Jeremy Urquhart is a writer at Collider who focuses on the Godzilla series, the films of Martin Scorsese, and anything in the action genre.
The action genre will probably never die, what with so many blockbusters nowadays being definable – wholly or in part – as action movies, and with seeming popularity around the world. Action movies showcase great fight sequences, thrilling and sometimes over-the-top stunt work, and a level of spectacle that very few people experience in their everyday lives .
Gladiator saw Ridley Scott helming impressive battle and gladiatorial scenes that felt gritty and physical, all the while incorporating numerous special effects, sometimes computer-generated. It was done pretty seamlessly for the time, and the quick editing used to accentuate certain shots within action scenes proved somewhat influential.
*Availability in US Release Date May 3, 2002 Director Sam Raimi Cast Tobey Maguire , Kirsten Dunst , Willem Dafoe , James Franco , Cliff Robertson , Rosemary Harris , J.K. Simmons , Joe Manganiello Runtime 121 minutes 8 'The Dark Knight' Director: Christopher Nolan ✕ Remove Ads A few years on from Spider-Man came 2008, which was stacked with superhero movies.
The film was popular enough that it likely served as an early – or even introductory – movie for many to the martial arts genre, and broke ground by going bigger than other kung fu films made before it had. Enter the Dragon has plenty of hand-to-hand fight scenes, but it also functions as a sports movie and a spy film, combining all sorts of interesting sub-genres into one surprisingly coherent and inevitably groundbreaking movie.
The Matrix did all this with utter confidence, and it was a new kind of cool for viewers right at the end of the 1990s. As such, it wasn’t surprising to see The Matrix referenced and parodied in all sorts of movies that came out over the subsequent decade or so, with films like Equilibrium and V For Vendetta certainly scratching the same itch .Not available
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