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Gun Jam posted:John Wick 3 Trailer. Not sure how much of it is supposed to be a surprise, plot-wise.
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Gun Jam posted:So... Any action classic to watch in the mean time? In particular, either scratching that John Wick itch, or something like Heat (not exactly an action movie, but the few gunfight scenes are excellent)? The Man From Nowhere
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Gun Jam posted:John Wick 3 Trailer. Not sure how much of it is supposed to be a surprise, plot-wise. The Matrix 
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Basebf555 posted:The Man From Nowhere Yeeeeeah gently caress I need to rewatch this movie. I remember it being super visceral in that same John Wick way.
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I always thought John Wick was the fight scenes from Collateral turned up to 11.
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Lumbermouth posted:Yeeeeeah gently caress I need to rewatch this movie. I remember it being super visceral in that same John Wick way. It's also one of those action movies where the other stuff surrounding the action is actually still really entertaining. In a similar way to Wick where it's just constantly having other characters interacting with the lead guy and figuring out for themselves just how dangerous this random dude really is. My favorite bit is when the main enforcer for the boss kills one of his underlings right in front of the main character, but he has literally zero reaction, no flinch no recoil nothing at all. The enforcer guy immediately is unsettled by this and you can see the wheels turning in his head in the car afterwards when he mentions it. Also the part where some dumb goons pull a knife and he swipes it from the guy's hand so lightning fast that they barely even realize what happened.
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Nice to see Dacascos getting work. He's one of those dude where I was always surprised he never really went anywhere. There were a couple of projects of his that I really thought "Oh, he'll be bigtime, now" but no.Basebf555 posted:It's also one of those action movies where the other stuff surrounding the action is actually still really entertaining. In a similar way to Wick where it's just constantly having other characters interacting with the lead guy and figuring out for themselves just how dangerous this random dude really is. The best part of that movie was in the finale, where, unlike most action heroes, he actually carries a sensible number of reloads. Lumbermouth posted:Yeeeeeah gently caress I need to rewatch this movie. I remember it being super visceral in that same John Wick way. Just while we're mentioning Korean films, City of Violence is entertainingly dumb and, as the name implies, violent, while A Bittersweet Life is loving amazing and I cannot recommend it enough. Also, very different genre, but there's a sword and horse action adventure movie called 'Musa' that I loving loved and I almost never see mentioned. It's pretty hard to track down these days.
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John tomahawk's an entire assault rifle at a guy in the John Wick 3 trailer and there's TWO dogs. Why even bother releasing more films this year.
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:John tomahawk's an entire assault rifle at a guy in the John Wick 3 trailer and there's TWO dogs. Why even bother releasing more films this year.  
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Halloween Jack posted:Replicant isn't in the same niche as most of his 90s films. It's a cheesy Italian exploitation film that just happens to not be Italian. By that standard, I actually think 2019: After the Fall of New York is the best of the extremely specific "low-budget Terminator crossed with Mad Max" genre. But Replicant has JCVD and some cool fights. Was Van Dammme just too difficult to work with that he could only co-star with himself? Double Impact, Replicant, Maximum Risk, were there any others?
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Aaand I just realized I said Replicant when I meant Cyborg.
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Interesting looking Korean action flick called Revenger just dropped on Netflix. Anyone know if it's worth a watch?
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fenix down posted:That reminded me of Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the dumbest loving movie ever made and I absolutely love it.
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Lamont posted:Interesting looking Korean action flick called Revenger just dropped on Netflix. Anyone know if it's worth a watch? I watched it, it was ok. The main guy is pretty impressive but for a revenge story the villain was kinda nothing and barely even felt like a character. Also, the setting seemed interesting at first but they never really did much with it. Action is solid but there's not quite enough of it to be able to fully recommend the movie.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Equilibrium is the dumbest loving movie ever made and I absolutely love it. Yeah, I haven’t seen it in forever, but when I saw it I thought, “This feels dumb as hell, but also rules. Is this director amazing or a hack who made one movie that tickled me the right way?” Then I saw his next movie, Ultraviolet, and thought, “Oh.” I haven’t watch Equilibrium since (outside of YouTubing the hallway fight scene, which I’ll stand by).
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thrawn527 posted:Yeah, I haven’t seen it in forever, but when I saw it I thought, “This feels dumb as hell, but also rules. Is this director amazing or a hack who made one movie that tickled me the right way?” Then I saw his next movie, Ultraviolet, and thought, “Oh.” It’s a movie where Christian Bale is flummoxed by a puppy, and cocks pump shotguns by shoving them at the ground. It’s worth watching again just for how incredibly stupid yet cinematically dynamic Gun-kata is.
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Gunkata got nothing on bullet curving, try to math your way out of that.
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Yea Equilibrium holds up imo, if anything the gun kata style fights have become even closer to the standard in Hollywood as the years have gone by. Lots of good actors in that movie though. Bale, Bean, Emily Watson, Williams Fichtner, Sean Pertwee, plus Taye Diggs is pretty solid too even though I don't consider him as good an actor as the others.
