While it's a relief that depiction of Tommy Wiseau, failed artist, and The Room, his failed art, isn't
a sneering bad - movie podcast come to life, it's also disappointing to see the movie slip into a routine of easy jokes and easier outs.
The sneering bad attitude was already there, in Deadpool's previous human guise as Wade Wilson, a Special Forces soldier turned mercenary thug: «I'm just a bad guy who gets paid to f — up worse guys,» he announces.
Restraint seems an odd word to apply to a film this crowded with car chases, gunplay,
sneering bad guys, panicky good guys and one gleefully gruesome instance of ad - hoc, back - alley, gunshot - wound surgery.
Not exact matches
It often meant putting up with
sneering spectators or
worse, as when he was slugged by an irate tavern - keeper who saw his business floating away.
A few goals here, a few there, and suddenly Chelsea2 have a few more points in the league, another away goal in Europe, and José Mourinho isn't
sneering and flailing his way through press conferences like a man doing a
bad impression of José Mourinho.
One day he was the deputy speaker of the House of Lords and (oh, the irony) chairman of the Lords committee for privileges and conduct which investigates breaches of conduct by peers the next he was the disgraced «
sneer of the realm» allegedly prone to
bad - mouthing political colleagues whilst indulging in adulterous, illicit, drug - fuelled sex sessions.
That came after he was lauded by some and accused by others of «
sneering contempt» (and far
worse on Twitter) for daring to suggest that the Conservatives should turn their backs on seats like Clacton and let them fall to Ukip.
Labour will have a story to tell the voters about how it took the action to alleviate recession and avoid depression while the Conservatives
sneered from the sidelines and proposed policies that would have made it
worse.
Unfortunately the film is terribly miscast on almost all levels, and that includes a racially stereotypical role for Leguizamo as a drug dealer, and the laughably
bad Pullman who
sneers comically as he barks his orders at his subordinates.
The twist of «Breaking In» is right there in its title: while a crew of standard issue
bad dudes (led by Billy Burke's Eddie as the one who gets to be the leader by virtue of his ability to
sneer a lot) quite easily get into the house, it's Shaun who's locked outside, desperate to break back in to save her kids.
«It's not a funeral,» the
bad guy
sneers, and suddenly we're being pummeled by «Opps,» a throbbing, darkly futuristic hip - hop tune by a trio of rappers led by Compton's Kendrick Lamar, who put together the movie's all - star soundtrack and appears on each of its 14 songs.
No political thriller made today would have the courage to strip its story to the bare bones; instead, it would have to be padded out with
sneering, cackling
bad guys, guns, chases and escapes.
It's like a parody of
bad journalism... guilt by association and the proof is in the
sneer.
(
Bad lawyers bully, deride, dismiss, and
sneer or, if all else fails, resort to bold underlined text and emphatic punctuation!)