We will all die of boredom

Daron 2022-09-19 17:35:21

After watching it, it's a very routine movie. It was used in a bad hurricane rescue-style plot, as always, fighting and killing, and the last word: boring.

In 1982, the first "First Blood" came out. The indictment of the Vietnam War and American society made it another classic of Stallone after "Rocky", and it was an existence that influenced a generation of Americans.

In the past 37 years, "First Blood" has received 5, and "Rocky" has received 6. The plot is like copy and paste. Even if you want to make new ideas, it always gives people the feeling of giving new words and expressing sorrow.

Whether it is classic IP or Stallone, they have been over-consumed by this commercial society.

Stallone is not an exception. Schwarzenegger's "Terminator 6: Dark Fate" also suffered a fiasco at the box office, as well as Jackie Chan's "Detective Pu Songling" and Jet Li's "Legend of the Gods", and then In a few days, Donnie Yen's "Ip Man 4", which has been playing foreigners for ten years, will also be released.

More than one person has thought about the question of "how should action superstars retire". They should either die in an accident like Bruce Lee and become a legend of a generation, or they should leave the stage when they are at their peak and leave a decent story. But no one thought that they would stick around and let one bad movie and one boring sequel continue to consume themselves and bore others, which makes people wonder if they can't make enough fish, and they look ugly. very.

The film market needs to be commercialized, which in itself is understandable. But excessive commercialization is depriving people of their aesthetic freedom. As Martin Scorsese said this year when he said that Marvel movies are not movies: If everything is safe at the box office, what movie dares to take a risk? How else can we see something new from the movies?

If the movie market continues to hold on to classic IPs and superheroes, in the end, we will all die of boredom.

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Rambo: Last Blood quotes

  • Gabrielle: I'm just trying to understand why you would just go like that.

    Manuel: Okay. Because one day, I looked at your mother and you and realized you both don't mean anything to me anymore. I know it's hard to understand. But I wasted time being with you and her. And she fucking dies and leaves me with you, who I never wanted.

  • Victor Martinez: Arizona. So, what... did they run out of whores over there?