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user-inactivated  ·  2590 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Netflix's Iron Fist is so awful . . .

    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.

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.