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| Topic | "The hero was too untouchable..." |
| FortuneCookie 07/16/20 7:59:55 PM #1: | It's a unique criticism. For starters, it's indirect. It can mean "I was bored with the lack of competition" or "I was annoyed with the ego(s)." Second, it's odd in terms of how vague a hypothetical solution is. Suppose the hero is "too untouchable" in the sense that she is unchallenged in three out of four fights and only endures offense in the final contest. Would the film have been that much improved if she'd caught a stray kick in the second fight? Or maybe our hero got 80% of the offense in his fight with his nearest rival. Is there a cutoff point for a minimum acceptable amount of offense for the bad guy? And if so, is it measured in number of moves or in percentage of the offense? Is there any such thing as a film in which a hero was one strike away from being in a good movie? It's one thing to look at a movie and say, "That was boring. He was untouchable." It's another to trace back to where the film first started to lose your interest and offer criticism on where they could've corrected that mistake. --- 2020 going to be a CE kind of year ~ Panthera ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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