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The set design is the most insane I've ever seen in any movie. There's a crazy amount of stuff packed into frames you'll be looking at for like five seconds.
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Speaking of weird movies set in Louisiana, was I mistaken or didn't Segal do a movie similar to Hard Target? It seemed like everyone was doing an adaptation to the MOST DANGEROUS GAME!
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KingsPawn posted:Speaking of weird movies set in Louisiana, was I mistaken or didn't Segal do a movie similar to Hard Target? It seemed like everyone was doing an adaptation to the MOST DANGEROUS GAME! The only other one from that era that I can think of is Surviving the Game with Ice-T and Rutger Hauer and a loving awesome Gary Busey.
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You might be thinking of On Deadly Ground, in which Billy Bob Thornton & R Lee Ermey are hired thugs from 'New Orleans' tracking him down in Alaska. Maybe mixed with the title Hard To Kill which sounds like Hard Target. Steven Seagal is often the lone man being hunted by the bad guys.
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Stephen Seagal is such a jackass. my favorite example of this: In Out for Kill, all the asian people dress like this (The movie takes place in asia):  Stephen Seagal dresses like this:  Someone pointed out recently (I don't remember if it was here or on reddit) But there are only two Stephen Seagal movie covers where he is not holding a gun, but one of them he's standing inside a gun silhouette.
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The worst part is that he seems to be completely oblivious to fact that he's a fat clown. At least Van Damme is in on the joke in later years. The gun-cover claim is a little bit of a stretch but not by much.
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david_a posted:The gun-cover claim is a little bit of a stretch but not by much. Disclaimer on the gun cover claim: I was just parroting it from an example I saw recently. Your links shows at least four covers that do not have guns, although Executive Decision does not count, because it is not "Seagal Movie". One of the many reasons it rules is that Seagal dies early and pointlessly, because gently caress him. I haven't seen a lot of Seagal movies (maybe half a dozen?), but my favorite scene that I have scene is where he has to go to anger management class in Exit Wounds. Which I think is a movie where DMX costars. Not as good as Cradle 2 the Grave where DMX and Jet Li costar. DMX opens a vault with a rocket launcher in literally the oposite way you would expect. Also one of the characters runs up a wall and does a backflip in slow motion, like in The Matrix, but it's not who you'd expect. Also the closing thing to being relevant to the movie I can say about the title is that there sure are two main characters. The idea that anyone could ever take Steven Seagal as seriously as he takes himself is laughable to me. Because it is impossible. Look at this bro-walk:  When people come up with action movie parody names, they have to make sure there's not already a Seagal movie called that. Above the Law Hard to Kill Marked for Death Out for Justice Under Siege On Deadly Ground Under Siege 2: Dark Territory* Exit Wounds Half Past Dead Belly of the Beast Out for a Kill Out of Reach Black Dawn Today You Die Into the Sun Mercenary for Justice Shadow Man Attack Force Urban Justice Flight of Fury Pistol Whipped Kill Switch A Dangerous Man Against the Dark Driven to Kill Born to Raise Hell** Urban Warfare Lethal Justice Street Wars Dark Vengeance Deadly Crossing Payback Maximum Conviction Force of Execution I swear when I started typing those I didn't know there were going to be so many...
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Kulkasha posted:I really don't know why, but I loving love 13th Warrior. Because it simply just isnt a bad film. It is well acted, has good costuming and set design and a plot that isnt too marred by the studio editing job. It has a good sense of dread throughout the film that is punctuated by good levity when needed and Banderas is a very good leading man as per usual. I know movies are highly subjective (I looove equilibrium and dont see as being THAT flawed :P) but I just cant see why people consider the 13th warrior a bad film. I can understand people being "meh" about it but theres nothing really wrong with it either.
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I think it has to do with the curse of Beowulf, which states that anything connected to Beowulf is either panned for 1500+ years until people appreciate it, or it's just outright bad.
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I supposed Antonio Banderaz playing an Arabic character can sort of be handwaved, since by the 10 century, the Iberian Peninsula would have been under Muslim control for about 200 years, so he could easily be a Muslim of Spanish descent. Maybe.
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Didn't Seagal get essentially trapped in a horrible contract to churn out endless lovely DTV actioners about which he could literally not give one poo poo? Possibly with the Russian Mafia involved somehow. Edit: not the Russian Mafia, just the regular one, apparently. Small Strange Bird fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Dec 19, 2014 |
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Just caught Rocky 2 on cable again, man that first hour is better than all of Rocky 1. The second turns into a generic training/fight montage, but that first half is amazing cinema. Really underrated. Also I caught Point Break, had never seen the full thing before and it is as amazing as Hot Fuzz led me to believe.
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I love the photography of Point Break. Not sure what exactly it is--negative space? lots of telephoto?--but I think it does something different than most action movies of that time and I inevitably get glued to it whenever I put it on.
