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mechaiineramen t1_jeci13r wrote

Reply to Double standards: Men will say skinny women beating up men is unrealistic but they'll accept goofy looking men beating up 10 men all at once and surviving deep falls. by Lili_Danube

People DO accept female action stars. It just depends on the movie. Kate Beckinsale did her Underworld shit just fine. Michel Yeoh did a ton of movies in Hong Kong. Uma did it in Kill Bill. Angie did it in Tomb Raider. It's all about the TONE.

Nobody thinks the Indy films are serious. Nobody thinks the female action star movies are serious either. So if you go and make a dead serious movie where a guy falls out if a plane and survives using a boat or a girl kicks a massive dudes ass, yeah, nobody is gonna buy it.

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mechaiineramen t1_je8ptof wrote

Reply to How accurate was The Social Network by dothingsunevercould

Nobody knows truly. There WAS a girl Rooney Maras character was based on, and his blog posts were verbatim in the film but with her name changed. You can dig them up online. And then the time line of the actual shit happening in the company is fact you can look up. But the interpersonal shit is summized well by Rashida Jones at the end. And we will never know.

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mechaiineramen t1_jdgy522 wrote

Reply to comment by danielhol in The Sicario films, nothing comes close by danielhol

Bro, that's gjr ENTIRE POINT of Sicario. The whole movie is a morality tale and it's meant to bring up questions about the morality of the drug trade, how we police it, the illegality of it, questions about the CIA, about torture, about revenge, about working in the dark and answering to no one. All these things. That's why it's such a good movie made by a master director. You finding it boring says a lot about you and your ability to think about these things.

Benicio literally tortures someone for information and everyone around him is fine with it. You apparently are fine with it or don't wanna think about it. He murders an innocent wife and children and you are fine with it or dont wanna think about it, or how he hijacks a driver and murders him too. Or how all of that is sanctioned by the US Government and how the one person who knows it's fucked up in the movie is forced at gunpoint to sign off on it and say everything was fine and went according to plan.

You don't wanna think about that? It doesn't fit the film? That's what the film is about. That's the entire point. It's not some lame action film like the sequel and that's why the sequel sucks ass and has a 61% compared to Sicarios 92%.

And WE all don't know how things like this go on. Ask anybody. Your average person doesn't know about shit like this or want to admit it or really have any kind or clue. They might nod their head and agree with you if you bring it up but they don't actually grasp anything you're talking about. And that's why this movie was written. That's the entire point. It does a WAY better job of tackling those issues than the generic sequel.

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mechaiineramen t1_j9cw9v7 wrote

Reply to Do you think Steven Spielberg is too old to do anything groundbreaking? by ABCBA_4321

The dude invented the modern blockbuster. What more do you want from him? He has to revolutionize cinema AGAIN? He said in the making of Indiana Jones that he thought after Last Crusade that it was time to go grow yo and make more mature movies, which is sorta what he's been doing now. Why would he feel like he has anything to prove to go searching for some script and method of innovating the industry yet again so he can be hailed for doing so once more when all he wants to do is make the kind of films he wants to make? Remember, he didn't even want to make Indy 4 and clearly passed on Indy 5. He definitely gets offered every big movie in Hollywood before everyone else and passes, so what he wants to do is up to him.

Dude is still insanely sharp. He doesn't even storyboard most of his shots. Just shows up and shoots. You can't fuck with Spielberg. This entire premise is stupid.

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