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More specifically, your take is glued to the things you enjoyed when you were younger.
It's completely natural and normal, but there’s nothing wrong with overtly admitting that you just like what was hot in your era. Because it’s clear that you’re not being objective here.
I’m 41 And grew up on every actor and film you’ve named, and frankly, most of them don’t hold up. The OG Rambo doesn’t really count as an “action” film, and 2&3 are trash- and are absolutely laughable to name as anything even close to Cruise’s filmography.
When you say Over The Top- a movie i love, but acknowledge is trash- is better than MI, the beat you can do is say that it’s your subjective opinion, because everything from the writing to plot to action to use of the tech of it’s time is objectively better in MI. It’s not remotely an objective opinion, which, again, is fine. But shit, at least admit it.
Citing things like Conan make this an joke
It’s some “back in my day” shit like a motherfucker
Sure, Ahnold may have held the crown at a time when there wasn’t exactly a high bar for action films- so someone was going to come in and raise that shit.
Cruise came in and refined the everloving shit out of the genre, raised it several notches higher, and then delivered film after film at that level, over a prolonged period of time.
T2 was some cultural zeitgeist shit no doubt, and yet Edge Of Tomorrow is, bare minimum, an equally good film, and is also one of the best executed sci-fi films ever made.
Minority Report is better than damn near everything you mentioned except for T2, but it’s not like it doesn’t compete, and it sons Total Recall.
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