Austin Editorial

Movies

Remember back in the good old days where action movies were more than just special effects and explosions where the character wasn’t just an unstoppable bad ass, he had heart you can tell he was scared like for example in die hard Bruce Willis is put in an impossible situation and is scared the whole time and you have a sense that he could die any second but action movies these days are just plot less piles of crap full of explosions and car chases, and the directors of this trash are praised for it, when a mentally impaired chimp could direct just as good if not better than some of these directors (cough Michael Bay cough). Now there going with the whole 3d thing which is also ridiculous because a movie can have a plot done a thousand times and the only reason why people go to see it is because its in 3d in my opinion there just exploiting the lack of intelligence of America let alone the world because the plot of nearly every action movie is just becoming the same Oh my god!! He’s got a gun!! (Gun shots) (Stereo typical quote from a minority) get him!!! Kind of movie and it’s ridiculous I mean I enjoy the older movies like that don’t get me wrong because they were for the most part original and you could tell that the they had somewhat of a plot because in fact they had too because of the lack of special effects but now with all this green screen it’s more like people just going” Ooooooooooh ahhhhhhhh” for 90 min and I don’t think that’s right. For example I saw transformers directed by none other than Michael Bay and I liked it for the most part because they had a plot because they were explaining all the information about how they got there, why they were there blah blah blah so you can actually follow some kind of story line. Then we have the second transformers which had the story line that a 3 year old could follow and that’s because there wasn’t one, it was just one explosion right after another and all I heard when that movie was over (watched it in theaters) was “those special effects were so awesome!!” and I was sitting there wondering when the movie was going to come on. In all fairness I can sit there and watch a dumb action movie with no plot every once in awhile especially if it has a cool concept but when every single movie is like that it makes me want to chain a crappy director to a uncomfortable chair (Michael Bay) and make them watch die hard, saving private Ryan, hell even star wars had a more complex plot then most movies these days. Sometimes I think it is are faults in some ways I mean what reason do we give people who make, direct, and star in movies to think that we are intelligent enough to like and understand movies with thought, good dialogue and a creative plot I mean every week we poor money into the hands of these crappy movie makers to make more crappy movies. But I’m just hoping within the next year or two a director, writer or somebody takes the initiative to make an intelligent movie that could possibly turn this whole crappy movie trend around. And don’t think I’m talking about all movies because I’m not. The focus of this is on action movies and not all action movies are crap there are some exceptions…………………. just most of them are steaming piles.