This decade is turning out to be the decade of the comic book hero. Marvel dominates the theatres, like almost every month. It could get tiresome. Should I see Captain America? Isn’t it as silly as the TV jingle? I do like watching a hero struggle against incredible odds and battle a really mean villain. But too much CGI reminds me of work.
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| The late Brandon Lee |
I prefer my action sequences raw, almost CGI-free. Think French Connection, still the best car chase in film history (Ronin takes second honors). My hero conflicted, not one-dimensional, an anti-hero in fact – there’s Mel Gibson in Mad Max and Road Warrior, Brandon Lee in The Crow, and the great Jean Reno in Leon: The Professional. Yeah, I’m a sucker for heroes with a dark side. They’re dangerous, unscrupulous, arrogant, self-centered. You’ll never know what’ll happen to them. Will they die fighting for their cause, you'd wonder.
Noble is boring. And predictable. They’re not gonna die. Because the Avengers team-up has to happen.
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