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Post by Popeye Doyle on Apr 14, 2018 13:40:10 GMT
Was watching Total Recall Thursday. Here's something you wouldn't see in a Marvel movie - our hero using a meat shield on an escalator or Iron Man blasting Pepper's head off - "Consider it a divorce."
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Post by sostie on Apr 14, 2018 14:51:03 GMT
Why the comparison? There were plenty of action films around then that had the same level of violence as a Marvel movie, as there are plenty of actions films now that have the same level of violence as Total Recall
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Apr 14, 2018 15:00:19 GMT
Why the comparison? There were plenty of action films around then that had the same level of violence as a Marvel movie, as there are plenty of actions films now that have the same level of violence as Total Recall One man is born a hero, his brother a coward. Babies starve, politicians grow fat. Holy men are martyred, and junkies grow legion. Why? Why, why, why, why, why? Luck! Blind, stupid, simple, doo-dah, clueless luck! |
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Post by Captain Spencer on Apr 14, 2018 15:51:44 GMT
I agree, they just don't make 'em like they used to.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Apr 14, 2018 16:03:30 GMT
I think for the better. 80's action was borderline caricature exaggeration... would not fly with today's action lane.
Quentin Tarantino if you want it, of course he wraps his action sequences around high drama & comedy.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Apr 14, 2018 16:08:23 GMT
I think for the better. 80's action was borderline caricature exaggeration... would not fly with today's action lane.  |
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Post by rateater on Apr 14, 2018 16:14:24 GMT
i keep them all in my life very close to me in bluray form
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Post by sdrew13163 on Apr 14, 2018 18:01:50 GMT
Me too. They were so damn enjoyable, which is kind of weird to say. They had balls at least.
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Apr 14, 2018 19:42:59 GMT
Was watching Total Recall Thursday. Here's something you wouldn't see in a Marvel movie - our hero using a meat shield on an escalator or Iron Man blasting Pepper's head off - "Consider it a divorce."
i feel you, they aren't making em anymore like that. My fav action film of old is Robocop. The Marvelization and Disneyfication of cinema is an issue, but the adult blockbuster is not totally dead. Not even in the CBM genre, last years Logan was amazingly gory and a deep psychological drama and profitable (technically a Marvel film too, but of course not from Disney-Marvel but Fox who now sold to Disney...). Also, we got a resurgence of good, intelligent horror, it's a pattern, some of them successful like Quiet Place, but some like Annihilation. |
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Post by Marv on Apr 14, 2018 19:46:02 GMT
I think movies like John Wick and Atomic Blonde have brought some of that back. Different for the times but still pretty intense gunfights and sequences.
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Post by Eλευθερί on Apr 14, 2018 22:46:17 GMT
^ and that clip doesn't even show the scene where the guy gets castrated and crucified ...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2018 23:03:11 GMT
Was watching Total Recall Thursday. Here's something you wouldn't see in a Marvel movie - our hero using a meat shield on an escalator or Iron Man blasting Pepper's head off - "Consider it a divorce."
Why do you like violence so much? |
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Post by johnspartan on Apr 14, 2018 23:32:01 GMT
I think for the better. 80's action was borderline caricature exaggeration... would not fly with today's action lane. Quentin Tarantino if you want it, of course he wraps his action sequences around high drama & comedy.  |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Apr 14, 2018 23:43:37 GMT
And along with the violence, the heroes were more courteous.
So in Total Recall, Arnie tossed Michael Ironside his missing arms and said,
See you at the party Richter!
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Post by politicidal on Apr 15, 2018 1:50:41 GMT
I think movies like John Wick and Atomic Blonde have brought some of that back. Different for the times but still pretty intense gunfights and sequences. That plus Deadpool, Mad Max: Fury Road, and The Raid movies. It's slowly coming back. |
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Apr 15, 2018 2:00:59 GMT
I think movies like John Wick and Atomic Blonde have brought some of that back. Different for the times but still pretty intense gunfights and sequences. That plus Deadpool, Mad Max: Fury Road, and The Raid movies. It's slowly coming back. Fucking Dredd, man! |
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Post by politicidal on Apr 15, 2018 2:01:52 GMT
That plus Deadpool, Mad Max: Fury Road, and The Raid movies. It's slowly coming back. Fucking Dredd, man! Thought there was one missing. |
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