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I always get End of Days and Stigmata mixed up.
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ruddiger posted:I always get End of Days and Stigmata mixed up. They came out around the same time, both have Gabriel Byrne in them and they're both really bad so it's understandable. Lol, IMFDB trivia is great. "End of Days was the big screen debut of the Glock 34. Arnold Schwarzenegger is famously a fan of glocks and regularly uses them in his movies"
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Jul 8, 2022 01:14
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I'm hoping someone in here can help me. A few days ago I saw a clip on like Facebook or TikTok of a clip from some foreign action movie. It was a car crash that dropped into slow motion, and as the guy was ejected from his vehicle he grabbed a rifle and shot another car and it did like 17 barrel rolls off the road. You'd think something that hyper-specific would be easy to find but I'm coming up empty after like an hour.
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Jul 8, 2022 21:07
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Doctor_Acula posted:I'm hoping someone in here can help me. That's from RRR, it's the only action scene ray stevenson does 
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Jul 8, 2022 21:13
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And it loving rules. Probably the only dodgy effect besides that one tiger close-up during Bheem's wolf trap chase. All the more endearing imo. Pretty sure I like the movie more for the insano car flip and subsequent tree impalation e- last week had a bunch of people over for RRR, everyone had a blast
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Jul 8, 2022 22:44
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forest spirit posted:And it loving rules. Probably the only dodgy effect besides that one tiger close-up during Bheem's wolf trap chase. That and Bheem's six pack.
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Jul 8, 2022 22:48
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forest spirit posted:And it loving rules. Probably the only dodgy effect besides that one tiger close-up during Bheem's wolf trap chase. a lot of the cgi is "dodgy" but who gives a poo poo. the problem with that scene is it's like they cut several frames out of the flip, the car just fucken teleports.
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Jul 8, 2022 22:57
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The CGI isn’t hyper realistic but it’s still good
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Jul 8, 2022 23:00
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A lot of the Indian action stuff I've seen, the CG can be iffy in individual shots, but they go so inventively loving bananas with it in the sequence as a whole that it doesn't matter. They apply Hollywood's "you've never seen this done before" attitude not to just a single VFX shot, but the entire concept of a scene. "Everyone forms their shields into a ball and they're fired over the battlements by a catapult to split apart on landing and start killing dudes? Sure, why not!"
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Jul 8, 2022 23:46
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DeimosRising posted:a lot of the cgi is "dodgy" but who gives a poo poo. I certainly don't, if that's what you mean, I'm 100% here for the juicy melodrama, ballads, and plans being made wordlessly and executed perfectly, not for cgi
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Jul 8, 2022 23:52
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forest spirit posted:I certainly don't, if that's what you mean, I'm 100% here for the juicy melodrama, ballads, and plans being made wordlessly and executed perfectly, not for cgi oh no, i just mean i wouldn't say those are the only fake/cartoony looking effects but i don't see that as any kind of problem. the car crash is the only thing in the movie that i think just looks bad
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Jul 8, 2022 23:58
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gotcha. bad special effects don't phase me these days unless there is no imagination/heart behind the production. it's a 'you know it when you see it' type feeling RRR is a movie lacking in absolutely nothing. There are a bunch of small things that are signposted early on in the film, and the amount of fire+water imagery with Raju and Bheem is nuts at how. consistent. they. are. at establishing the elemental imagery.
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Jul 9, 2022 01:19
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Of all the action films containing shonky CGI, RRR is probably not one I'd pick on considering y'know, it's an Indian production and so wildly ambitious in a lot of places. There was one bit at the start with the tiger stalking under trees with bright sunlight breaking through which looked very good. I think like every Western CG house though they trip up in the same places. Thing is though RRR is so wildly entertaining compared to those huge budget Western films I honestly don't care anywhere near as much.
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Jul 9, 2022 09:30
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RRR owns and is a great example of how good or bad CGI are ultimately pretty irrelevant to the quality of the movie, outside of the real extremes on the bad side. Some of it is dodgy but the whole movie is done with such confidence and energy that you might think “that looks a little off” but it never intrudes on your enjoyment. The effects are good enough to get the point across, which is all that matters.
