Sentences with phrase «take violent revenge»
It's an adaptation of a novel by Michael Punke, with Leonardo DiCaprio starring as an 1820s frontiersman trekking across wild territory to take violent revenge on a man (Tom Hardy) who has wronged him.
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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.
The story concerns Melvin, the hopelessly nerdy mop boy at the Tromaville Health Club who falls into a vat of toxic waste after a prank gone wrong and proceeds to transform, Incredible Hulk style, into the «Toxic Avenger», upholder of truth, justice, and... well, taking out righteously violent revenge on your most hated enemies.
The debate as to whether portraying horrific acts, specifically torture, is classed as endorsing it has somehow taken wind and become the lead talking point (especially odd since surely nobody would suggest Argo endorses military coups, or that Django Unchained endorses violent revenge, no matter how racist the person may be), and it has distracted many from discussing the film on any other level.