They were last generation to inherit wealth, so they are the target audience
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Everyone can relate to an underdog
Is Tom Cruise an underdog at this point?
I was thinking more of the character not the actor
Boomers all think they're the main character
Everybody thinks GenX are Boomers.
Everyone is falling for the "lets turn different age groups against each other instead of fixing actual problems" thing
They fell for the ploy and entrenched us in the cycle before we had a chance to speak about it, and presently are obstructing the fixing of actual problems, problems that are a result of their negligence.
That's how I feel about Nobody, the action movie with Bob Odenkirk. A 59 year old beating up a bus of young punks, such a power fantasy, but it's just so hard to believe.
Skill + strength. It's not always about how hard you hit someone but where and how.
Yeah but it's fun anyway, because Bob Odenkirk is awesome.
This, plus the brutality of the fight scenes were incredible
So is pretty much every movie, mate. The point is to make it believable as you possibly can, without tipping over into farce. You can believe that an experienced fighter can beat an inexperienced one. Thats not an issue. The issue, for me anyway, usually comes when they take a hit. Thats usually when I start blowing big watery farts at the screen. See also small women beating up massive built dudes. Like The Woman King, seeing 50something Viola Davis taking haymakers from 25 year old heavy weight like they are nothing. Each punch enough to knock just about anyone on the planet out cold.
John Wick is another one. The gun play and stuff is fun, but as a tactical exercise, John Wick regularly gives up good cover for more sensational action shots that should have gotten him killed a million times over. The trick is making it fun. If you can do that, the audience forgives any bullshit. If you cant make it fun, the audience will nitpick it to fuck.
John Wick is always safe because offscreen enemies with guns have to run into frame and engage him at close range. It’s like videogames rules - like how the mobs form into concentric circles and attack you one at a time from the inner ring.
He also got his ass handed to him in that scene...
Luke used to do some dangerous piloting in canyons, so he was already doing crazy piloting even though he wasn’t being shot at.
Also, TG:M is the ANH trench run. Not even trying to hide it.
Also, you know, he's the son of the most powerful force wielder in the universe. Tends to help with piloting a bit.
Very true.
Sadly the movie only really communicates this with a line said almost in passing.
The original Rogue Squadron game has a mission where you fly the canyon path the way Luke did. Get gold on that and you'll get an idea of just how good of a pilot Luke already is before he ever touches an X-Wing. And on the topic of the X-Wing, it is arguably the most advanced fighter ever made at that time, yet another untold portion of the movie that was intended to already be part of the lore lol.
Luke also used to shoot womprats while racing his T-16 around the canyons, and womprats are smaller than the Death Star's exhaust port. Combine all that with his latent force power and the trench run is actually not a far fetched feat for him at all.