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Wheat Loaf posted:Patriot Games is my favourite of the three good Jack Ryan movies. Clear and Present Danger is very good as well and probably has the best action scene of the series (when Ryan's team is ambushed in Mexico) but its villain isn't as good as Sean Bean. Yeah, man. It's a really great scene. Builds up tension expertly, the music starts to clue you in that something is amiss, and the shot above when the convoy enters the killzone is really good: the way the bad dudes kinda pop into frame. It's a really intense and kind of terrifying scene. You know that there is no hope for these dudes. And there's something about the way they all kind of sacrifice themselves to get Jack out. He barely makes it out alive, and once he's out side of the ambush spot, it's like he's in a different world. It really, really stood out to me when I was younger. Plus, Harrison Ford can sell the gently caress out of anything. A punch, a kick, an explosion. Both giving and receiving. Someone upthread really nailed it talking about the everyman aspect of Harrison Ford action dudes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2w9XDc7Ago
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Lobok posted:Helps to have a line in the movie like "Hans... Bubby...!" The one that always stuck in my memory was McClane's HAAAAAAAAAAAANNNSSS at the final showdown.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Out of curiosity, has anyone ever watched The Detective with Frank Sinatra?
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Wheat Loaf posted:In fairness, Rutger Hauer as Gruber probably would have been very entertaining as well. Oh my god I never knew I wanted this until you said it. 
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Aug 30, 2018 20:41
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Sorry, but Rutger will not be cast as Gruber...*for the rest of his life*.
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Still time for him to play Johann Gruber in Live Fast Die Hard, or whatever the fifteenth entry in the franchise will be called.
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The brothers Grube
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I wonder if Rickman ever got any calls for the sequels where they wanted to somehow resurrect Hans. Wouldn't surprise me, he falls out of frame so maybe there was laundry basket or something right there!
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:The brothers Grube Friend, is that a Brothers Grunt joke in the year of our lord 2018.
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Basebf555 posted:I wonder if Rickman ever got any calls for the sequels where they wanted to somehow resurrect Hans. Wouldn't surprise me, he falls out of frame so maybe there was laundry basket or something right there! You joke but if Die Hard had come out in 2008 instead of 1988... (Actually, no, that's probably not fair - I'm not sure if sequel-mania/shared movie universe obsessions were quite a thing yet in 2008.)
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Wheat Loaf posted:You joke but if Die Hard had come out in 2008 instead of 1988... Kinda bums me out to think about it because I'd love to see Rickman come back to the role again no matter how dumb it may be. That would mean he hadn't died 
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Aug 30, 2018 21:21
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Leave Hans Gruber buried, but give me a three part epic trilogy about his sex-fiend drama queen Sheriff Of Nottingham, and now we’re talking.
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Maybe Hans Gruber has a twin named Ken who serves rice in a NY Chinese restaurant?
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ynohtna posted:Maybe Hans Gruber has a twin named Ken who serves rice in a NY Chinese restaurant? As long as there is also an insane, mansion shattering shootout at the end.
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Fart City posted:... Asian Dawn? I think he doesn't perceive McClane as a threat because...well, why would you? Why would you assume that one guy would willingly attack a group of heavily armed terrorists rather than just ride it out? And McClane doesn't. For his first three kills, he's just reacting. Tony finds him, so do Marco and Heinrich. He doesn't take the offensive until the police armored car, and doesn't again until the climax. Hans doesn't go after him with any gusto until he actually has a reason. Every person in the movie is an active participant making decisions and reacting to their environment. There's never the massive leap of logic that most action films have, like why goons keep throwing themselves into a hopeless fight or whatever.
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Fart City posted:Still time for him to play Johann Gruber in Live Fast Die Hard, or whatever the fifteenth entry in the franchise will be called.
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GazChap posted:It amazes me to this day that they haven't done one where terrorists go undercover at a convent/nunnery, and then call it Old Habits Die Hard. 
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I've been saying for a while that the perfect way to close out Die Hard would be to have some ceremony at the Nakatomi Plaza commemorating the whatever anniversary of the attack, and have John McClaine be a guest of honor for his role (and Sgt. Powell). When the place is stormed by, oh let's say the son of Hans Gruber wanting to exact revenge for the death of his father. Have him played by Tom Hardy or Benedict Cumberbatch, or whoever. Title it, "Never Too Old to Die Hard".
