This scene from a movie has been bothering me for years.

[Stakanov]

https://youtu.be/_kHRYhLml_A?si=R4x8yXSRlsjzz8M5&t=1521

The guy swore to never fight again, the bad guys arrive and he does nothing because he swore to never fight again, his friends defend him and die, and it's when they die, not before, but when they die that he decides to break his damn oath, all that to die in 2 seconds like a big loser...
What's the point of all this...

[Steve]

It's a kung-fu movie. It's not supposed to make sense.

[Dracoco OwO]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Dr. Staten Island:

It's a kung-fu movie. It's not supposed to make sense.

95% of the time it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid scenario, it's mostly because the market tried to copy the actually good stuff so it's flooded with mid garbage movies of kung-fu with no plot cause they could not replicate peak Bruce Lee for instance.

[kingjames488]

you know what movie scene has been bothering me for years?

pretty sure it was in terminator salvation... there's a scene where the strong female protagonist remarks "I wish you weren't so white".

idk how that passed under everyone's social justice radar, but no one seemed to care about this highly racist line in a high-budget hollywood movie?

still bothers me.

[Rio]

People aren't always rational animals.

[Ray Rook]

If the topic is about those situations in martial arts movies... yea, it's terrible how often people say and do things they think are stylistically cool, but don't make sense or are morally terrible.

I am joining an organization that regularly brags about real stories like this that really aren't brag worthy all the time. Like how people were spared corporal punishment for being in the organization. My thought is... if you can find it in yourself to spare anyone, why does it matter what org they are in? It's just stupid.

But, if the topic is about movie scenes that bother you... I have two that have stuck with me over the years.

1) Straw Dogs (2011), the remake with James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, and Alexander Skarsgård. There's a particularly brutal scene I won't describe here, but if you've seen it you know. And it still haunts me to this day.

2) Jodie Foster's The Accused. This one has a similar scene in it that will stick with you.

I don't like those scenes in movies now. If a movie has that in it, I refuse to watch them.

[permanent name]

it's the Shaw Brothers complaining about censorship.

the English and Chinese interests in the HK film scene fought over basically everything, and making inane demands on the plot and sequencing, for the sake of clearly stupid moral beliefs serving hamfisted propaganda ends, was a common feature of most Shaw productions.

which is funny because the BAFTA awards all went to wuxia films for the better part of the 70s, owing to the complete failure of western media due to corruption and 'guaranteed return' film investment processes. similar to what we have now.