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Neo Rasa posted:I'm still mad Mark Dacascos died. Should have been badly wounded but left alive like Common
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I saw some very nice nods to John Woo there, which I appreciate. More things need to steal the Warriors radio DJ and I'm glad to see it here
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Feb 16, 2023 19:10
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I kept thinking the goon next to Skarsgard looked familiar and he kept showing up . Either I'd completely forgotten or just now found out but that's Marko Zaror! Holy moly
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Feb 16, 2023 19:38
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Neo Rasa posted:I'm still mad Mark Dacascos died. Could you maybe word this differently?! Jesus
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Feb 16, 2023 21:56
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Neo Rasa posted:I'm still mad Mark Dacascos died. Should have been badly wounded but left alive like Common I absolutely love the live action crying freeman.
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Feb 16, 2023 22:09
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Neo Rasa posted:I'm still mad Mark Dacascos died. Should have been badly wounded but left alive like Common *Mark shows up with a samurai sword still in his guts* "only a flesh wound"
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Feb 16, 2023 22:21
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Shageletic posted:*Mark shows up with a samurai sword still in his guts* Keanu: "Ugh" *Mark gives two thumbs up*
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Feb 16, 2023 22:26
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Grendels Dad posted:Keanu: "Ugh" The Art of Action episode with him was fantastic because a good portion of the interview is Mark telling Scott Adkins how much he likes him and Scott trying to keep him on topic
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Feb 16, 2023 22:39
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Dacascos genuinely seems like an absolutely lovely bloke. I always thought it was a real shame that he came along right as the martial arts movie bubble was bursting (poor guy was in kickboxer 5. Did you even know that there was a kickboxer 5?) but it's been great to see him have a late career renaissance.
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Feb 16, 2023 23:39
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I've somehow never seen top gun before and i started watching top gun: maverick today but i paused it because they keep referencing stuff that happened in the first movie i think. What exactly is tom cruise's deal/beef with the rooster guy? I feel like I'm missing something. Also why can't they just call up the CIA to send in some drones to strike at the uranium facility instead of sending in pilots? I stopped the movie at around 30mins in, shortly after they introduced the mission and the 12 rookie pilots.
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Feb 17, 2023 03:29
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Boris Galerkin posted:I've somehow never seen top gun before and i started watching top gun: maverick today but i paused it because they keep referencing stuff that happened in the first movie i think. What exactly is tom cruise's deal/beef with the rooster guy? I feel like I'm missing something. Top Gun (1986) spoilers: Goose is Maverick’s wingman. Maverick makes a dangerous maneuver which leads to Goose’s accidental death. In the sequel, Rooster is Goose’s son.
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Feb 17, 2023 03:53
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IIRC the movie literally does a montage recap of the first one pretty soon after you stopped. Maverick was a blast but definitely not a movie you want to think too hard about. I wish they’d just remade Macross Plus, though. Edit: I guess that’s what Stealth tried to do, huh? Dinosaurs! fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Feb 17, 2023 |
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Feb 17, 2023 03:53
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Top Gun (1986) spoilers: I understood that rooster was goose’s sun but why is there beef between them? Idk Tom cruise started acting all weird when he saw rooster’s picture as one of the candidates and then they’ve been acting weird around each other in the following scenes.
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Feb 17, 2023 04:32
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Dinosaurs! posted:IIRC the movie literally does a montage recap of the first one pretty soon after you stopped. Maverick was a blast but definitely not a movie you want to think too hard about. I wish they’d just remade Macross Plus, though. Yeah definitely not trying to overthink it, it was just something I put on while I was eating. But I just felt like I was missing something with how weird Tom cruise and the rooster guy were treating each other and I don’t feel like watching a 20 minute “things you should know before watching top gun maverick” YouTube video so I figure I’d just ask.
