61. Its popularity, though, is not grounded in live action films, but in the animated features and television series that have come to be known as anime. 62. Just as Quasimodo was the ugly duckling in literature, action films have become the sore spot for critics. 63. Keenan Ivory Wayans drops his customary light approach for a jackbooted action film. 64. Like an action film, each SpiderCam script is worked out on a story board with scene-by-scene sketches. 65. Like many action films, Max Payne is more notable for its world-weary attitude and gorgeously bleak graphics than for its hackneyed story. 66. Longtime fans of Hong Kong historical action films may complain that Lee has basically westernized the genre, taming it to suit American tastes. 67. MacPherson has watched too many bad American action films, emulating their lame puns and Schwarzenegger-style taglines. 68. Lee is tapping a long line of Hong Kong action films that have been around for decades. 69. Maybe a movie producer will build one to put in an action film. 70. Merely by selling three scripts for six-figure amounts, he has proved he has a knack for writing commercial action films. |
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