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you can guess from the title of this rant, I have some issues
with The Matrix. It’s not just that Keanu Reeves is
the worst big name actor in Hollywood. If you surround him
with enough talent, he can be watchable. My problem is that
after The Matrix, every movie tried to be The Matrix.
In the Matrix, or other such sci-fi/fantasy movies, it makes
sense that the characters perform such superhuman feats.
But does anybody really believe that DMX can run up a wall
as he did in Cradle 2 The Grave? The matrix ruined the Kung
Fu movie drama. No actors need to do fight scenes anymore;
computers will do it for them.
Why
are Charlie’s Angels doing flipping spinning kicks?
I’d rather watch Shaolin Vs Lama, or even The Last
Dragon (Sho’nuff!) where the fighting looks more like
actual martial arts than the Cirque De Soliel stuff we’re
force fed in action movies these days. If a character doesn’t
have super powers, they shouldn’t be floating &
kicking the crap out of everybody. Bruce Lee didn’t
float. Neither did Sonny Chiba.
Computer effects are interesting, but they take away from
hands on innovation. Horror movies now use tons of computer
effects, but it was more intriguing when Tom Savini would
use sawdust & corn syrup to make intestines fall out
of a zombie. The filmmakers of the world have gotten computer
crazy. It doesn’t differentiate 1 movie from another.
Now all horror movies look the same & why the fuck are
so many of them PG-13?
Maybe the blood, guts & fighting in films needs to go
retro. Throw some pig entrails on the set & kick a stuntman
in the yambag. If studio execs don’t like the latter,
remind them how much money Jackass made & watch them
change their tune on nutshots.
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