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The Saint really is pretty silly...but, as you say, fun. And the villians are all very pretty.
eta: Oh, here's one...Jet Li in Romeo Must Die...much with the fu, which may disqualify it on the 'brains' front...but no gun that I recall.
I'm with you on the brains over ballistics action hero. I'm trying to think of other examples...
Other than MacGyver?
MacGyver! The penultimate brains over ballistics hero. Of course!
I would very much love to see more action heroes get away without using guns a bit more often.
I would just like them to get hit by gunfire more often. I mean, with current accuracy rates, sure Val's just as good off without one as with.
If it is action, and there is combat -- wanking around weapons is a lot of work for me. I love a good hand to hand scene, more than the next person, but there are too many of them to make sense.
The good guys are accurate enough to shoot the gun out of the bad guy's hand, but the bad guys are horrible shots and usually only connect with the good guy's shoulder. Said good guy is walking around with a sling a day later and has full use of the arm within a week. Feh.
Medical accuracy in films is something my nurse mother had me watching out for at a young age. I remember seeing Deathtrap with her in the theaters, and when either Reeve or Caine got knifed in the back (I can't remember who right now), she said that it wasn't a mortal wound. Sure enough, when the "dead" guy popped up a few minutes later to freak out the audience, Mom was gloating, "I told you so!"
I would just like them to get hit by gunfire more often.
Yeah, right! Bad guys are the worst shots in the world. And the worst of all of them? Imperial fucking Stormtroopers. The fucking military can't even train them to shoot straight.
No wonder the Rebels kicked their fucking ASSES.
After Darth Vader got out of the Death Star cafeteria he got a job at FEMA. That's why.
Said good guy is walking around with a sling a day later and has full use of the arm within a week. Feh.
Just rewatched A Knight's Tale...okay, not a shining example of anything remotely realistic...but it pinged loudly when our fair haired fellow takes a veritable table leg to the shoulder, gasps a couple of times and then swings deftly off his horse to sweep the sweet young lass up into the air in a triumphant embrace.
Would it have been too much to ask for him to at least celebrate one-armed?
Feh.
The fucking military can't even train them to shoot straight.
This is what happens when you make a clone of a clone of a clone.
A Knight's Tale! THAT'S the movie I was forgetting the other day when I was making my list of Sports Comedies I love
It's weird, because I'm not really into sports at all, but Sports Comedies? Woo! Go team!
(The list
Tin Cup doesn't make it onto the list, but I saw it in the theatre. Bull Durham was fun when I was in my early teens, but didn't hold up.)