An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'
The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there's no differentiation between beats, like small or big, or quiet or expansive. It's all just one loud shout.
I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.
The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.
I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.
A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.
The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles.
Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.
If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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