That’s how I feel about Nobody, the action movie with Bob Odenkirk. A 59 year old beating up a bus of young punks, such a power fantasy, but it’s just so hard to believe.
I like the one in Secondhand Lions. Similar theme. Perhaps more believable.
Yeah but it’s fun anyway, because Bob Odenkirk is awesome.
This, plus the brutality of the fight scenes were incredible
He also got his ass handed to him in that scene…
Skill + strength. It’s not always about how hard you hit someone but where and how.
So is pretty much every movie, mate. The point is to make it believable as you possibly can, without tipping over into farce. You can believe that an experienced fighter can beat an inexperienced one. Thats not an issue. The issue, for me anyway, usually comes when they take a hit. Thats usually when I start blowing big watery farts at the screen. See also small women beating up massive built dudes. Like The Woman King, seeing 50something Viola Davis taking haymakers from 25 year old heavy weight like they are nothing. Each punch enough to knock just about anyone on the planet out cold.
John Wick is another one. The gun play and stuff is fun, but as a tactical exercise, John Wick regularly gives up good cover for more sensational action shots that should have gotten him killed a million times over. The trick is making it fun. If you can do that, the audience forgives any bullshit. If you cant make it fun, the audience will nitpick it to fuck.
John Wick is always safe because offscreen enemies with guns have to run into frame and engage him at close range. It’s like videogames rules - like how the mobs form into concentric circles and attack you one at a time from the inner ring.
Luke used to do some dangerous piloting in canyons, so he was already doing crazy piloting even though he wasn’t being shot at.
Also, TG:M is the ANH trench run. Not even trying to hide it.
They were last generation to inherit wealth, so they are the target audience
Boomers all think they’re the main character
Everybody thinks GenX are Boomers.
Everyone is falling for the “lets turn different age groups against each other instead of fixing actual problems” thing
They fell for the ploy and entrenched us in the cycle before we had a chance to speak about it, and presently are obstructing the fixing of actual problems, problems that are a result of their negligence.
Example A is a chosen one story (magic powers make him “better”), example B is an experience+skill beats skill story, and from watching “fighter pilot reviews” of the movie that was one aspect they said rings true, someone who was a fighter pilot that long would have had so much more time to develop a high level of skill.
Luke is also a skilled pilot and an excellent shot. And the movie never establishes how experienced his squadmates are, nor can we just assume they are all highly trained since they are part of a cobbled together resistance and not a traditional military. And the only thing he does better than the others is hit the target. His survival wasn’t because he was better, it was because he was the last one left to make the suicide run, and because he was rescued at the last minute.
Oh, and let’s not forget that he never could have done it without the wise old mentor. You know, the guy from a previous generation that fought in a great war. The guy who passes on ancient wisdom and who is the only reason look was able to make the shot. Not exactly something that fits the “Our generation is the awesomest” picture the post is trying to paint.
Also, Star Wars came out in 1977, not 1970.
