Thread "the world of action" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 10:07PM, Jul. 10, 2008

hollywood doest care about accuracy. As long as its entertaining and makes money.

I could just imagine hollywood showing a fight scene between two highly skilled combatants that ends in 10 seconds. Or a gunfight with soldiers mostly camping and trying to shoot at extremely long distances like those Iraq war footage thats up on youtube.

Posted at 12:07PM, Jul. 11, 2008

I love a movie that makes an effort to get it right. Look at Saving Private Ryan They bothered to get it right at the beginning and the end (the middle part is better forgotten) Band of Brothers, Blackhawk Down you can count them on your fingers. But you know what movie gets it right? Stripes I know because I lived it. ;)

Movies that get it wrong can be outrageously funny, like Rambo III. He's driving and shooting the guns on a tank he wouldn't be able to fit in. (so he's two places at once? You can't get from the driver's hole to the gunner position in a T-72, in a T-55 it's really, really hard like playing limbo where the bar is 6" above the ground)

Posted at 9:07PM, Jul. 11, 2008

I love a movie that makes an effort to get it right. Look at Saving Private Ryan They bothered to get it right at the beginning and the end (the middle part is better forgotten) Band of Brothers, Blackhawk Down you can count them on your fingers. But you know what movie gets it right? Stripes I know because I lived it. ;)

bill murray, that funny son of a gun….

i think you can count the movies that get it right, on one hand (documentaries excluded, as they're taped as it happens).

Posted at 4:07AM, Jul. 12, 2008

Movies that get it wrong can be outrageously funny, like Rambo III. He's driving and shooting the guns on a tank he wouldn't be able to fit in

That is funny ^_^
You don't have to be an expert to laugh at that one.

And shooting down a big fat French helicopter that was meant to be a Hind, with an arrow… Ah well, Stalone had good hair then :)

Posted at 7:07AM, Jul. 12, 2008

I have a totally dorky weakness for the melodramatic Chinese costume drama fights - wildly improbable action, swords, gorgeous clothing and beautiful cinematography. I once watched Hero three times on the same day. >.> There's something about the almost dance-like choreography that gets me - the fluid motion and everything.

Outside of the ridiculously over-the-top world of Chinese costume dramas, I prefer action that is realistic. I want the gritty stuff - the people whose hands hurt after they've punched someone in the face; guns that actually have a limited number of bullets and wounds that are actually wounds and therefore limit the characters' movement.

Posted at 6:07PM, Jul. 12, 2008

I like a lot of different kinds of action, but the more I think about it the more I'm realizing that I like action sequences that aren't just one big battle between two people. If two guys get in a fight, I tend to prefer if somebody goes down after a couple of shots instead of a long battle that basically equates to throwing super-powers at each other.

I like military action, if it's done well. Advancing through cover, flanking, cover fire, all that stuff. One guy charging through a field of machine-gun fire doesn't really do anything for me, but the tension of knowing that if a character pokes his head up at the wrong moment he might not come back down with it can make for a fantastic sequence. It doesn't have to be military, though, I like gun-fights in general.

I'm not especially fond of the over-the-top martial arts fights that have been popular lately. I miss the brawls of the old John Wayne westerns, where opportunism and a right hook were what won the fight.

Posted at 9:07PM, Jul. 13, 2008

straight up kung fu actions bone crushing combo and samurai sword slashing…….gun fignts are cool too

Posted at 4:07AM, Jul. 14, 2008

That Kid Yellow

Check this comic out. I think it's got everything you could possibly want in action!

http://www.drunkduck.com/Hexagon_Death_Squad/

Posted at 8:07PM, Jul. 14, 2008

I love all the fighting that took place during the Napoleonic Wars. If you have ever seen the Richard Sharpe series on BBC, its fantastic. The books are even better.
Horatio Hornblower is good too. My Kind of Hero is one that has a rifle and knows how to shoot it!

Posted at 9:07PM, Jul. 18, 2008

im kinda bored of watching fights in the sky

Posted at 7:07AM, Jul. 20, 2008

im kinda bored of watching fights in the sky

I'm kinda tired of wire-fu myself but battles in the sky are awesome. Not wire-fu but like the movies Battle of Britain or Memphis Belle

I love all the fighting that took place during the Napoleonic Wars. If you have ever seen the Richard Sharpe series on BBC, its fantastic. The books are even better.
Horatio Hornblower is good too. My Kind of Hero is one that has a rifle and knows how to shoot it!

At last someone else around here who likes Sharpe and Hornblower. I've also seen the movie Waterloo 100+ times. Not the Napoleonic wars but the same type of action: Gettysburg, Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)that also capture the spirit and action of 19th Century combat.

Posted at 5:07AM, Jul. 21, 2008

I love all the fighting that took place during the Napoleonic Wars. If you have ever seen the Richard Sharpe series on BBC, its fantastic. The books are even better.
Horatio Hornblower is good too. My Kind of Hero is one that has a rifle and knows how to shoot it!

Flashman is my 19thC hero ^_^
He SO bad >:)

Posted at 5:08PM, Aug. 5, 2008

I don't like action being too rigid.

Unless it's Capoera, fighting and dancing are very separate. With dancing you're much more in control. You don't know what somebody could pull on you in a fight.

There's plenty of times when I'm just sitting watching something. And somebody has an opening to strike but instead does some fancy swirling around. In a flash the suspense is gone and all you're left with is frustration.

That's what makes that scene from Indiana Jones where the guy swirls his swords about before getting shot down is so enjoyable.

No messing around. Every movement has a purpose. Unless you're just being arrogant or a show off. Then you deserve to lose a limb or two.