Sentences with phrase «revenge fantasies of»

Michael Crichton has made millions by writing mass market thrillers that either regurgitate partially understood scientific factoids, or pander to the nasty little revenge fantasies of male white middle - managers.

There, Phillipa must endure (among other things) a wedding - day tornado, a menace of a mother - in - law who may or may not have been a Nazi collaborator, and the tragicomic revenge fantasies of her heretofore docile husband.

Not exact matches

It can be combined just as well with wishful fantasies of future glory, with economic ideals and hopes, with thoughts of revenge and pictures of hell.

Toy Soldiers is a movie that appeals at once to adolescent self - pity and adolescent anger - a film that takes feelings of rejection and inadequacy and transforms them into a violent revenge fantasy, directed against all those distant daddies.

In a just world, this deeply compassionate and politically relevant revenge fantasy would do for Davis what last year's Alzheimer's odyssey did for Julianne Moore: deliver a long overdue Oscar to one of the finest actresses of her generation.

The Witch Who Came from the Sea is a rape - revenge fantasy couched self - consciously in Jungian / Freudian symbolism, going so far as to illuminate the castration mythology ancillary to Botticelli's «Birth of Venus», giving the film its name and Molly both her modus operandi and inspiration.

After the cartoonish pulp of Quentin Tarantino's exhilarating revenge fantasy, Django Unchained, Steve McQueen's epic is sobering, to say the least.

by Walter Chaw Although it closes with thirty minutes of pratfalls and screaming, Big Fat Liar begins its life as a fun revenge fantasy that makes the interesting choice of never being about greed, but rather truth.

The virus centralizes in the town's elementary school, and quickly the infected students have the teaching staff under siege, acting out deadly revenge fantasies with an eerie sense of childlike glee.

But to get to the point where he can turn his violent, revenge fantasies into reality, he has to undergo rigorous mental, physical, and emotional training, not to mention become fluent in Arabic and learn the intricacies of jihadis» warped interpretation of the Koran before venturing to Tripoli, Libya to terminate his fiancée's killers with extreme prejudice.

But unlike the first two Batman movies and The Crow, Spider - Man isn't about dark, gothic cityscapes or revenge fantasies; it's about an insecure young man who finds himself gifted with abilities beyond imagination and through forces of fate learns a lesson in responsibility and justice.

Dabbling in the same fetish - feminism and coldly - served revenge fantasies that made Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch such a wildly divisive work, artist and occasional director Ralph Ziman brings an appropriately seedy but miserably downbeat aesthetic to this long - in - development adaptation of Yasuomi Umetsu's R - rated anime.

A candy - colored, superficially fizzy revenge fantasy with a startlingly corrosive undercurrent of bitterness and frustration.

With its obsessed but unqualified hero, Blue Ruin makes a kind of comic sense if you match it up against glum, big - budget, male revenge fantasies — hard - driving movies with the likes of Charles Bronson and Mel Gibson.»

My own experiences undoubtedly contributed to my enjoyment of this admittedly junky but wickedly watchable revenge fantasy.

While the revenge fantasy that Carrie enacts lends her an element of relatability, she is not an audience surrogate.

After that brashly meta opener, you might expect a smartly constructed Tarantino - style black comedy of retribution, but the film fails to deliver on that promise, devolving instead into a dispiriting tonal mishmash of mean - spirited revenge fantasy, girl - power romantic fantasy, and comedy so broad it tips into caricature.

Holed up and becoming increasing desperate, these educators soon act out deadly revenge fantasies with an eerie sense of childlike glee before realising they're going to actually have carry them out in order to survive.

A rousing revenge thriller, Libby's rampage plays into — I'm hypothesizing — deep - seated mariticide fantasies (it romanticizes the idea of cold - cocking your mate, much in the manner that Julia Roberts's Sleeping with the Enemy did).

Instead of reducing Django Unchained to an «Us vs Them» revenge fantasy, Tarantino cleverly used Stephen to subvert expectations and expose a side of slavery that the public isn't accustomed to.

