Sentences with phrase «so gimmicky»

A lot of the things they added to iMessage just felt so gimmicky and useless; especially the message effects.

Luckily, the function of this is to reveal secrets, and so the gimmicky controls are not mapped to any of the moves needed in platforming or combat.

Feels so gimmicky to unlock, and honestly the gingerbread galaxy s 2 one would have been nice.

by Walter Chaw An experiment in perceptual distortion that questions the nature of viewership and the law of observation that states, in part, that the nature of the process of observation necessitates a change in the essential quality of the observed, Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal is a hyper - pretentious film - within - a-film-within-a-film conceit so gimmicky it hardly matters that by the end gimmickry is its point.

The whole thing is just so gimmicky i can't even get worked up about it.

There's an easy chemistry between all the characters and you can't help but feel that if the script were a little tighter and the threat not so gimmicky, Truth or Dare could have been something truly special.

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While a list like that sounds gimmicky, I realize that's not why Sherry finds so much joy in offering the world's most expensive Thanksgiving experience.

Add to that the fact that Bill Simmons» TV show on HBO flopped (I liked it) but his podcast is surging, a testament to the fact that talk shows are often awkward and gimmicky — severely so when compared to the authenticity of podcasting.

Cups may vary in size (many are quite off, especially the cute / gimmicky / gifty kinds but even ones from so - called good cooking brands) and depending on how you put the flour in it (scooping with the cup, spooning flour into the cup, fluffing the flour in the canister before you measure) you could end up with a weight anywhere from 4 to 7 ounces per cup!

There's so much confusion these days about what a healthy diet that promotes fat loss really is... after all, we are bombarded by conflicting messages in the media about what is healthy and what is not, and you have all of these gimmicky diet books about low carb, low fat, high protein, vegetarian, fasting, atkins, south beach, liquid diets, and hundreds more.

Hence the reason so many of them cheat and do gimmicky workouts that look cool but are pointless.

Pop Art might be a little gimmicky to some, but it is all about having fun through fashion & making it accessible for all, so this theme is so appropriate & the timing couldn't be more perfect.

I mean, I know it is kind of gimmicky, but this one is just so golden, so sparkly, and so cheerful.

The plot of the film is one of those gimmicky pseudo-literary setups that Tom Stoppard could actually write well were he willing to stoop so low, but in the hands of lesser writers, in this case Ben Livingston and (another hilarious name!)

The only thing really holding DKCR back was the gimmicky waggle controls, which are not present in this game so it had every chance to turn out an even better game.

The potential for something better was certainly there, especially with the Duplass brothers involved, but the movie is so poorly executed (from the undercooked script to the overdependence on its gimmicky premise) that it fizzles out long before the wedding cake is served.

The gimmicky references to real - life figures like David Bowie, Elvis Presley and Andy Warhol, all of whom appear in cameos, reeks of look - at - me desperation, while the fictional characters are so unlikeable — each one equally self - destructive and mired in some kind of hilariously manufactured conflict — that it's hard to know who you're supposed to be rooting for.

Where the movie works, and does so quite splendidly, is the finale's clever depiction of hologram tech as a shiny new toy; promoted by an American corporation as if it offers a time - saving and world - changing system enabling international business for the 21st century, even though it's clearly and merely another gimmicky exercise in special effects.

Though that may sound a bit gimmicky for a film with so much ambition, it certainly makes «Cloud Atlas» a cinematic experiment worth seeing.

This offbeat British drama shows real promise for new filmmaker Justin Edgar, although his relentlessly gimmicky filmmaking style is so attention - grabbing that it makes it nearly impossible to engage with the story or characters.

Also according to this featurette, the film's original ending had Mrs. Reno and Cathy sadly sitting at the dinner table after returning from Clint's grave, which depressed the test audiences so much that they changed it to the more gimmicky ending of Elvis singing «Love Me Tender.»

It's a terrifying wake - up call, but it could do without the gimmicky sci - fi framework, which has Pete Postlethwaite in a cheaply computer - generated future, looking back at the early 21st century and asking why we ran so carelessly into the abyss.

