http://www.vox.com/culture/2017/3/19/14961738/iron-fist-marvel-review http://www.vox.com/culture/2017/3/15/14919546/iron-first-marvel-reviews-finn-jones I am currently working on a movie that is every bit as bad as The Room but with none of the charm. It is bad across all aspects - bad acting, bad editing, bad sound, bad framing, bad dialogue, bad pacing, bad plot, bad action. Bad movies can be good - A friend just sent me some leftover posters from Birdemic 2 even though apparently I was the only person to get paid on it - but there has to be... I dunno. An earnestness. A sense that there's effort. This is, I believe, what makes outsider art "art" - that the creator has put something of themselves in it. The film I'm currently working on is an overly cautious, cynical take on filmmaking.
Ha! I was actually gonna say in my original rant that I remember better fight scenes from Power Rangers when I was growing up, but I thought that was too mean. Now I regret not saying it. After reading the Finn Jones review, it sounds like maybe everything else aside, the show creators were trying to play things safe and that took a lot of life out of the thing. Which really seems to mesh with what you're saying. Being a competent creator is only half the formula. If there's not a sense of soul to what you're creating, you're gonna come up short. Also, now that you mention it, Shaw Brother films totally feel like outsider art.The fights here look generic, to the point where if you told me they were actually footage from the ’90s Power Rangers series, I would believe you.