Sentences with phrase «with hokey»

He mentioned somebody suggesting that GISS was suppressing the trends with their hokey method.

Their last publicity stunt with hokey numbers last fall was loaded with invalid slants on the data they provided.

All of these efforts are nearly undone by comic book - style writing, with hokey one - dimensional characters and cliché after cliché in the plot.

Sobieski (whose recent choices in movie roles are increasingly disappointing) and Skarsgard do what they can with the hokey script.

With its hokey humour, routine acting, and lack of genuine scares, the only thing this supposed «offbeat comic thriller» has going for it is about 10 metres of robotics and foam latex.

These movies have become one big joke, with hokey acting, slapdash visuals and Kindergarten dialogue.

Only when it has 20 minutes left to live does Killing Lincoln knock it off with the hokey structure and melodrama and let the story itself take charge.

The main problems with this hokey and overwrought mishap are the beyond ridiculous storyline which scoffs the whole idea of suspension of disbelief, the cringeworthy and repetitive script and the annoying, over the top acting by Bridges.

The entire film is filled with the hokiest dialogue and awkward moments I've seen in a long time.

Not exact matches

Led by the charming Bill Paxton and the always - stellar Helen Hunt, with supporting performances by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Cary Elwes, the film transcends its hokey storyline to become a first - rate entertainment.

The borderline hokey display — with its rows of apples, potatoes and onions, not a burger to be seen — is a useful symbol of McDonald's new image.

«We wanted to lift it up out of the hokey, corny wrestling in school gyms with guys in ill - fitting bathing suits.

Ever heard of Solomon's 700 wives, of Lott sleeping with his own daughters (both) of Moses giving up his wife to be one of the Pharoh's concubines, all with apparent smiles from the hokey Yahweh sky - fairy?

But, you can't have it both ways, attributing all things bad to «darkness» or «human nature» but crediting some hokey sky - fairy with the «good,» like heroic acts floowing a tragedy.

To someone determined to be cynical, it would have sounded sentimental, antiquated, even hokey — especially since it was sung by four young men in orange suits, faces trimmed with lush mustaches, each sporting his own unattached hand microphone.

I'm a complete skeptic when it comes to faith healing with all its charades and hokey pokey nonsense.

Today, too many of us roll our eyes at evangelism strategies, calling them hokey and ineffective, and, instead of coming up with other evangelism strategies, we just don't evangelize.

I have very little doubt that our generation will be looked back upon with jaw - dropping incredulity by future historians who will marvel at how, in the 21st century, having peered at the mind numbing infinity from Hubble, delved into the quantum irrationality of CERN and unraveled the beautiful simplicity of the DNA codons, we still made important life decisions based upon the presumed wishes of some hokey, invisible, all - powerful sky - fairy dreamed up by some illiterate Arab tribesmen in a tent in the Middle East 2,000 years ago.

In a half - hour, they have to convert you (which trivializes what conversion means), heal you (which is hokey), promise success (people on the shows have overcome alcoholism, are Miss America, or play in the NFL), and entertain (so they find ever more expensive sets with more fountains and glamour (which detract from the world of the suffering.)

Share songs that go along with simple hand motions or dance moves, like The «Itsy Bitsy Spider,» «The Wheels on the Bus,» «Two Little Blackbirds,» or the «Hokey Pokey.»

After his bath, he gets a baby massage with lotion while we sing «Hokey Pokey» and «Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes.»

Singing «Ring Around the Rosie» or «The Hokey Pokey» with other young children can increase the child's interest in joining in musical play.

Know the slang before you do the hokey - pokey with a twisted tweaker.

In fact I enjoyed it a lot more than most of the original trilogy, although much of this is down to natural progression with special effects and much less hokey - ass CGI laden action sequences.

While action scenes from such military fare as «The Last Ship» come off as a bit hokey, that's not the case with Six.

Add to this some really vomit inducing romance with Picard, really hokey sets, really fake plastic looking props, hokey fights and the very annoying practically perfect farm civilisation in their typically «I'm a goodie» beige / white loose fit garments.

If that sounds too brittle a dramatic core, Berg tempers the spartan ideal with some pretty hokey but probably authentic touches: the soldiers quote Ron Burgundy, bellyache about domestic chores back home, Skype their families and, in a scene that is later echoed darkly, argue over whether to shave off a comrade's eyebrows as a forfeit.

