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Snowman_McK posted:Plus it gave us Manu Bennett. Crixus is a character that's so loving good they had an entire episode devoted to killing Romans in his honour after he died. (Yes, I know it was a real thing that happened, it's still dope.)
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The Last Boyscout is up on Hulu, and always makes for a fun rewatch. Prime-cut Shane Black action script, wild Tony Scott directing, a strong reminder of the charisma that made Bruce Willis a star, and one of the most over-the-top villain deaths in all of cinema. Recommend.
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Fart City posted:The Last Boyscout is up on Hulu, and always makes for a fun rewatch. Prime-cut Shane Black action script, wild Tony Scott directing, a strong reminder of the charisma that made Bruce Willis a star, and one of the most over-the-top villain deaths in all of cinema. Recommend. The 'drawing a bomb' scene is one of the best fusions of comedy and action I can remember. LesterGroans posted:Crixus is a character that's so loving good they had an entire episode devoted to killing Romans in his honour after he died. (Yes, I know it was a real thing that happened, it's still dope.) He almost, but not quite, makes the Shannara chronicles good. Even he's not that good.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:The spectrum of face-chopping with this ^^ at one end and this: ...did his brain just fall out of his skull?
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thrawn527 posted:...did his brain just fall out of his skull? Of course the brain just floats in the skull like an egg in its shell, it’s certainly not anchored anywhere at all 
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thrawn527 posted:...did his brain just fall out of his skull? How sharp must that sword have been to slice through that much solid bone
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Per this thread’s recommendation, I watched The Man From Nowhere over the weekend, and it was loving rad, I appreciate any movie that makes me cheer for the equivalent of a CIA agent. Really brutal fight scenes, and I’m glad it put so much time building the friendship between So-mi and Cha, it made the fights so much more emotional. I also like that it’s a borderline noir film, with a twisty story and a darkness hiding under a very thin cover.NoneMoreNegative posted:The spectrum of face-chopping with this ^^ at one end and this: oh my god the way his brain slides out at the end
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I can't remember which Mortal Kombat finisher they stole.
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Oh yeah, if you haven't watched Spartacus you totally should. The action scenes are crappy for the first couple episodes, kind of cel-shaded something, but it gets a lot better. The thing I heard that really made me appreciate it even more was someone saying that it's a show that is how it would be if the Romans of the time made it. Edit: Just tits! Action! Gore!
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It's a fact that the Romans had fairly advanced cosmetology, even among the working class, but even I was surprised at the level of breast implant technology in Republican Rome.
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Halloween Jack posted:It's a fact that the Romans had fairly advanced cosmetology, even among the working class, but even I was surprised at the level of breast implant technology in Republican Rome. Pleasantly surprised?
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Halloween Jack posted:It's a fact that the Romans had fairly advanced cosmetology, even among the working class, but even I was surprised at the level of breast implant technology in Republican Rome. Those weren't the result of medical science, but offerings to Aphrodite.
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Halloween Jack posted:I hope Lucy Lawless lives forever. Seems like she's on track to do it, I feel like she hasn't aged since 1997.
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Spartacus might be one of the greatest TV shows ever made, if not the absolute greatest.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Spartacus might be one of the greatest TV shows ever made, if not the absolute greatest. Second. The most impressive part is that, even in the third season, they're finding new and astonishing ways of killing people. I can imagine them in the writer's room going "Have we stoned somoene to death yet?" Also, the battle in the finale is genuinely among the best battle/action scenes on television, alongside the sieges of Paris in Vikings.
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:My favorite thing about Equilibrium is the realization that Sean Bean really isn't safe in any loving movie. He's sitting alone in a church reading a book and what happens? He gets shot in the face. Try Stormy Monday, his first lead role. He's fourth-billed behind Sting, Tommy Lee Jones, and Melanie Griffith.
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Sean Bean doesn’t bite it in Ronin!
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Sean Bean doesn’t bite it in Ronin! Or in Troy! ...though he plays Odysseus, so he’s about to have a bad run after the events of the movie.
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thrawn527 posted:Or in Troy! 100% forgot that he was even in that movie. I've always had a soft spot for Troy, it's just so over the top but also it's a period piece with a huge budget. You don't see many movies like that.
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Basebf555 posted:100% forgot that he was even in that movie. The fight between Hector and Achilles was cool and a little unique. I wish we got more movies trying to do choreography fights with spears and shields, instead of always doing sword on sword, since it's so much easier to choreograph. Sadly, the score for it in the Director's cut isn't nearly as good as in the theatrical.