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Jul 9, 2022 16:43
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Yeah, personally i'm a lot more forgiving of a dodgy CG shot of a dude backflipping out of an exploding car than the MCU inexplicably CGIng a dude standing in the street and somehow loving it up.
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Jul 10, 2022 00:34
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Watched The Princess on Hulu last night after seeing OutlawVern give it a positive review. It's pretty good and worth a go! Does it have some dodgy CGI, shamelessly rip off other action movies, and does the lead occasionally look like she's hitting her marks instead of actually fighting (as most actors who haven't grown up doing martial arts for a decade or more do, and even some who do)? Yes! But what it does have is a lot of "verve", this was clearly a group that decided to have a lot of fun with the idea and run through an entire book of action gags, a lot of which are pretty original! Also, the conceit that the titular Princess keeps winning because the guards have to capture her alive and underestimate her was pretty smart, but they sort of throw it away at the end and just make her flat-out superhuman which is too bad. This was good cheesy fun. It could've done with more blood, but I imagine they wanted to keep the rating down or whatever.
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Jul 10, 2022 01:18
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Plus, in one of my absolute favorite choices, every guard speaks in "guard voice". You know exactly what this voice sounds like, if you've ever played a live action RPG your gamemaster has used guard voice at some point for some mook guard and that's exactly what happened here. I had just seen this tweet a few minutes before reading your post, and couldn’t resist https://twitter.com/rderekp/status/1545359340680388610?s=21&t=pGmq8pLpCLw0OOPSHfKsTg
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Jul 10, 2022 01:59
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A pitch for an action movie. Ivan Drago is Ukrainian and was banished there after the events of Rocky IV. After Creed 2, he's again on the outs with the Russians. How about a movie where he takes up arms against the Russian invasion of Ukraine? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jul 12, 2022 23:03
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Scuffy_1989 posted:A pitch for an action movie. lmao what is this
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Jul 12, 2022 23:19
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Sounds pretty good! Gotta love pitches and forgotten scripts. I loved that Commando 2 script that was floating around the net years ago, a friend of mine actually did an audio read of it for fun. And I always get a kick out of hearing about Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian, that sounded classic.
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Scuffy_1989 posted:A pitch for an action movie. this is pathetic you a rereg or what
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I don't see what's so weird about it. There are literally former boxers in Ukraine fighting against the Russians, it's topical, and not really any different than Rambo 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu0XAcYCoSk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d79rc33AbtY Scuffy_1989 fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Jul 13, 2022 |
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Jul 13, 2022 00:28
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You're talking about making war propaganda for an ongoing armed conflict.
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Jul 13, 2022 01:39
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Speaking of which, may I recommend Nine Men (1943), a tough little war picture about a siege in north Africa, like a smaller scale version of the Bogart flick Sahara from the same year.
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It blew my mind that they were making musical comedies about the lighter side of World War II as the Battle of the Bulge was ongoing.
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Why would you pitch a bunch of random strangers on an obscure internet forum your lovely lib action movie idea?
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Why would you pitch a bunch of random strangers on an obscure internet forum your lovely lib action movie idea? Because this is the action movie thread? I just thought it was a fun idea. In Rocky IV Rocky defeats Communism with boxing. The Russians who have invaded Ukraine aren't shy about flying the Soviet Hammer and Sickle so it seems pertinent. As far as an action movie being propaganda, yeah, and? How many movies did they make in WWII on all sides? Korea, Vietnam? The Russians did a good job ripping off every US Vietnam movie from the 80s when they made "9th Company." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1I73nhdHrE&t=3718s Scuffy_1989 fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Jul 13, 2022 |
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Scuffy_1989 posted:A pitch for an action movie. I already saw this movie and Jean Claude kills him via a shotgun blast down a pipe . It's pretty cool
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Scuffy_1989 posted:Because this is the action movie thread? Pretty sure this thread is mostly for movies that already exist, op
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There's a limit to how much cringe you can post
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Getting things back on track, watched the Terminal List the past couple days. It's surprisingly boring most of the time but has some pretty decent actions scenes. The main issue is Chris Pratt is really uneven throughout. He really isn't the best actor and can't carry some of the more emotional scenes at all but does well in the action scenes. The show also is constantly screaming "look, we had special forces help make this," since there are just nonstop nods to the gear/culture and it gets a bit much at times.
