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Admit It: America Is No Longer the Superpower of Action Movies

Tom Scocca · 07/15/14 11:51AM

We barely watch movies anymore, because babysitting is expensive and the children don't leave many two-hour windows of being awake for streaming video. But when we do watch movies, they're usually Korean movies, because Koreans make better action movies than Americans do. (Or Hong Kong movies.) Every big Hollywood action movie is such an exact replica of every other big Hollywood action movie that it's as if you're already watching them on the airplane seat-back screen and forgetting them in real time.