- Moderator
- #101
In reality both things can be true, ive seen plenty of fighters take shots that i was sure would drop them and keep going, the lights out button is a fickle beast.Neither is corny. They are movies where you have to suspend some level of belief but, if presented well, are entertaining.
And MMA isn’t people taking 20-30 punches to the head, it’s narrowly avoiding 20-30 (gloved) punches to the head, or taking them on your guard; one flush punch to the face and they drop like a sack of potatoes.
The reality is they coreographed all the fights in AB to get around the general issue most dudes have with women v men fights (ironically doing years of MMA, BJJ and Muay Thai ive had my ass kicked by many a girl) that "men are bigger and stronger" by having Charlize use counter fighting and leverage stuff, nothing in those scenes was actually unbelievable by action movie standards, if anything it was one of the more realistic action films ive scene (assuming you can just believe Theron has a good chin)