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Troy, and the Rock Hercules movie are really weird. They're not period pieces, but they all make a point of being like "This is the historical origin of the myth." It doesn't make any sense. (Even Singh's Immortals, which is explicitly a fantasy and an homage to the cheesy old peplum films, features the Minotaur as a guy in a helmet. I don't get it.) Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Jan 25, 2019 |
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Halloween Jack posted:Troy, and the Rock Hercules movie are really weird. They're not period pieces, but they all make a point of being like "This is the historical origin of the myth." It doesn't make any sense. I think Troy was trying to cash in the Gladiator thing, and have a bunch of the cast standing around saying portentous things about fate and gods and whatnot in between huge action sequences. They probably figured it would be too much of a risk with audiences and critics to tangle with the supernatural aspects of the Iliad at all (imo if you're not going to to do any greek mythology in your Trojan War movie, what's the point?). The Clive Own King Arthur movie was also from 2004 and does the same game of "the REAL story behind the myth!" They wanted to have the big battles and scope of a Lord of the Rings with the box office returns and critical acclaim of a Gladiator, and I think they weakened both elements by backing away from engaging in any of the supernatural or "unrealistic" elements in the source material.
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I've been watching Vikings lately and it has some pretty cool actions scenes. Then when they finally get to the big invasion of England they just do a charge and a fade to black. No fighting what so ever. Complete bullshit. I guess the budget had shrunk from when they had tons of people fighting in the sack of Paris.
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MrBling posted:I've been watching Vikings lately and it has some pretty cool actions scenes. Rome was pretty bad about this. Also early Game of Thrones avoided showing large fights at all costs.
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MrBling posted:I've been watching Vikings lately and it has some pretty cool actions scenes. Which invasion of England? Because there's a really big battle involving the great heathen army.
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Snowman_McK posted:Which invasion of England? Because there's a really big battle involving the great heathen army. The very first one involving the great heathen army. Where King Aella rides out to face them.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Spartacus is the greatest show ever made I watched the first few episodes. It was bad. Then I went to my friends house to work out with him one day and he was watching it. I watched the last 20 minutes or so of an episode and said, "wow. That wasnt as bad as I remembered. Maybe I'll start watching it now." He then told me I had just watched the ending of the series finale.
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MrBling posted:The very first one involving the great heathen army. Where King Aella rides out to face them. Ah. Yeah. Don't worry, there's plenty of battles later on.
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Gejimayu posted:I watched the first few episodes. It was bad. Then I went to my friends house to work out with him one day and he was watching it. I watched the last 20 minutes or so of an episode and said, "wow. That wasnt as bad as I remembered. Maybe I'll start watching it now." He then told me I had just watched the ending of the series finale. Haha, I hope the news that Spartacus dies at the end isn't ruining the whole plot for you, since it kind of have to ends that way, with how it went in history. It's pretty good, even with the second season being a prequel of the first, and then the third being after the first. Like I said, the action, at least, gets way better as the show goes on.
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Never watched after they switched sparticaii.
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Remulak posted:Never watched after they switched sparticaii. You should. Those two seasons are the show's strongest.
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Gejimayu posted:I watched the first few episodes. It was bad. Then I went to my friends house to work out with him one day and he was watching it. I watched the last 20 minutes or so of an episode and said, "wow. That wasnt as bad as I remembered. Maybe I'll start watching it now." He then told me I had just watched the ending of the series finale. The problem with the first two episodes is that they're not really a good indicator of what the show is. The first episode is a bunch of sets and characters who don't appear again while the second episode is kind of similar in that it is all set up for what is actually going to happen.
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drat Upgrade is good. If you haven't watched Upgrade you should watch Upgrade.
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Wandle Cax posted:drat Upgrade is good. If you haven't watched Upgrade you should watch Upgrade. 
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Wandle Cax posted:drat Upgrade is good. If you haven't watched Upgrade you should watch Upgrade. Solid little movie, and I appreciate that it was made on like $5-10 million. Looks and feels really slick for such a low budget.
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Saw Polar, felt like somebody who saw Paul Verhoven at his peak and decided to ditch most of the satire and just go with the tonal whiplash and the violence. With a healthy dose of pulp and John Wick. It was pretty good, worth watching, not the greatest.
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I enjoyed Polar, but it's extremely stupid when these exxxtremely silly action movies go "If I can be serious for a minute..."
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Veering into TV show talk a bit. I subbed to Amazon Prime Video the other day (mainly for The Grand Tour) but I did also find and then spend all of Saturday watching TOM CLANCY'S Jack Ryan. It is a pretty enjoyable show with some cool action stuff. John Krasinski gets to be a reluctant action man and Wendell Pierce gets to be a hardass CIA guy.
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