Atomic Blonde - Why oh why?

Atomic Blonde - Why oh why? Dec 21, 2017 12:30:49 GMT

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Post by joekiddlouischama on Dec 21, 2017 12:30:49 GMT

Dec 19, 2017 6:32:51 GMT @deblovesbeccy said:

Dec 18, 2017 8:15:06 GMT joekiddlouischama said:

While what you say about a female spy not dressing in that extremely sexy and stylish manner and not being able to physically triumph against men twice her size is undoubtedly correct, Nora, those aspects do not bother me because Atomic Blonde is hardly supposed to constitute a realistic espionage movie. Instead, the film is supposed to be a postmodern, stylized action-spy film that represents the cinematic translation of a graphic novel. In other words, the stylistic choices—while dubious or ridiculous from a realistic perspective—fit the film's tone, intentions, ambitions, and source material. Likewise, while I concur that the ending feels overextended or overwrought, it is unsurprising given the sub-genre.

Atomic Blonde is not supposed to be Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg, 2015) or The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Martin Ritt, 1965). Its ambitions are largely different, yet with a little more character development and thematic rigor, the movie could have proved that much better.

The problem with realism and female characters in Action movies is there are double standards when it comes to the portrayal of them and a male character in a Steven Seagal movie can walk into a room where they are surrounded by 20 men with guns and take all of them down in 5 seconds with his fists and nobody will say a word even though the movies are set in a realistic world and are meant to be realistic but the second a female character does something similar we have a particular group of people up in flames even when it is in a Sci Fi or Horror movie and that female character is half cyborg (as seen on the old 'Dark Matter' board) 'cause she is a woman. I could care less about realism in movies like this especially in the Spy/Action genre where most of them would be dead in 2 seconds if they were real. The amount of times James Bond has survived in movies and the things he has survived are unrealistic to say the least and it reminds me of the people who constantly whinged over the things Sydney Bristow did in 'Alias' but were always giving a free pass to Jack Bauer in '24' when both characters were unrealistic.

... very true; action movies in general over the last thirty years have utterly dispensed with the slightest concern for realism and what is humanly believable.