Oscar winner Oliver Stone criticizes the disconnect from reality in modern action films. They are more like video games than real movies.
In an interview with Variety, Oliver Stone criticizes the current film landscape. The 76-year-old has a hard time with some modern films, as they are more like video games.
He mentions a specific franchise: He saw John Wick 4 on the airplane, and the film was simply “incredibly disgusting.”
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The director himself is known mainly for his political films. However, his own works have also come under criticism: The gangster film Scarface (1983), for which he wrote the screenplay, as well as Natural Born Killers, which he directed, have been accused of glorifying violence.
Despite this, Stone doesn’t care for the popular “John Wick” franchise:
Maybe I saw G.I. Joe when I was a child. But [Keanu Reeves] kills three-, four hundred people in this damn movie. And as a war veteran, I must say that not a single one of them is believable. I understand that it’s a movie, but it has become more of a video game than a movie.
The Oscar winner criticizes the disconnect from reality in films. The audience might enjoy it, but he finds it boring.
In fact, the similarity is not without reason, as director Chad Stahelski makes no secret of his influences. In particular, the shooter The Hong Kong Massacre is a major inspiration. The colleagues from Moviepilot even say, John Wick 4 has unintentionally become one of the best video game adaptations.
However, Oliver Stone emphasizes that his problem has nothing to do with the franchise specifically, but rather with the film industry as a whole. Even Marvel’s superheroes and the turbo-action of Fast & Furious come under fire:
How many cars can crash? How many stunts can you perform? What is the difference between Fast & Furious and any other movie? It’s just one thing after another. Whether it’s a superhuman Marvel character or a human being like John Wick, it makes no difference.
It’s not believable.
The filmmaker accuses the decision-makers in Hollywood of being “idiots” who only go along with the trend. He wishes for more courage to take risks with films (via 3D Juegos).
Oliver Stone is not the only one who criticizes the lack of realism in some films. The space agency NASA once published a list of sci-fi films that are the farthest from reality.
One film managed to win: This science fiction film is considered by NASA to be the most unrealistic
