own and giving the audience something that's palpably new.

Our business is structured on being able to revive and refresh our huge back catalogue of copyrighted content for new generations, and whilst digital technology clearly provides great opportunities in this regard, it's vital that any such reinvention is geared towards long - term relevance and audience engagement, rather than gimmickry.

Here, the Murano doesn't need to reply on visual gimmickry.

But all the new generation Hyundais and Marutis have spoilt us with the keyless go and push button start gimmickry, something missing on this Merc.

We do not believe in gimmickry, or misleading reductions on services.

So who the hell was supposed to want the weak gaming spec of the Wii U coupled with the complex gimmickry of the screen - on - a-giant-controller?

SSX draws and colors them differently, and thanks to some clever gimmickry based on lighting, bottomless pits, altitude sickness, deadly obstacles to forward momentum, hard icy surfaces, and even lethal temperatures, the locations play differently.

Atari relied heavily on old, established IPs (arcade games in its case) and gimmickry too, while at the same time falling behind in terms of its consoles» raw performance and capabilities, and losing nearly all 3rd party developer support.

Gone was the gimmickry of five years ago and up on the wall was visually exciting art!

All of this online marketing gimmickry that they do is just trying to get somebody to have a real human interaction because relationships are really where it's at and so I think that's a really good and accurate observation of what's going on there.

3D Gimmickry «3D on a phone is gimmicky,» Gartner Vice President for Mobile Computing Ken Dulaney told the E-Commerce Times.