… Listening to the awfully bland 90’s techno, we retract the ‘wonderful’ adjective.
On the movie front, a few examples are also worth mentioning: for instance, this silly scene from 1994’s The Shadow or that one from the movie that made Friends’ Joey an absolute movie star. One often neglected scene comes from the first Blade, an objectively kick-ass movie, to be sure.
Seriously, if you saw this in 1998, then The Matrix looked as the culmination of an ongoing trend instead of as a rupture with what came before.
So no snarky remarks here; Blade would not like it. Finally, no comment on pre-The Matrix examples of bullet-time would be complete without mentioning John Woo, an all-time master of hyper-stylized gun-fu. First, because we can joke about the ridiculousness that is Face-Off all day, yet it is an amazing cult movie that, yes, also had slo-mo bullets awesomely going off guns, in case you forgot. But more importantly, because he had already mastered the whole ‘slow-motion shots surrounding violent chaos’ thing by the late-’80s and early-’90s.
Pre-'Matrix' Attempts at Bullet-Time, We Salute You
Source: Pinoy Daily News
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