That meant the newsroom — a dark, claustrophobic, overcrowded, ill-ventilated, cheesily decorated and poorly maintained space.
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Tiny cafés, shops, and bars are everywhere, but since this island is relatively small it doesn't feel over-crowded or cheesily touristy.
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When they speak, it's almost as they're one person (cheesily enough), building off each other's thoughts, patiently allowing the other to speak, respective of each other's views.
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Justice, the 6-foot-9 guy who Hulk Hogan would cheesily refer to as the 'Hammer of Justice', was known to play pranks on the other Gladiators off set.
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R. Kelly's decades-long oeuvre, made up of songs both incredibly explicit and cheesily wholesome in nature, was scrutinized and cast aside in the wake of a docuseries detailing numerous allegations of sexual and emotional abuse against young girls and women.
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" Jane Lamacraft reassessed the film for Sight and Sound "Forgotten pleasures of the multiplex" feature in 2010, writing "Nearly three decades on, Bacon's vest-clad set-piece dance in a flour mill looks cheesily 1980s, but the rest of Ross's drama wears its age well, real song-and-dance joy for the pre-Glee generation." On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 52% based on 42 reviews, with an average rating of 5.77/10. The consensus reads, "There's not much dancing, but what's there is great. The rest of the time, Footloose is a nice hunk of trashy teenage cheese.
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Donovan, writing a review of Kylie for Number One, felt that it would "brighten your day up", but suggested Minogue's vocal "sounds a bit too much like Minnie Mouse after a while." In another mixed review, Nick Levine of Digital Spy also panned the dated production saying the record was "as loaded with variety as a loaf of bread". He felt her personality and the "quintessentially '80s charm" compensated for its weaknesses, while calling "I Should Be So Lucky" the stand out "classic" track. Chris Heath of Smash Hits praised the "simple, deliriously wonderful disco" tracks, while Rolling Stone suggested they sound like "delightful trifles" and are as "cheesily and identically redolent of the late 80s' as a pair of stone-washed jean shorts".
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Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly called Mortal Kombat "a contentedly empty-headed extended advertisement for the joy of joypads (filmed in cheesily ornate cinema de Hong Kong style)" and too noted how it "is notably free of blood and gore." According to Stephen Holden of The New York Times, "Mortal Kombat might be described as mythological junk food. Although there is talk of the three kombatants' having to face their deepest fears to prevail, the action is so frenetic and the dialogue so minimal that the allegory is weightless." Roger Ebert said he was "right in the middle" and noted that the fans might be disappointed by the film's killings being much less brutal than the notoriously violent Mortal Kombat video games.
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Even Kenneth Turan's Los Angeles Times review, which Glotzer credited with derailing the film's box-office success, praised Freeman, saying his "effortless screen presence lends Shawshank the closest thing to credibility it can manage". Of Robbins' performance, Gleiberman said that in his "laconic- good-guy, neo-Gary Cooper role, [Robbins] is unable to make Andy connect with the audience". Conversely, Maslin said that Andy has the more subdued role, but that Robbins portrays him intensely, and effectively depicts the character as he transitions from new prisoner to aged father figure, and Klady stated that his "riveting, unfussy ... precise, honest, and seamless" performance anchors the film. Howe said that while the character is "cheesily messianic" for easily charming everyone to his side, comparing him to "Forrest Gump goes to jail", Robbins exudes the perfect kind of innocence to sell the story.
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