Thoughts?

oh no, other countries speaking different languages "WOE IS ME!"

It's honestly baffling. The work in those movies is excellent, but I didn't like them. Very well made movies that did nothing for me. For whatever reason, Hemsworth is just missing the magic touch.

As a counter point, i'll put up Matt Damon. I love Matt Damon. But he makes a lot of shitty movies and I just don't care. I'll watch em over and over. What does Matt have that Chris is missing?

Change the setting and I think people would be outraged. Lets make it clear that he was knowingly working for one drug lord against another drug lord.

If the kid was being held in San Diego and Hemsworth had to kill 100 cops and border patrol agents trying to get the kid safely to Mexico, I think most people would have a huge problem with it.

In Terminator 2, they made a point of telling Arnie not to kill cops.

i understand what you say but I feel like some films are really just R tatted to shock but at the end if the actors do their job right and the script and director know how to tell us a good story the explicit violence is not that needed.

Logan wasn’t good because it was violent or rated R but because it had a good story to close Wolverine’s arc in the X Men franchise. Yes they can include a bit of blood but at end it’s all about telling us a good story and good acting.

For Example The MCU it was always PG-13 and still the verisimilitude was still there. We don’t need violence to be that explicit.

We saw Wolverine work just fine in the First X men trilogy within a PG-13 rating.

Lol, thinks we’re still in the 2000’s back when PG-13 action films (not just those belonging to big franchises) dominated the scene and were by and large the only ones that made a killing at the box office it does. Don’t think so, playa. Where u at, J Wick?!

But again lol.... Extraction, though perhaps more violent than your standard action fare (that includes the old school stuff), screams gritty R rated modern action film. Its tone, direction, choreography, performances, VIOLENCE... this film is absolutely of its time. Is it one of the best I’ve seen? The action is unquestionably top-notch, maybe some of the best. But as an overall film... nope, it ain’t. The reason I say this is because I, for one, have actually seen the more interesting, unpredictable, tense, better-developed and expertly-crafted EXCELLENT action films that have come out in the last several years. And yes, you better believe Netflix has no shortage of ultra-violent modern action stuff (from original movies+shows to movies that were released in theaters). So fresh breath of air? Excuse me, but, too easy to figure out you are; seen what’s really out there I doubt it.

It took you back to ‘em good ol’ edgy days? Whoa. I must say, it’s amusing how this feeling is always ‘preached’ by a certain crowd whenever a modern film appeals to said crowd. The real funny thing is, this Hemsworth film makes a lot of those super violent... but really mostly cheesy... 80’s/90’s Van Damme, Seagal, Stallone, Norris, etc. flicks look like, well, the badly-made cheese-fests that they are. Even the likes of Commando (almost any old Arnie flick that isn’t Predator or Terminator) and the beloved Die Hard are hard to take seriously compared to Extraction tone-wise. And to reiterate, as good as the action is, for me Extraction is by no means the best example of a great gritty modern action film.


Bearing that in mind, for all the unoriginal oldhead complaints about how modern action cinema (cinema in general) is unkewl and “clean” compared to a lot of dated as hell 80’s/90’s action flicks, the truth is that is mostly BS. Action movie with lots of blood and guts? Doesn’t automatically mean that that particular movie is better or, yes, even more badass (let alone more mature) than a non-rated R action film. Check this....https://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/pg-13-movies-are-now-more-violent-r-rated-80s-8C11566223
2 words: BOO YA! :-D “Fake news! But PC! Back in my day!”.... oh please. And let’s not get started with the numerous R rated modern action joints that truly make so much of the old stuff look tame AF.

But yes, the old bombastic era was more hardcore fo’ sho. XD Oh sure, I’m a fan of the classics - especially the quality ones that actually hold up well compared to the regular cringey Stallone, Van Damme, Norris and Seagal crap. XD Still, I’ll HAPPILY take the numerous modern PG-13 films that were legitimately well-made (and far more sophisticated and mature, to boot) over the plethora of hilarious “unsappy” mindless 80’s & 90’s action flicks any day of the week. Yes, and give me the “rare” visceral R rated modern stuff as well!



I get it though. Your crowd thinks a certain way and it shall continue to preach a certain “back in my day” saying. As such... https://i.imgflip.com/3jvrcl.jpg

The middle part of the movie was a bit boring with the clichéd emotional stuff.