Sentences with phrase «with schlock»

«I can not come up with a schlock product,» he stated.

Dante, a B - movie buff who had gotten his start with schlock king Roger Corman, was the right man to helm genre - bending tales of suburbia for Spielberg.

One could call The Bye Bye Man inoffensive and even occasionally hilarious in its awfulness, but the truth is that it wasn't fit for theaters; even the most indiscriminate of horror buffs deserve a little competence with their schlock.

I found myself thinking of the summer outdoor meets — the sun on the hard blue water with schlock music over the loudspeaker and the girl swimmers, whom we saw only at those kinds of meets, with their strong tanned necks and their nipples showing under their nylon tank suits.

Exquisitely shot high glamour doesn't jump smoothly from the pages of glossy magazines to the relatively low - resolution and low - brow Internet, with its schlock dancing - cartoon - character banner ads.

Not exact matches

Some suggest the system will force writers to «trim the fat» or fill their works with Dan Brown-esque page - turning schlock.

The big question seems to be, «When is it okay for old Christians to quit keeping up with all the latest schlock?»

Set in the schlock district of rakishly decorated motels built in the 1950s to house Disney World around Orlando, and Kissimmee, Florida, the story follows families who have fallen below the minimum score to rent an apartment and are stuck in a cycle of poverty that includes living indefinitely in cheap rent - by - the - night rooms that have long since fallen out of favor with tourists.

While Frykholm has no sympathy with the Left Behind series theologically, politically or literally, she has a great deal of sympathy with its readers and she explores why people with interesting lives are drawn to such schlock in their religious reading.

Of course, much of the end product is going to be schlock whatever the medium, but the best pieces may well be better than anything you or your communications consultants can come up with.

And with tens of millions of monkeys banging away on keyboards, it doesn't take long for some true gems to float to the surface of the resulting sea of schlock.

After some opening images — a shadowy blond figure, complete with trench coat and heels, dumping a corpse off a bridge — that immediately frame its tale of moneyed madness through the greasy lens of B - movie schlock, the film moves to an aging Durst (here renamed David Marks and played by Ryan Gosling) on the witness stand.

If it's been a while since you've felt the cold blast and hard crunch of midnight - movie meanness, Zahler's shaping up to be your guy — the one selling illicit thrills out of the trunk of a well - restored, vinyl - topped LTD — and with «Brawl,» he sets himself further apart from his more schlock - minded contemporaries in cult cinem

What do you do when you put Titanic, Gladiator, all sort of disaster movies into a blender... Well, you'll get Pompeii, a film that is so utterly derivative of all films that have gone before it, but somehow made with such enthusiasm by Paul W.S. Anderson, the king of «schlock» cinema that you'll find it somewhat enjoyable.

Far too many people go through this exact situation to treat it as laugh it up schlock when the parents arrive with a surprise knock on the door.

Oddly enough, the wit is still there, but this time it's in the form of homages, both visual and aural, hearkening you back to the 70s schlock action cinema, full of revenge plots, martial arts gusto, and bad - ass mamas who aren't afraid to tussle with the big boys.

Especially when Hellworld has nothing to do with Yul Brynner's robot opus Westworld (and then Futureworld) and a lot to do with the «Bishop of Battle» segment of that early - Eighties schlock anthology flick Nightmares, where players of a video game somehow get sucked into it.

Overall, this latest addition to the King Arthur filmography is at best mildly enjoyable schlock with some cool moments scattered about here and there, and at worst an inconsistent take on a classic character with an unpromisingly shaky foundation on which to build a film franchise.

We're in schlock corridor here and Soderbergh runs with it, cellphone in hand; under the buzzing suspense mechanics, however, a cautionary note on the perils of disbelieving women is just audible.

Django Unchained elevates schlock to the level of art, most spectacularly in a shootout for the ages that cross-pollinates Scarface and The Wild Bunch, but with an exhilaratingly anachronistic hip - hop flourish.

