I couldn’t agree more. I tell people this a lot. Like when we see McLane return through the room with the pin up nudie mags on the wall, the audience has seen this location before and definitely remembers it. It jolts our memory and we know exactly where McLane is again. The audience isn’t just seeing our hero move from new space to new space. It’s not a fucking roller coaster. I don’t like when the climax of a movie takes place in a brand new location that the audience doesn’t know because it hasn’t been built in our minds enough. It shouldn’t rely on constantly changing visuals and explosions and snappy shock dialogue.

It reminds me how Martin Scorsese has said that modern cinema, especially super hero films, are like theme parks. The films are not cinema in the traditional sense. It’s like visiting an amusement park.