Sentences with phrase «than a villain with»

When you see someone as a human with a flaw rather than a villain with no soul, you'll approach that person far more effectively.

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This is more than the Cold War's simple fixation on Russian villains, however, with StudioCanal producing, for example, «The Tracking of a Russian Spy,» which sees Logan Lerman play a journalist who travels to Russia and becomes a tool of the Kremlin, in a film which sets out to tackle ideas of fake news and disinformation campaigns.

Jordan has collaborated with director Ryan Coogler on the excellent Fruitvale Station and Creed, so it's no surprise to see him treat his character with more thoughtfulness and intimacy than any previous villain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

And where will one find a better stock villain than Haman, whose enormous conceit, malice, and cruelty are appropriately recompensed with death on the very gallows which he had especially constructed for the noble Mordecai.

The typical Marvel villain never dreams bigger than «the world would be a better place with

After making an array of errors throughout his 12 appearances before Christmas, Santos put the nail in his own coffin by swapping shirts at the half - time whistle with none other than the villain himself, Robin Van Persie, whilst Arsenal visited Old Trafford.

Gerard Houllier hasn't seen the honeymoon period end earlier than he would have hoped, with Villa's two successive wins in the league (beating Wolves 2 - 1) and in the Carling Cup (beating Blackburn 3 - 1) all but a distant memory now as the Villains (3.75 VCbet) seek out their first league win in five matches.

While nobody is likely to exceed the amount Manchester City splashed out on Bosnian striker Edin Dzeko, we feel there is no question as to which of the January transfers so far has raised more eyebrows than Darren Bent's shock move to Aston Villa from Sunderland, the England international swapping a club with European aspirations for a relegation scrap with the Villains.

The idea that it is okay because at least it gets people angry and ready to act is more than a little scary, as it conjures up images of the townsfolk storming the local school with their pitchforks and flaming torches; meanwhile, the villain is in Washington DC taking 6 cents from food stamps to fund 64 cents worth of new requirements for the schools.

Sure, you can get a solid workout with your body weight (the Batman villain Bain first bulked up by just doing pushups and sit - ups in his cell... before he started injecting himself with crazy steroids), but nothing works better than good old fashion weightlifting.

And though less common than most Bay pictures, the plot holes still crop up, topped by one scene where the villain inexplicably leaves the safety of his office so he can have a final showdown with the hero.

Older studios have barraged us with more than enough eye - popping chase scenes, strung - out villains, and movie stars outrunning fireballs.

Some may take issue with the film's portrayal of Harding (a widely hated villain) as a victim of circumstance, but she's certainly an intriguing individual to watch and the film never sugarcoats the less - than - savory aspects of her life.

That struggle and its psychological toll explain the hatred festering within the movie's strikingly complex villain; their lack suffuses the Wakandan characters with a strength — a wholesale freedom from America's crippling racial neuroses — that carries a deeper thrill than comic books tend to convey.

Director Scott Cooper, whose Crazy Heart was like catnip for Oscar voters, now seemingly tries to take on something close to Dances With Wolves, an epic (i.e. very long) Western that supposedly has some feel for American Indians as human beings rather than as villains or savages.

Much like Loki, Magneto, and Heinrich Zemo, he's a larger - than - life villain born from every day pain, a though we can't agree with his methods, we know that pain is justified.

He's a large and purply ruthless brute that originally appears to be just another impact-less Marvel villain hellbent on destroying Earth, but what Infinity War does differently than any other Marvel film is that it allows us to sympathize with him and see his emotional flaws and vulnerabilities.

More than anything, Alias Investigations once again provide a nice noir framework for the show's central mystery this season, one that is interesting to unravel and certainly feels more grounded than anything we've seen in the past with villains like The Hand.

I want one of those super computers that create 3D images in real space that you can interact with — expand / collapse models, move them here and there, zoom in for close look and then out again for a macroscopic vantage — not because I actually have anything important to do, but because Tony Stark spends more time with one in Iron Man 2 than he spends battling super villains (or any villain at all for that matter).

The film deals with very real (and socially relevant) issues of gun violence in the United States, but more often than not skirts around its questionable morals in order to transport Willis back to the 1980s with catchy one - liners as he takes down the next faceless villain.

Rather than with a hail of bullets or whiz - bang haphazardly edited action sequences, the lead character of Sarah defeats the villain with smarts and intelligence.

A first in franchise history, LittleBigPlanet 3 will feature a full voice cast for its adventure mode, and with English comedian Stephen Fry reprising his role as the narrator, there's no better villain than his original partner in crime, Hugh Laurie.

What's better than one conflicted villain with a flair for melodrama and over-the-top costuming?

With such talent it's not unreasonable then to ask for more than obligatory special effects and indistinguishable villains, who are included only to prop up pseudo-scientific plot points.

Stephen Merchant plays Caliban, a former villain with little left to lose set upon gaining some small shred of redemption for himself; his part seems bigger than it is and little of it is wasted.

Seeking to take the Wakandan throne from his cousin, Jordan's Killmonger is a villain with a lot more emotional baggage than most Marvel bad guys.

The villain has no evil master plan other than «fucking up Bond's life», there are logic holes you can drive an Aston Martin through — and the drawn - out final act ends with a whimper, not a flourish.

