Sentences with phrase «as evil villains»

Not exact matches

Much more entertaining, and the villains are nowhere near as evil as the chief character in the Babble.

This conception of war also has as its villains the states who engage in it, so that states, instead of being potential sources of human good, are recast as the agents of massive evil.

Straying from the standard, modern superhero formula it helped to pioneer in 2002, Homecoming is more teen comedy than it is a «good vs. evil» tale, highlighting a distinctive setting in Queens as the battleground for crushes, parties and yes, actual super villains — this one played by Michael Keaton in a scene - stealing performance.

For Terry has become a pantomime villain: a dastardly caricature of evil to be booed as he enters, hissed as he exits, and jeered at all points in between.

He appeared in two Austin Powers films as Mini-Me, the clone and sidekick of the villain Dr Evil who was played by Mike Myers.

So I did a survey of 140 movies that depict scientists, just picked them out of databases without any bias, and I judged whether they were depicting scientists, portraying scientists as heroes or villains and the ratio was six to one, heroes over villains and even the villains were not really villainous, they were not evil.

Salt is no longer the evil villain lurking on your table next to the stately and proper pepper (known as the master spice).

I know folks will want to look at DiCaprio's Calvin Candie as the villain, but in the end he's only as evil and devious as the times would suggest or allow; he was a slave owner who thought his slaves less than human.

Unlike most Marvel villains, who have little nuance as far as their evil intentions, Killmonger has a rationale for his malevolent acts, and a certain sympathy beyond this, that makes the film more a struggle for political ideas than it is just a black - and - white fight between good guys and bad guys.

The greatness of Django Unchained, however, comes not from its nods to Corbucci and Leone, its prodigious reliance upon Ennio Morricone compositions, its deliciously evil villains, blood - spattered vengeance or comic inserts (though an early scene in which the newly freed Django picks an outfit to pose as Dr. King Schultz's valet is endearingly funny).

We do get a few newer characters such as Thranduil (Lee Pace), the elf king and father of Legolas, but he is really just a big cliche in terms of the «villain that you know you can't trust and has way too much power and seems evil just for the sake of being evil,» But again, he doesn't get a whole lot of focus, and to be honest, how he is portrayed is not very interesting, the character has this interesting backstory that is somewhat brushed over, and again, he doesn't get a whole lot of screen time.

Suspended somewhere in the bowels of a fiery lair, a chained Thor (Hemsworth) listens captively as the smoldering demon Surtr (Clancy Brown) drones on in the usual expository monologue where the evil villain explains his evil plan.

The rivalry between the two suitors is of the oldest kind (good vs. evil, hero vs. villain, brother vs. brother), making Justified feel unexpectedly classic and still mercilessly exhilarating, as the pilot alone features three shootouts, one beating, one murder, and an explosion.

Meanwhile, Mark Strong has been chatting about his role as the film's villain, Doctor Thaddeus Sivana: «I'm playing an evil bastard called Doctor Sivana, they are always the best characters to play, the most fun.

Using Amora seems extremely likely as she's also a member of the Masters of Evil and an antagonist of Doctor Strange as well, a crossover villain not unlike Loki.

After Hit Girl is busted and forced to retire, Kick - Ass joins a team of amateur superheroes led by a reformed mobster and tangles with the evil villain formerly known as Red Mist.

The last time he had a brush with super-heroics was on the other side of the good / evil divide, as villain The Riddler in Joel Schumacher «s marginal «Batman Forever.»

«He's an evil genius, kind of like a Bond villain, but also a gourmet chef,» Gibson said, adding some extra descriptors to his role as an arms dealer looking to launch a weapon into space, to the obvious disagreement from the U.S. government who hires Machete (Trejo) to stop him.

Ignoring the absurd idea that somehow the Korean resistance to the Japanese was a key to the winning of the war (which the film explicitly states at one point), the creation of noble resistance heroes (even when sometimes compromised) versus the evil Japanese villain is pure escapist nonsense that passes itself off as realism instead of the Tarantino-esque fantasy it actually is.

They also suggest the movies» villains — including potentially Venom, who is still supposedly getting his own spin - off movie — could ultimately be reunited as the Sinister Six, essentially an evil version of how The Avengers united all the previous Marvel Studios superheroes:

Here's a supplementary list of ten performances: Betty Buckley, articulate as a psychotherapist, and the protean James McAvoy playing against her in Split; Harris Dickinson, implosive with self - loathing in Beach Rats; two turns by Michael Fassbender, as the smarmy villains of Song to Song and Alien: Covenant; Milla Jovovich's valedictory sprint through Resident Evil: The Final Chapter; Barry Keoghan as a teenage sprite barely veiling his hostility in The Killing of a Sacred Deer; Keanu Reeves, put through his paces again in John Wick: Chapter 2; Lady Bird's callous, precocious, and heartbreaking Saoirse Ronan; newcomer Millicent Simmonds and her silent movie acting in Wonderstruck; octagenarian Lois Smith playing her age as Marjorie of Marjorie Prime; and Adrian Titieni, slouching and gloomy as a bad dad in Graduation.

Because Phoenix (8MM) oozes so much slimy evil as Commodus, I wanted to hiss at him like the villains in those old - fashioned melodramas.

James Spader provides excellent voice work as the genuinely evil villain.

