Word: villainization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third guy looks up from his PC and says, "Computers!" So half of the pictures either have someone laboriously logging on or, as in Speed 2, hand the villain a Mighty Morphin PowerBook as his tool of terror...
Male movie stars didn't always have to act like commandos to assert their machismo. How many bad guys did Clark Gable or Cary Grant kill in their careers as Hollywood heroes? Precious few, because life--even a villain's life--was held more precious then. Maybe the old movies were naive, but we'll take naivete over the thoughtless, numberless carnage that makes the modern action film a Bosnia for fun and profit...
...first adventure, Vanishing Act (1995), Whitefield sleeps with the villain, supposing him to be the good guy. In the current novel, however, Whitefield does the unthinkable: she marries a nice, decent doctor she has known for years. He's real, not a villain, but suddenly he is the target of a female hit person who uses nakedness as deep disguise. Will...
...Award-winning actor seems a stretch as an action star. With his stubbly beard and stringy hair, he looks like either Jesus with a grudge or the guy who stares at kids from the other side of a schoolyard fence. Then, an hour into the film, Poe finds a villain rifling his effects, including a furry toy bunny he bought for the daughter he's never seen. "Put the bunny back in the box," he whispers with slow righteousness--and he flashes the Stare That Kills. When the thug demurs, Poe brutally dispatches him, and on the way out says...
...murdered his wild brother Boyd. The author does his impressive best to make this believable, writing a drunk scene in which Virgil sprawls on his back in the night woods and stares at the Milky Way. Virgil sobers up and, as efficiently as a spy-story villain, creates an elaborate false identity for himself, kills his man and drives off to Montana...