Yeah, the deus-ex-machina-like sudden resolve some protagonist gains for the same action they already repeated several times but now they become op with it.
Someones it’s the gas pedal that it turns out was only half-used before, sometimes in a fight the punches only become way stronger when the protagonist is already tired, beaten, and about to collapse, even bullets sometimes start working on the big baddies from point-blank range only when the protagonist is about to die but then drops a one-liner.
Sometimes it’s also yelling - someone physically can’t do the thing until the boss yells at them & then suddenly it happens.
Someones it’s the gas pedal that it turns out was only half-used before, sometimes in a fight the punches only become way stronger when the protagonist is already tired, beaten, and about to collapse, even bullets sometimes start working on the big baddies from point-blank range only when the protagonist is about to die but then drops a one-liner.
I can maybe believe the fist fight one. Adrenaline kicking in even more or whatever. But I do think it suggests writers haven’t been in many fights themselves and are just armchair sciencing how fighting works.
And the bullet one and gas pedal one is indefensible
It’s all about the visuals, not any logic behind it. It’s not that deep. Same reason games still run at 30 fps on consoles: they can bump up the settings and make it look better in trailers. Visuals trump all
Yeah, the deus-ex-machina-like sudden resolve some protagonist gains for the same action they already repeated several times but now they become op with it.
Someones it’s the gas pedal that it turns out was only half-used before, sometimes in a fight the punches only become way stronger when the protagonist is already tired, beaten, and about to collapse, even bullets sometimes start working on the big baddies from point-blank range only when the protagonist is about to die but then drops a one-liner.
Sometimes it’s also yelling - someone physically can’t do the thing until the boss yells at them & then suddenly it happens.
I can maybe believe the fist fight one. Adrenaline kicking in even more or whatever. But I do think it suggests writers haven’t been in many fights themselves and are just armchair sciencing how fighting works.
And the bullet one and gas pedal one is indefensible
It’s all about the visuals, not any logic behind it. It’s not that deep. Same reason games still run at 30 fps on consoles: they can bump up the settings and make it look better in trailers. Visuals trump all
Exactly this.
The question is just what sells & most apparently ppl will pay for flashy stuff, “cinematic”, no brain needed.