Too many people flying around in movies/tv

[Bonegavel]

As I'm reading the board, I see the commercial for bullet-proof monk on DVD. Each scene had the, now, ubiquitous actor-on-a-wire flying around. Jesus I can't stand this. Don't they know it looks more fake than the rolling scenery in a Murder She Wrote interior car conversation scene?

I have yet to see a wire scene look good. Just off the top of my head, I think of Halle Berry in X-men in the SOL gift shop scene where she floats out of the elevator shaft. Fake. Or, when Peter Parker flips over top of Flash (highschool fight scene right after Peter dumps the tray on Flash) in Spiderman. Fake. Or, the entire Crouching Tiger, Hidden Wires movie. Or... you get the picture.

[Abe Sargent]

1). It looks really cool.

2). If the story has a reason for it (i.e. Matrix), then it's pretty cool and remains so.

-Anxiety

[Bonegavel]

I never said it wasn't cool. I'm saying that the current method (actors on wires) looks VERY FAKE and stupid.

[EagleFan]

I second that opinion BoneGavel. It's like they're taking the easy way out in an attempt to draw viewers, throw in some flashy effects instead of maybe working on that story.

[MikeVic]

That's what I don't seem to like about the new Jackie Chan movie.. I've loved his other fighting movies because he does hiw own stunts.. I could watch the movie and be amazed that he's really doing this stuff. In that Medallion movie, I saw some scenes where's he's using the wires and stuff... there goes my reason for watching the movie.. :(

[Bad-example]

Originally posted by EagleFan
It's like they're taking the easy way out in an attempt to draw viewers, throw in some flashy effects instead of maybe working on that story.

You mean like almost every action movie made in the last 25 years?

[ctmason]

I think you need to calm down, and turn off the TV.