Sentences with phrase «twirling villain»

Vary rarely has the bad guy in one of these game been a mustache - twirling villain.

Cusack has the look of someone just trying to earn his paycheck by keeping his head down and delivering his lines, but Brody takes a different approach, hamming it up as the mustache - twirling villain to the point that he's actually entertaining in a so - bad - it's - good kind of way.

«We decided we had enough people with differing motives butting heads that we didn't really need a traditional mustache - twirling villain,» says Reese.

In addition, Rush manages to put some humor and humanity into his evil pirate, avoiding the cardboard moustache - twirling villain Bruckheimer usually throws into his movies.

On the whole though I would say this is certainly an enjoyable movie with a great moustache twirling villain from Christoph Waltz, easily the standout performance.

For a long while, the movie also seems like it will be the rare children's tale without an obvious, mustache - twirling villain, a refreshing change of pace — until a bad guy eventually does emerge, reducing a winsome adventure into a by - the - book battle between good and evil.

They don't want to be the mustache - twirling villains charging 6 % commissions and 2 % annual fees on IRAs when index giants like Vanguard and BlackRock (blk) have proven you can get similar returns for fractions of a penny on the dollar.

But the funniest things about Rampage are its overreliance on science buzzwords, and its mustache - twirling villains.

Her opposition (Michael Stuhlbarg, John Lithgow, and Sam Waterston) underestimate her and read her pitfalls perfectly in turn, but never reduce to mustache - twirling villains.

It's not anything remotely approaching realistic, but it is dramatic more so than playing for laughs, elaborate action pieces or the requisite comeuppance of melodramatic moustache - twirling villains.

Nor are they mustache - twirling villains looking for ways to harm America's children.

Not exact matches

His brashness and stunning arrogance are the equivalent of the storybook villain twirling his mustache.

But when his good - guy mustache twirls and curls into a villains, his parents have to act fast to keep him in line.

The villain here, Jack Hyde (Eric Johnson), Ana's former boss at the publishing company, is out for mustache - twirling revenge.

There is no complex narrative, no tutorial, no menacing villain twirling a handlebar mustache, no damsel in

The plot is weaker than some of Marvel's more recent stories (I'm looking at you Winter Soldier), and the villain is the biggest mustache twirling megalomaniac the studio has yet produced, but what it lacks in completely solid writing it makes up for in its wonderfully charming cast, an impressive use of special effects, and at least a baby step forward as far as female supporting characters are concerned.

From that point on, the film devolves into the cozily predictable world of TV legal dramas, abandoning the moral uncertainty of its opening scenes for the benefit of a villain so comically over-the-top in his evil, he might as well be theatrically twirling a mustache and tying a damsel in distress to train tracks.

Though, the fact that the film isn't entirely without obvious merit confuses things even further: Krauss is wryly brilliant as Krauss and delivers the film's biggest laugh with his Herzog - ian reasons for using a wheelchair; Gael Garcia Bernal has a great time as a lecherous member of Laura's delegation, spinning his suitcase with the sneering verve of a cartoon villain who twirls his mustache and gleefully acts smarmy before being felled by his own beleaguered bowels; Herzog's shots of Diablo Blanco, portrayed by Bolivia's real - life Uyuni salt flats, are among the most stunning in any film released this year; Shannon has fun in the impromptu photo shoot that takes place toward the end of the film; and as expected, there's a fascinating push and pull in the battle between human and nature at the heart of the film's central premise.

He's not a dastardly villain twirling his moustache, but nor is he a hero in the traditional sense — even though he may consider himself to be.

They're not single - minded villains twirling greasy mustaches.»

If this were the Old West — the imagined one, not necessarily the real one — Kevin Riordan would look right at home in an era of bushy beards and villains twirling handlebar mustaches.

The villains are mostly written as gray characters, despicable without being mustache - twirling monodimensional ones, and supporting characters all have their believable motivations to do what they do.

We know that Starrick is evil because he has the haircut of a modern day douche with the twirling moustache of a classic villain.

Sadly, famous author or not, the characters are one - dimensional and the villain might as well be twirling a big wiry mustache.

Musson added, «The villain twirls his moustache, I mean the villain scratches his Philly beard.