The first half hour of The Searchers is embarrassingly hokey, with stilted dialogue and goofy characters that are portrayed in over-the-top fashion to provide moments of comedy.

Dustin wages a one - man campaign against Global while at the same time waging a (hokey) war with Steve for the affections of a local schoolteacher (Rosemarie DeWitt).

Again, I'll avoid going into any kind of details that would spoil the fun for those blind to what happens in the last 20 minutes or so, but after the intimate nature of the majority of the film, things jarringly veer into a really hokey, odd area that clashes with the rest of the film in a very unflattering way.

Devotees of Cage at his most unhinged won't want to miss his performance here, during the course of which he smashes a pool table to smithereens with a sledgehammer while singing «The Hokey Pokey.»

It's a simple love story between a man and his machine, playing out almost like a straightforward romance, but with a tongue - in - cheek style that gives the audience a wink to tell them it's meant to be a little bit hokey.

With two little words — «They're here» — a pipsqueak Heather O'Rourke brought the haunted - house subgenre back from the great beyond, after William Castle's dime - store hokey fun laid it to rest in the early 1960s.

Jeff Goldblum's queasily eloquent performance as a genetically modified scientist, along with that of Geena Davis as a charmed journalist who becomes worried about him, elevate this remake well above its hokey»50s predecessor.

It's a hokey, unconvincing storyline in a film that loves nothing more than to batter its audience over the head with a cliché.

A tragic death of a fan favorite in the first Avengers is quickly reversed for the television show, with some weirdly hokey justification.

Some of these visualizations are a bit hokey (nightmares will always be scarier in our minds than on - screen), but it's hard to shake images like the long shadowy figure with smoldering red eyes and sharp teeth.

Don't play it for its hokey and forgettable story, but instead dip into Dead Rising 3 whenever you want some mindless, delightfully excessive popcorn entertainment, as Capcom goes all out with the (then) new hardware to offer more elaborate weaponry, over-the-top chaos, and hundreds upon hundreds of zombies.

With Captain America now firmly ensconced in the 21st century, and apparently no longer required to wear that hokey old 40s stars and stripes costume, the sequel to 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger already has a brusque, confident air of topical currency about it.

Wrote Morris: «The movie could be about grace and vengeance, but they're presented as hoary lessons and hokey contrivances... There's no reckoning with anything, no introspection, just escalating mayhem.»

These three possibilities are somewhat at odds with one another: the interpersonal relationships of Walsh's truckers on the Warners back lot are far from the closeted group dynamics of Hawks's aviators within a metaphysical void conjured out of hokey sets at Columbia, while Kubrick's film focuses on the relationship between humans and their artifacts.

But if you're going to have a comic book depth, it's not a bad choice to bring aboard Ron Underwood to direct, as he has proven to be able to elevate hokey material into entertaining fare, as he did with Tremors and Heart and Souls.

Franco's Tommy Wiseau is an oblivious creature who bangs out the script to his mystifying tour de force in a furiously hokey typewriter montage; without any internal conflicts, motivations, or backstory to speak of, his ambitions are simplified into his relationship with Sestero, a character whose two modes are «wide - eyed» and «peeved.»

The Thor series, with its occasionally leaden mix of earnest mythology, frantic action, and hokey jokes, was the Marvel property most in need of an upgrade.

It certainly came bearing a seemingly reliable pedigree of talent, with Pixar's Andrew Stanton (late of Finding Nemo and WALL - E) as director, providing enough of that trademarked hokey, winking self - deprecation that otherwise seems to sell well, and even some script - doctoring by novelist Michael Chabon.

Jason Reitman «s Labor Day is a hokey, sentimental, botched abortion of a film, asking «Would you like some cheese with that ham?»

The next group of people are the fans of The Mummy series, and if you like those films, then you probably just like comic book adventures mixed with eye - popping special effects and hokey humor.

But practically every line of dialogue delivered by Jaeden Lieberher (who co-starred with Watts in «St. Vincent») is either correcting someone or saying something profound, including in one of the hokiest movie classroom presentation speeches I've ever heard.

CGI has become synonymous with fantasy, but Stardust is rather practical and knows better than to douse us in hokey visual excess.

Faced with the unthinkable demise of Stalin, so long revered as nothing less than a god, these Soviet dignitaries panic, plot and go in and out of denial: a bizarre, dysfunctional hokey cokey of the mind.