Just two weeks after an assailant took the lives of 17 victims at the Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the Bruce Willis - starring, gun - toting revenge fantasy — a remake of the 1974 Charles Bronson film of the same name — champions vigilante justice and romanticizes gun violence in gleefully tone - deaf manner, one that only works in a deluded Trumpian analysis of America and opportunist justice.

In Order of Disappearance Stellan Skarsgard plays a snowplow driver who's son is brutally murdered, leading to a chilling dark comedy that marries bloody revenge to belly laughs in this twisted fantasy said to be a tonal cousin to Fargo.

Blunt and two - dimensional, even by revenge - fantasy standards, the film made us nostalgic for better treatments of the revenge theme, from the high art of Hamlet to the dirty thrills of Kill Bill.

«The Limey» — like «Payback» — is violent, primal, revenge fantasy, set against the perfidious underworld of the Los Angeles music industry.

Dana, you called it a «revenge fantasy,» a label I would certainly apply to the happy - ending rewrites of World War II and the Reconstruction era in his previous two movies.

Directed by Simon West («The Mechanic,» «The Expendables 2»), «Wild Card» ambles episodically from vigilante revenge fantasy to mismatched buddy movie, as Wild comes first to the aid of a woman (Dominik Garcia - Lorido) from his past who's been brutally raped by a pretty - boy gangster (Milo Ventimiglia); and, later, a meek computer whiz (Michael Angarano) who wants Nick to teach him how not to get dirt kicked in his face.

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Whether it's the gothic overtones of Stoker, the supernatural horror of Thirst, the surreal technological dreams of I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK, or the violent revenge of Oldboy and the rest of the Vengeance Trilogy, the South Korean director specialises in drawing real emotion out of outlandish fantasies.

Moving past family - friendly tales of witches and warlocks, Daniel Radcliffe embraces his inner demon for Horns, a horror - fantasy about revenge and the warped forms love can take.

Also, Ed Speleers as our hero Eragon gets my vote as most wooden performance in a fantasy / sci - fi flick since... well... Hayden Christensen as Young Darth Vader in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.

We also have: Lisa Silverthorne's Isabel's Tears, a novel about a magical inn; Dayle A. Dermatis» Waking the Witch, a gothic mystery novel with some paranormal elements and a light romance; Kelly Washington's The Pale Waters, the first novella in a four - part epic journey; Erica Lyon's Hot Waters, a steamy sea adventure novel; and New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch's The War and After, five historical fantasy stories of magic and revenge.

Perri's sympathetic portrayal of the plight of overeducated, underpaid millennial women gives depth and resonance to this entertaining revenge fantasy.

Amy Tintera's YA fantasy trilogy blends the romance of Kiera Cass's Selection series and the epic stakes of Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen in a story of revenge, adventure, and unexpected love.

Amy Tintera's new YA fantasy trilogy blends the romance of Kiera Cass's Selection series and the epic stakes of Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen in a story of revenge, adventure, and unexpected love.

In fantasy, they're often of the form of an ancient battlefield where the scion of some High House vows to get revenge through the generations, or some other rationale to justify the story to come.

Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie — this is a powerful, gritty story of revenge in a fantasy world.

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So unless you hate my guts and want me to die in a puddle of my own blood and bile to fill your cathartic revenge fantasies, swing on over to CIT Bank and open an account now.

Spare us your fantasies of revenge.

The superpowered characters all trying their hardest to look cool, the jutsus, peculiar, colorful clothes, the whole ninja faggotry and everything about the Naruto world fuels their escapist fantasies, while the pity - party character backgrounds, emphasis on revenge, and overall preachiness of the series make it fit just right with the mary - sueish drives of your average preteen and his sense of unwarranted self - importance towards the world.

Young Danielle would've been so transfixed by the opening cinematic (which is famous for being one of the first attempts at film - like narrative presentation in games) that I would have watched it several times in a row, dreaming of my own sweet revenge fantasy.

