Meaning of soundstagey | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling or characteristic of a sound stage.

informal

Examples

“I don't have⟳ a problem with the CGI-- it's the overall production design⟳ and writing that destroys the suspension of disbelief. Most interior shots are lit with red and blue gels rather than trying for a torch/candle-lit look⟳. Interior shots look⟳ extremely "soundstagey" in a bad sense⟳ of the word.”

“In uncritical homage to the heyday of Hollywood musicals, Branagh sets the action in a kind of soundstagey Oxbridge (wittily designed by Tim Harvey) and at crucial moments has his cast⟳ spin⟳ on their heels and croon American songbook standards by Porter, Kern, Gershwin and company instead of launching into sonnets and masques.”

“An airless debut that says much about its writer-director's cultural diet and little about anything else in the world, Vaughn Stein's Terminal blends tropes from several sorts of crime flicks into a soundstagey affair that's more brittle than hard-boiled.”

“This remake⟳ injects some contemporary misfortune (humans despoil the water, we're told). It also packs on another 52 minutes and three new songs, trades zany for demure and swaps vast animated land⟳- and seascapes for soundstagey sets and screensavery imagery.”

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