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Action movies will slways be enjoyable for me.
I still love them. I don't give a shit if I already know whats going to happen I love going on the ride.
First act:
Bad guy does bad stuff
story of good guy origin is told
(these can be switched in order)
Second Act:
Bad guy wins first battle generally killing unimportant side character/s
Good guy comes back to save the day and girlfriend or whatever who's apparently in the movie.
End.
If they don't follow the formula sometimes yeah.
Do you still enjoy summer fun action movie. I not really enjoy them any more. Every time the hero is in danger, you already know he is gonna get out of it and save the day. Movies like Die Hard,James Bond, Fast and Furious,etc. No matter what happens in the middles of the movie, you know its gonna work out in the end and the good guys win.
Braveheart isn't really a action flick. IMO. More of a history movie like Glory and The Alamo.
There is absolutely nothing historical about Braveheart other than a guy called William Wallace opposed the English and got hung, drawn and quartered for his troubles. Everything else in that movie is pure horseshit.
Where do you start? The Scots hadn't painted themselves like that for, ooh, a thousand years. They didn't wear kilts for another few hundred either.
The Scots who fought the English were not weren't even related to the Scots(if you can call them that) who painted themselves like that.
It's a three-act play.
As George Lucas so succinctly put it:
"In the first act, you introduce the characters. In the second act, they fall into a hole. In the third act, they get out. That's drama."
I can't deal with the excessive scene cuts and herky jerky in the scene camera. It's so damn manipulative and easy and utterly impossible to watch. The odd film comes along that isn't bad, but the big block-buster action flicks are generally awful.
I prefer mystery and or action/drama films that have some thought and plot to them.
The biggest thing these movies are getting wrong IMO is the camera-work. There doesn't need to be so much activity and motion and moving parts. The audience doesn't need to be force-fed this hyperactive angst. We don't need close-up face-shots of the actors and actresses all the time. Any fixation on one part of a film eventually detracts from the whole. Longer unbroken camera-shots. Camera a little further back. Less hyperactivity. All would save a lot of movies.
I liked Drive - one of the better action/dramas I've seen in awhile. The Next Three Days was good too. But the classic action blockbuster of today offends all senses for the most part. Unbelievable, noisy, pretentious, lacking humanness, did I say noisy?