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FreudianSlippers posted:I appreciate that action comedy not based on any IP or franchise is a thing again but I also feel like The Fall Guy would work better with the same central concept, a stunt double has to hunt down the star he's doubling in the Hollywood underworld, would work better as a neo-noir thriller. The Fall Guy is based on an IP: The 80s TV series with Lee Majors.
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garycoleisgod posted:The Fall Guy is out in Australia already and I gave it a watch, and ehhh, to be honest if Hobbs & Shaw didn't exist, this is easily David Leitch's worst movie. I knew from the trailers there was something off about the relationship / romance.
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Rascar Capac posted:The Fall Guy is based on an IP: The 80s TV series with Lee Majors. Woah
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I saw Lee Majors in a film the other day: the very bad 2022 renegades about old SAS guys fighting...australian gangsters in London? Anyway, it's spectacularly inept on literally every level and kind of worth watching on that basis. You can tell exactly what kind of film they wanted to make and they fail at every single turn. It's not so bad it's good, but it is interesting to see such an amazingly poorly made film
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Apr 27, 2024 04:19
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Watching Jackie Chan's Miracles for the first time (it's on Max and Criterion) and just losing my poo poo during the first really big fight scene at the rival gang's base. Just gonna have a huge grin for the entirety of this movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmYvleesq-Q&t=140s
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While it doesn't reach the heights of The Man From Hong Kong or Dead End Drive In, Brian Trenchard Smith's Deathcheaters is a watchable bit of Australian kitsch about stuntmen roped into an action movie plot. Also, the first feature credit for cinematographer John Seale (The Hitcher, Fury Road, Rain Man, The Talented Mr Ripley, a bunch of early Peter Weir movies). High Warlord Zog fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Apr 27, 2024 |
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Apr 27, 2024 04:41
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Watching Jackie Chan's Miracles for the first time (it's on Max and Criterion) and just losing my poo poo during the first really big fight scene at the rival gang's base. Just gonna have a huge grin for the entirety of this movie. Miracles is actually an incredibly sweet film to boot. It's like a magical rom com that also explodes into an elite tier fight scene every thirty minutes or so.
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High Warlord Zog posted:While it doesn't reach the heights of The Man From Hong Kong or Dead End Drive In, Brian Trenchard Smith's Deathcheaters is a watchable bit of Australian kitsch about stuntmen roped into an action movie plot. I haven't seen that one yet, but I will. Trenchard Smith has had a fun career. He made a pretty good Vietnam movie called Siege of Firebase Gloria in the 80s and a pretty bad but entertaining remake of the old Bogart movie Sahara starring Jim Belushi of all people in the 90s. About ten years ago he made a fun hangout/crime movie called Hard Drive or Drive Hard with John Cusack.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Watching Jackie Chan's Miracles for the first time (it's on Max and Criterion) and just losing my poo poo during the first really big fight scene at the rival gang's base. Just gonna have a huge grin for the entirety of this movie. I've shown the YouTube of the rope factory fight to many, many people, as an example of creativity and comedy in action that we simply don't get much of in the last few decades.
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Apr 27, 2024 14:42
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Rewatching The Raid for the umpteenth time and while I am glad that we got The Raid 2 and appreciate what it brought to the table, I am still a little sad about where a straighter sequel to this movie could have gone. Like, where the gently caress did Rama (and his brother) learn to fight like that? They talk about their father in a really ominous way and it dawned on me on this rewatch that we never find out what that is all about. Rama is supposed to bring his brother home, show me Rama's loving home! And bring back Mad Dog, again!
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Apr 27, 2024 21:42
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I would've enjoyed that, I feel like the sequel didn't have much of what made the first one so appealing to me. Not only are the characters more cartoonish, everything is, and now its no longer this tight single location action film, it's an action film competing with every big spectacle action film. For me more or less ehhh even if I still like a scene or two from The Raid 2. But I did dig the gently caress out of The Night Comes For Us.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I would've enjoyed that, I feel like the sequel didn't have much of what made the first one so appealing to me. Not only are the characters more cartoonish, everything is, and now its no longer this tight single location action film, it's an action film competing with every big spectacle action film. The Night Comes For Us to me is pretty much perfect. Definitely agreed that The Raid 2 is meandering where the first was like a juggernaut, rushing ahead into the next scene where all sorts of people would be wrecked in increasingly ridiculous ways. Ra1d is one of those movies that make you wonder why Rama even bothered with all that gear to begin with because he seemed to gain strength proportional to how much of it he cast off, killing like two guys total with his guns and just busting tracheae left and right with his hands afterward. I still love The Raid 2 for the sheer balls it had to present a sprawling gangster epic which still had Sad Dog and the prison yard fight, scenes other movies can only dream of.
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Apr 27, 2024 22:15
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I like Headshot a bit more than Night Comes for Us. But agree about Raid 2. The prison yard scene was decent but overall not as good.
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Apr 27, 2024 22:31
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I'm the one person who liked raid 2 more than the first, because I think the fights are better, it has a cool Bruce law car chase, and has a plot.
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Apr 27, 2024 23:39
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Following The Raid is rough, it broke enough conventions and moved the genre forwards enough that you simply can’t better-arrange the same stunts either better plot, camerawork, etc, to match the sheer joy of the new that the original did. I completely believe that if I came into it blind then 2 is better, but the shock and joy of the cool poo poo in the original relative to the world before is so powerful.
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Monkey Man floored me. What an incredible fuckin action movie. Maybe not as much as some would expect or want, but when it happened it mattered and it was about as intense as it could be. Immaculate vibes, incredible cinematography and soundtrack. Id definitely put it up there with the greats.
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