Sentences with phrase «overly familiar feel»

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It feels overly familiar, lazy, and disrespectful.

[It] feels more overly familiar and Velvet Underground - y than usual, which isn't a good thing for a band with such forward - thinking ideals.

This is patently absurd, not just because it's depriving audiences of an «intellectual» film, but because Annihilation harks back to so many well known sci - fi efforts that it feels overly familiar to the extent that I fail to understand how anybody could have difficulty grasping it.

But because of the overly familiar plot devices it does just feel like a two - parter and as such will be completely incomprehensible to the casual viewer.

Though overly quirky and familiar, «The Way Way Back» is quietly moving, especially when it dwells on the particulars of low - rent resort - living and the intense feeling of summer relationships.

Combined with the naturalistic acting of the cast and the reserved hand by Marston, «Forgiveness» has an extremely grounded feeling that you don't generally get with dramas or thrillers — most feel put together in a petri dish, either a concoction with overly familiar elements or a collection of histrionic moments assembled to easily stir audience members.

A shamelessly uninspired follow - up to the 2011 hit movie, Carlos Saldanha's latest is just plain tedious — a boring, overly familiar pastiche of sitcom problems, acted out by annoying animals, and scored with music that should make it all feel invigorating, not infuriating.

The early scenes felt overly familiar, the dialog too mannered and it looked like the kind of self consciously hip, 90's - era comedy that touted indie cred despite a recognizable cast.

My biggest complaint about Half - Genie Hero is that so much of it felt overly familiar.

Yet it lacks for original images and unique perspectives on this done - to - death subject and may feel overly familiar to anyone who's caught a half decent war movie in their time.

It's all basically a grab - bag of society's ills, and the post-apocalyptic setting feels overly familiar by this point.

The game jumps between different dates, characters and gameplay moments and though the story actually gets semi-interesting towards the end, it feels like overly familiar ground and at around six hours, the campaign is certainly not worth the price of admission alone.

If the setting didn't feel overly familiar, the difficulty was more consistent and there was something more to wet one's appetite once the credits had rolled, then this would be an easy sell.

THE HOPE FACTORY: Rambling portrait of girl seeking to leave desolate town feels overly familiar, with increasingly petulant lead.

There's something about its thematic elements that felt overly familiar to me, but the performances are dazzling and the music is great.

The film itself manifested a sense of humor along with extravagant action sequences, as well as Daniel Craig in his pre-James Bond days, but it felt tepid and overly familiar.

Pantera's bubbly personality shines throughout, and though a handful of overly familiar plot devices occasionally sterilize its uniqueness, the film ultimately feels honest and authentic.

There's a certain Moore - era throwback feel to it — albeit far less hackneyed — and a lot of overly familiar Bond tropes.

Despite some Electric Dreams episodes feeling overly familiar or their execution being less interesting than some similar sci - fi takes elsewhere, none of them is a turnoff, and there are some real gems to be found here.

Released: February 17 Cast: Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth, Celia Imrie Director: Gore Verbinski (The Ring) Why it's great: Detractors of A Cure for Wellness, a pulpy horror - mystery about a water - based therapy center with diabolical intentions, may point to the overly familiar plot (which feels a whole lot like Shutter Island) or the almost mercilessly overlong middle.

The narrative as a whole is familiar, if not overly so, and after the Silent Era gags of «Shaun the Sheep Movie» it sometimes feels like «Early Man» could have gone further and been similarly ambitious.

Dom's plight to get money for his jail time and reconnect to his estranged family is so overly familiar also that it's pretty clear the film is no where near as original or fresh as it feels it is.

The book's details all feel overly familiar and second - hand and while David comes off terribly, so does his father, who seems abusive and cold, distant and devoid of the kind of self - reflection that makes for an engaging memoir.

Somewhere around the middle of last season, you started to feel like the exuberance was a distraction, avoiding an overly familiar story about a misfit self - actualizing towards heroism.

If not handled properly the film can easily feel overly familiar, which makes it even more impressive that nearly everyone involved with the film was a newcomer.

While Marvel hasn't perfected the superhero genre, with often underwhelming villains and a penchant for slam - bang finales that can feel overly familiar, it does boast a well - drawn gallery of central and supporting characters and plenty of crisp dialogue.

Think back to a time when you were required to teach a topic or subject material that you didn't feel overly familiar or confident with.

Primary teachers are sometimes faced with the unsettling feeling of teaching material they are not overly familiar with — all of a sudden they are out of their comfort zone.

Some reviewers feel that it is overly long and repetitious and a tad didactic, but that is perhaps to lose sight of the fact that it wasn't written in a Western language or, in the first instance, for a Western audience, but for a Kenyan audience still familiar with the oral tradition - in Kenya his works are often read aloud over a period of (many!)

Technically they sound just fine and keep the action moving well enough, though keeping the music and audio identical after four entries in the series definitely feels overly familiar, and perhaps a bit lazy.

In short, this feels like a game aimed at mecha fans that are not overly familiar to the Super Robot Wars series and that in itself is no bad thing.

However, for many, there is only so many times one can do the same 18 routes before the game starts to feel overly familiar.

The best level is a tense and action - filled infiltration of a sprawling base disguised as the enemy, but too many sections elsewhere give the player any width to work with, and more than a couple of scenarios feel overly familiar, even by COD standards.

Although the game may feel overly familiar to veteran Overwatch players, it does offer its own twists on the formula, and it's definitely more accessible.

If the gameplay and structure still felt overly familiar, the game at least pointed toward a horizon where they, too, might receive as dramatic an overhaul as the graphics.

Later board layouts seem all too familiar (with the less - enjoyable, icon - devoid ones making for annoying speed bumps), and the gameplay itself feels overly repetitive before even half the quest has been completed.