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I still maintain that if anyone other than Michael Paré was the lead character, Streets of Fire would be so much better. Like imagine Patrick Swayze in full Dalton mode as Tom Cody.
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Apr 18, 2022 20:45
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Paré is one of the things that makes that movie work, just pure lunkhead energy
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Apr 18, 2022 21:51
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what the heck are the grabby staves called in 8 diagram pole fighter, i've never seen anything like them Edit can see them pretty well at 3:00, 6:15 and 7:10 https://youtu.be/HLDJ2QteN7c mastershakeman fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Apr 25, 2022 |
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Apr 24, 2022 18:13
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Shageletic posted:Just watched 48 hours and most of Another 48 hours for the first time and other than the first movie's insane amount of racist dialogue (INSANE), there was a deep drop off in the quality between the two, and I'm not sure why. Same director, same set-up, I guess there's more of a focus on inert bad guys? I don't know. Posted elsewhere recently  NoneMoreNegative posted:lol, most countries got:
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Apr 24, 2022 20:31
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Not action, but I watched the first two Police Academy movies last night for the first time since I was a kid. Very surprised how few "-isms" are in the script. The few that are present get instant justice.
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Apr 25, 2022 02:44
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Posted elsewhere recently I found the Danish poster for Death Wish the other day and for whatever they reason they decided that the regular one wasn't good enough. Normal:  Danish:  "Just add a bunch of knives"
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Apr 25, 2022 18:07
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It absolutely blows my mind every time I remember there's a guy whose whole career is based on being a dead ringer for Charles Bronson
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Apr 25, 2022 19:52
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Streets of Fire is a hell of a thing. i just started it and i'm as taken aback as when i started watching tokyo tribe edit: ry cooder!!!! editx2 sadly it loses a ton of its great energy by halfway through, still worth watching though mastershakeman fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Apr 25, 2022 |
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Apr 25, 2022 21:22
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B-Rock452 posted:Yeah 48 hours gets pretty uncomfortable, wasn't a huge fan so didn't watch the sequel. However, if anyone reading this threat hasn't seen "Streets of Fire," just go and watch it right now. Don't even see a trailer or read anything about it. It rules. Everything about this movie slaps. Including the music, whoo boy. Sledgehammer final fight
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Apr 26, 2022 00:17
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I just finished The Tournament on that Tubi service. What an absolute slapper. Just tons of practical poo poo including some serious gore. Scott Adkins gets only one scene though, so that kinda sucks.
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May 8, 2022 00:35
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Disposable Scud posted:I just finished The Tournament on that Tubi service. What an absolute slapper. Just tons of practical poo poo including some serious gore. Scott Adkins gets only one scene though, so that kinda sucks. lol I haven't thought about this movie in years - there's a scene with one of the Players where he's cutting the finger off a body in a dumpster, the body is an old buddy of mine from when I used to go out on the town in Middlesbrough way back when. No idea how he came to be involved int he movie, he wasn't an arts / film type at all.
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May 8, 2022 01:13
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Hell yeah, JJ Perry did the action for that one. He's been involved with a bunch of lowkey excellent lower budget action flicks like Haywire, Blood And Bone, and Safe. Plus that one Stallone flick with the axe fight I can't remember right now.
