Sentences with phrase «on schlocky»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Nicklaus, Reilly says, should quit playing competitive golf before he besmirches his «glorious career» with «schlocky victories on the Senior tour.»

With a boutique hotel and a Stumptown café on the horizon, stubbornly schlocky West 8th Street may be turning the corner.

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.

, croons an electrifying if schlocky spy song, heavy on John Barry's brass and ominousness.

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.

Ever the underdog, Steve Rogers single - mindedly focuses on what's best for everyone else and while subsequent films introduce more nuance to the character, The First Avenger remains a fun if somewhat schlocky introduction to what makes Captain America tick.

Tying the film to its basis in reality is a nice touch, but it does little more than make an argument for a thoughtful documentary on the subject, rather than a schlocky, cornball made - for - tv rendition.

The actors are cast based more on looks than talent, the special effects are (if nothing else) well - rendered, and there is a kinetic energy produced by the hard - driving rock soundtrack and music video - style editing — surface pleasures strictly for people that don't want to have to think while watching their schlocky, b - movie fare.

Featuring a cast including Michael Douglas, Robert DeNiro, Kevin Kline, and Morgan Freeman, there's a sleeper gem lying in wait there somewhere, but we'll see if Turtletaub can follow through more than on his recent rather schlocky efforts («National Treasure,» «The Sorceror's Apprentice»).

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Tom Cruise's first appearance on the big screen was brief but fun, and suffers only because it comes in a schlocky»80s romance.

Perhaps the most touching song on the album is also the most gauche, the album closer «Pray for Me,» in which Lamar pours out angst and bromides between schlocky refrains sung by the Weeknd.

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.»

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