Sentences with phrase «obvious villains of»

In addition to the earlier scene involving the fortress, the movie presents the heretofore obvious villains of the series — Snow and the Capitol's blood - spectacle - hungry population — in far more ambiguous light.

Not exact matches

Coal, the worst global warming villain of them all, was an obvious but overlooked target.

The vibe in the room changes — it is obvious that for most people here, Ian May is playing the role of the villain.

For a long while, the movie also seems like it will be the rare children's tale without an obvious, mustache - twirling villain, a refreshing change of pace — until a bad guy eventually does emerge, reducing a winsome adventure into a by - the - book battle between good and evil.

Deadpool assembles a team of mutants (except, hilariously, a guy named Peter, who has no obvious superpower) that he dubs X-Force for a daring, pratfall - filled and mostly ill - fated rescue before facing off against a rather more ordinary but still plenty nasty villain, the headmaster of Broadstone House, a reformatory for mutant children, who has the mien of a bureaucrat and the soul of a sadist.

«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.

As with most Scorsese knockoffs, there's a pretty obvious and cynical critique buried in the mess of incident — something about the public desiring villains more than heroes.

There is not a lot of character complexity and it's certainly pretty obvious from the start who the villain is going to be, but as conventional adventure character types the cast of Prince of Persia are convincing and fun.

From then on, it appears obvious that Siri is going to stay with his neo-horror vibe, making his villains the epitome of evil incarnate, instead of the two - bit novices they are supposed to be.

Urban terrorism is the obvious villain, personified in the terrifying ragman Joker (Heath Ledger), but the focus of The Dark Knight is on the fallout from fear (grieving opportunities and allies lost to good intentions), its thesis that as bad as things are, they can get a lot worse.

Providing a mentally disturbed villain of the generic variety and the dangers of an all - powerful web of technology, I.T. gives us two, obvious bogeymen for the price of one, pretty dumb movie.

When the final match hits, it goes fully into «sports movie» mode, complete with all the cliches of a final game scene: an overconfident villain, a seemingly unending back - and - forth score between the two, music that's just a little too obvious and perfectly timed — all the parts are there.

Villains have won that past five out of six years so the obvious choice is Albert Brooks.

It's a chamber piece with an obvious villain pegged straightaway, and an ending that's aloof instead of artful, and pedantic instead of climactic.

The appeal of a masked villain is obvious.

The differences between that film and this reinvention are obvious from the very start; rather than the original's scene - setting opening where Yul Brinner and Steve McQueen stand up for the rights of a deceased and unknown native American, instead we have a pantomime villain doling out ugly violence and not only that, the only native American onscreen murders a fleeing innocent woman in cold blood.

Though, the fact that the film isn't entirely without obvious merit confuses things even further: Krauss is wryly brilliant as Krauss and delivers the film's biggest laugh with his Herzog - ian reasons for using a wheelchair; Gael Garcia Bernal has a great time as a lecherous member of Laura's delegation, spinning his suitcase with the sneering verve of a cartoon villain who twirls his mustache and gleefully acts smarmy before being felled by his own beleaguered bowels; Herzog's shots of Diablo Blanco, portrayed by Bolivia's real - life Uyuni salt flats, are among the most stunning in any film released this year; Shannon has fun in the impromptu photo shoot that takes place toward the end of the film; and as expected, there's a fascinating push and pull in the battle between human and nature at the heart of the film's central premise.

Director Barry Levinson (Jimmy Hollywood, Rain Man) reaches for unimagined heights, and wants to wow the viewer with awe, but falls flat on his face in quixotic fashion with a painfully obvious «villain» and underdeveloped script based on the Michael Crichton novel of the same name.

One may remember, for example, that Odin was a king of peace in the first film, but here, he's become a cold man, willing to sacrifice each and every one of the people in his realm to stop the villain («How does that make you any different than Malekith» Thor asks his father, to which the obvious answer is that Odin isn't trying to destroy the entire universe).

Along with Nigel, there are three other notable new characters are introduced, all of them initially appealing, but too little is done with Foxy Cleopatra, while Goldmember is a two - joke villain (he speaks with a funny Dutch accent in addition to the obvious) which isn't really funny after the first scene we see him in, and a one - joke character in No. 3, who is a mole (spy) who literally has a giant mole on his face.

This is a game that takes an obvious villain, the type of person we all fear, and asks the question, what if he is doing the right thing?