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Old 01-26-2018, 03:17 PM   #47761 (permalink)
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They definitely can be (example: the bear mauling scene in The Revenant), but they lose their power for me when they're put into a ****ty context of a film.
I guess we just have irreconcilable differences then. There's a magic to a properly choreographed action scene (of any sort) that connects on a primal level. There's a sort of rhythm that's much like a well-executed metal or hardcore song that just drags you along and "hits" at the right spots in the right manner to feel like a dance or something. Kind of hard to explain just like how a Slayer song is hard to explain in how the inertia and violence connects with you.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 01-26-2018, 03:18 PM   #47762 (permalink)
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Since 1993..... Once again, your reading comprehension skills are ****ed up.
What did I miss, that you like MMA? That just proves my point.

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Old 01-26-2018, 03:20 PM   #47763 (permalink)
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Agreed. It's generally a way to lionize troops, and by extension the military, but on a deeper level it's a way to indulge in our instincts to be Grecian heroes who gain glory by combat.
How does BOT4J do that? The scenes where the veterans are jumping every time the fireworks go off in the parade? The protests by the vets against the war? Cruise's mother refusing to believe he shot babies? How does that lionize troops? How is that anything but anti-war?
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Yes, stay away from golf courses. You don't want to associate with that ilk.
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Since 1993..... Once again, your reading comprehension skills are ****ed up.

The number of MMA fans I know is slightly larger than the number of times you've wanked off thinking about girls you'd never stand a chance with in the real world.
Once again Chula crosses the line. SPNL.
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Old 01-26-2018, 03:21 PM   #47764 (permalink)
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@Frownland (cause I'm honestly interested in how our approaches to action scenes differ)

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I guess we just have irreconcilable differences then. There's a magic to a properly choreographed action scene (of any sort) that connects on a primal level. There's a sort of rhythm that's much like a well-executed metal or hardcore song that just drags you along and "hits" at the right spots in the right manner to feel like a dance or something. Kind of hard to explain just like how a Slayer song is hard to explain in how the inertia and violence connects with you.
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How does BOT4J do that? The scenes where the veterans are jumping every time the fireworks go off in the parade? The protests by the vets against the war? Cruise's mother refusing to believe he shot babies? How does that lionize troops? How is that anything but anti-war?

They might grab you and make you one of them....

Once again Chula crosses the line. SPNL.
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Old 01-26-2018, 03:23 PM   #47766 (permalink)
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I guess we just have irreconcilable differences then. There's a magic to a properly choreographed action scene (of any sort) that connects on a primal level. There's a sort of rhythm that's much like a well-executed metal or hardcore song that just drags you along and "hits" at the right spots in the right manner to feel like a dance or something. Kind of hard to explain just like how a Slayer song is hard to explain in how the inertia and violence connects with you.
I don't disagree but a great action scene is not enough for me to get behind a bad movie like Saving Private Ryan.
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a bad movie like Saving Private Ryan.
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How does BOT4J do that? The scenes where the veterans are jumping every time the fireworks go off in the parade? The protests by the vets against the war? Cruise's mother refusing to believe he shot babies? How does that lionize troops? How is that anything but anti-war?
I don't know what movie you're talking about so I can't say, but in general those movies, even the anti-war ones, often carry water for soldiers so that anti-war messages become pro-veteran messages, which encourage you to "support the troops", which puts it into your brain that you should support their wars as well. Not all war movies are like that obviously, and generally the ones that aren't are the more controversial, but in general if a war movie has a battle scene that can be described as "cool" then you should probably be leery of its intentions, even if the intended intentions aren't jingoistic.
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Old 01-26-2018, 03:27 PM   #47770 (permalink)
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Chula, I already know that you like all popular media. You can keep it to yourself now.
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