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Early Access: Why All Action Movies Look the Same Now (Patreon)

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2024-02-25 18:01:28
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Why All Action Movies Look the Same Now

Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Try Ground News today and get 30% off your subscription by going to https://ground.news/likestoriesofold Help me make more videos! Support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/LikeStoriesofOld Leave a One-Time Donation: https://www.paypal.me/TomvanderLinden Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LikeStoriesofOld Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tom.vd.linden Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tom_LSOO About this video essay: A critical video essay analyzing the state of modern action cinema. Content: 00:00 The Aesthetics of Modern Action 01:48 Towards an Objective Ideal 05:53 The Problem with Previsualization 08:28 The Rise of Second Unit Directing 13:17 Lessons from Last Year’s Best Fight Scene 15:49 The Ever-Importance of Storytelling 19:00 Concluding Thoughts Further Reading: Like Stories of Old – The Complete Reading List: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/reading-list 10 Books that changed my life: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-books-that-changed-my-life 10 More books that inspired my thinking: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-more-books-that-inspired-my-thinking My Camera Gear: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/my-travel-camera-gear Media included: 1917, Alex Cross, Ant-Man Quantumania, Atomic Blonde, Avengers Infinity War + Endgame, Baby Driver, Birds of Prey, Black Panther, Black Widow, Bullet Train, Captain America Winter Soldier + Civil War, Casino Royale, Children of Men, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Daredevil, Deadpool 2, Die Hard, Echo, Extraction 1 + 2, Fast Five, Fast X, Gladiator, Hanna, Hard Boiled, Heat, Hitman Agent 47, John Wick 1-4, Kate, Kingsman The Secret Service, Mission Impossible Fallout + Dead Reckoning, No Time to Die, Oldboy, Parker, Police Story, RRR, Saving Private Ryan, Silent Night, Skyfall, Spectre, Suicide Squad, Taken 1 + 3, Terminator 2, The Accountant, The Bourne Identity, The Expendables 2, The Defenders, The Gray Man, The Hunger Games, The Killer, The Matrix, The Raid 1 + 2, The Wolverine, True Detective, Venom Business inquiries: lsoo@standard.tv Say hi: likestoriesofold@gmail.com Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself: https://fm.pxf.io/c/3532571/1347628/16252

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Solipsist Cinema

Man I LOVE hearing you talk about action scenes and the spectacle overall. You edit the fight clips together in a really sick way too. What’s your thoughts on them making a best stunt person category for The Oscars?

Julie Arp

Excellent, Tom. As I get older, I harken back to action films as a kid, particularly the Bruce Lee films. It was always less of the over-the-top action, and more the charisma of the action star. I still look to that with say, the "John Wick" series, although that just became more and more ridiculous, albeit enjoyable. "RRR" and "Bullet Train" were also those types of film that just went FAR above and beyond while managing to be enjoyable. Your discussion here is likely why I really don't lean toward action films much anymore. It's been done and as fans we need MORE and MORE insanity to remain engaged at times, because we have "seen it all". CGI has also changed this a great deal, esp looking at "Justice League" among others. A great fight seen is one thing, but action for the sake of it's extremism is less appealing. That or films that add elements for the shock value seem to be the rare way to get attention anymore.