> All of this is true for Hollywood movies. Spectacle is worthless if we don't care about the characters and if we don't believe they're faced with serious problems. The best action films have memorable, interesting characters and action scenes that develop in realistic ways given what we know about the rules of physics within that movie universe. The characters in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" can practically fly, but imagine if at the end of "Terminator" Arnold's cyborg assassin suddenly could.

Or, what if a cute little blue and white droid sprouts rockets to help him fly in a prequel but never uses those boosters to fly (when it would be very convenient) or even indicates that he could in the last/first three movies?

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