StreetsofBeige
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Most action scenes are pretty dumb to begin with regardless or who is fighting.This can be true, IF these highly trained athletic warrior women were fighting the typical 200 pound schlubs off the street. But in these films they are almost ALWAYS fighting other fighters. I'm unaware of ANY women earning big bucks fighting larger men, or really men at all outside of kids leagues, exhibitions, or publicity stunts where a highly trained woman fights basically a schlub off the street. Find me a trained MALE fighter that does any shows where he fights women off the street.....that tells you all you need to know.
It's not that it can't happen, or that films shouldn't show it, but IF they do, they need to really really work on the physique of the actress (since she is the one selling it, not the stunt woman actually doing the moves), the choreography, and the value of the fight in the context of the story. Women trading haymaker punches to the face or full power sidekicks to the ribs with men, as is typical for male on male fights, is unrealistic. The usual "skinny fat" waif or worse, the pudgy doughy lady Hollywood tries to force on us, compounds these issues. Get me an athletic, toned, possibly even muscular woman and it can work, but alas the women in Hollywood do not put in the work on their bodies in the way the men do. They starve themselves and do tons of cardio (maybe) but don't hit the gym for the resistance training.
I can understand someone getting immediately KO'ed or killed if they break someone's neck or get a major punch or kick to the head.
But most fights have the good guys beating up bad guys just doing some light hits or knocking them to the ground. And immediately somehow that's a KO. An untrained high school kid getting hit like that would get up. But in movies even big burly guys or trained enemy soldiers getting shoved to the ground act like they got just smacked into a coma after a jab and foot sweep. And seeing moves like foot sweeps is the dumbest thing ever. In movies, anytime someone does one it's got to be a 99% success rate and the guy gets flattened on his ass like it's the easiest and best attack move in the world.
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