One of the most exciting and unique things about the xenosaga series is that you can look foward to seeing different character models with each new game because appearence of the characters change with each game, not because the characters have aged but for other reasons.There is one special thing that xenosaga episode three has that should have been in the other xenosaga games is the swimsuit mode because it allows you to watch movie scenes with the characters in there swimsuits but for some reason not all of the movie scenes in xenosaga 3 can be viewed in swimsuit mode, I guess it would have made the movie less serious or something.My favorite movie scenes in xenosaga are blue testament, white testament, KOSMOS verses Black Testament, any movie with Luis Virgil becaus ehe is my favorite character in the game because he's passionate and i don't think that he is a bad guy since he was able to brek free from being a testament and the only real reasons why he became a testament was because he wanted to be able to visit that old church on miltia and to gain power to prevent death.I also love Luis Virgil and all of the movie scenes that he appear in becaus they are very dramatic.The best thing about the xenosaga series is thst the story is very dee, interesting, and shocking and anyone who has played the game in order from episode one through three will definitely say the same thing.There is no doubt that anyone who has completed episode one and two will be stunned when every secret and mystery is unraveled in episode three.The one thing that I can't seem to under stand is why do some of the characters have to travel back to the earth in the end, will shion and the gang make it back to earth or will there descendants finish the mission and find earth in the end, Chaos and Nephilim told the group that the key to saving humanity lies on earth, what I want to know is what is it and how will it be used to save the universe, Even in the end new mysteries arose and remained unraveled.If there is any one outher who has has the awnswer to any of these questions please let me know when you write you're review or else there has just got to be a xenosaga four on the way, (crying) they just can't leave the story end this way.The only thing that dissapointed me about the game at first was the battle system because on the back of the case of xenosaga three said that the best aspect of the previous battles systems from episode one were combined to form a new battle system, If namco had really done this Xenosaga episode three would have had a better battle system in my opinion because I belive that the best aspect of xenosaga episode one were the special atacks wich are better than the those of episode three and the best aspect of episode three as the break system wich was also better than those of episode three.I think that namco should have given xenosaga episode 3 the battle system of episode 2 combined episode ones style of special attack, but doing this would have probably made the battle system of xenosaga episode three boring because the same old tactics would have to be used in a new game and the battle system most likely would not be as realistic as it is but it would probably be cooler.However the ability to summon all four Erde Kaisers including the new Erde Kasier Sgma my most favorite summon in the world at will and use new Ether and Tech attacks along with the new Counter and Revenge abilities gave xenosaaga episode three more than boost that it needed to have an descent battle systemThe E.S battle system of xenosaga episode 3 is way more better than those of episod one and two though, I must say that Namco really outdid themselves with the E.S battle system of xenosaga episode because the other E.S battle system from the two previos games weren't good, luckily they made up for it with the character battle system.In episode one I never really wanted to use anA.G.W.S, lucky for me they were optional but in episode two sadly it is manatory that you pilot an E.S to progress in the game in Episode three you piloting an E.S is also mandatory to progress in the game but the difference between the three episode is that will be sorry in episode three you will ge glad that you are using an E.S because their battle system is extremely cool.Xenosaga is most definitely one of the besrt RPG games in the world andit is far more better than any final fantasy game that Square Enix has ever made but for some reason it still score lower than Some Final Fantasy and other Sqare Enix games on this site.I bet that if xenosaga was actually named Final Fantasy and had a subtitle it and if it wre made by sqare Enix it would have probably been more famous and it would have scored higher even though it is still the same gameIn the end with every thing being written said and done all i can say is that I feel more at peace now that I have defended this underated game.All I have to say now is that TURN BASED GAMES RULE!

You acted because of a boring revenge power fantasy affecting your gravel - voiced, white male protagonist.

«The Brand New Heavies» may shrink into a couch, stir food with a cigarette, or wake with fantasies of sex and revenge.

These disturbing images play out a revenge fantasy, representing the consequences of centuries of irresponsible encroachment upon the land.

It's an art - world revenge fantasy in the form of a first - person shooter.

I do, however, occasionally have revenge fantasies as well, but I know exactly that a couple of rotten apples don't spoil the barrel.

Next time you're telling someone about your fantasy of revenge involving a ulock, and a pristine paint job - stop and think - is there another, more calming story that's also worth telling?

That suitcase full of revenge fantasies?