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Right, they're all the same thing over and over. Granted, it is very hard to write something "original" as everything has pretty much been done before. But the way in which a story is told, even if not particularly innovative, is what matters most. Flashy action scenes will never trump a solid narrative.

For example, one of my favorite films is 12 Angry Men (1957), which consists of just twelve men talking in one room for an hour and a half. Sounds boring, yet the narrative draws you in despite the lack of, well, anything traditionally exciting happening.

I've heard it described like this: action scenes in action movies should be like musical scenes in musicals. The musical/action scene is the story's opportunity to expand upon the narrative to the audience in a cool way. Too many action films have "exciting stuff" just for the sake of "exciting stuff." Imagine if a musical had characters burst into a song that had nothing to do with the actual story, that's how weird action just for the sake of action is to me.

I despise the ones where the 'superhero' scrunches up their face and hold their hands in a manner thats supposed to look like theyre summoning their superpower that will shoot out of their superhands.

They used to be made for the 5 second attention span generation but they're all pushing 40 now. So every 5 seconds something needed to explode or have a sharp attention grabbing sound.

Now they just need a wheel chair bound transbrave soooooperrrrr hero that kvetchs about the hoooowyte patriarch.