I'm really sick of all these action movies....

[Jersey Domino]

Seriously it seems like every third movie that comes out nowadays is some overblown aciton movie with violence and explosions.

It's really just overkill at this point to me.

 

[talesofabyssjade]

 

[pat grimshaw]

I avoid them. I hate watching the trailers for them.
Everything is thud, THUD, thud!

 

[borg69unimatrix]

I got two words for you...

"Chick Flicks".

 

[pat grimshaw]

I got two words for you...
…"Chick Flicks".

No, my answer is 'No Flicks'.
I've been persuaded to see something at the cinema 4 times only since the beginning of 2010. Besides Gay Cinema is a niche market best found in the DVD store rather than at the multiplexes.

 

[blackbeltninja]

I like action movies

From 'Wanted'
This was a creative but not plausible way to kill a guy in a bullet proof limo ( with the sun roof open). The car flys into the air and somersaults sideways over the limo allowing the guy to shoot the bad guy thru the sunroof

You see, I love action movies too, but I hate this sort of thing. There is a way to make something wildly entertaining without resorting to absolute stupidity (the 3rd Bourne film is a perfect example). If you want this sort of bollocks, let's go for complete suspension of disbelief and put it in an aliens movie where we're willing to give you a bit more slack as far as insulting our intelligence goes.

This, xXx, The Transporter - that bomb under the car and him flipping the thing off a roof onto a swinging crane to hook the bomb off - please, spare me.

The chase scene on Matrix Reloaded was great. Great music. Some film flubs including trucks with no axles (sp)

Agreed. The rest of the film was pretty shit and made no sense (as with Revolutions), but this part was incredible.

-d-

 

[S60Turbo]

Just gimme a good story line, I'm pretty sick of em too.

 

[castoono]

Perhaps you don't drink enough beers meanwhile. But I see what you mean. Depends on the mood you are. It's like those all car chasing in American pictures? Why? Why can't I take my eyes off them?

 

[anchihiro]

If you're refering to the Jason Statham type action films, well its merely because there is a large demographic out there who eat that up.
Just as there is for every other genre, subgenre or hybrid.

 

[G-Lexington]

Judging by how well they seem to do in general, I'd say the rest of the world doesn't share your view.

I'm kind of with Pat. Except I simply don't go to the movies at all. The few times I want to sit and watch a two-hour film, I don't see the need to confine myself to the fifteen currently playing in theaters. There are a bazillion available for purchase, rent or download, and a good number of them are better than everything currently out.

Lex

 

[Dduder]

Seriously it seems like every third movie that comes out nowadays is some overblown aciton movie with violence and explosions.

It's really just overkill at this point to me.

Straight men are the largest demographic of movie-goers, so the movie industry catters to straight male tastes, and straight men like films with huge explosions and shootings. Just the way it is. It is the same reason why so many Broadway musicals and figure skating performances revolve around themes that interest gay guys and girls, since they are the largest demographic that attend these shows. Supply and demand and nothing more.

 

[CowboyBob]

What I'm tired of is all these action movies glorifying guns. The movie posters display an actor holding up a gun. Shooting someone isn't entertainment. I don't consider violence and brutality entertainment either.

 

[belamyi]

Shoot'em up is a comedy, like the Transporter and Crank series, and Snatch or RocknRolla. If I not only watch it, but I am ab-so-lu-te-ly delighted by it, it's not some "action" movie, or a "western" by the same token.
Anything from Chuckie Norries, Steve Seegull and Van Damn down to Veal Diesel, The Rockie and Blond Walker is a plain "action movie" with the old-fashioned fist-and-Bible morals behind it.
Martial arts movies are neither comedies nor action movies: they are something apart and unique in its own genre: they stem from a very particular cultural tradition, beyond cinema and movie genres. Martial arts novels are not "action novels".

 

[belamyi]

it's because of the international market.

a quirky, subtle comedy doesn't necessarily translate well into Mandarin and Russian.

Only if it is actually subtle enough, and not some wannabe subtle/intelligent/whatever comedy.
It's about formulae that would surely bring money mechanically, at home or/and internationally.