by-the-numbers

Along with his shooter/videographer, Max Ortiz, he makes himself a double threat on the News’s website, not only hosting a show called Hold the Onions out of the American Coney Island diner downtown, but also doing video pieces that stretch the definition of by-the-numbers journalism.

FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

So it's no surprise that the actual movie failed to live up to the hype, being a by-the-numbers Indy film closer to Temple of Doom than to the other films.

June 2009 2009

The low points come from the almost by-the-numbers approach to the horror elements.

Archive 2010-03-01 2010

Early in the novel, I half-wondered if would be a by-the-numbers slasher story.

Book Review: "Afraid" by Jack Kilborn 2009

The low points come from the almost by-the-numbers approach to the horror elements.

Rabid Rewind: Jennifer's Body 2010

Not because she guessed the story, but because the shown clips literally spell out the most dumbfoundingly by-the-numbers plot imaginable.

Will You Go See Avatar? 2009

This is to energy and climate what Freakonomics is to economics: an accessible, meaty, by-the-numbers look at the physics and practicalities of energy.

Boing Boing 2009

Of course, Mark Strong seems to be cast as a villain in any movie he appears in, so that may be part of the problem there, because the performance seems very by-the-numbers.

Rabid Rewind: Sherlock Holmes 2010

When he coasts through by-the-numbers remakes like Planet of the Apes and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Burton seems as genuinely uninterested in making them as I was in watching them, but when he really bites into something classic and makes it his own, his movies can be a heck of a lot of fun.

Is Tim Burton Making Sleeping Beauty’s MALEFICENT His Next Project – Collider.com 2010

Early in the novel, I half-wondered if would be a by-the-numbers slasher story.

Archive 2009-06-01 2009