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I absoluetely agree.CGI action is very boring. The last 30-minutes of Wonder Woman were definitely the weakest and a reason that I will never watch it again.
That's a hard judgement. I think WW is more than just its final 30 minutes. IMO, it's a film that keeps giving.
Chainmail which doesn't function as armour.
In contrast with what Hollywood films show you, chainmail was not easily penetrated by swords. If it was, people wouldn't have worn it. It wouldn't protect against concussive force damage, but most cutting edges wouldn't go through it - not most swords, and certainly not your standard dagger. There were daggers designed to pop open chainmail rings, but they don't look like normal daggers.
Axes, I understand, could be pretty effective against it, and war-picks, war-hammers and maces, and lances with the force of a horse behind them; but when you see a guy in a film casually slide a blade across the belly of someone wearing chainmail and it draws blood... no.
I get why it's done and respect that sometimes you need to suspend your disbelief and go with an iconic visual, but really, if you need a character to stab a chainmail-wearing guard with a little dagger, choreograph it so they go for exposed areas like they would have done in those days.
I'm a medievalist myself and the amount of absurdities and inaccuracies in "medieval" movies is just appalling. About the chainmail, getting rid of one is actually a plot point in the play Lorenzaccio by Alfred de Musset.
Maybe they do it with a eye to merchandising? A villain action figure in a box. Yours today for only $79.99
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But of course!
Oh, and another one I've noticed lately, though it's not necessarily new to film or television, and that's lazy, lazy exposition that's explaining something anyone with half a brain could've already pieced together with context clues or blunt evidence shown on screen.
The one thing I'm most tired of seeing in movies is the headline:
NEXT JAMES BOND MOVIE DELAYED.
Agreed, but this is far from new as you say.It s been with us for ages.
Sad but true. It just feels so prevalent these days, though perhaps it's due to how many generic, forgettable Netflix (and other streaming) titles I've been watching in my free time.
On a more serious note, I think it's done for visual practicality: the villain is thus easy to see and they don't have to cut back and forth between the actors. Also it allows the villain to retain some menace even I'm custody. That trope is at least 20 years old. The earliest example I can think of is with Magneto in the X-Men movie, bit I'm sure there are earlier examples. Back then I thought the plastic jail was a super cool idea.
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They should just get rid of the "villain gets captured" trope for a while. Except maybe, maybe, MAYBE at the end of a movie.
Too right, that's fine with me - like Mission: Impossible. When it's happening in the first or second act, it's already clear they'll be escaping that box eventually.
They might as well give them the key.
Scarlett Johansson being called a great actress when she only has three at most facial expressions. And stealing roles meant for other ethnic people. For me, she and her career are an example of everything wrong with Hollywood right now.
Movies being politically motivated and bent by their makers, when they don’t need to be.
"Your left! No, your other left!"
Was funny the first time, the 56th not so much.
And they say "the old ones are the best". Oh, the cheek of them!
I love his role in Parks and Rec.
It's the new normal I'm afraid.