Sentences with phrase «schlocky film»

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.

It's a very schlocky film with laughable screenwriting and ham - handed actors, but it's fun when it needs to be.

Not exact matches

It does have some really schlocky aspects with the plotting and some of the cgi, but overall it's an interesting and semi complex film.

Not a bad schlocky horror flick overall, but the real reason this film is even remotely noteworthy is that it's the directorial debut of Francis Ford Coppola (credited as Francis Coppola in the credits).

From an opening scene in a prison fist fight to a staunchly bland climax finding him lost in an «unknown» realm when he's forced to shrink himself to fit between molecules (something resembling the resting place of Big Hero 6 mixed with the twilight hour of James Wan's «further»), Scott Lang is never a fully fashioned personality, some accidental prototype linked with schlocky zeal to the film's other do - gooder via a conflicted father / daughter bond.

Other horror films this season have ranged from arty to schlocky, but the scales tip to the latter — and that seems to be what the majority of horror fans like; they consider films such as Clive Barker's «Lord of Illusions» and even a work such as «Species» as essentially «party movies.»

Kebbel then graduated from the small to the big screen with a series of turns in high - profile but (unfortunately) consistently schlocky and critically maligned Hollywood films.

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.

If you're still watching these films at this point in the series, you clearly don't care that they're nothing more than schlocky B - movies with plenty of style but little in the way of actual substance.

While it's not in the same ballpark as the best Disney animated films, this light comedy offers brisk diversion and definitely ascends above the low quality of schlocky, direct - to - video sequels.

Although energetic in a schlocky - pap kind of way, any miniscule chance that something as essentially stupid and poorly written as Antitrust might have had to succeed as a legitimate cautionary paranoia film is fatally hobbled by the performances of teen heartthrobs Ryan Phillippe, Rachael Leigh Cook, and Claire Forlani.

Yes, the movie looks cheesy as hell, and yes the stars are as generically attractive as the ones you'll find in any schlocky teen romance film — star Nick Robinson did first stretch his teen romance acting chops in 2017's tearjerker Everything, Everything — but it's still gives the spotlight to a gay lead in a major motion picture.

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.

His films are too beautifully made to be considered B - movies, and too schlocky and fun to be completely mired in pretention.

is mostly a setup to images of various monuments being destroyed by aliens, with Burton following his critically acclaimed Ed Wood with a schlocky sci - fi film that seems as it could have been inspired by Wood himself.

Married to this intriguing premise and timely commentary is a schlocky horror flick, filled with big logical gaps and a few hollow characters who only exist to serve the film's manic plotline.

It's not astounding, but Slither is a neat little horror film with a knowing schlocky attitude and good sense of humour.

Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson is too busy making better paying video game films to repeat his performance as Sarge from 2005's schlocky low - budget Doom movie from Universal Pictures, so this time around we'll get Nina Bergman in a shlocky low - budget Doom movie from Universal 1440 Entertainment.

Speaking of terrible movies, our Amazon highlight for the week is about as schlocky as horror films get.