Sentences with phrase «with schlocky»

While both Not a Hero and End of Zoe are competently built, they replace the genuine horror and more nuanced characters of the main game with schlocky action and dumb wish fulfillment.

is mostly a setup to images of various monuments being destroyed by aliens, with Burton following his critically acclaimed Ed Wood with a schlocky sci - fi film that seems as it could have been inspired by Wood himself.

From an opening scene in a prison fist fight to a staunchly bland climax finding him lost in an «unknown» realm when he's forced to shrink himself to fit between molecules (something resembling the resting place of Big Hero 6 mixed with the twilight hour of James Wan's «further»), Scott Lang is never a fully fashioned personality, some accidental prototype linked with schlocky zeal to the film's other do - gooder via a conflicted father / daughter bond.

Not exact matches

Nicklaus, Reilly says, should quit playing competitive golf before he besmirches his «glorious career» with «schlocky victories on the Senior tour.»

With a boutique hotel and a Stumptown café on the horizon, stubbornly schlocky West 8th Street may be turning the corner.

It does have some really schlocky aspects with the plotting and some of the cgi, but overall it's an interesting and semi complex film.

This unapologetically silly, schlocky, and super-gory with a capital «soup» sequel makes for a perfect B - movie rental.

It's a very schlocky film with laughable screenwriting and ham - handed actors, but it's fun when it needs to be.

Kebbel then graduated from the small to the big screen with a series of turns in high - profile but (unfortunately) consistently schlocky and critically maligned Hollywood films.

If you're still watching these films at this point in the series, you clearly don't care that they're nothing more than schlocky B - movies with plenty of style but little in the way of actual substance.

Kate Winslet's hit rate with Toronto debuts has been patchy over recent years, following schlocky potboiler Labor Day and gardening curio A Little Chaos.

But for the rest of us, this laugh-less, schlocky parade of ill - conceived gags has the entertainment value of, well, hanging out with a bunch of pre-teen skater homies for an hour and a half.

Perhaps the oddest thing about Straight Outta Compton, an otherwise enjoyable cinematic novelty about the 1980s rap group Niggaz with Attitude (NWA), is the bizarrely schlocky and self - serving montage right at the end.

Sure, the graphics look dated, the characterization and plot are schlocky as hell and you can't even strafe while you're aiming, but it's only when I return to it that I realize that no one, not even beardy Kratos with his 4K sheen and Leviathan Axe, has reached the same bar.

There are countless tales to relate from this tragedy, and rather than focus on several in the schlocky manner of a»70s disaster flick, director Juan Antonio Bayona elected to center on the true - life story of María Belón and Enrique Alvarez, a Spanish couple on holiday with their three boys in Thailand when the tsunami hits.

It's fun to see the directors give the wacky premise a blown out of proportion big screen treatment with actors like Tatum and Redmayne clearly embracing the schlocky material.

Married to this intriguing premise and timely commentary is a schlocky horror flick, filled with big logical gaps and a few hollow characters who only exist to serve the film's manic plotline.

As a graduate of the University of Manitoba with a degree in English Literature, Andrew has grown to appreciate the story and writing behind everything from blockbuster comic book movies to schlocky B - movie action.

It's not astounding, but Slither is a neat little horror film with a knowing schlocky attitude and good sense of humour.

Their inclusion, presumably, was to add a sense of increased grandeur or weight to these characters, but all it left me with was a feeling the lore had been thrown out the window for the sake of a couple of schlocky and unnecessary reveals.

And cooks everything real good in the soup of schlocky Square Enix story with awesome production values.