Sentences with phrase «revenge fantasy»

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

I'm not saying you would or should actually do this — I'm (obviously) indulging in a little revenge fantasy.

Revenge fantasies don't leave much room for moral lessons.

Unlike the more testosterone - driven revenge fantasies of the Charles Bronson ilk, this one dares to be more complex, and offers no absolution in the baptism of blood.

Written and directed with the usual hysterical gusto by Brian Taylor (one - half of the manic team with Mark Neveldine that directed Cage in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance), Mom and Dad is a hilariously macabre revenge fantasy for all those parents who maybe secretly want to get back at their kids for being sarcastic shits who take them for granted.

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.

Over the past three days, I've seen some films from female writers and directors with strong (and wildly divergent) personal visions, from an extremely violent revenge fantasy to a conventional biopic about an unconventional romance.

At its core, Unchained operates as a 19th Century variation on Inglourious Basterds: a wild, bloody revenge fantasy.

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.

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.

Note the number of times Matt is literally led around by his erection: It is the quintessential feminist revenge fantasy in that it not only gives this man the dream of a harem, but renders him unable to take advantage of it.

by Hope Madden If you haven't seen Chan - wook Park's twisted revenge fantasy Oldboy, do so immediately.

While Sean Penn lends this thriller some political subtext, the fact remains that it's actually just another vacuous revenge fantasy from Taken director Pierre Morel.

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.

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.»

It's a sadistic revenge fantasy told by someone who witnessed the sadistic brutality of the Romans, a sick brutality that didn't end when the empire became Christian, btw.

Marcus Doe: Why I Forgave the Man I Once Plotted to Kill Revenge fantasies were darkening my heart before I trusted in Jesus.

A very mechanical revenge fantasy that skirts every serious issue it raises along a slick, cynical trajectory.

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 movie, his first as director since 2001's «CQ,» stars Charlie Sheen as a graphic designer whose recent breakup causes him to descend into comical revenge fantasies.

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.

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

Variety «s Peter Debruge wrote of the film: «As hyper - aggressive revenge fantasies go, it's curious to see one so devoid of feeling, a venality even «Drive» fans likely won't be inclined to forgive.»

But whacking Nazis with bats and setting them on fire don't add up to much more than a hollow revenge fantasy, however funnily or majestically rendered.

Vengeance is a dish served gory in this stylish, brutish bloodbath that updates 70s rape - revenge fantasy exploitation films to the #MeToo era.

A schlockfest dressed up in sleek designer duds that feigns gruesome violence and flounders with psychological power dynamics, music video vet Slade's directorial debut desperately tries to shock and disturb by exploiting male fears of castration and feminine revenge fantasies, both of which form the crux of his story about the torturous tête - à - tête between 32 - old photographer Jeff (Patrick Wilson) and 14 - year - old student Hayley (Ellen Page).

This is simply one prolonged revenge fantasy.

The Hateful Eight is hardly my favorite Tarantino movie (Inglourious Basterds has a pretty tight grip on that claim), but it's the first QT joint that feels like it exists beyond the comfort zone of his references, and the first of his historical revenge fantasies that feels like its squinted eye is focused squarely on the present.

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.

Both are genre pieces that function as racial revenge fantasies: the war movie Inglourious Basterds shows Jewish - American soldiers slaughtering Nazis in occupied France, and the western Django Unchained follows a freed slave in the antebellum south as he guns down hillbillies, plantation owners, and Klansmen.

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

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.

- Booklist» [An] effervescent, wholly delicious revenge fantasy... about big money, big politics, and big crime... The perfect chaser for an evening spent watching a presidential debate.»

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.

I don't like most first person shooters, other gamers aren't as lenient with the genre as I am, I don't like the bro - gaming, 9 - 11 revenge fantasy modern military First Person Shooters.

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.

Beside looking super unpleasant and inspiring visceral revenge fantasies, it turns out that he's also Max's brother.

I suffered flashbacks and revenge fantasies for years.

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.

She was simply a busty force with crazy eyes and silver thigh boots, acting out a bloody revenge fantasy that spoke to anyone who'd ever had their heart jerked out and stomped flat.

John Tucker Must Die promises an offbeat, mean - spirited revenge fantasy a la Heathers.