I'm supposed to buy Kate Beckinsale as a bouncer?
It lost me right there.
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Hey, it's more plausible than Angelina Jolie playing a firefighter...
shareWell they explain that away by her condition causing her to be hyped up on an overabundance of cortisol or some shit like that.... makes little sense but hey. I I'll give them that one.... but then when she go full Bruce Lee/Ninja warrior while wearing 4 inch high heels it really just goes into silly land. I can accept made up superpowers, hell MCU has it all over the place... but for the love of god don't ignore basic physics and have what amounts to kung fu fights in platform shoes.... you have to draw the line of unbelievability somewhere.
shareBeing a bouncer is also a lot more than the physical abilities. It's more about deterrence and prevention as well. Let's just say we accept the premise - that she has some sort of super powers that aide her in defeating men in martial combat AND that she can do it in heels. You still don't want that as a bouncer, because you want the platoon of very large, very intimidating bouncer staff that is more there to keep people on their best behavior, rather than actually bouncing anyone.
shareYep, she has zero intimidation factor... I mean who is really going to fear their granny whipping their ass.
shareI like her as an action hero. I enjoyed the Underworld movies. BUT, you've got to give me SOMETHING to work with. Tell me she's got some bad combat drugs or some such bullshit, but don't try to get me to buy her as just being that bad ass, just because.
shareNo drugs... the whole premise is she was raised by bad parents and has an anger management issue where you gets very angry, can't control her anger and it increases the amount of cortisol in her to the point that she get stronger than other people would... pretty much a dumb shit story, would have been slightly more plausible if they said she had an adrenaline problem or something.
shareCome on Kate. You can do better than THAT!
shareAnd that still wouldn't make her an effective or ideal bouncer at all. People hire bouncers for security. They want them to AVOID fights and confrontation. As others have mentioned, an intimidation factor is needed here. You want problem customers to look at your bouncer and think "maybe I'll jut behave..." not get lulled into some surprise ass kicking. If she has to get angry, loose control and go Tasmanian devil on people due to her "condition", that's useless. And still not believable.
shareI never said it made her an effective bouncer, nor did it in the movie because she was fired from the job because of beating up customers. The reality is no club would hire someone as a bouncer that looked like she did for the reason you laid out and also by the fact that if you wanted a bouncer you would want one that you thought could do the job and no club owner is going to think some rail of a woman like her would be able to take out a customer causing problems.
shareEveryone knows little girls can kick large men's ass.
shareIf she looked like a wwe diva i might believe her. At least in underworld shes a bloodsucker
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