I'm tired of this: People jumping off stuff, and landing legs spread out, one hand on the ground, head down, looking defiantly downwards. Think about what a dumb move this actually is! And it happens so goddamed often! I wish that just once, they'd land like that, break a kneecap or wrist, then look up and get shot in the head. Precedence would be set, and all would be well. Thank you, needed to get that off my chest.
That's the classic ground-pound head-down landing. It's legendary. I try to do it at least twice daily in real life, just to keep things hot for the babes.
Examples I'm thinking of, Iron Man and Master Chief, but i understand how both of them could pull it off. Link has it right though. Roll when you land, otherwise you get hurt.
Still, the worst fall that still pisses me off til this day is from Gundam Wing. Dude falls off a skyscraper, then hits the side of a mountain and rolls down. The consequence? Simply reattaches his dislocated shoulder and carries on with his business. I remember turning off the TV at that point.
" That's the classic ground-pound head-down landing. It's legendary. I try to do it at least twice daily in real life, just to keep things hot for the babes. "
I don't really give a shit about how realistic stuff is in the context of videogames, it'd just be so much more badass to just land, standing up! Like "Yeah, I just landed right there, I don't give a fuck!" That said, I appreciate you guys bringing some much needed examples to this thread.
" I don't really give a shit about how realistic stuff is in the context of videogames, it'd just be so much more badass to just land, standing up! Like "Yeah, I just landed right there, I don't give a fuck!" That said, I appreciate you guys bringing some much needed examples to this thread. "
While I don't mind the Iron Man landing (I actually find it pretty cool), I have to give Superman Return props for the stand-up landing, including the ground crumbling under him. Say what you want about that movie, that was one cool image.
You know it's still kind of cool, but yeah it's just one of many overused action hero cliches. I suppose the opposite end of the spectrum is that terrible fall-and-tumble animation from Comic Jumper. As a side note I'm happy to see this thread is giving people their daily dose of Lonely Island.
I cringe whenever I see that kind of "landing with an impact". Speaking of which: I did finish Final Fantasy XII ... with heavy seizures ... And remember Advent Children? Holy ...
Not looking at explosions always reminds me of how awesome A Better Tomorrow is. In the second movie they intended for Chow Yun Fat's character to pull a cool move like that, however, he was standing quite too close to the mansion they blew up, and it shows. Of course they couldn't shoot this scene a second time so it ended up the way it did. Unforgettable. :)
Honestly, I'd love to see more folks land a jump like Wile E. Coyote. You know, just climb out of the giant crater they just made, instantly bandaged up and ready for another harebrained scheme to catch that pesky Road Runner.
Whenever I fall a great distance in Dead Rising 2, I make Chuck to the double-barreled jump kick so that he lands in a back splash. No one lands in splashes anymore. Or ever before.
I think the landing and crouching trope originates in anime or manga. The earliest example I can pull is shonen stuff like Dragonball. Of course, the Wachowski's were very inspired by anime while making the Matrix, and then the Matrix itself inspired action movies after it.
If you ever see an fast moving object clearly, but the environment around it is blurred, that also has a basis in manga. Western comics were more into the object-blur rather than the environment-blur (ex: The Flash).
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