Sentences with phrase «violent revenge»
"Violent revenge" refers to seeking harm or causing pain to someone as a way of retaliating or getting back at them for a perceived wrongdoing. Full definition
The show's simple format made you feel good about violent revenge, even though you knew deep down it was probably wrong.
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People do not unanimously close ranks over Jesus» grave (as Jesus» executioners hoped), nor is there a spree of violent revenge on behalf of the crucified leader.
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.
Rowlandson prayed for her captors and clung to her belief in God, interpreting her experiences through the lens of her faith, while Duston exacted violent revenge on her captors.
«Dead Man Down» tells the story of a New York City enforcer who becomes wrapped up in a web of violent revenge when he seeks to atone for the death of his wife and daughter.
So God waited through 400 years of violent oppression and slavery so that He could exact violent revenge upon the Egyptians?
So, why are you trying to justify violent revenge when there was no violence by Ahmadi against your Sunni Muslims?
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Tarantino's brilliant script for «Django Unchained» is better than the fun, talky, well - made violent revenge western that he finally relinquished — weeks late — after a long battle in the editing room to get it down to 2 hours 45.
The tone shifts from slapstick comedy, to whimsical romance, to a very dark and violent revenge flick.
Paralyzed during a attack in which his wife was killed, a man receives an A.I. implant that offers an experimental cure and allows him to pursue violent revenge.
John Ford was the last candidate imagined to tell the dark tale of a Civil War Veteran who exorcises his demons in violent revenge, but The Searchers inevitably became one of the true treasures of its genre.
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.
Year: 1990 Lamer Alternate Title: Iron Thunder Plot: When a satanist is killed by a motorcycle gang in the midst of summoning an evil spirit, the entity inhabits a nearby motorbike that sets out to gain violent revenge on the gang.
After rising to fame with violent revenge features El Mariarchi and Desperado, cultivating a cult audience with horror comedy From Dusk till Dawn, and helming a segment of anthology effort Four Rooms alongside Quentin Tarantino, his ability to create entertainment for younger viewers had not crossed many minds.
After seeing concept art and a couple of still shots from Patrick Lussier «s Drive Angry, I started to wonder if the film might be the sort of action film that few filmmakers seem to get right these days — a dirty, slightly weird, possibly quite violent revenge story.
While some films like I Spit On Your Grave and the Death Wish movies arguably exploit the rape scene as something titillating for male viewers, even the more tasteful ones beg the question: Is violent revenge really the empowering follow - up to a sex crime?
The tone of creeping dread and fixation on violent revenge recalls Taxi Driver, last year's X-Men shoot - em - up Logan, and Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive or Only God Forgives; there should be nothing new to see here.
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.
And yet the text also includes disturbing details: a young virgin drafted into a harem with hundreds of other women to be used at the perverse discretion of a powerful and impulsive king, a queen deposed for refusing to flaunt her body before a room of drunken men, ethnic tensions and violence, a genocidal plot, an impaling, and an ending that depicts with some detachment the violent revenge of the Jews.
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.
With a powerhouse cast and an anaemic script, this violent revenge thriller never quite gets off the ground.
Whether it's the gothic overtones of Stoker, the supernatural horror of Thirst, the surreal technological dreams of I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK, or the violent revenge of Oldboy and the rest of the Vengeance Trilogy, the South Korean director specialises in drawing real emotion out of outlandish fantasies.
Masculinity, tortured and wounded, is clearly the meat on which Nicolas Winding Refn likes to gnaw, but he's salivating over the subject a little too ridiculously with his latest feature, the violent revenge drama Only God Forgives.