Studio execs must have been salivating over the potential profits of Kung Fu Panda 2; so much so that they outfitted the film with gimmicky 3D.

Almost tempted to take off a star for the gimmicky use of music (Cameron Crowe said that he actually starts writing a film around a song he likes) but it all works so well, and the cast is fabulous: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Frances McDormand, even Kate Hudson, more than almost.

So will audiences be if they shell out money for this gimmicky show.

In so doing, they created a Mario Kart on DS that was excellent without being gimmicky.

I thought the plot, such as it is (a woman's boyfriend kills himself at Christmas, so she takes credit for the novel he wrote and goes on vacation to Spain with her best friend), was kind of gimmicky and not really believable, but I didn't really care that much.

Okay, so I'm a sucker for the gimmicky, but this is probably the most graphically interesting and engaging readout of a TPMS that I've ever seen.

The Nissan Juke Shiro is a bit gimmicky, then, but so is any Juke, and the model has been a big sales success.

Though BMW's gesture control has been called «gimmicky,» I found the volume and muting signals to be useful and second nature after an hour or so behind the wheel.

Sure, if the screen was the bigger, but the dpi and the resolution would have been the same, then no way, but all that was upgraded too, so this not just a gimmicky screen size increase, it's the real deal!

I personally find the statement, «puppies come with tails docked, dewclaws removed» to be gimmicky (especially in a short litter announcement that doesn't include much other language), so I don't bother including this information on my website.

As you might expect, the co-owners have a pretty good sense of what cats will like and why, so we avoid gimmicky and unsafe items completely.

Usually I'm the one to wax nostalgic and bring a positive whimsical finish to a gimmicky week, so it's way more special when Riddles does it.

game and so you can't really expect Sega to care very much about a gimmicky add - on.

I already own a 360, so I have no need for the gimmicky addition.

So, by utilizing some 3DS hardware features (and not shoving them down our throats to feel «gimmicky») and combining them with the classic platforming action the Kirby franchise is known for, Triple Deluxe provides a huge variety of unique challenges for Kirby to tackle.

When phrasing it like that it sounds a bit gimmicky, but the way that the switching of your powers are so tied into the game, it really just works.

Pretty sure it's been around for decades and its here to be around for even more decades so I don't think the ideas NX is running on are gimmicky nor do you know what gimmicky actually means.

The appearance of the headgear looked a bit gimmicky compared to the competitor options (gray, blue, and black concoction in the picture below), but its branded to look like a Sony PlayStation component, so we can forgive that.

I laugh when I hear people call Switch gimmicky when we see this VR thing that so far is disastrous for gaming and only a fun tech demo.

I'm all in for an anime based game using peculiarities of the original series, but at this point I'm afraid that a game revolving around Haki and Devil Fruits so closely will become too gimmicky and may limit the roster greatly, GB2 did it right (the best case scenario was spike and ganbarion doing a collab), the first scan of Burning Blood puts so much emphasis on this that I'm getting a bit worried.

as well, not so much a game which is too gimmicky since we haven't seen logias move while tanking yet.

So it's very important that the remote look superior or else they look like jackasses and the remote looks like a gimmicky novelty controller.

Compared to film sequences like Night on Bald Mountain and Firebird that are so memorable most can still recall them a decade or seven later, the worlds here feel gimmicky.

There are a lot of fun gimmicky character concepts here, so this is one to check out if you appreciate that sort of thing.

The only thing really holding DKCR back was the gimmicky waggle controls, which are not present in this game so it had every chance to turn out an even better game.

Even if Nintendo doesn't have a ton of third party support, the traditional controller will still boost sales more so than a gimmicky controller would do.

The experience is a bit gimmicky, but kind of fun, so as long as the add - on is priced appropriately I think it could add a fun component to the game on the PS4.

Animojis are one of the more gimmicky features included with the iPhone X, so again, rather than copying the best aspects of the latest iPhones (Face ID, for example), we're instead getting uncanny - valley representations of ourselves.