Part of it is that I hate modern action films.
"My idea was to have a very campy 70's-ish action show with more modern action," she said.
Point Break is packed with quotable lines ("I caught my first tube this morning, sir") of a sort that's sorely lacking in most modern action movies.
They're in a western, albeit one made in the amped-up modern action style, rather than the more stately idiom of old-time oaters.
Not so in John Wick (Warner, 15), a cracking, straight-up revenge thriller that largely resists the modern action film's tendency toward snide irony.
Scott essentially invented the modern action movie and his amped-up, noisy, rapidly edited film-making method became the house style of the Simpson-Bruckheimer ascendency.
In some ways it is best to think of this game as a narrative puzzler rather than a modern action adventure.
"An E.D.M. artist like Skrillex is pushing frequencies and using new instrumentation that is so intense, his music has the potential to drive a modern action scene more effectively than a traditional Hollywood orchestra".
Mr. Brosnan certainly looked the part when he suited up for "GoldenEye" in 1995, but by then John Woo and Quentin Tarantino had so thoroughly rearranged the DNA of the modern action film as to knock 007 back to zero.
All-round excellence surely betokens quality, even if other films may be judged to be superior in the individual categories".The Aviator" certainly has the right subject the father of modern aviation and the father, with his 1930 film "Hell's Angels", of course, of modern action movies.
