Everybody loves an awesome action movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat with mind boggling special effects and outrageous explosions, but sadly not all action packed movies raked in the big bucks when they were released. This paper is going to go through the years and classify the best action movies as being instant hits or disappointing financial failures.
Between 1980-1989 you had two very good movies released, Bloodsport and The Legend Of Drunken Master. Bloodsport starred Jean-Claude Van Damme and it was his first lead role. The movie was an instant hit after being released in theaters, which was a huge surprise because the movie had an extremely limited budget. Jean-Claude became an overnight superstar and went on to make many more great movies like Hard Target and Sudden Death.
The Legend Of Drunken Master is a terrific action movie, but it does not have such a happy success story. The movie stars Jackie Chan and it was originally released in the East. The movie displays some of Jackie Chan's awesome abilities that haven't even been shown in his U.S. movies. The movie was popular, but it did not make as much money as was expected. However, only recently Jackie Chan decided to have the movie dubbed and remastered so that it could be released in the U.S.A. on DVD. The movie made more money here than it did in China when it was originally released.
Between 1990-1999 two of the greatest movies of all time were created, The Matrix and Army Of Darkness. Army of Darkness was released in 1992 and it was a bit ahead of its time. Universal Studios even considered removing it from theaters at the time. Bruce Campbell had the lead role and he was a virtually unknown actor having only done two prior movies. It wasn't until years later that people began to accept this movie as a type of cult classic. The movie has had multiple DVD releases and has been recognized as an action/comedy/sci-fi/horror classic.
Classification of video games Video games can be classified into several distinct categories. ... Adventure games are more like a book, you follow a story in a movie type format. ... You can control this entities movement, actions, and communication in real time, meaning when you press the Up arrow key the player in the computer generated world will move forward instantly. ...
There is one movie in particular that many consider a classic of teen stereotypes. The movie " The Breakfast Club" clearly portrays one of each of the well-known classifications including: The nerd, jock, princess, criminal, and basket case. ... In most cases stereotyping can result in negative actions. ... Then, I looked up the script of the movie, from the Internet, to closely observe body language and emotion through the characters actions. I also watched the movie for body language and spoken language. ...
This classification of wonderful people was what caused the stereotypes of men being great athletes, great politicians, and other great male role models. ... Most men are hardcore action movie lovers. I am a big action movie lover myself, but what I noticed is that men would become bored when they watch dramatic movies or what my generation callschick-flicks.? Their attention to the movie would be off and on depending on the amount of action the movie had. ... It was a two hour movie that was cut down to one hour because he would always fast forward only to the action scenes. ...
Also the romance genre has a range of subgenres: Romantic Drama ( "Last Tango in Paris", "Water for Elephants", "A Walk to Remember"), Chic Flick ( "Dirty Dancing", "Romeo+Juliet"), Romantic Comedies (" Love Actually", "Moonstruck"), Romantic Action Comedies ("Killers", "Knight and Day", "Mr. & Mrs. ... Others try to relate their lives to the plot of the movie, which is typical for a romantic drama: two young people fall in love from the first sight, but when the summer is over parents build a barrier b...
They had two classifications of film at this time. ... The 1980s saw the Board change it's name from Censors to the British Board of Film Classification, and also the renaming of the classifications from the old A and X's to the age classifications we have today. 1984 also saw the Government bring in the Video Recording Act. ... It could be said that where the sane amongst us will see the movie has for what it is, a piece of "entertainment" or more accurately, a commentary on American society, the film has been blamed for many killings. ... Can we blame the film for his actions? .....
Sherman portrays this concept through his actions in the movie. ... He did not believe in the ego, superego, and the id but had different classification all his own. ... But if you look at the movie overall Freud's ideas are probably portrayed more the Lacan's. So if someone who watched this movie had a good understanding of psychoanalytic concepts they would probably also have a better understanding of the movie over someone who did not. The person who had no prior knowledge could still enjoy the movie but would probably not get as much from the movie as the other person. ...
Advertised as a buddy-buddy war/action movie, with the obligatory main stream actor (George Clooney) and the equally obligatory rap star (Ice Cube) which Hollywood movies tend to be moving towards recently. ... When creating the movie O'Russell knew that with the combination of a large budget and big stars, a solely intellectual, or thought provocative movie would not be possible. "You don't make an art film for over $40 million- was his response to the statement that he had sold out slightly by creating an action movie. ... But as many reviews and critical analyses will confirm, the...
Whether it can be considered a tragic film or not is based on the perspective of each audience member, and whether or not they consider all of Aristotle's aspects vital to its classification. ... The way the actions in the film are arranged help to arouse pity and fear in the audience. We feel pity for Antonio when his bike is stolen in the beginning and we feel for him the rest of the movie. ... However, once the owner of the bicycle pardons him for his actions, we end up right where we began in the beginning of the film. ... Aristotle stated "tragedy is a representation of an ac...
The ideas of a hollow man were regularly alluded to in a canonical novella and an award-winning movie. ... Charlie Marlow tries many times to relate Kurtz to the hollow man but Kurtz's actions could prove that he is a man of evil. ... In these kinds of thoughts Marlow put himself in the same classification as Kurtz, lacking remorse for the taking of a life. ... Kurtz knows he has a soul and has come to the realization that for his actions he would one-day serve justice. ... His actions are convincing that Kurtz was not hollow but corrupt. ...
