#311: Action Movies explain

[Cueball and Megan are talking together as they walk away from a cinema.]

Cueball: Another summer gone without a mindless big-budget action movie.

Megan: Huh? Die Hard was nothing but action!

Cueball: No, it was too talky.

Megan: What? Too talky?

Cueball: I tallied it minute-by-minute. It’s at least 60% people walking and talking. All those movies are.

Cueball: Just once, I want a real action movie. 30 seconds of exposition followed by a perfect 90-minute action scene. One with a huge budget, a good choreographer, and a great director.

Megan: And they should center it around some character we already know, someone we never get tired of watching.

Cueball: I think we’ve got something here…

[A movie poster is shown.]

Coming this summer

River Tam

Beats Up Everyone

[The poster shows a line of doorways. In the background, numerous people are lying on the ground or draped over doorways and windows. River Tam is doing a flying kick into someone’s face, and another person is emerging from the doorway closest to the viewer.]