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effectual posted:Just caught Rocky 2 on cable again, man that first hour is better than all of Rocky 1. The second turns into a generic training/fight montage, but that first half is amazing cinema. Really underrated. Really, except for 5, all the Rocky movies are good stuff. 1 - An acclaimed film 2 - A Junior version of #1 3 - A true 80s buddy film 4 - Stallone's attempt to make a boxing version of Top Gun (he succeeds wildly) 5 - What the gently caress 6 - A feel good film that uses nostalgia effectively
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effectual posted:Just caught Rocky 2 on cable again, man that first hour is better than all of Rocky 1. The second turns into a generic training/fight montage, but that first half is amazing cinema. Really underrated. Also I caught Point Break, had never seen the full thing before and it is as amazing as Hot Fuzz led me to believe. I especially love Rocky II's opening titles and theme music. Conti really outdid himself and there's a great sense of some important poo poo having gone down. The second half does get bogged down with the coma business but it's still a favorite.
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Red posted:Really, except for 5, all the Rocky movies are good stuff. Five is like, almost a good movie. Almost.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Five is like, almost a good movie. Almost. I can appreciate the idea behind it and what they were trying to do, yeah.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Five is like, almost a good movie. Almost. I'll go to bat for the alley fight. I want to say that it's a bad fight in the context of being in a Rocky movie, but then again Rocky came from the streets so having a They Live!-kind of brawl seems weirdly appropriate. And while it has been ages since I've seen Rocky V, I remember the relief I felt that Rocky finally fought someone again.
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Grendels Dad posted:I'll go to bat for the alley fight. I want to say that it's a bad fight in the context of being in a Rocky movie, but then again Rocky came from the streets so having a They Live!-kind of brawl seems weirdly appropriate. And while it has been ages since I've seen Rocky V, I remember the relief I felt that Rocky finally fought someone again. Even Rocky VI ignores Rocky V - there's no mention of any brain damage when he argues that he's fit to box in VI.
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Red posted:Even Rocky VI ignores Rocky V - there's no mention of any brain damage when he argues that he's fit to box in VI. Obviously he forgot about the brain damage due to said damage.
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What about Paulie's robot/wife?
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bobkatt013 posted:What about Paulie's robot/wife? I assume that was also a hallucination induced by brain damage.
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Rocky VI is a death dream as fluid smothers Rocky's lobes.
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Darthemed posted:What's the general feeling on Duplex? I was really drunk when I watched it 10 years ago but I recall enjoying the way the old lady subtly needled Ben Stiller.
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Yeah, I remember not hating it, but I also felt no desire to ever watch it a second time sooooooooooo
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Darthemed posted:What's the general feeling on Duplex? Entertaining movies Ben Stiller is in: - Empire of the Sun - Dodgeball - Heavyweights - The Cable Guy - Happy Gilmore (well, as of 1998) - Royal Tenenbaums - Megamind I haven't seen it, but people seemed to like Greenberg. Everything else, as a rule, is a horrible embarrassing mess.
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Red posted:Entertaining movies Ben Stiller is in: how are you gonna leave Tropic Thunder off that list but include loving Megamind
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^^^This guy Tropic Thunder?
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You missed his two best movies, Flirting with Disaster and Keeping the Faith. Ben Stiller has made some good poo poo, just not in a while.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:how are you gonna leave Tropic Thunder off that list but include loving Megamind I am aware of Tropic Thunder's existence. It has its moments, but is buried under some dumb stuff (mostly Tom Cruise's parts). The fake documentary, Rain of Madness (it's on YouTube) is actually a good Herzog-esque clip. Edit: Zoolander is a movie you either love or detest, with no middle ground. I am in the "detest" camp. VVV His show was actually quite good, as were his appearances on Newsradio, King of Queens, etc. VVV
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Not to mention his T.V show was extremely innovative for the time and is was very influential considering that most people forget it ever existed. ^^^^What about Flirting with Disaster though? If you haven't seen that you must because it proves that Stiller can act well and be funny at the same time.
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Red posted:I am aware of Tropic Thunder's existence. It has its moments, but is buried under some dumb stuff (mostly Tom Cruise's parts). The fake documentary, Rain of Madness (it's on YouTube) is actually a good Herzog-esque clip. Wait are you saying that Tom Cruise's parts are dumb stuff?
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Basebf555 posted:Not to mention his T.V show was extremely innovative for the time and is was very influential considering that most people forget it ever existed. Actually, no, I haven't seen Flirting with Disaster. Maybe I'll look that one up. Snak posted:Wait are you saying that Tom Cruise's parts are dumb stuff? Many people I know and respect thought Cruise's bits were some of the best parts of the film, and quote it to this day. I thought it was awful and unfunny. Red fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Jan 9, 2015 |
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Red posted:I thought it was awful and unfunny. You know I actually agree with you there. Personally I found it hard to forget that it was Tom Cruise playing the part of a stereotypical Jewish studio-head, and that he is a gigantic hypocrite because he wouldn't want anybody to lampoon scientologists in the way he does Jewish people in that movie. There's nothing really overtly offensive about it, but the fact that its Cruise rubbed me the wrong way.
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Basebf555 posted:You know I actually agree with you there. to be fair, he's playing a part written and directed by a Jewish filmmaker.
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It appears there are some people that need to take a step back and literally gently caress their own faces.
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Basebf555 posted:You know I actually agree with you there. I know the movie is supposed to be a farce, but I couldn't get past it just being Tom Cruise in an obviously bad makeup/wardrobe job, gyrating/yelling/swearing. It felt like the kind of thing that was funny to the filmmakers, and people who watched it decided it must be funny.
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