Sentences with phrase «visual gimmick»

Less convincing is Liman's visual gimmick of making the movie resemble an inelegant straight - to - video artifact of the VHS era; there's a yellowish cast to everything, the sickly glow of faded videotape.

[The Catch] mostly just feels tired, like a TNT caper show that futilely seeks to derive energy from visual gimmicks, like split screens and slo - mo.

The film is overloaded with immature visual gimmicks.

The loopy performances, character quirks and throwback visual gimmicks help to disguise the more formulaic genre elements in the script, although the film never finds an emotional entry point amid its onslaught of bloody nihilism.

The term «Mode Seven,» of course, refers to the trademark visual gimmick built into the Super NES.

««I needed to find a new angle,» Nemes confessed, and while Son of Saul has both a visual and thematic angle that makes it stand out from the long cinematic history to which it is indebted, it's clear such an angle was not taken lightly and what may look like a visual gimmick, is in fact, proof positive of the ethical orientation of the film itself.»

Probably the commercial's message influenced me, but I remember being more interested in the rhymes and music and the visual gimmicks of those advertisements.