Originally Posted by Zeeboe
Not really a fetish. Just an old-school mindset and I'm clearly not the only one since MMA and the NFL are popular. I realize the T-X character is dangerous, which is why I wish a more dangerous looking person (as in a brawny man) would have played the part. It's like having a damn chick headline at Wrestlemania while wrestling a man. For a BDSM porno, that sounds fine, but not for Wrestlemania.
When it comes to sports, or violence, or action films - I am very sexist, and old fashion, and think the ladies need to stand to the side. Hell, back in the 80's in the WWF, women were not wrestling and were just eye candy. These days, so much time is wasted on boring women's wrestling matches. Porno is fine, but it needs it's own place.
It seems all this liberal nonsense started in the 90's after we realized Russia was no real threat afterall, and that the biggest threat was Vietnam - Again, the one we least suspected, which is why that angle now reflects too many films. In the 90's, it was the era of the "New Man" who is supposed to be in touch with his feminine side and who looks after his nails and uses moisturiser and hair products. At the same time, there's no longer a clear enemy in global politics, so action films go all gooey. You could argue Terminator 2 started the trend, with a killing machine that learns the value of life and doesn't kill anyone, and a killer robot that looks surprisingly inoffensive (although, to be fair, it worked perfectly). If you think of action movie in the 90s, loads of them were pretty-much disaster movies where the 'enemy' was either nature or aliens - Armageddon, Twister, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Deep Impact, Volcano, The Matrix. We weren't really sure what we were doing.
At the same time, films became so much softer. Cinema responded to the challenge of TV in the 50s by introducing colour and widescreen, things TV couldn't do. In the 70s, as cinema audiences again fell, they introduced violence and nudity. In the 90s, having to compete with TV and video games, if they made R-rated movies, it would restrict the potential audience to a level that was not economically viable, so you can see a definite trend to 'purify' action movies by cutting down on violence, swearing, gore and nudity to get more bums on seats and thus more cash.
So all and all - Politics and greediness are what is screwing up the action genre of today.
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