Sentences with phrase «more than the villains»

Sarah is more than a villain, while Charlie is much less than a hero, and where they end up together is powerfully disturbing.

Even Fans of T'Challa, Wakanda, and Killmonger can admit that it was Jordan's casting which sent expectations soaring more than the villain himself ever could.

He's an actor of so much more than the villains and mentally disturbed that he's typically cast.

Not exact matches

Loki is complicated and has more emotional depth than most villains in any movie.

It could be said that the villain and the addict are easier roles to play than the straight man, marked more by physicality than emotion.

This is more than the Cold War's simple fixation on Russian villains, however, with StudioCanal producing, for example, «The Tracking of a Russian Spy,» which sees Logan Lerman play a journalist who travels to Russia and becomes a tool of the Kremlin, in a film which sets out to tackle ideas of fake news and disinformation campaigns.

He became a second fiddle to the film's other villain, Sandman, who proved to be more menacing than one of Spidey's most beloved adversaries, a crime that Spider - Man fans simply couldn't forgive.

Despite sounding like a naff club and Aragon sounding like some sort of super villain organisation, district0x has raised just over $ 6 million from more than 1,300 people.

Amphastar became yet another drug price - hiking villain facing intense public scrutiny when it raised the price of naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote, by more than 100 %.

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Could any other daytime telecast have a more typecast villain than Mr. Fuld?

Jordan has collaborated with director Ryan Coogler on the excellent Fruitvale Station and Creed, so it's no surprise to see him treat his character with more thoughtfulness and intimacy than any previous villain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Villains need to threaten the hero in a way that makes the resolution of their conflict more interesting than «who will win?»

We must also be careful not to oversimplify marginal positions that, in our time, may owe more to the legacy of German scholars like Julius Wellhausen than they do to the Islamic tradition, which, for example, debated not whether Ezra was «a major villain» but whether he was a prophet — and therefore infallible according to Islamic theology — or a righteous Israelite.

Perhaps more disturbing than anything else is Weigel's good guy / bad guy scenario» his assumption that the United States holds the moral high ground, Iraq being the villain.

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.

More than anything, though, the bench was the villain, the unexpected killer at the end of Masterpiece Theater.

While nobody is likely to exceed the amount Manchester City splashed out on Bosnian striker Edin Dzeko, we feel there is no question as to which of the January transfers so far has raised more eyebrows than Darren Bent's shock move to Aston Villa from Sunderland, the England international swapping a club with European aspirations for a relegation scrap with the Villains.

The idea that it is okay because at least it gets people angry and ready to act is more than a little scary, as it conjures up images of the townsfolk storming the local school with their pitchforks and flaming torches; meanwhile, the villain is in Washington DC taking 6 cents from food stamps to fund 64 cents worth of new requirements for the schools.

He suggests that France and Russia were more implicit in the crisis than has been accepted, and that Germany was perhaps less of a villain than has been previously thought.

New York State spends more than it takes in but prison operations are not the villain.

It's too early to say, but there is potential for this secret weapon to slay more than one villain.

Scientists Bad: A survey of more than 1,000 horror films shown in Britain between 1931 and 1984 found that scientists or their creations were the villains in 41 percent of the films and that scientific or psychiatric research had produced 39 percent of the threats.

The impending doom is more dire than any fictional villain could ever wish upon a world.

Furthermore, many have now realized that it's the trans fat found in margarine, vegetable shortening, and partially hydrogenated vegetable oils that is the true villain, causing far more significant health problems than saturated fat ever could!»

... but the story is significantly more complicated than that, especially compared to other common acne villains.

The yolk is not the villain and in fact contains far more nutrition than the whites.

Though this superfood smoothie is named after a Disney villain, it does more good than harm.

Villains have to have more than just the fact they are bad.

Probably the best set piece of all is an underwater mission, in which Ethan must hold his breath for more than three full minutes in order to infiltrate an extremely secure facility housing an incriminating Flash drive that our villain desperately wants.

I also love how critics seem to think that they can speak for moviegoers by saying things like David Goyer who seems to hate moviegoers more than he hates critics» or «greater «inescapable» scenarios which works itself to absurdity until the audience, not the villain, is beaten into submission.»

Ian McKellen, soon to don the robe of Gandalf in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings, brings his considerable talent to bear in the role of Magneto, creating a more complex and conflicted villain than one might normally expect in this sort of movie.

Thanos is a similarly generic villain in terms of his end goal, but there's more to him than a simple desire for death and destruction.

Older studios have barraged us with more than enough eye - popping chase scenes, strung - out villains, and movie stars outrunning fireballs.

Of course, the villain's plans go awry and the «hero» ends up being more villainous than Megamind had ever been.

Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3 is a funny and spectacular fighting game: a huge mix of explosions, superheroes and terrifying villains, more sparkling than ever in this PS4 version.

Peter tries to fall back into his normal daily routine — distracted by thoughts of proving himself to be more than just your friendly neighborhood Spider - Man — but when the Vulture (Michael Keaton) emerges as a new villain, everything that Peter holds most important will be threatened.

The only exception here is Loki, but that's more because of Tom Hiddleston's amazing performance than the villain himself and I'd argue it's time Loki goes away for a bit.

This gangly teenager is more terrifying and determined than just about any standard slasher villain.

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.

Cable is less nuanced than Thanos (although, as one might reasonably expect, the screenwriters find a way to make the connection) but he's a credible enough villain when it comes to sowing chaos and, as is hinted at during his opening scene, there's more to the character than meets the eye.

Ironically, Black Panther is most successful in its treatment of the main villain, Erik «Killmonger» Stevens, played by Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station and Creed), a character who ends up being more sympathetic in his cause than the titular hero.

I give credit to the movie makers for not having Thanos driving force be power for powers sake this avoid a dimensional villain no more than a natural disaster.

There's more than a little corn and wishful thinking in the high - minded moments in «The Post»; movies like either to glorify or demonize journalists, relying on heroes and villains.

The director (who also co-wrote the script) invests ample time in fleshing out Wakanda and makes the dynamic between its villain Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) and hero T'Challa (Boseman) much deeper, and more philosophically murky, than most central conflicts in Marvel movies are.

Actually, he reminds me more than a little of Darkseid, the superhuman alien villain that the late Jack Kirby created for DC.

Hela, who mostly stomps around Asgard killing time before the climactic final battle, doesn't exactly break the long - running curse of bland Marvel villains; however, Blanchett has a blast vamping it up even more than she did in Cinderella, and the enthusiasm is infectious.

More than anything, Alias Investigations once again provide a nice noir framework for the show's central mystery this season, one that is interesting to unravel and certainly feels more grounded than anything we've seen in the past with villains like The HMore than anything, Alias Investigations once again provide a nice noir framework for the show's central mystery this season, one that is interesting to unravel and certainly feels more grounded than anything we've seen in the past with villains like The Hmore grounded than anything we've seen in the past with villains like The Hand.

I want one of those super computers that create 3D images in real space that you can interact with — expand / collapse models, move them here and there, zoom in for close look and then out again for a macroscopic vantage — not because I actually have anything important to do, but because Tony Stark spends more time with one in Iron Man 2 than he spends battling super villains (or any villain at all for that matter).

The film deals with very real (and socially relevant) issues of gun violence in the United States, but more often than not skirts around its questionable morals in order to transport Willis back to the 1980s with catchy one - liners as he takes down the next faceless villain.