well i think its relevant to a lot of trends in filmmaking overall, not just action movies--though as we've seen, many of those trends are presented in their most excruciatingly virulent form in action movies. the aforementioned abrasive sound design, and our current overall fixation, good ol' shakeycam. in ten years time,…
i got an older brother that really dug this movie, so i went to see it yesterday. it's going to be hard to talk to him about it, because boy i just couldn't dig it. i'm sure somewhere in these nerd-ragin' 8 pages my position has more or less been covered, but mostly i don't like this film purely on aesthetic grounds. even…