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rydiafan posted:People like to hate on Temple, but apart from the horrifically racist dinner scene it's not bad at all. Personally, my only issue with it is that it's not as good as Raiders or Last Crusade, but that's far from making it a bad movie. It's still quite good. Far better than Crystal Skull.
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Serf posted:Temple was always be favorite as a kid. I have no idea why. Probably because it had Short Round. Kid was relatable Also good in Goonies of course
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Jun 23, 2017 23:12
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Crystal Skull came out 9 years ago I have nothing else to say
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Jun 24, 2017 01:50
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starkebn posted:Crystal Skull came out 9 years ago Fair. They are going to make a fifth of course but I guess it could go either way
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Mu Zeta posted:Last Crusade has no edge. Temple has a guy getting his heart taken out and then dumped into a fiery pit. don't forget the crocs mauling dudes. Temple of Doom owns.
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Mu Zeta posted:I hate all Michael bay movies including the "good" ones like The Rock and Bad Boys 1/2. I also don't like Con Air and Face Off. Cutthroat Island is directed by Renny Harlin, who also directed Cliffhanger, imo one of the best action films ever made. My IMM is that people don't recognize it for the work of art that it is. You have a protagonist in Gabe Walker (Sylvester Stallone) who is damaged from a tragedy involving the death of a loved one of a close friend, Hal Tucker (Michael Rooker), who now resents him and holds him responsible. The same tragedy caused the separation of Gabe and his girlfriend when he left the mountain climbing business or park ranger job or whatever the gently caress his job was cause he couldn't handle the guilt. Anyway, Gabe comes back to tie up loose ends and wouldn't you know it, he and Hal get caught up in the middle of a multi million dollar US Treasury heist. The best part about the movie is that despite all the reasons the protagonists have to resent and turn on each other, they overcome the horrible tragedy that had driven them apart and work together to defeat the villains. The main villain, Eric Qualen, is played by John Lithgow who is a CIA agent gone rogue. A classic cartoonishly evil 90s antagonist. Singularly focused on completing his objective at any cost. A cunning and remorseless killer who isn't above murdering his own henchmen, who are composed of cliche 90s ethnic stereotypes (British tough guy, black gangbanger, Mac's dad from Always Sunny In Philadelphia, etc). Also, the movie has an awesome aerial stunt that the insurance company wouldn't cover. Stallone paid a million dollars out of his own pocket to the stuntman so they could film it. The guy basically rides a zip line from one plane to another...for real. This movie has it all, frozen mountain climbing in a t shirt, atomic face washes, killing a dude with a gun that shoots mountain climbing hand grips into rock, killing a dude with his own shotgun while hanging off the edge of a cliff, killing a dude in a cave by impaling him on a stalagtite, "base jumping" stunts that were clearly just people skydiving out of a plane, innocent people getting killed by the villains who totally didn't deserve it, geographical locations that don't make any loving sense but look cool anyways, cool one liners from our heroes, and so much more. Basically what I'm saying is that we should all take time today to watch this masterpiece of American cinema. DecentHairJelly has a new favorite as of 07:09 on Jun 24, 2017 |
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DecentHairJelly posted:Cutthroat Island is directed by Renny Harlin, who also directed Cliffhanger, imo one of the best action films ever made. My IMM is that people don't recognize it for the work of art that it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=897R5qNVYlU fe: i love Lithgow, he even managed to brighten up Dexter at one point, allegedly. I was done with the show by that point
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Michael Rooker is one of those guys that you don't think about but is amazing. Killed it on Walking Dead as Merle (my favorite dead character) and of course Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 2. Also Mallrats, strangely. And Janine Turner of Northern Exposure fame, kind of fitting given the rocky terrain.
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Yeah, he's been great in everything I've seen him in. In Guardians of the Galaxy 2, "Boy, he may have been your father, but he wasn't your daddy." Oh man I nearly cried. And Cliffhanger is like, for real, one of my favorite movies.
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DecentHairJelly posted:Yeah, he's been great in everything I've seen him in. In Guardians of the Galaxy 2, "Boy, he may have been your father, but he wasn't your daddy." Oh man I nearly cried. I was gonna say, and this is not an insult or some snide comment there was a trend of people making GBS threads just to say, hey this is a good and compelling movie. Then you get a lot of people chiming in to talk about their perceptions of said movie. I was fond of GBS Aliens but there were a bunch last year. Have to write a long glowing OP though and get some positive feedback besides "cuck"
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I recall some rumor that Cliffhanger was written with Bruce Willis in mind, and that's stuck with me for years. Would have been a different movie.
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synthetik posted:I recall some rumor that Cliffhanger was written with Bruce Willis in mind, and that's stuck with me for years. Would have been a different movie. Which is funny because didn't they offer Die Hard to everyone and their dog before Willis got it? I seem to recall Stallone being one of the possibles.
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Fil5000 posted:Which is funny because didn't they offer Die Hard to everyone and their dog before Willis got it? I seem to recall Stallone being one of the possibles. Funny fact: Frank Sinatra got first refusal, as Die Hard is actually a sequel to a movie he made called The Detective. His contract for that film gave him first refusal on any future sequels.
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The funny thing about alternate Die Hard casting is that due to a contract issue they had to offer the part to Frank Sinatra first, even though he was in his 70's by then, Die Hard is based on a book, which was a sequel to another book that had been turned into a film in the 60's which had starred Sinatra.
