Feeling like blood goes to feet? Heart is beating so fast? not able to feel anything in hands and feet? Now you might think I am listing some symptoms of a disease, but I am not. These signs appear when people watch very thrilling action movies. ‘excitement’, ‘adrenalin’ are the most suitable words to describe action movies.
According to a survey conducted by Movie Goer, more than half of the americans love to watch action movies, and I myself prefer action movies to just a gentle comedy. Then, why do many people find it mesmerizing to watch action movies? As far as I am concerned, there are two reasons why so.
First, watching action movies can be a good way to relieve stresses. Many acquaintances of mine occasionally express that especially Friday night, after work, it is the best choice to watch exciting action movies. Imagine that today is Friday, and you are finally free, after all the stressful work and dealing with endlessly piled documents on the messy desk, and there is a very comfortable looking couch in the middle of a cozy living room equipped with a 7.1ch surround speaker, and it is time you chose whether watching a very dazzling and exciting action movie or a very sad movie that could make you feel more gloomy. Which one would you choose to watch?
Second, it is enjoyable to watch action movies as you watch action scenes, and generally no serious following up thinking is required. In other words, it is very casual. I would like to ask you if you have some experience that as a movie goes on, it feels like your brain is going to explode due to whether the movie is telling you very heavy political issues or has a very complicated movie plot. I assume that some people just want to enjoy their entertainment time. After that, when getting out of a movie theatre, people would find their faces looking like today is the end of the world. Just blood splashing fighting between robust and cold-blooded men, and breath taking car chasing and crashing with no depressing feelings. These are why we like action movies.
In the final analysis, nowadays people are so stressed from their daily lives, and there is a tendency that people go to watch action movies to get all the excitement so that they are free from the stresses for a moment. Moreover, since action movies do not require us to think about other complicated matters, we can casually enjoy watching them. These two reasons are the beauty of action movies and what makes an action movie so mesmerizing to watch.