My two favorite action movies are Die Hard and Lethal Weapon. Both of which have great main characters.
But, Die Hard and Lethal Weapon both became movie franchises that continued to spit out movie after movie forgetting about the character we loved. The movies began to focus on what new and crazy adventure their characters could go on and forgot about who John Mclain and Martin Riggs actually were. Thus making the later movies almost impossible to watch.
Going back and looking at what original action films were, and then what they became after the writers stopped focusing on the characters; gave me a new respect for the task of building solid characters. I will be paying so much more attention to my characters in my films now that I have noticed what made me hate the later films in these franchises.
Do you have any favorite movie characters that became boring after he/she were in more movies?
Comment them.
Going back and looking at what original action films were, and then what they became after the writers stopped focusing on the characters; gave me a new respect for the task of building solid characters. I will be paying so much more attention to my characters in my films now that I have noticed what made me hate the later films in these franchises.
Do you have any favorite movie characters that became boring after he/she were in more movies?
Comment them.
true stuff man, by the way whats your favorite lethal weapon? oh and what do you think about the Beverly Hills Cop series?
ReplyDeleteFor me it's Wolverine! I love Hugh Jackman as an actor - he's got to be one of my favorites, but after his character of Wolverine being the main focus of the original X-Men trilogy, having two spin-off solo movies (with a third on the way) and being a main character in DOFP, I've had enough of Wolverine! So have many fans. He became the poster child for making money for the X-Men movies. After the movies, there was even a 2009 animated show called 'Wolverine and the X-Men' which should have more appropriately called 'Wolverine and more Wolverine.' It was almost worse than the movies in centralizing Wolverine. Yes, he's cool, but the great thing about the X-Men is that there's more than one! They are a team and each has their own personality, characteristics, and stories! They took the whole "we're a team" thing and killed it by making everything about Wolverine. I love X-Men so this annoys me when all they focus on is one character! First Class was so refreshing because it focused on multiple and different characters.
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