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I cannot stress enough, though, how stupid Equilibrium is. It’s a movie about martial arts gunfighting that explains why this dumb-cool fighting style is necessary. The muzzle flashes are all the dumb Grammatron Cleric cross. Christian Bale hits shotguns pointed at his head so they spin around in the air and he catches them by the handles. It’s an outrageously dumb movie, but that’s also why it’s so much fun to watch, it wouldn’t be nearly as good or interesting if its story was actually intelligent or subtle.
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I was excited for Christian Bale as Batman specifically because of the scenes where he disarms, cripples, and knocks out all those guys when he's unarmed.
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Halloween Jack posted:I was excited for Christian Bale as Batman specifically because of the scenes where he disarms, cripples, and knocks out all those guys when he's unarmed. The best is when the gestapo dudes bust into his apartment and he just instantly demolishes this one guy's arm by using his own rifle against him for leverage.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Equilibrium is the dumbest loving movie ever made and I absolutely love it. It’s like taking a bong hit directly out of a 14 year old sci-fi nerd’s brain, and it’s amazing.
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Basebf555 posted:The best is when the gestapo dudes bust into his apartment and he just instantly demolishes this one guy's arm by using his own rifle against him for leverage. Fart City posted:It’s like taking a bong hit directly out of a 14 year old sci-fi nerd’s brain, and it’s amazing. X-Ray Pecs posted:It’s an outrageously dumb movie, but that’s also why it’s so much fun to watch, it wouldn’t be nearly as good or interesting if its story was actually intelligent or subtle.
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George Orwell's Van Halen's 1984
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The funniest part of Equilibrium is after Christian Bale chops off Taye Diggs's face and later you see what looks like a print-out of his face lying on the floor. Edit: Seriously, look at this: 
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Yeah opinions are divided on whether Taye Diggs' death is the good kind of stupid.
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It’s the full potential of Face/Off brought to life.
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I mentioned that era of action movies in one of the other threads: everyone seemed to wear lots of leather. It was certainly a common aesthetic choice. Blade, Matrix, Underworld and X-Men are the most obvious culprits. Adjacent to it you had Equilibrium and Ultraviolet. There was also Van Helsing, the first Hellboy movie and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the Resident Evil movies. Alongside that the main thing in action cinema (American action cinema) was... What? You had Transporter for a while, you had Fast and the Furious but it wasn't yet the huge franchise it has now become, you had the first two Mummy movies; arguably the Pirates movies were the biggest thing going.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Alongside that the main thing in action cinema (American action cinema) was... What? You had Transporter for a while, you had Fast and the Furious but it wasn't yet the huge franchise it has now become, you had the first two Mummy movies; arguably the Pirates movies were the biggest thing going. After The Matrix Yuen Woo-ping really dominated the action scene as far as what people were anticipating the most. The year after The Matrix he did Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and then after that the two Matrix sequels, followed by a Jet Li movie and Kill Bill. So his influence probably made the biggest impact on the genre of anyone else during that time.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:It’s the full potential of Face/Off brought to life. Face, off.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Alongside that the main thing in action cinema (American action cinema) was... What? You had Transporter for a while, you had Fast and the Furious but it wasn't yet the huge franchise it has now become, you had the first two Mummy movies; arguably the Pirates movies were the biggest thing going. Well, there was that one series some weird New Zealand horror director was involved in. That made quite a splash. Plus, you know, Star Wars.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Alongside that the main thing in action cinema (American action cinema) was... What? You had Transporter for a while, you had Fast and the Furious but it wasn't yet the huge franchise it has now become, you had the first two Mummy movies; arguably the Pirates movies were the biggest thing going.
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Halloween Jack posted:I would say that, while it goes without saying that nothing in it was exactly new, the Bourne series launched a new wave of technothriller-based action movies. And from a technical standpoint brought about a wave of “in the moment” shakeycam, for better or worse (though only really once Greengrass came on)
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Halloween Jack posted:I would say that, while it goes without saying that nothing in it was exactly new, the Bourne series launched a new wave of technothriller-based action movies. Well, poo poo. Of course. I have no idea why I always forget about Bourne. Mission Impossible may bear mentioning but those came out infrequently enough an each of them had such a distinct identity (until Cruise decided he liked McQuarrie enough to keep him around for multiple movies) that they sort of float along on top of every other trend.
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Wheat Loaf posted:The funniest part of Equilibrium is after Christian Bale chops off Taye Diggs's face and later you see what looks like a print-out of his face lying on the floor. The spectrum of face-chopping with this ^^ at one end and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amrmWyKz48k at the other 
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NoneMoreNegative posted:The spectrum of face-chopping with this ^^ at one end and this: Spartacus is the greatest show ever made
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Spartacus is the greatest show ever made It rules so much. The rare series that pulled off both a prequel season and an actually satisfying conclusion.
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Spartacus is great because it's a show where the writing team and production team clearly never met each other. The script is a really clever palace intrigue show about the illusion of upward mobility, the inherent violence of the class system, how concepts like 'honor' just become more chains for the underclass. It's actually about as clever as Rome. However, the production team just tasered a sugared up 14 year old and filmed whatever he yelled out. TITS...TITS...DICKS...TITS...CHOPPING...TITS...MORE CHOPPING. It loving rules. Plus it gave us Manu Bennett.
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My favorite thing about Equilibrium is the realization that Sean Bean really isn't safe in any loving movie. He's sitting alone in a church reading a book and what happens? He gets shot in the face.
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