A swath of videos titled “Why Action Movies Suck” have been buzzing around the Internet for the past few years. They have discussed surface details of some of the practical and obvious reasons why so many big time action movies released over the past few years have been such a massive disappointment.
Writing, directing, post-production and executive interference are all aspects that affect the final quality of an action film. However, the most important and most overlooked aspect of action films that plays a huge role in the quality of an action movie is the stunt aspect. In action movies, stunt performers are often responsible for as much if not more of the film than the actors. Every time you see Spiderman with his mask on, chances are you
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However, great action is far more complicated than great acting. Movie fans understand great acting comes from great actors. Great action, on the other hand, comes from the collaboration of a team of great filmmakers. The director, producers, director of photography, stunt coordinator, actors, stunt performers, editors and VFX team all play a part in making great action. Bad action happens when these positions are not filled with the best filmmakers available or when the filmmakers do not get the time, money and talent they need to bring their vision to …show more content…
However, millions of movie fans are complaining about bad action movies. Bad action takes away from a film just as much as bad acting, but the studios have no system in place to protect movie fans from bad action.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was created with for this has served as a nucleus of quality control for American Actors and Filmmakers since it was established in in 1927. At that time, the Art & Science of stunts had not evolved to the point where it required an Oscar. However times have changed and the industry has evolved. Award winning films like “The Revenant” and “Mad Max: Roads of Fury” use stunts and action as a fundamental element to their success. If, but until they create a Stunt Oscar, Action Movie Fans will be stuck with the leftovers.
As long as there is not an Oscar for Best Stunt Work, Line Producers will continue to work without proper accountability in place. The reason there is so much bad action in today's market is no one is held accountable for the quality of the action in a film. Other than a select group of smart directors and producers (JJ Abrams, Stephen Spielberg, Alejandro Gonzales Inararritu to name a few), filmmakers don't fight for the team and resources they need to make their action
Most people are likely to relate Hollywood with money. If a person lives in the Hollywood area, people assume she or he is probably rich. If she or he is a Hollywood movie star, the person probably makes a lot of money. Therefore, to follow that line of thought, when Hollywood producers make a movie, they make it just for money. And some filmmakers do seem to make films only for the money the movies will earn. The action movie "Die Hard", the fantasy movie "Star Wars", and the adventure movie "Jurassic Park" are examples of exciting movies that were made just for the money by satisfying the audiences' appetite for escapism.
What components make a movie successful in cinema? Filmmakers have crafted a formula to successfully deliver the hero narrative. This formula consists of the hero’s journey and archetypes. Hero films typically follow a ten-step sequence to properly set up and execute the hero’s journey. These movies range from stories of transformations, searches, or a journey back home. Archetypes are used to employ character profile as well as add variety and depth to these stories. Ridley Scott directed Alien, in which Ellen Ripley embarks on a journey where she must survive an alien who is out on a murderous rampage and return back to Earth. Alien adds originality to its storyline by choosing a female lead instead of a male, but the film still incorporates the same heroic attributes that make a story successful. In this “going home journey” film, Scott is able to incorporate the hero’s journey and the official hero archetype towards the heroine Ellen Ripley.
Even though there is a great amount of audience participation, one really has to turn your attention to the actors in the movie. It takes a special kind of person to really understand the movie they are in.
Erving Goffman, the author of “The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.” said “the individual will act so that he intentionally or unintentionally expresses himself and the others will in turn have to be impressed in some way by him.” (Ichheiser 1949, 6-7). The key word in this quote that will help us understand what Goffman means by “performance” is the word act. When you go to the theater or the movies you watch
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The bread-and-butter of the film industry is the action movie. Each summer, audiences can expect to see car chases, gunfights and explosions, and studios can expect to see millions and millions of dollars in return. Though most viewers and critics see these movies as "fluff" entertainment (and rightfully so), there is one director that puts as much heart and soul into his "fluff" as any number of talented directors put into their "serious" movies. His name is John Woo. Even though you may not have heard about him, he is widely considered to be "the best contemporary director of action films working anywhere."
