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Hardcore Henry
2015 · Film · 97 min
Directed by Ilya Naishuller
ActionAdventureScience Fiction
Henry, a newly resurrected cyborg who must save his wife/creator from the clutches of a psychotic tyrant with telekinetic powers, AKAN, and his army of mercenaries. Fighting alongside Henry is Jimmy, who is Henry's only hope to make it through the day. Hardcore Henry takes place over the course of one day, in Moscow, Russia.
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For me, anything based mostly on story or suspense is out, because I know what's going to happen. Even if they are some of my favorites. So usually it's for the visuals, music, or action.
Hardcore Henry I've probably watched the most. Such an absolutely wild action movie.
For visuals, I've watched What Dreams May Come(despite it being pretty heavy) and Tarsem Singh's "The Fall" probably five times each. The latter is hard to find, but definitely worth a watch if you come across it.
The last movie I thoroughly enjoyed was (you're going to laugh and I'm OK with that):
Hardcore Henry
Frenetic, insane, indulgent, madness. Loved it. Can stand most blockbusters, can't stand most dramas.
A tangent, but the movie Hardcore Henry is a first-person perspective action movie in that vein. Once I got over the initial motion sickness it was insanely riveting.
The recent "Nobody" is a good twist on action, as well as "Hardcore Henry" is interesting. When the storyline takes unexpected turns, or uses clichés as bait and does not follow through on the cliché can be fresh. In general, a feature length film is too short to do many literary works justice, and serialization does a far better job relating a quality story. For example, Netflix's "Ozark" would not be called "action" in the feature film sense, but the intellectual violence in that show is far and above stupid gun/car/fist violence. Films like "The Congress", "Terminator 2", and "Tropic Thunder" represent the best the Hollywood feature film system can produce.
Annihilation, Dark City, Riddick Chronicles, Babylon A.D., Guardians of The Galaxy, Fast and Furious, Hummingbird, Transporter, Crank, Hardcore Henry, Revolver, Lucy, Ghost in The Shell, Now you see me, Passengers, Transcendence, Maze Runner, Limitless...
I think we've had a good run; I also think it's easy to be biased and not see it because of some nostalgia-effect of sorts. If you are f.e. 30+ you might more easily dismiss a movie as Limitless or Lucy as uncredible; both are based on a common myth that we only utilize a low percentage of our brains capacity, as an example, so they are that: unrealistic. But I think that's an unfair comparison because of an inherent bias that when you think about a movie like The Matrix you don't see it with the same critical lens because you perhaps had less knowledge of the world in your earlier years. #JustAFewThoughts
Actually, in some ways, Hardcore Henry (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3072482/) was a great video game movie. It has lots of problems, but it captures both the feel of a video game with the power of film. While not based on a specific game, it's easy to see many gaming cliches (intentionally) in the film.
As somebody with extensive ties to both Tech and Content Creation spheres, I can tell you right away the killer app for VR is in Episodic Entertainment Experiences.
Not games. Not business applications. Not practicing open heart surgery or bomb defusing.
No, the intersection of VR and Mass Interest will be something a lot closer to YouTube-Meets-Network-TV-Meets-James-Cameron. "Hardcore Henry" for other genres like Comedy, Drama, Romance...There's a big problem though. The Tech Industry and Content Creation Industry fight each other like petulant, smart-ass, greedy siblings.
So it ain't going to happen any time soon. AR will, in the meantime, become extremely compelling through Content Creation Applications. Microsoft is screaming ahead in this realm, with the Surface Pro platform edging into Education and the Surface Desktop likely a contender for studios worldwide in all sorts of areas (Visual, Film, Music). Microsoft, unless their compass is totally out of whack, will eventually have a compelling reason to add AR into a high power workstation.
Don't get what's "great" about these movies. According to IMDb, the ratings are: Synchronicity: 5.5 Lazer Team: 5.7 Southbound: 5.9 The Witch: 6.7 10 Cloverfield Lane: 7.3 Midnight Special: 6.7 The Lobster: 7.1 Hardcore Henry: 6.8 Elstree 1976: 6.1 High-Rise: 5.7 TMNT: Out of the Shadows: 6.0 Swiss Army Man: 7.1 Kubo and the two strings: 8.1
Surprised I didn't see any of the following on that list: ARQ (6.4), Project Almanac (6.4), Self/Less (6.5), Chappie (6.9), Star Trek: Beyond (7.2), Ex Machina (7.7), Train to Busan (7.6), The Martian (8.0).