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Torquemada posted:Funny fact: Frank Sinatra got first refusal, as Die Hard is actually a sequel to a movie he made called The Detective. His contract for that film gave him first refusal on any future sequels. I thought you were taking the piss here for a moment. I could have sworn that the writer of Die Hard did another novel about a high rise building where a guy is busting through the windows and shooting up terrorists but I must have been thinking of some kind of copy cat.
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There was a Japanese arcade beat em up called Dynamite Dekka where you enter a high rise to rescue the president's daughter. When it came to the US they changed the name to Die Hard Arcade.
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Fil5000 posted:Which is funny because didn't they offer Die Hard to everyone and their dog before Willis got it? I seem to recall Stallone being one of the possibles. Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Frank Sinatra, Harrison Ford. We got lucky. https://www.overthinkingit.com/2010/11/03/die-hard-alternate-universe/
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Die Hard also had a gender swap version made starring Anna Nicole Smith called Skyscraper.
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Funnily enough die hard was called operation skyscraper over here.
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Phanatic posted:Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Frank Sinatra, Harrison Ford. An Arnold sequel to Commando would probably have been fun. Bad, but fun.
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oldpainless posted:Die Hard also had a gender swap version made starring Anna Nicole Smith called Skyscraper. And about three billion knockoffs starring pretty much any action star you can imagine. And Judge Reinhold.
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Sunswipe posted:And about three billion knockoffs starring pretty much any action star you can imagine. And Judge Reinhold. I'd rather they did one knockoff with about three billion action stars. Just have them swarm the building like ants.
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rydiafan posted:I'd rather they did one knockoff with about three billion action stars. Just have them swarm the building like ants. Isn't that The Expendables?
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Sunswipe posted:Isn't that The Expendables? A movie in which, to the best of my recollection, no-one was actually expended.
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thepopmonster posted:A movie in which, to the best of my recollection, no-one was actually expended. I think He-Man was a goner Jet Li also didn't fare well e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbgI0Z8mEnQ
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The lone young guy dies in Expendables 2 so all the old men can have a touching "it should've been us!" speech. It is a very bad speech.
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thepopmonster posted:A movie in which, to the best of my recollection, no-one was actually expended. Terry Crews' character nearly bit it in one, which was horrible because it meant he was barely in the rest of the movie. Everything is better with Terry Crews.
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Veib posted:The lone young guy dies in Expendables 2 so all the old men can have a touching "it should've been us!" speech. It is a very bad speech. He died the best way, though.
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So I was watching Presumed Innocent the other day. It's a so-so thriller with a scene stealing performance from Raul Julia. I was kinda half drifting in and out of the film when this happens:   The gently caress you recording with no tape in the machine idiot? I'm not sure why this aggravated me so much but it killed my interest in the rest of the film dead and I switched it off. It was another two days before I could go back and finish it. I'm glad I did though because I didn't see the twist at the end coming at all. But still.
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ultrabindu posted:I'm not sure why this aggravated me so much but it killed my interest in the rest of the film dead and I switched it off. hahahahahahahahaha
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Going back to Indiana Jones chat, it irritates me how much of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (love that series) is taken up by his adventures during the First World War. My favourite episodes were the ones where he's a student in Chicago, playing saxophone with his friend Sidney Bechet in Al Capone's speakeasy and solving crimes with his old war buddy Ernest Hemingway and his stuffy college roommate Eliot Ness. That stuff was great fun.
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Thaddius the Large posted:Terry Crews' character nearly bit it in one, which was horrible because it meant he was barely in the rest of the movie. Everything is better with Terry Crews. He almost bit it in the third one.. which is when the brought on Wesley Snipes, if I recall. There was something similar when they brought in Nan Yu for the 2nd one, and all of a sudden, Jet Li's character Yin Yang had something else to do, and couldn't hang out with the team.
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My IIMM with the Flash (which I like very much, otherwise): Felicia hacking into the city's power net in under one minute ... We already established she's a cyber security specialist, no need to go al overdrive with it.
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PicklePants posted:He almost bit it in the third one.. which is when the brought on Wesley Snipes, if I recall. Yeah, and to be fair Wesley Snipes is pretty good too, but I love Terry Crews (bring back his voice for Waze you bastards!).
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ultrabindu posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0Ox2Bk-Wv4
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sixth and maimed posted:My IIMM with the Flash (which I like very much, otherwise): Felicia hacking into the city's power net in under one minute ... We already established she's a cyber security specialist, no need to go al overdrive with it. She used WannaCry and Internet of Things and Business Email Compromise and Ransomware and Bitcoins and other buzzwords. It should have taken mere seconds with all that power! Also spearphishing. That's still a thing, right? It sounds cool anyway. Cooler than waterhole attack. That sounds dumb. Oh oh! Driveby downloads! Because it sounds like that thing where people drive by and shoot you with guns. It's totally "street" and the kids will love it.
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rydiafan posted:People like to hate on Temple, but apart from the horrifically racist dinner scene it's not bad at all. Wait the one in india or the one to open the film? My wife and her family are chinese nationals and they loved the opening and short round.
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The best part is when British colonialism saves the day.
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Barudak posted:Wait the one in india or the one to open the film? They are allowed to enjoy it. If you enjoy it, then it is cultural appropriation.
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