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Kids these days...

posted 4 years ago by SickSpazmoid (851)
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... lack taste for what not, but what angers me the most is their lack of taste in cinema.

What a borefest. Bland hero, bland villain, bland action (more reminiscent of kids playing cops and robbers), being over the top in unfunny and unbelievable ways... Nothing of this applies to John Wick, because it is very stylized, effective and living in its own universe - no need to sweat to suspend the disbelief.

Russians love to produce cringey imitations of old American action movies. Don't know how Ilya ended up making them for Hollywood, but his work is best suited for Mosfilm. Go home, Ilya.

The only two good scenes - the bus fight and the way he killed the bad guy.

5/10

[–] kukuxu (5409) 4 years ago

Russians love to produce cringey imitations of old American action movies.

That's true... but it's only part of the truth. The second part is that those imitations are becoming better than the current American action movies. With the exception of the John Wick franchise, modern American action movies are trash.

[–] SickSpazmoid (851) 4 years ago

You may have a point here. Even the American imitations, like The Expendables, are bad. Or I'm getting old.

[–] kukuxu (5409) 4 years ago

I don't think it's getting old. I've seen the John Wick ones 2-3 times, and that's not exactly classic cinema. When something is good, it's good, period.

But it's difficult to find anything good last years. You have some decent pop-corn flick here and there, like the Jumanji remake, but it's sad when you think that this Jumanji remake is the best that modern American cinema can offer. And the last Marvel ones have become CGI porn. When you need to oversaturate a movie with visual effects, that's not a good movie. These last ones are gonna age real bad.

[–] SickSpazmoid (851) 4 years ago

We agree on all that and so I may watch Jumanji. But looking at the demographic breakdown of the rating, it is not only kids. I guess the mass taste changed.

[–] kukuxu (5409) 4 years ago

The last Jumanji is an enjoyable movie. Don't expect anything amazing, though. The original one keeps being much better. But it's definitely above last years average.

I'm not sure the mass taste changed. It's just that there's nothing else. People crave how movies were done decades ago, that's why marketing keeps using nostalgia and why Hollywood keeps rebooting franchises.

[–] Kowalski (77019) 4 years ago

AS IT ALWAYS DOES..AS ONE GENERATION GROWS OLDER AND THE NEXT TAKE THEIR PLACE...IM 39...AS A LATE 80S/90S KID I LOVE ALL THE MOVIES INSPIRED BY STUFF I LIKED WHEN I WAS YOUNGER AND MADE BY PEOPLE OF SIMILAR AGE/MINDSET...MY FATHER IS 69 AND DISLIKES MOST OF THE SAME THINGS WITH THE SAME COMPLAINTS YOU GUYS DETAILED ABOVE.