Sentences with phrase «schlocky action»

While both Not a Hero and End of Zoe are competently built, they replace the genuine horror and more nuanced characters of the main game with schlocky action and dumb wish fulfillment.

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.»

The Syfy Channel knows a good thing when it sees it, even if that thing is a schlocky action - horror movie.

Not exact matches

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.

These kinds of inconsistencies are an annoyance, but this is a fairly schlocky film, so you just have to swallow them down for the sake of the action.

As a graduate of the University of Manitoba with a degree in English Literature, Andrew has grown to appreciate the story and writing behind everything from blockbuster comic book movies to schlocky B - movie action.

Despite its use of live - action cutscenes — weird throwbacks nowadays — and casting of cult favourites like Tom Savini and Lloyd Kaufman, Twisted Pixel is unable to realise its vision of creating a schlocky B - movie.

Of course, it helps that Resi 4 was also a bombastic mix of shotgun - toting action, schlocky B - movie dialogue and oblique puzzling.