when i waa kicken i read something that called the literary device that movies IGNORE The One Big Lie. they used Supes for example, "if in your story being on Earth under a different type of sun lets you fly and be ridiculously strong and etc, okay. but if it's Earth, then that is the One Big Lie the reader will accept. things may follow logically from that Lie, but everything else must remain the same.".
it bugs the asses off of me.
and beyond the stupid invulnerability of EVERYone in a fight scene, beyond the Let's Knock Him Out I Guess That Means He's Just Pain Sleeping For A Few Hours Not Dead From Trauma Of Permanently Brain Damaged For Being Rendered Unconscious For So Long..... most fight scenes are just garbage now.
fucking quick cuts and zooms. can barely tell what's going on, zero concept of space or location, totally disengaging. the fuck do you spend time teaching people that can't fight how to look like they can fight then zoom forever? pull back. show what's happening. pick a camera angle for more than 2 seconds.
the beginning of the end for well shot Big Movie fight scenes was that enjoyably horrible Jet Li movie The One.
IT'S FUCKING JET LI. SHOW WHAT'S HAPPENING. HE DOESN'T NEED TREATMENT TO LOOK IMPRESSIVE. IT'S NOT LIAM NEESON'S ANCIENT CREEKY ASS.
..... or something.