[ SECRET POST #3946 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3946 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I don't agree personally but, I mean, I'm obviously not going to come out here and tell you that you like the wrong action movies. It's an aesthetic preference.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, you're not along. (But I still enjoy the aerial ballet of wire-fu.)

Plus, those horse-riding stunts had actual people doing actual crazy things on horses, if that helps.

[nightscale]

If the characters doing the crazy-impossible stunts are superhuman or superpowered in some way I'm good with it, because none of it is real anyway. When the characters are regular humans is where it might break my suspension of disbelief, but even then if I'm enjoying it I can probably just roll with the silly.

[ketita]

For me it depends on the type of movie. Some movies have superpowered characters, some movies aren't really trying to be realistic, and some are. It only bothers me when the movie doesn't calibrate my expectations correctly, and I think it's more realistic and then they pull some kind of ridiculous stunt out of nowhere.
John Wick, for example, wasn't realistic in the least, but you could tell right off the bat that was its shtick, so I just rolled with it and had fun.

[supermanda]

Watch Martial Arts films tbh

[soldatsasha]

I definitely prefer very realistic stuff. I don't like many action movies because of this. But whether or not it totally takes me out of the movie depends on how stupid I think the stunt looks. The lobby gun-fu scene in the Matrix, for example, didn't bother me at all. Thor flying around doesn't bother me. But I saw a gifset of this scene and was like "ugh" because it looks super fucking dumb.

I think it just has to do with a certain amount of weight a character should be throwing around? Or maybe just.... if the action makes sense in the context of the scene? idk

[tabaqui]

I dunno...it depends, for me. If they can make is smooth and and 'correct' re: gravity, how people and clothing move, etc., I'm okay with it. But i hate it when they don't really have that bit down (see - some of Legolas' stuff in the LoTR movies; he looked like a cut out).

I sort of get that.

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes I'm fine with it depending on context, but sometimes the context doesn't seem to matter and my mind just goes nope - like with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

[esteefee]

That move was as dope af and I think I screamed.

[(Anonymous)]

For me it depends. I don't mind the flying around in wuxia films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or Hero, because that's the style. Ditto Jackie Chan's movies. Over the top violence like the infamous scene in Kingsman doesn't bother me, either. I'm more inclined for forgive ridiculous gun violence in general. But for some reason I have a harder time getting past silly stunt fights that involve swords or older technology. The Amazon battle in Wonder Woman, for example I kept thinking... if you were to leap off the cliff with a rope tied around your waist, you'd just end up snapping your spine in two, not swinging gracefully while firing arrows. Or that fight scene in Troy where Brad Pitt does the slow-motion air stabbing... oh, I hated that and thought it looked ridiculous, even in the context of that movie.

[ninety6tears]

It definitely goes overboard sometimes. None of those action scenes in WW worked for me.

[(Anonymous)]

Pfftt, I couldn't have grown up in Asia if I thought like this. I mean, a gritty, bloody, close-quartered fisticuff done well is a fantastic thing to witness on screen, but the moment the faintest whiff of magic/supers drifts into a movie that expectation goes out the window. Wuxia inoculated me well against failure of suspension of disbelief.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm, I guess I like a good power scene, and I can agree that doing moves that are completely impractical can take away from it. I'm a martial artist, and I definitely take less seriously moves that I know are... not just impractical, but actually counterproductive?

On the other hand, I absolutely love lots of wuxia stuff, or similar artistic martial arts/fighting scenes. Like if humans were 100% more graceful and powerful, what would their moves look like? And flying kung fu and stuff, a la Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and such, is my absolute favorite.

[(Anonymous)]

As long as it's not bad CGI, I'm good with the most ridiculous of stunts. For reference, I just watched XXX: Return of Xander Cage & the only highly improbably move I didn't wholeheartedly cheer on was the motorcycles on the water because it just looked bad.