Also, one thing that can make a mediocre film great is an evil villain and Pearce as the antagonist is more annoying than evil.

But standing in the way of truth, justice and the American Way is an evil villain known as «The Hourglass,» who plans to become immortal by sucking the life force out of anyone who gets in his way.

Synopsis: The battle between good and evil is even more intense and dangerous than ever as Gingka and his friends face a villain with a plot to unleash a long forbidden Beyblade in his quest to take over the world.

As might be expected, it is the villains who get to have the most fun with the parts, with Lang and McGowan clearly relishing the evil their characters do.

Set in the 15th Century, it's a stodgy, visually drab, instantly forgettable reworking of Bram Stoker's novel in the action - centred Underworld / I, Frankenstein vein, with Fast and Furious 6 villain Luke Evans starring as Drac, a Transylvanian prince who makes a pact with a cave - dwelling demon (Charles Dance) for some handy dark magic to protect his family and people against the evil clutches of Turk Sultan Mehmed II (Dominic Cooper)....

From that point on, the film devolves into the cozily predictable world of TV legal dramas, abandoning the moral uncertainty of its opening scenes for the benefit of a villain so comically over-the-top in his evil, he might as well be theatrically twirling a mustache and tying a damsel in distress to train tracks.

Even the villain, Jake Abel, feels so stereotypical evil that his performance comes across as hollow.

Smith can barely take the proceedings seriously himself, as not only does he move around and multiply Guy Lapointe's signature mole, but the film's German villain (Smith's podcast partner Ralph Garman) becomes a gifted celebrity impressionist, explaining his unique evil using a variety of celebrity accents that range from Al Pacino and Sylvester Stallone to Arnold Schwarzenegger and the original Batman, Adam West.

In a supporting role, the great character actor Raymond Massey has a juicy villain part as an evil psychiatrist running a Nazi spy ring.

Should you choose to side with Eggman and his villains, you will be doomed (or lucky enough) to live a formatted life of logic and servitude as robots in his evil empire, as shown in Eggman's propaganda - filled video here.

With Bryan Cranston voicing Zordon and Elizabeth Banks physically present as villain Rita Repulsa, the movie will find the Rangers battling Rita's evil schemes and defending the Earth while figuring out their own teenage issues.

There are so many films where the villain come across as so evil that it doesn't feel authentic.

Russell Crowe as villain Pearly is more a pantomime dame than evil demon, and those who disliked his performance in LES MISERABLES will have a field day with Pearly's scarred face and thug accent.

A villain is proffered in childhood boyfriend Bobby Sharp (Jeremy Renner), who, as he's pushed to spill some rancid beans with the classic attack of «you're a homo» (backed with a string of sports analogies from Harrelson's jock character, woefully underutilized in a film taking place in hockey - mad Minnesota), to pass time until it's crystal clear that even though Josie is crying rape on the stand as explanation of her first child's conception, the evil defense team is incapable of making the leap that this is the perfect opportunity to impeach this witness for maybe always crying rape.

Rufus Sewell is as evil as any big film villain, but Helgeland and Sewell discreetly humanize him just enough he's not intolerable to be around.

Knowing that Red Skull is alive (albeit played by a different actor now) is huge for the Captain America corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it promises the potential of even more evil from the classic villain as the MCU presses forward into the events of Avengers 4.

There are some fun small roles by actors like Don Johnson, who is the main villain of the piece and puts in a good bit of scene - chewing as the evil warden.

The movie gets to cast Callahan as an upright enforcer because he's got a villain as uncomplicatedly evil as any in movie history.

Christopher Lee is as good as ever as Midnight — he's one more old - school villain in a long line of old - school villains, so the guy knows what he's doing, even if his master plan comes direct from Evil Nazi Surplus.

But while the former League of Gentlemen's ability to juggle sinister and funny makes him the ideal candidate for an evil genius Professor, Gatiss» decision to cast himself as Sherlock's brother, Mycroft Holmes, sets us up for the show's real villain.

Christopher Lloyd camps it up as the story's nasty villain, Judge Doom, whose evil scheme consists of turning L.A. into a land of freeways and billboards.

Sure, it sounds hokey, but it does pave the way for one of the movie's best qualities: James Woods again lends voice to a Disney villain as Benedict, the leader of the enigmatic evil plot.

To explain further would only serve as a spoiler, but what Jordan's standout performance does is remind viewers of the disparity in the diaspora; Killmonger's rage and lust for revenge can quickly be empathized with because as an outsider to Wakanda he isn't simply just an evil villain, he is a hero of a different but valid story.

Killmonger's rage and lust for revenge can quickly be empathized with because as an outsider to Wakanda he isn't simply just an evil villain, he is a hero of a different but valid story.

Actor Adam Driver reveals just a little more about his mysterious «Star Wars» villain, saying, «I never thought of the character as an evil person.»

It starred Steve Carell as Gru, a bumbling supervillain who tries to further his evil plans by adopting three girls (Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, and Elsie Kate Fisher), but finds himself growing fond of his new children despite his efforts to stay focused on his competition with fellow villain Vector (Jason Segel).

The character is a fascinating one as things go because he and the villain occupy the same alternate universe as the evil steam press: anachronistic, iconoclastic, ultimately ridiculous, but certainly tweaking the edges of significance.