Sentences with phrase «time gimmick like»

An important thing for Taco Bell is to make these products stick, and make sure consumers don't consider it a one - time gimmick like the limited - time offerings fast food chains constantly churn out.

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It feels like Johnson painted himself into a corner with his time travel story and retrofitted it with this additional gimmick to get himself out.

And, like all good trendsetters, it's stood the test of time, proving that a good twist can be an integral part of the plot, and not just a crappy gimmick.

Hooper asks incredulously after he's told that a band called Shithead recorded the ending theme), but also «credit» Hooper with insisting on changes to their screenplay that stick out like a sore thumb, such as the elimination of a passage of time between the prologue and our introduction to the Barrows that more or less imposes an awkward real - time gimmick on the proceedings.

I can see where you feel this film is like Malick's... cheap time plays, schizophrenia and spiritual mumbo jumbo used as gimmicks to hide a dramatically weak script.

Writer - director Steven Knight's meticulously controlled film also features a premise which might sound like a gimmick: It takes place in a single space in real time during a drive to London.

And even selling points, like the bullet - time gimmick of «Max Payne» for instance, might feel fresh in a game, but in that case, and many others, it was something inspired by a movie («The Matrix «-RRB-, and when taken back to the big screen, it felt like just another violent cop actioner.

Since this is a reunion type of movie, they could have spent more time focusing on the past instead of treating it like a gimmick and joke.

I never feel like the hybrid aspect of the car is a just gimmick, and I can see the benefits each time I drive the car.

The iPhone app was good by iPhone ebook reader standard, but the full - page image - and - text rendering felt like a gimmick on a small screen — most of the time you'll end up reflowing the raw text on your phone, a la the Kindle app.

Many rewards programs are a gimmick to make you feel like using the card is worth your time.

It sounds like a marketing gimmick similar to combining a fixed and variable mortgage together, even though the variable is likely to save you money 9 times out of 10.

It's always good to have input from the younger generation of Nintendo rather than just the seasoned professionals, I mean even Shigeru is losing his touch (see: less story - oriented, more gimmick focused Paper Mario like Sticker Star / Color Splash, Star Fox Zero's control wonkiness along with it essentially being Star Fox 64 Remake # 120029, single analog stick for original 3DS, etc) even though he has helped make many of my favorite games throughout his time at Nintendo.

My few guesses are simple Xbox one launch especially the way the wording was so bad that people just didn't want anything to do with it DRM NO USED GAMES KINECT 2 NSA WATCH And saying stuff like if you don't want to be online every 24 hours we have Xbox360 for you Maybe I am missing the point but wii was just once in a life time gimmick.

The gimmick was a big cube, which players around the world joined forces to break open... ironically like the Barnum musical song... one brick at a time.

@RubyEclipse so from what i can get is that sega purchased the rights to the extra life track nice oh and i love the way the minecart is being used here only as a section and i like the torch gimmick though next time im really excepting to see better physics and more like the classics unlike the rush engine oh and cant wait to see what you did to the pinball act

Too me it seemed like a gimmick that Xbox had decided to throw out to take advantage of the just released Avatars at the at time.

It looked like a an interesting gimmick until they demonstrated that you can use multiple «Unite Morphs» at the same time which adds an interesting level of strategy and flavour.

Let's assume you haven't played Call Of Duty for years — it's evolved from a fairly generic shooter for its time (albeit a good one) back with the original instalment and has slowly tacked on gimmicks like regenerating health, sliding around on your knees, wall running, exoskeletons, branching stories, space ships, and a weapon customisation menu over the years.

@Robert: «And puns aside it was «refreshing» to do something different with the mote which didn't seem like a gimmick at the time.»

And puns aside it was «refreshing» to do something different with the mote which didn't seem like a gimmick at the time.

Thinking back on it now, it feels a little bit like a gimmick... something thrown in just to be different, but it seemed kinda cool at the time.

Even if (and that is one hell of an «if») Rudd's scheme adequately compensates low - income earners, it will do so for only a limited time due to inflation, the rising cost of living et cetera, whereas his carbon reduction gimmick will become a permanent feature of all our lives (like the G.S.T.).

Pixel Buds are uncomfortable to wear for long periods of time, don't offer robust sound, and Translate feels more like a gimmick than a groundbreaking feature.

After playing the first ten levels, I can tell you that it feels like a return to the quality gameplay that the first few installments offered, fun and time - consuming, and straight - forward to play with fewer gimmicks than the later episodes.