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thrawn527 posted:I've been saying for a while that the perfect way to close out Die Hard would be to have some ceremony at the Nakatomi Plaza commemorating the whatever anniversary of the attack, and have John McClaine be a guest of honor for his role (and Sgt. Powell). When the place is stormed by, oh let's say the son of Hans Gruber wanting to exact revenge for the death of his father. Have him played by Tom Hardy or Benedict Cumberbatch, or whoever. Title it, "Never Too Old to Die Hard". While going back to Nakatomi might be going a bit far, I do think we're past the point where McClaine should be just bumbling into terrorist situations. It's happened to him four times now(Simon doesn't count, he targeted John specifically), probably better to keep things personal if another Die Hard really has to be made.
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Again this is where I mention that the best last Die Hard movie is actually Max Payne 3. A washed up alcoholic New Jersey cop famous for his ultra violent exploits finds a new line of work as private security for an afluent family in Brazil, who are then targeted in a Byzantine terrorist plot that is all about misdirection, and hinges specifically on the cop being famous for those ultra violent exploits. Along the way, said cop finds himself wandering around a high rise wearing only an undershirt, defusing bombs, and having a shootout at an airport. Hell, it even provides an in-canon reason for the bald McClane of the later installments.
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Fart City posted:Again this is where I mention that the best last Die Hard movie is actually Max Payne 3. A washed up alcoholic New Jersey cop famous for his ultra violent exploits finds a new line of work as private security for an afluent family in Brazil, who are then targeted in a Byzantine terrorist plot that is all about misdirection, and hinges specifically on the cop being famous for those ultra violent exploits. Along the way, said cop finds himself wandering around a high rise wearing only an undershirt, defusing bombs, and having a shootout at an airport. I dig it.
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Giving away some actiony UV codes for your labor day weekend. Please post if you take one so others know not to bother, and keeping it to one per poster would be nice: Upgrade: taken Deadpool 2: taken The Matrix: taken Fury: taken Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 09:04 on Sep 2, 2018 |
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Sir Kodiak posted:Giving away some actiony UV codes for your labor day weekend. Please post if you take one so others know not to bother, and keeping it to one per poster would be nice: I grabbed Deadpool 2. Thanks!
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Sir Kodiak posted:Giving away some actiony UV codes for your labor day weekend. Please post if you take one so others know not to bother, and keeping it to one per poster would be nice: Got Upgrade, thanks!
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folks; https://twitter.com/UPGRADEmovie/status/1032320656656949248 if you haven't seen the best movie of the year yet, it's time
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Sir Kodiak posted:Giving away some actiony UV codes for your labor day weekend. Please post if you take one so others know not to bother, and keeping it to one per poster would be nice: Grabbed The Matrix. Thanks! The only reason I'm up this late is because I'm watching Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, which is relevant to this thread since it has some pretty good action. 
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The '80s were weird in their merchandising of hard-R movies to kids. https://twitter.com/PhantoMantis/status/1035295946983309314
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SleepCousinDeath posted:Grabbed The Matrix. Thanks! I never got into the series but it’s a solid movie. Local rep is doing that, Akira, Perfect Blue and some other thing for an anime week this month and I can’t believe I’m gonna pay to see 3 animes
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Sir Kodiak posted:Giving away some actiony UV codes for your labor day weekend. Please post if you take one so others know not to bother, and keeping it to one per poster would be nice: Took Fury, thank you! Saw the first 20 minutes a few months ago and have been meaning to watch the rest.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Patriot Games is my favourite of the three good Jack Ryan movies. Clear and Present Danger is very good as well and probably has the best action scene of the series (when Ryan's team is ambushed in Mexico) but its villain isn't as good as Sean Bean. Does the sea corridor sequence in Red October count as action or suspense?
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Rewatching Hardcore Henry with a film buddy to see if I was unfair to it the first time.
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Franchescanado posted:The Last Boy Scout was good. It has one of the best “oh that guy is turbo dead” villain kills in all of cinema.
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Fart City posted:It has one of the best “oh that guy is turbo dead” villain kills in all of cinema. Doesn't quite reach John Malcovich in Con Air levels of really, really definitely dead
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