Aha, see, now you belong to that vast sea of potential seers - of - this - movie that just wants to bask in high adventure with space - hopping and plenty of jokes (there are more than you might think, and most land) and heroes striking poses and villains sneering and saying things like, I kid you not, «Insect!»

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.

You want a larger - than - life villain with a secret island lair, but hate The Man With The Golden with a secret island lair, but hate The Man With The Golden With The Golden Gun?

The plot is terribly clichéd, the action sequences aren't very exciting, and though Cage's performance is definitely more restrained than usual, Lucas makes up for it with one of the year's most ridiculous villains.

The main villain is so unforgettable that he stays hidden behind a cell phone for most of the movie, while the rest of the baddies never amount to more than thinly - written caricatures with names like «Dead Man» and «Butcher Whore.»

(The Golden Circle has this in common with The Secret Service - both film's villains have supposedly «good» social intentions for their genocidal plans, making their motivations more interesting than the average movie antagonist.)

Raylan soon teams up with his long beleaguered boss, Chief Deputy Art Mullen (Nick Searcy), to track down a person who may or may not be involved with Arlo's bag, but again this is mostly a superficial bait and switch that exists as a framework to highlight a promising array of new villains: Preacher Billy (Joe Mazzello) and his wife, Cassie (Lindsay Pulsipher), who may be using a traveling tent show to horn in on Boyd Crowder's (Walton Goggins) enterprises, which enticingly suggests the potential for a showdown that could pointedly play on Boyd's own discarded past as a hypocritical born - again Christian; Colton Rhodes (Ron Eldard), a former military police operative recruited as Wade's new right hand; and Randall Kusik (Robert Baker), a brutal bare - knuckle brawler who has a closer relationship to Raylan than he knows.

Only God Forgives is almost more of a remake of Walter Hill's The Driver than was Drive, with its cool - as - a-cucumber «hero», unswayable villain cop and seedy manipulative sexpot.

A relationship that starts with uncertain bonding in their first night as title compadres, and then becomes plainly antagonistic right to the very end, leaves something to be desired, other than feeling that Efron is playing a villain from The Karate Kid, and needs a bit of a real - life lesson from Rogen.

When the first look at Oscar Isaac's Apocalypse hit the internet, a lot of fans and audieneces were less than pleased, with many comparing the look to one of the villains from the original Power Rangers series.

Captain America: Winter Soldier artfully dodges nearly every typical superhero movie problem (as well as general sequel problems) with a stunning grasp of mood, total commitment to a «square» character, a smart choice of villain, and thrilling action scenes that feel authentically dangerous (a complete rarity in blockbusters) rather than like stop - and - gawk «setpieces» with no actual stakes.

Although Ridley sometimes writes his villains» lines a little more broadly and obviously than needed, the overall mixture of period flavor with contemporary accessibility in the verbiage couldn't be any better balanced.

Yet the film's insistent indictment of Duncan and Simmons, and its qualified accusation of Roberts, lack all conviction, despite the explicitness with which it spells out their personal responsibility for the disaster, because the fire itself is so far more convincing and menacing a villain than the script's paper - doll miscreants and good / bad guys.

Ant - Man, on the other hand, was more than just a comedy movie, it was a heist film that managed to surprise audiences with its unique action scenes (thanks to the shrinking capabilities of the film's main hero and villain).

Thanos is more than just a menacing villain, he's a raging egomaniac who wants to take over the universe and reshape it in his image with the power of the Infinity Gauntlet.

This sense of pinpointing where the Hercules legend meets reality essentially becomes the movie, which is always more interesting as a commentary on mythological status than it ever is as a straightforward action romp complete with silly villains.

Synopsis: The battle between good and evil is even more intense and dangerous than ever as Gingka and his friends face a villain with a plot to unleash a long forbidden Beyblade in his quest to take over the world.

Throughout the story, we're often only told of seemingly vital plot points through second hand accounts, characters tend to change their outlooks without reason merely to fit in the story's trajectory and our main antagonist is a cookie - cutter villain who simply confronts Hope with little reason other than he's on set to be a contemptible dude.

Like pretty much any superhero origin story, the setup was better than the payoff, which, like far too many movies about the origin of a superhero, pitted the newly formed hero against a generic villain with an even more generic plan, as if that's some kind of required challenge for these heroes to have to face each and every time — even if we're just getting to know them.

But no space was smaller and more dangerous than the green room of Green Room, whose pressure - cooker scenario has provided 2016 with its most suffocating, white - knuckle thrills — complicated, granted, by the death of leading man Anton Yelchin and the uncomfortable parallels between the film's hatemongering villains and the real ones bellowing at rallies across the country.

As a teenage girl obsessed with selfies trapped inside the body of a rotund, middle aged man with more bodily hair than you'd ever probably want, Jack Black is impeccably wonderful while Bobby Cannavale (one of the best actors working in film today) has the time of his life hamming it up as the villain of the piece.

Colin Farrell is capable of delivering great work with the right material, and Terrence Howard is an excellent choice to play the silky - smooth villain, but more than anything else, this could be Oplev's coming out party as a director now that he's no longer stuck in the shadow of Stieg Larsson's popular novel.

However, the one most worth discussing in greater depth is Daniel Brühl (Rush) as Helmut Zemo: the shadowy antagonist with a mysterious agenda in Civil War whose true motivation makes him more complex than your average Marvel movie villain.