Sentences with phrase «on style over substance»

We would have forgiven it all had the the game functioned well on its own merits but ultimately, we're left with a rather hollow campaign which focuses on style over substance and a multiplayer component that feels tired and struggling to remain fresh.

There's good reason for the lack of any significant SoulCalibur play on the competitive scene; while the series might have provided its fair share of hugely entertaining showdowns, a few game - breaking flaws and an emphasis on style over substance has seen it left in a horrible middle ground between hardcore fighters and anything - can go, mash - friendly action gaming with a competitive twist.

Sam Raimi (The Quick and the Dead, Army of Darkness) thankfully subdues his usual emphasis on style over substance for one of his best directorial performances to date, evoking quality acting especially from the always excellent Billy Bob Thornton (Armageddon, Primary Colors), who received an Academy Award nomination.

As evidenced by our episode on Sucker Punch, I have an ambivalent relationship with Zack Snyder; I'm usually more forgiving than others (I love Dawn of the Dead, for example, and I greatly enjoy Watchmen still), but accusations of Snyder's emphasis on style over substance is a common criticism levied toward him.

Not exact matches

Last week I wrote a post for the CNN Belief Blog about millennials and the Church focusing on how church leaders hoping to win twenty - somethings over with coffee shops and concerts may want to go a little deeper and consider substance over style.

While the site looks good on the surface, over a period of time, you'd realize that it has more style than substance.

Though visually beautiful and boasting superb performances from the entire cast, Black Swan, much like the ballet Nina so adores, falters because of its emphasis on melodramatic 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.

Sanctum is the perfect example of a film that's style over substance, it looks great, but the plot is paper thin, and relies on recycled ideas from previous films in order to create an engaging film.

Backed by Vice and Megan Ellison, The Bad Batch sees Amirpour given a big box of crayons with which to scrawl all over the proverbial walls, resulting in a film that's long on style, and short on 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.

Singh's signature style over substance approach leaves us with nothing but empty gestures on both sides.

You could argue that this film is all lurid style over substance, but there's actually a lot going on behind the stunningly gorgeous imagery.

Style over substance just had a new league invented by this hallucinogenic rabbit's hole, laced with uppers and light on explanations.

Del Toro seems to view plot and character development as simply a clothesline on which to hang a series of brain - searing images, and while that's not necessarily a bad thing (plenty of great directors have been stylists above all else), it means he keeps getting undermined by his scripts» odd tendency to never give him free rein to indulge in style over substance.

Worst - case scenario: Much of the early buzz surrounding The Hateful Eight focuses on its cinematography, and with the extensive re-writes that have occurred since the first draft of the script leaked online last year, The Hateful Eight could end up as an unfocused example of style over substance.

And this may not have been intentional, but the way it's constructed — style over substance — reflects the very idea of the film itself, because much like its characters, The Neon Demon is hypnotized only by the beauty on the outside.

They also deliver on Velvet Assassin - is it 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.

On the one hand, I was grateful that the film was so nice to look at because I would have been bored senseless otherwise, and yet this is a prime example of style over substance.

Though it would be easy to criticize the film for favoring style over substance, there's a lot more going on behind the sumptuous visuals, including some excellent performances by its lead actors.

The G - Class places style over substance in many ways — compromising off - road ability with on - road geared low profile tires and side - exhausts.

Touchdown, like Amaterasu, was also on Game Informer's «Style over Substance» list, stating that «If it weren't for his saber, Travis would just be some nerd...» blah blah blah, well, that's what we like about him, Game Informer.

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.

The Fossil Q Founder is a smartwatch that, sadly, leans too heavily on the whole «style over substance» thing.

It may look like one of the best cheap phones on the market but the Nokia 3 is style over substance, struggling with long load times and poor battery life.