I'm getting sick of the crouching landing in action movies.

[MongGrel]

You mean lens flare?

Yes.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

lol @ still watching recent action movies in 2014

 

[Mayne]

I'm sick of movies not portraying the actual costume in the comic books. I want to see Capt. America with scale armor. I want to see Hawkeye with his purple costume. I want to see Nick Fury as a white badass with eye patch. I want to see Loki with crazy ass horns on his head.

I guess i'm old school.

 

[Mermaidman]

Find that far less annoying than the requisite bass sweep that accompanies nearly every trailer and game demo.

Thank you for mentioning this. Needs its own thread.

 

[SSSnail]

I'd imagine lot of those Chinese martial lens flares are unintentional. It takes careful planning to make sure your shots don't have lens flare.

OTOH, JJ Abrams went out of his way to ADD lens flares to his Star Trek movies and Fringe. And not in post. They had guys standing around the set shining bright lights into the camera lens.

I was talking about the crouching landing. I was too lazy to remove the lens flares.

 

[manimal]

Saw the time travel tom cruise movie and British chick did downward facing dog like a dozen times. Wtf

 

[Michael]

Ghost in the Shell had the "three point landing" before the Matrix movies did. They copied a lot of the style from Ghost in the Shell.

Michael

 

[TechBoyJK]

Honestly, if you're expecting to land and get a running start, it's a great position to be in; assuming you're going to land in a way that you can just hit the ground running.

Think of it as the starting position for a track runner.

 

[rh71]

Find that far less annoying than the requisite bass sweep that accompanies nearly every trailer and game demo.

Yeah that's a big one these days. I was watching recent trailers and at least half of them had it. One trailer had it repeatedly too.

And OP, this belongs in the first world problems thread.

 

[rsutoratosu]

Uh, i beg to differ, this guy executed his 3 point landing perfectly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIZVr6c1FJo

 

[rsutoratosu]

delete

 

[rsutoratosu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgOtPXDyKjA

 

[poofyhairguy]

Ghost in the Shell had the "three point landing" before the Matrix movies did. They copied a lot of the style from Ghost in the Shell.

I honestly didn't mind that the Matrix copied Ghost in the Shell. What sucks is EVERY action movie copying the Matrix since then.

Honestly the three point landing is not even close to the worst Matrix cliches run into the ground. That list would be:

1. EVERYONE in an action movie, even a kid, knows advanced martial arts. No need for a 80's montage where they train to become amazing, people just accept that if you are on the silver screen you know Kung Fu better than any person alive today. The Watchmen is the more painful example of this IMHO.

2. Slow-mode action scene shots. Got super overused right after the Matrix, now more rare (thank God).

3. Any sort of bullet dodging. Made ten times worse if during a slow motion scene.

4. The idea that brains/reality are just computers that can be controlled/programmed by "real computers." Since the Matrix the original concept of a human as a placated battery has been boiled down to absolutely terrible movie plots (like "Source Code").

5. Grenades for the most part don't exist. If you have to take out a bunch of enemies in a room, automatic weapons with magic bullets that don't ricochet are your only hope. I mean, I love the lobby scene too, but it pretty much ruined realistic use of arms in action movies.

See, there is 5 without even touching the stance.

Thanks to the Matrix the idea of a semi-realistic action movie (aka a Die Hard 1) just won't fly anymore. If you don't offer blurring limbs and three point landings the audience doesn't want your product apparently.

 

[Phanuel]

Thanks to the Matrix the idea of a semi-realistic action movie (aka a Die Hard 1) just won't fly anymore. If you don't offer blurring limbs and three point landings the audience doesn't want your product apparently.

Oh, Die Hard, the movie that created the genre of the hero taking beyond mortal abuse and still coming out on top?

Tell me, how does one slice the shit out of their feet on glass, leave that much blood behind, and then the next scene is not them dying in complete agony bleeding out from grievous foot wounds but instead is walking around cool with a dirty shirt wrapped around their feet?

 

[Mermaidman]

Oh, Die Hard, the movie that created the genre of the hero taking beyond mortal abuse and still coming out on top?

Tell me, how does one slice the shit out of their feet on glass, leave that much blood behind, and then the next scene is not them dying in complete agony bleeding out from grievous foot wounds but instead is walking around cool with a dirty shirt wrapped around their feet?

His bleeding wounds were cauterized when he rode the elevator shaft fireball.
duh.

 

[zinfamous]

I see nothing to complain about when Johansson is involved.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Oh, Die Hard, the movie that created the genre of the hero taking beyond mortal abuse and still coming out on top?

Exactly my point. What was crazy and fantastical in the 80's is downright ho-hum today.

 

[Eug]

BTW, I think most of the North American filmmakers still don't know how to film martial arts properly. Way too many close-up cuts so you can't actually see WTF they're doing.

I much prefer the Chinese style of wider shots showing the grace of the martial arts.

However, maybe the North Americans do this on purpose. The problem with the somewhat wider angles is the actors actually have to know what they're doing in terms of martial arts. If you do a close enough shot, you won't see how spazzy their martial arts looks.

 

[BoberFett]

That and 'Inception horns.'

The crouch thing is valid from a physics standpoint, but there is no reason to actually execute it in the silly 'I'm a woman look at me' way that the OP is describing.

The parkour rolling landing is much more effective, albeit hard to execute. It's amusing when people hit the ground, clearing stopping all momentum, THEN do a roll. For no reason.

Actually the roll is a fairly natural reaction. I did it off a homemade zipline that snapped while I was on it. The kids that were watching said I looked like a ninja when I tucked, rolled and popped back on my feet.