In Hollywood today, most films can be categorized according to the genre system. There are action films, horror flicks, Westerns, comedies and the likes. On a broader scope, films are often separated into two categories: Hollywood films, and independent or foreign ‘art house’ films. Yet, this outlook, albeit superficial, was how many viewed films. Celebrity-packed blockbusters filled with action and drama, with the use of seamless top-of-the-line digital editing and special effects were considered ‘Hollywood films’. Films where unconventional themes like existentialism or paranoia, often with excessive violence or sex or a combination of both, with obvious attempts to displace its audiences from the film were often attributed with the generic label of ‘foreign’ or ‘art house’ cinema.
The motion picture industry is just like any other industry and to be successful it must turn a profit on the movies it creates and produces. Everyone loves movies and the motion picture industry does everything in its power to produce movies that will bring in millions of dollars in profits. The motion picture industry has created high grossing movies such as Spider-Man 3 with a total gross of $336,530,303 as well as flops such as Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure, which only brought in $23,746,066. Diving into descriptive statistics we are able to compare the 5-number summary, mean, mode, range, and standard deviation for the opening gross, total gross, theaters, and number of weeks for the 100 item sample taken from the 300-400 movies produced.
A good movie has many factors for it to be a great. Movies can end up being terrible or great depending on how well these factors are done. In my opinion the factors that make up a good move is a good story , an interesting cast of characters , and a very good and satisfying ending. A good movie needs these factors so that the movie can be memorable and enjoyable. Though if all of this is done in a wrong way the movie will be forgotten and will probably make you want your money back. These are the factors and they should be used as guidelines whenever someone is making a movie.
So either it can have a political agenda or religion but most action movies are simply about violence. So out af all the genere's this is the one in my opinion can be a blockbuster without any serious plot about any realsociety,polital or even remote moral to the story other than watching well coregraphed stunts and computer grapphics. Now some of the other genere's i mentionened romance, thrillers, and science fiction . I find is almost near impossible to make without some sort of plot with the above essayès major point of polital religion society problems as whole put into their plots period nevermind a blockbuster so i definatels disagree these generes witch maybe not impossible woulod be extremely difficult.
This is different between American and Asia cultures, when I readied a thesis I found the answer. In Asia human don’t like actors just have one character. Sometime human wants actors could be good or bad guys. Actors also want has succeeded in any role that there played in films, yet in American, human like role relationship, connects the add-in to extensibility object model. For example, Johnny" Depp II connects Jack or Robert Downey connects IRON MAN. The image communication is success. This is why “heroism" topic films are always well-received, and superhero films are so popular. The ideas are different State and Asia. From what has been discussed above, we may reasonably arrive at the conclusion that heroism, those heroes may not real, but those films make people have hope and a hero is always near
I viewed the Man of Steel Movie Commentary by John Campea, Kristian Harloff, Mark Ellis and John Schnepp. As they watched the entire film, they made comments, critiques and comparisons throughout the film which further developed my understanding of the film. Throughout this paper, I will discuss what I’ve learned by watching this movie commentary and how this commentary furthered by knowledge regarding the movie Man of Steel.
The drastic decline of moviegoers is a major concern for the film industry. It's quite shocking that so few people watch movies in theaters anymore. To put it in perspective, Jay Epstein mentioned that "in 1948, 65%, (90 million Americans) of the population watched movies compared to only 10 percent of today's population (30 million Americans)"(Epstein 1). The box office in 2005 has significantly declined in the third quarter by about 7% compared to 2004 and by about 10% in admissions (CNN Entertainment 1). Even though people still watched big budget films like Spiderman 2 and Star Wars, films don't seem to draw people into the theaters anymore.
Action films contain lots of physical stunts, chase scenes, rescues, fights, humour, destructive disaster (Explosions, floods, fires, natural hazards), escapes, and non-stop action. People expect the stunts when they come to see an action film, because the stunts and fights are what make the film so popular. Action films are normally set in either popular cities or glamorous islands. I watched a film to see if it fitted the expectations of what id expect from a typical action film, the film I watched was twister. Twister doesn't fit the expectations of an action film entirely, it is different to what I would expect from an action film, however it does
In an age where popular entertainment is apparently guided by the maxim "more is better" (see the body count in any popular "action thriller") and "special effects" dominate,