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Don't Talk So Much
Pulpy, stoic curmudgeons who always seem to get the job done. Don't talk about it, be about it!
Love a good genre story that centers characters who don't talk over every scene.
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While not the original, Hellboy is certainly towards the apex of this kind of story. The plot is pure pulp, ripped from the pages of countless myths, legends, and penny dreadfuls that came before it.…
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Norgal is an excellent continuation in this long lineage of guys who wreck shit and generally don't talk too much. While much more aligned to the time periods of classic sword and sorcery, the storyli…
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You really can't say enough about how wild it was to see a TV series bring a lineless style to the small screen. The pushed shape language, incredible environment art (new locations every episode!), a…
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Mad Max is such an excellent example of this stoic, reluctant hero, and the original entries into this series are each incredible in their own right, but Fury Road felt like the distillation of everyt…
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It's easy to let the fact that this game just redefined the FPS genre overshadow how much of it is an unabashed love letter to pulpy Sci-Fi from top to tip. The ring worlds, the alien civilizations, t…
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It's hard to pick between the books, the games, and the multiple movies and series at this point, but to me, the third game sort of perfected the concoction that makes this franchise so special. First…
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Furiosa exposed everyone to Charlize Theron's ability to carry her own take on the stoic curmudgeon with aplomb in Fury Road, so when she got to helm her own action flick based on a graphic novel, she…
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Genndy Tartakovsky's singular vision as an animated action auteur evolves here in ways that seem almost impossible to replicate. An entirely nonverbal animated series for adult audiences, where he was…
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This was my first taste of Akira Kurosawa in some of my early Film classes. Kurosawa's sense of framing, and his larger than life, mythic characters instantly made an impression. I had been watching c…