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I watched Wolf Warrior and had a lot of fun. It was interrsting seeing this kinda Cannon Films/Hollywood rah rah patriotic action movie propaganda but from a country that isnt the USA. It gets lower ratings from the people who looove it when it's an American nationalistic action film but think hating the movie is them making some kind of stand against the UNIQUE BRUTALITY of China. At one point it implies the Chinese military has the ability to control the weather, a Chinese general just orders Some Unit to make it rain and it cuts to rain in the forest. No special beam hitting the clouds or anything. 🤣 Also it's interesting in that (despite finally getting down to one on one action hero versus villain stuff in the final act) a lot of the film depicts Chinese soldiers with numerical superiority fighting against only a few foreigners. The team of evil foreign mercs (working for a Chinese drug lord) is a lot like say, the elite team in Predator. They're all elite and deadly and it takes the full operation of the Chinese military and a lot of Chinese teamwork to counter this handful of elite villains. Scott Adkins is great as the leader of these foreign mercs, and deadly as hell. There's some horrible cgi wolves but i thought it added to the charm, it's an entertaining 90 minutes. Probably not gonna see the sequel though, not down for 124 minutes of this poo poo. Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 03:48 on May 8, 2022 |
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May 8, 2022 03:43
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I watched Wolf Warrior and had a lot of fun. It was interrsting seeing this kinda Cannon Films/Hollywood rah rah patriotic action movie propaganda but from a country that isnt the USA. It gets lower ratings from the people who looove it when it's an American nationalistic action film but think hating the movie is them making some kind of stand against the UNIQUE BRUTALITY of China. now watch the sequel, it's better in every way (even though grillo replaces adkins as the heavy , grillo's fight is better)
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May 8, 2022 03:47
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Oh so it does manage to be a fun two hours? Im in Also recently rewatched Haywire. So so good. Shame about Gina being a psycho. I could watch her murder a series of doomed dudes for about 8 hours. Where was Matt Damon?? Why didn't she murder Matt Damon? She could've beat Brad Pitt to death! Watching her murder the gently caress out of James Bond is so amazing, just a series of great fights, and Ewan just running is always hilarious. Also watched Above the Law/Righting Wrongs directed by Corey Yuen which might be my new favorite movie of all time. Nonstop incredible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePUp8Yi3zH4 Unfortunately Prime's copy had lovely subs that got earlier and earlier. Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 03:55 on May 8, 2022 |
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May 8, 2022 03:51
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Watched the 1993 Yuen Woo Ping film Iron Monkey on Pluto TV. It was dubbed so it was probably the version that Miramax monkeyed with (heh) when they released it in the US, although I'm not sure. According to wikipedia their changes included changing the film speed in some of the sequences that were shot in a different framerate, but there's still this slight speed ramping when someone gets hit that so idk if this is that version or not. I kind of liked that as a stylistic choice, it works in addition to the wire fu and the dust flying off people when they're hit to really sell the feeling of impact when a kick just yeets someone across the room. The plot is like a kung fu Batman or Robin Hood story about a masked man who fights corrupt officials and gives their stolen gold to the poor. Donnie Yen has a pretty substantial role as the secondary protagonist and there's a child version of the Wong Fei Hong character who gets to kick some rear end with a pole. This is also the only movie I can remember to have an evil kung fu nun in it. So yeah, I strongly recommend this one, especially if you're a fan of the director's other works like Fist of Legend and Drunken Master or his choreography in stuff like The Matrix, it has that same sort of heightened reality to the fight scenes. Also watched the Female Prisoner Scorpion series recently. These are a series of 70s Japanese exploitation film about a woman (Meiko Kaji, Lady Snowblood herself) sent to prison due to some poo poo her boyfriend, a corrupt cop, pulled. The subject matter here is kind of trashy at times, as you would expect from the genre and subject matter, with rape and violence against women and all that. Yet I think there was a real attempt by director Shunya Ito to elevate the work to something more. As the series progresses you get more of these touches of surrealism, and even in the more straightforward stuff there's a lot of character in the visual language Ito uses, it reminds me a lot of a Raimi film with the some of the camera work. And of course Meiko gives this perfect death stare the entire time, she doesn't even need any lines to be a memorable protagonist. It's a bit hard to recommend something like this given the subject matter, but I really found it entertaining. These are movies were the studio greenlit the first one for the titillation factor but the director actually took the work seriously and made something unique. The second film was by far and away the best.
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Mantis42 posted:Also watched the Female Prisoner Scorpion series recently. These are a series of 70s Japanese exploitation film about a woman (Meiko Kaji, Lady Snowblood herself) sent to prison due to some poo poo her boyfriend, a corrupt cop, pulled. The subject matter here is kind of trashy at times, as you would expect from the genre and subject matter, with rape and violence against women and all that. Yet I think there was a real attempt by director Shunya Ito to elevate the work to something more. As the series progresses you get more of these touches of surrealism, and even in the more straightforward stuff there's a lot of character in the visual language Ito uses, it reminds me a lot of a Raimi film with the some of the camera work. And of course Meiko gives this perfect death stare the entire time, she doesn't even need any lines to be a memorable protagonist. It's a bit hard to recommend something like this given the subject matter, but I really found it entertaining. These are movies were the studio greenlit the first one for the titillation factor but the director actually took the work seriously and made something unique. The second film was by far and away the best. I got to see a screening of Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 on the big screen. It's such a pretty movie, it's a shame about the sexual assaults. That movie series are real diamonds in the rough of Japanese exploitation films. 
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Did anyone see the Stallone cut of Rocky IV? How was it?
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PeterCat posted:Did anyone see the Stallone cut of Rocky IV? He cut out the robot. 
