Sentences with phrase «overly manipulative»

While the Scientific Revenue boss claims that the death of the industry is far more likely to be the fault of people like me rather than organizations like his, I can personally say that I gave up on the mobile games market specifically because monetization had gotten so overbearing, so oversaturated, so overly manipulative that I couldn't stand it anymore.

As the soundtracks shifts so does the mood of the piece, always finding ways of drawing the viewer in without being overly manipulative.

While the film is sentimental in spots (particularly in some of its final scenes), I never found it overly manipulative.

Bolstered by a memorably strong performance by Edward Norton, American History X is a mish - mash of decent ideas defeated by overly manipulative plot devices and unrealistic moral grandstanding.

Robert Downey Jr.'s new cinematic vehicle, gives the viewer just enough salt, just enough of the bile of family life, in an attempt to cover the overly manipulative and sentimental story.

Imaginary Heroes is a vastly uneven comic drama that tries too hard to be a pithy, erudite story about the hard knocks of life, but ends up being a mostly artificial and overly manipulative mess.

To those that may begin to feel this way, my advice is to be patient, as things do begin to gel as the story winds along, with an ending that is uplifting without being overly manipulative or saccharine.

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Salespeople are characterized as overly zealous and manipulative middle - aged men, the used - car salesman if you will.

It can feel as though every time you try to point out that your partner is being manipulative, controlling, or overly critical in a way that is eroding your marriage, you end up being accused of causing them to behave that way.

The period of the creation of the atomic bomb seems like one ripe for dramatic storytelling, but a bit too much of this show comes off as overly scripted, more manipulative than character - driven.

I hate how most movie trailers are edited nowadays, they give everything away and the music choices can really be very manipulative (like the overly uplifting music used in the last half of this trailer.)

Even that, however, isn't always enough; the two can't hide the fact that the manipulative, overly drawn - out resolution could have used a lot more tightening in the editing room.

This means an overly sentimental film that, if you are of a sort, make you feel good, even though it's clearly manipulative to the core.

Megan Leavey never feels manipulative or overly melodramatic.

But Hereafter sticks out like a sore thumb in his modern directorial repertoire — a too often overly sentimental, emotionally manipulative three - way story about death and what might come after.

So it's politically charged, but never in a way that feels overly heavy - handed and manipulative.

But more than perhaps any other release from DisneyNature, Born in China undercuts the brilliance of its pictures with overly simplistic, often manipulative storytelling.

The Disapproving Parent is similar to the dismissing parent but more negative, judgmental and critical, controlling, manipulative, authoritative, overly concerned with discipline and strangely unconcerned with the meaning of a child's emotional expression.