And, as Sternbergh says, the run of action films gave way to fantasy superheroes out of comic books — to ever more grandiose yet ever less naturalistic sensations — and to Quentin Tarantino.
Ice Cube's run of action and family comedies has generated almost $2 billion at the box office.
Another pet peeve, this is the latest in a recent run of action flicks that put the lead character through the kind of physical punishment that defies all laws of physiology.
And since the late 1990's, small runs of collectable action figures from graffiti artists like Kaws and Futura have helped blur the line between Hasbro and high art.
Most scenes lack pace, are performed badly and are accompanied by a running commentary of action we can see for ourselves.
Ryan Reynolds' anti-hero Wade Wilson punishes the audience with a running commentary of action films, film direction and film analysis, including derogatory references to his own star turns.
These genes could be targets of a 'hit and run' mode of action in which MafB turns genes on in stem cells but is not required for maintaining their expression at later stages of development.
The real dramas in this world go largely unspoken; they reach the reader in thought balloons of suppressed desire that the author launches, stealthily, above the idle chatter and run-of-the-mill action.
"There seems to be an industry subset devoted solely to pumping out run-of-the-mill action games based loosely on books, TV shows, movies and cartoons," complained one review of the game.
In other words, this could be a terrible, terrible movie if it starred a run-of-the-mill action star.
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