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I can't be the only one who would like to see movies made with realistic stunts.
I totally lose interest when the movie completely loses touch with reality. The fight scene where two guys (or better yet, a man and a woman) beat on each other with crowbars for 5 minutes until the victor finally walks away seemingly unscathed. Or jumping from an elevated freeway, 80 feet onto a moving truck. Car jumps where they sail over multiple other vehicles, and maybe a building or two, only to land and keep driving.
Let's have some realistic explosions, rather than the giant fireball gas bombs that are always used.
I think that realistic stunts would make a scary movie much scarier.
BTW, the rest of my family would probably disagree. The more hokey the stunts, the better they seem to like the movie.
I totally lose interest when the movie completely loses touch with reality. The fight scene where two guys (or better yet, a man and a woman) beat on each other with crowbars for 5 minutes until the victor finally walks away seemingly unscathed. Or jumping from an elevated freeway, 80 feet onto a moving truck. Car jumps where they sail over multiple other vehicles, and maybe a building or two, only to land and keep driving.
Let's have some realistic explosions, rather than the giant fireball gas bombs that are always used.
I think that realistic stunts would make a scary movie much scarier.
BTW, the rest of my family would probably disagree. The more hokey the stunts, the better they seem to like the movie.
I also enjoy putting on an older movie pre cgi. There is something enjoyable just watching actors act and directors direct. And the story stands on its own.
A lot of movies now a days have such terrible story line that it needs the cgi to make it remotely watchable.
But I’m with you, when the stunts or effects go so beyond the physics of reality then it just makes me tune it out.
There are many examples but one recent one is towards the end of the last Terminator movie that came out. There is an underwater fight scene. So you have this pretty much unstoppable terminator and this very unassuming girl with no experience or training and they are fighting underwater as a car she is riding in is sinking.
I get shampoo in my eyes taking a shower. Can you imagine having no underwater skills and fighting off a seemingly unstoppable terminator robot. And do all this under water???
Well she did it and won. Amazing....
Yeah, I see the point!
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Now the time travel stuff....
The Shop
Personally, I'd rather get a root canal than watch one of those.
This. This will never be beaten.
Then you take something on the opposite end of the scale like this that was created through practical effects and stuntman (athletes), careful camera work and choreography etc - and it's visually gripping from start to finish, even out of context to the story.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0dxtiOqK8qg
That's what I loved about Varsity Blues, it was all practical, we didn't use any CGI on that. Just good script, good acting, and good direction. And Editing.
Hes got this sweet Bob Hannah'esque leather riding suit, hot girlfriend with a premo rack and afro and did all kinda cool stunts on his bike. And even when he crashed on the Loop-de-Loop, he got up and walked away like a boss.
https://youtu.be/wkPD1_giwgY
Richard Roundtree was the coolest cat ever.
just say'n
https://youtu.be/tP7eCNlc3kY
The suspension back then ain't what it is today.
BS. Dude has pure balls to make this work
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