The action parody, exploitation satire and mock schlock that purportedly sit at the centre of Machete Kills are — or, at least once, were — rife with comedic possibility; alas, this time round precious little is funny.

Perhaps with an eye on the Sundance brass ring, the film actively renounces its low - budget privilege to be either a serious meditation on the whole soliciting minors for sex over the Internet phenomenon or quasi-feminist grindhouse schlock; you can sense that it wants to be talked about more than it wants to actually say anything.

In the end, despite a spooky, if unoriginal, atmosphere, and ample jolts and jump scares, «Insidious: The Last Key» is only for franchise completists and hard - core genre enthusiasts with a high schlock tolerance.

The film touches on many subjects — family, mental illness, masculinity, vulnerability — but never alights on any issue with enough significance to rise above what is, essentially, schlock.

Mr. Right is a perfectly entertaining little rom - com film which is ultimately pretty harmless, infused with some post-modernist fun that sets it apart from your standard Nicholas Sparks schlock.

With all the schlock that has dotted Nicolas Cage's filmography during the past decade, the nadir might be this hilariously inept dystopian thriller from Canada.

A horror movie in the giallo tradition, The Neon Demon is equal parts art film and B - movie schlock, with the dreamlike underpinnings of a fairytale.

Though hampered by bad distribution deals and multiple title changes, word of mouth helped Spider Baby to connect with fans of schlock cinema.

He is the worst kind of enfant terrible, armed with a bestial cunning and taste and intent on demonstrating his disdain with an insistently predictable parade of cheap rip - offs that use schlock and celluloid catcalls as camouflage for his ape mentality.

Transparent postproduction effects and obvious puppet - work show how»50s schlock could, with the forgiving nature of black - and - white film stock, more easily pass off its flaws.

The Amityville Horror is a film so awful that it begs the question, «Which group is more asinine — families that stay in an overtly horrific haunted house as long as they can or movie studio execs that keep mining from the same empty shaft of ideas for ways to bombard us with abhorrent, unsavory schlock we've all seen dozens of times before?»

After my first session with Brave Story: New Traveler, I was fairly convinced that I had gotten stuck with another by - the - numbers effort copying the same schlock that's been less than thrilling for the last few years.

Some of that is in director Todd Strauss - Schulson's approach, which, with its camera gymnastics and overly bold palette, is too polished by half for the movie - within - the - movie to come across as the brand of schlock he's trying to recreate (again adding to a feeling of superiority over material that the movie claims to respect — or at least like).

Though «The Founder» has a fairly competent director in John Lee Hancock, who has turned in well - received work in the past with «The Blind Side» and «Saving Mr. Banks,» this could either be an oddly fascinating biopic or just generic schlock.

So I didn't see a downside to cutting off this sort of marketing schlock at the source, and fed up one day with credit solicitations clogging my mailbox, I took action.

But Layers of Fear is the real deal, a high water mark (with a pricetag just a little bit too high) in sea of horror schlock.

Fortunately, both the Tomb Raider game and film franchises were rebooted to great effect — if not, the series would forever be associated with B movie schlock.

Combining the influence of ancient pre-Columbian cultures and Mexican art with modern - day schlock horror and comic - strip grotesque, Yarber's work, at once disturbing and comedic, trashy and mythical, embodies an eternal contemporaneity.

Not that I worked that out by myself, there are interpretive panels to help, which also include suggestions we associate the work with the 90s dance craze voguing, 16th century notions of courtly behaviour and Ken Russell's 1971 schlock - buster The Devils.

Gopnik calls Gerhard Richter abstractions, en bloc, «schlock», which is worse than childish, buffoonish and moronic, it's simply wrong, as anyone with a real involvement with art instinctively knows.

So, once we factor in the necessary storage space and so forth, we're left with a design that, although much better than the decades - old schlock now in place, is not the cutting - edge design I would have liked to have devised.