All
the other ridiculous action in The Island — including a fall from 70 stories up onto the streets of Los Angeles that our heroes walk away from — even approaches the barbell thing in all its manic glory.
Not exact matches
Seeing as how «G.I. Joe: Retaliation» is a live -
action cartoon, I wish we could have seen thought balloons above the heads of Channing Tatum, Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson and Bruce Willis, among
others, as they filmed this
ridiculous and overblown debacle.
Certainly Bruce Willis cracks wise in all of his
action vehicles, but when it came down to business, he was a convincing tough guy; Affleck, on the
other hand, has a look of smug bemusement on his face most of the time, as if to knowingly mock the
ridiculous affair.
If you do not understand jokes, as a rule, then it follows that you wouldn't understand why you're seen as a joke and why your
actions and words and ideas are unexpectedly comic and
ridiculous to
other people.
Many of your
actions are assigned to two buttons each, so it seems a bit
ridiculous that some of these controls couldn't just be mapped to
other buttons, especially since a lot of the motion controls aren't very accurate.
The smaller moments of humor work better here than they usually do in this series, but that's because director James Wan recognizes that the real jokes are in the stupendously
ridiculous action sequences (How else —
other than Wan's decided sense of humor — do we explain that the skydiving cars land in a perfect single - file line?).
This stylish franchise has always been known for
ridiculous,
other - worldly character designs, power metal background music, and high octane 1v1
action.