Posts Tagged ‘action movies’

Whenever John Travolta Plays a Bad Guy He Looks Like a Tool Ad Executive in 1990

Why is it that every time John Travolta plays a bad guy, instead of looking evil and menacing, he looks like he’s a mid-level douche bag executive in the mid- to late-1990s experiencing a textbook mid-life crisis? It’s always the standard play-by-play for how to enter your 50s in complete denial. He either shaves his [...]

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The Cheap Plot Device that Ruins Independence Day and The Hangover

There’s a little plot trick that the writer abuses used glaringly in Independence Day and The Hangover. It’s one of these things where the writer has gotten into a corner where there’s no way to solve the epic problem that he or she has created and needs a miracle plot device to get out of [...]

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