do aspies not like action movies?

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i love action films!

I can't cope with action movies. Bobbery, sudden events, and violence. It's too much for me to handle.

It really, really depends a lot on the story and overall style.

I hate movies with a lot of machine-gun shooting in them, since the sound of gunshots is really jarring to me. Also, long battle scenes bore me to tears. (The Lord of the Rings and I have a love/hate relationship for this...)

HOWEVER, the Kill Bill movies rank very highly on my repeat viewing list, as do samurai films, and I really like World War II movies.

I love action movies to death, though I feel like the golden age has really passed. I actually used to be working on a book of capsule reviews of Hong Kong action films, and for several years, towards the end of the Hong Kong cinema golden age (for argument's sake, that wrapped up around 1994 but the consistent quality of HK kung fu gun fu movies went into free fall around the time of the handover in 1997), about a third of all the movies I watched were in Cantonese. The eighties and their low-budget and straight-to-video junk-fests were another golden era of sorts...so many gems (for various reasons) could be found, and watching them now is like a archaeological study of how Los Angeles viewed the world back then. I remember when Bad Boys 2 came out, I know it was mostly a crap movie but I loved how it was the first big action movie I'd seen in ages that actually ended in a shootout and not mass demolition.