RRR And The Lost Art Of The Blockbuster
Everybody stop what you're doing right now and go watch RRR on Netflix. 'B-b-b-but mommy it's th-thr-three hours long, and it's in a foreign language!' Boo hoo. Budget your time better. Learn to read. Evolve as a human being. Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. I will admit I only got around to watching RRR recently, mostly because of the two reasons outlined above. But now I see it as my mission to convince others to rectify their mistakes in the same way I did, because RRR is not only a great movie, it is an antidote for an increasingly stale blockbuster scene that has long been devoid of any real spectacle.
We still love spectacle in Western cinema, we just have no real ideas on how to deliver it. All of our biggest movies are just a dredge of IP soup, where the excitement comes not from what is on the screen, but who. It's why we stay for post-credit sequences, why Marvel sets up movies years in advance by dropping stray cameos here and there, knowing we will salivate over the presence of Harry Styles as Captain Boomboomshaketheroom despite no setup for who he is, what his story entails, and why we should care. We are fooled into being excited by American cinema, the mere presence of a character we recognise being enough to push beyond our limits. Tobey Maguire back as Spider-Man? Willem Defoe saying the meme line? Here's a billion dollars! Jurassic World brings all its characters back for a fond farewell, but doesn’t bother giving them a movie.
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RRR does not fool us. RRR has two men tie themselves together, jump off equal sides of a bridge to save a child from a burning train, have one man grab the child, another grab a flag and soak it in the
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