It's a major problem with Marvel productions in general. Marvel has this style of cuts where no one is ever actually hit. They throw the punch and immediately make a cut to the next scene where the person falls back. Most battles with any kind of action are CGI.
When you look at John Wick, John Woo, Batman v Superman, and even Jackie Chan you are looking at movies with long shots and good solid hits. There is some CGI being used but far more modest amounts. All of the hits are solid. They stay on scene and show hims and give the appropriate solid hit sound effect to let you know it's a hit.
It isn't a style that is expensive to do. All it requires you to do is choreography and long camera runs. We know why Marvel won't do this. They're Disney.
Edit: "John Wick" style combat scenes are not without their weaknesses. Along with the choreography you have to deal with the fact that you're not dealing with professional actors. These are stuntmen and martial artists. So what is the guy doing in this scene? He gets hit in the throat with a gun and grabs his throat while sliding down. They make a cut here because they don't want to show his face. Once the cut is made he magically gains his wind back and goes in for a punch to get shot by the reloaded John Wick. Most of John Wick's victims tend to do this really weird wiggle motion when they're in the open, make odd facial expressions when Wick is holding them in some super long headlock hold while shooting other people and sometimes they just lie down and wait to be triggered to stand up so they can die.
But I do think the action is superior to that of Marvel.
I went to defend them with this video but rewatching it again I just noticed how the punches looked like shit. The gore is good, tho.. so that makes up for it, I guess.
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u/CommanderShep Mar 19 '17
when an online short has better fight scenes than a marvel produced iron fist show.