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Feb 17, 2023 04:36
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Boris Galerkin posted:I understood that rooster was goose’s sun but why is there beef between them? Idk Tom cruise started acting all weird when he saw rooster’s picture as one of the candidates and then they’ve been acting weird around each other in the following scenes. It’s stated in the film
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Feb 17, 2023 04:37
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Dinosaurs! posted:IIRC the movie literally does a montage recap of the first one pretty soon after you stopped. Maverick was a blast but definitely not a movie you want to think too hard about. 
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Feb 17, 2023 14:49
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You could say that at any point during the movie though
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As a professional caliber drinker, let me list off the issues I have with the bar scenes in Top Gun: Maverick. Firstly,
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VROOM VROOM posted:I'm not totally against the Wick sequels getting increasingly up their own rear end with worldbuilding bullshit and meaningless fight scenes, and having the first one be its own separate nice thing I need one that shows the impossible task he did that got him out of having to answer to the high table
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Feb 18, 2023 00:56
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I'm disappointed that we seem to be getting another Wick Against Waves of Killers movie instead of the Wick leads a rebellion of the Assassin Society Underclass that the end of the last one seemed to be pointing towards.
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Feb 18, 2023 01:09
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dokmo posted:Funny thing about that Sniper series is that none of those movies are particularly good, but almost all of them are pretty watchable. I don't think I've been disappointed by any of them I marathoned them all (and recently watched the 9th that came out recently - easily the worst of the 9). But yea, they're all definitely watchable, they all blend together, but one of the early ones where he has like sniper battles with a sniper in eastern Euro is incredible stuff. Also the Shooter TV show is really really good if you like sniper type junk like this, the first season is kinda like the Wahlbergers movie (or maybe the first few episodes), but then it goes like 5 seasons. Super loving Satisfying ending though. Loved it. and since John Cena was being talked about earlier, he's in a really low-key good Iraqi sniper movie called The Wall. I need to re-watch it, haven't seen it for years, but I remembering having to talk about it to all my friends for days.
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High Warlord Zog posted:I'm disappointed that we seem to be getting another Wick Against Waves of Killers movie instead of the Wick leads a rebellion of the Assassin Society Underclass that the end of the last one seemed to be pointing towards. They talked about John Wick 3 a bit as if the class difference thing was going to really come to a head in it but instead it only really matters towards the end and then doesn't actually happen til the very end. Are they seriously pushing this off again lol
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High Warlord Zog posted:I'm disappointed that we seem to be getting another Wick Against Waves of Killers movie instead of the Wick leads a rebellion of the Assassin Society Underclass that the end of the last one seemed to be pointing towards. From the look of the trailer, he goes up against the table in the first half (i assume that's who he's chasing in the desert) and then the rest of the movie is dealing with the fallout of that. I was already sold but that trailer looks like my exact kind of bullshit. Fighting in traffic, a shotgun that fires explosions, samurai SWAT teams, axe fights, Scott Adkins in a fat suit...It's stupid in the exact way I want it to be stupid. Slightly interesting is that there's no hint at all of the final single combat with Bill Skarsgard. Wonder why. I'll make a prediction, that it will be a beautifully shot quick draw contest between them, in an homage to the Good, the Bad and The Ugly. Westerns are one of the series many influences and it makes sense to do something completely different.
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https://twitter.com/kickassvargas/status/1626759767434870784?s=20 I am so excited for this movie. I totally get the John Wick fatigue, but I love them all, with 3 being my favorite. I just love all the dumb lore and how good the movies look in general, action and overall cinematography.
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The lore makes me laugh at how complicated it is. I really love it. I just hope they don’t repeat the same finale like they did with 3. They ddi the mirror room glass thing and doing it again bugged me, and then having two major fights in one room also bugged me too.