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Neo Rasa posted:He cut out the robot. LMAO
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I guess I had never seen Eraser. I thought I had seen all the Arnie films but I guess, somehow I missed this one? Anyway I just flipped over to it a few minutes ago and saw this absolutely ape-poo poo crazy scene where he gets into a shootout on a plane, opens the door, throws a seat into one of the engines, grabs the " emergency parachute" but then loses it, then falls out of the plane and skydives down to the parachute and puts it on in freefall, then while he's hanging from the canopy the crippled jet comes down and makes to ram him but he pulls his pistol and shoots out the windscreen. Just.... holy loving LOL!
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PeterCat posted:Did anyone see the Stallone cut of Rocky IV? It's interesting seeing some of the alternate takes and cut scenes. But apparently the "If he dies, he dies" line only had one take cause it's just wedged in there despite not matching the new cut.
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MrMojok posted:I guess I had never seen Eraser. I thought I had seen all the Arnie films but I guess, somehow I missed this one? Eraser is really really weird. For a "mainstream" blockbuster it has a lot of odd poo poo.
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MrMojok posted:I guess I had never seen Eraser. I thought I had seen all the Arnie films but I guess, somehow I missed this one? Stuff like that is why a lot of people consider Eraser to be the last "true" Arnold movie. The last one that harkens back to the good ole days of Commando, Predator, Total Recall, Terminator, etc. etc.
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Have a feeling I mentioned this upthread, but I watched Eraser on a UK DVD I got from eBay, thought "this doesn't seem right, I'm sure there was more violence when I saw this in the cinema", looked up just how much the home release had been cut by the BBFC, then the week after got the Blu-Ray and watched the uncut version. It's a totally different experience. In the DVD, you don't even get to see the main villains die at the end! (The head of the BBFC decided the scene was "gloating and sadistic" and ordered it chopped.) Never mind all the action scenes where Arnold aims a gun vaguely in the direction of a bad guy/bad guy lies dead on the floor. Edit: All the UK home release cuts, 3 minutes and 22 seconds of them. Small Strange Bird fucked around with this message at 06:55 on May 18, 2022 |
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Oh wow, I never watched Eraser because I heard bad things about it and I'm wondering if that's why as we wouldn't have had the US uncut version. Maybe I should hunt down a proper copy and finally give it a whirl!
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May 17, 2022 23:00
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Everything everywhere is phenomenal and you should all watch it. Fewer fight scenes than I expected but they are fantastic and often very funny
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The opening, where an arnie sized stunt double is throwing spinning kicks and poo poo, is especially good.
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I feel like the HBO series Chernobyl borrowed a bit from Universal Soldier: Regeneration, unless they're both drawing from the same influence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1sDgolDXoI&t=315s
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The only thing I remember from Eraser is those stupid guns
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The one action sequence in the fifth element where Bruce Willis is actually killing people with guns is cool and I wish the movie had more of that.
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The Fifth Element is glorious. I mean it is totally over the top from start to finish, in a way that is both aware of how insane it is and at the same time plays it straight. I don't know that I have ever seen a film that made fun of itself, made fun of what it was, while simultaneously telling a serious story, like that one.
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The Fifth Element feels like a one-off. I love pretty much everything about it. Possibly my second most rewatched film after the Matrix. I couldn't even finish Valerian. Whatever magic Besson had in the 90s is long gone.
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Chas McGill posted:The Fifth Element feels like a one-off. I love pretty much everything about it. Possibly my second most rewatched film after the Matrix. Plus all the gross stuff that came out about him makes some of his movies hard to watch. Leon used to be one of my favorite movies as a teenager, now I couldn't watch it without thinking of how the main cast had to fight Besson to make Leon more of a tragically pathetic manchild instead of a cool guy macking on a twelve year-old.
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Speaking of Besson losing the magic, I never even saw Lucy but wasn't that flick like extremely popular for a bit? Was it any good action-wise?
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Neo Rasa posted:Speaking of Besson losing the magic, I never even saw Lucy but wasn't that flick like extremely popular for a bit? Was it any good action-wise?
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Neo Rasa posted:Speaking of Besson losing the magic, I never even saw Lucy but wasn't that flick like extremely popular for a bit? Was it any good action-wise? Imagine The Matrix, but Neo achieves Onehood in the first 20 minutes and never learns Kung Fu because why should he.
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RRR is a total banger, glad I was able to catch it in theaters
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Currently watching RRR and I'm not sure I've seen anything that has made me smile quite this hard in places. It bangs very hard and I'm only about half way through.
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