Sentences with phrase «visual gimmickry»

Here, the Murano doesn't need to reply on visual gimmickry.

The Dodge's understated cockpit doesn't boast any of the traditional show - car ingredients — there's no technological whiz - bangery that doesn't yet exist, no joystick controls or fancy upholstery — and its exterior styling sports no trendy design touches or visual gimmickry.

Not exact matches

For all the cinematic dreck currently peddling disorienting editing as «action,» no one in good conscience could deride Tarantino for his indulgence in split screens or extreme close ups or smash zooms or any other mode of cinematic gimmickry, when it affords us hauntingly sparse centerpieces such as The Bride's live burial, an aural choir of oppressive dirt, panting whimpers, and futile struggling set to the visual accompaniment of pitch black confinement that stretches on well past any spectator's comfort level.

Far more than the filmmaker's hectic, ultimately tension - dispersing visual and aural gimmickry, the picture's best special effect remains Franco's performance, which catches the horror and sublimity of a jock humbled while trapped at the bottom of the earth, becoming spiritually whole even as he literally loses parts of himself.