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CelticPredator posted:The lore makes me laugh at how complicated it is. I really love it. Also 3 had John go really really really far out of his way to end up in basically the exact same position he was at at the end of 2 lol
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Feb 18, 2023 16:29
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What makes a good sniper movie? Is it the sniper doing something sicknasty and rube-goldbergian? The only sequence I remember from any of them and it's Sniper looking through the scope at a hostage situation, with a mook holding a gun to the hostage's head. It's a human shield situation so the heads are parallel. Sniper shoots the mook's wrist, which pushes his gun hand back so now he's pointing the gun at his own mook head, with the Sniper bullet having pulled on his tendons makes his hand claw up and pull the trigger, shooting himself in the head If they're all filled with stuff like that then maybe I should watch a sniper movie
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forest spirit posted:What makes a good sniper movie? Is it the sniper doing something sicknasty and rube-goldbergian? The only sequence I remember from any of them and it's Sniper looking through the scope at a hostage situation, with a mook holding a gun to the hostage's head. It's a human shield situation so the heads are parallel. Sniper shoots the mook's wrist, which pushes his gun hand back so now he's pointing the gun at his own mook head, with the Sniper bullet having pulled on his tendons makes his hand claw up and pull the trigger, shooting himself in the head For me, I find a (good! well done!) sniper flick to be highly cinematic. Long-zoomed slow scans of the target, lots of visual story-telling to determine the setup and complicating factors. Tension builds. Close-ups on a tense sweaty face, finger slowly curling on the trigger. The soundscape focuses in... beat... beat... beat... Bang! Big release as things go bug-gently caress!
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The 10-minute sniper sequence that starts Jack Reacher is one of my favorites just for that reason, the buildup and tension
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Hirez posted:
The main thing I remember from watching Shooter was that the swearing was censored for some reason, but all the millions of head shots weren't. Also whenever characters said his name it sounded like they were calling him Bubbly because everyone had use his full name. I should probably rewatch it since I like me some cool shooting.
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Has anyone seen Zhang Yimou's Sniper? That seemed to come and go without any fanfare in the West. Is it good? All the clips I've seen from it seem very phoned in from him.
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Feb 18, 2023 20:05
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There was an episode of Banshee (season 3 I think) that had a good sniper scene in a cornfield
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I watched The Wall again, after reading that sniper talk about what makes a good sniper movie, and I dunno I think this one hits it home. Both guys seem completely hosed, what a situation to be in. I liked it better the second time even knowing certain things... man what a tense 70min movie. It's also directed by Doug Liman who gets too much poo poo for doing shaky cam, in his movies, but some of them deserves it  he rules)
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Hirez posted:I watched The Wall again, after reading that sniper talk about what makes a good sniper movie, and I dunno I think this one hits it home. Both guys seem completely hosed, what a situation to be in. I know some of the people in The Wall shoot bows at the monsters, but calling it a sniper movie seems a bit much.
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Lamont posted:There was an episode of Banshee (season 3 I think) that had a good sniper scene in a cornfield Here's my annual reminder to everyone in this thread to watch Banshee. Four seasons, currently streaming on HBO Max (at least for now). Anyone who loves action movies will fall in love with this show. Banshee is pure id, pulpy and violent and full of nudity and sex and incredible fight choreography, especially by TV standards. And it runs through plot twists and villains in single episodes that would be season-long arcs on any number of other shows.
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Wu Assassins was good too, but I'm an Iko fanboy
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forest spirit posted:What makes a good sniper movie? Is it the sniper doing something sicknasty and rube-goldbergian? The only sequence I remember from any of them and it's Sniper looking through the scope at a hostage situation, with a mook holding a gun to the hostage's head. It's a human shield situation so the heads are parallel. Sniper shoots the mook's wrist, which pushes his gun hand back so now he's pointing the gun at his own mook head, with the Sniper bullet having pulled on his tendons makes his hand claw up and pull the trigger, shooting himself in the head Enemy at the Gates. It'll answer all your questions.
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I've seen that more than a few times, I owned the DVD at one point. What sticks out were the accents, that weird sex scene and a pretty good shithead-rear end in a top hat villain
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