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B-Rock452 posted:Getting things back on track, watched the Terminal List the past couple days. It's surprisingly boring most of the time but has some pretty decent actions scenes. The main issue is Chris Pratt is really uneven throughout. He really isn't the best actor and can't carry some of the more emotional scenes at all but does well in the action scenes. It's also extremely grey. Like, the greyest thing you've ever seen even if you've seen the Winter Soldier. I watched two episodes and I do hope the action gets better. The initial gunfight was so confusingly shot and edited that I didn't realise a) that the whole team had been killed and b) the recording had been faked. It got off to a very rough start. I also have no idea why you make Pratt the lead while Taylor Kitsch is standing right there and is better in literally every imaginable way. Then again, Pratt emoting as hard as he can at the end of the first episode is extremely funny
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He gets better later in the series when he starts to be more of an avenging rear end in a top hat but any other time he has to act it just doesn't work. The action does get better, episode 4 has a really nice set piece with really good tactics used throughout and Pratt does actually move like someone with special forces training. Last episode is also pretty decent but getting there kind of sucks since the show is continually telling you how badass Pratt is (seriously every episode has someone going off on how great he is) so there is literally no tension until the last episode
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I tried watching The Wandering Earth, but had to quit before I tracked down the actress and/or voice actress who got stuck with the Kid Who Won't Shut Up role and did something permanent to her/them. [Insert rant about Kids These Days or Movie Children, as desired.] On a different note, is there a special, secret way to make Netflix stop giving me the exact same set of movies to choose from, no matter how many I've rated as "not for me"? Or that I've already watched and rated as "really good"?
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Snowman_McK posted:I also have no idea why you make Pratt the lead while Taylor Kitsch is standing right there and is better in literally every imaginable way. Then again, Pratt emoting as hard as he can at the end of the first episode is extremely funny It's just a marketing thing. Right now Pratt is still an A-lister and Taylor Kitsch has fully transitioned into that next career phase where he's a reliable supporting guy. Anyway I thought the series was fine but it suffered from something that a lot of these type of stories do where there's this really good and compelling villain(Jai Courtney), but for whatever reason it's written so that the more compelling villain ends up just being a middle-man who is taken care of half-way through and you end up with a much lesser villain for the whole second half.
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Basebf555 posted:It's just a marketing thing. Right now Pratt is still an A-lister and Taylor Kitsch has fully transitioned into that next career phase where he's a reliable supporting guy. Chris Pratt turning into an a-lister is such a loving incomprehensible thing to me. His big hits were an ensemble and a beloved franchise and somehow this means he gets the 'stick him in eveything' treatment. He's not had a single non-franchise hit and his highest grossing role outside of Marvel/Jurassic Park/Lego is his supporting role in Wanted in 2008. I get that Hollywood has no idea how to pick or build leading men anymore, but Pratt is weak even by those standards. Also, on the villain thing, wow, really? That's loving hilarious. Seriously, for a pretty average show, Horn got an s-tier character introduction, doing a badass room clearing then then getting mad at his team for not being good enough, then transitioning into being a CEO. It's not quite a kung fu movie villain level of flair but it's got the right spirit.
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It's something that happens when you star in back to back hits the level of a Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World. A career can coast a pretty long way on something like that. Those were also both films that had different challenges than you might think if you just say "franchise", and he definitely got more credit for their success because of that. Guardians was an MCU film but it was obviously a risk at the time and not a property that fans had any particular appetite for up to that point. Jurassic Park 3 made 300ish million, Jurassic World came along more than a decade later and made 1.5 billion. So it's just one of those things, there were definitely a ton of different guys who could've done what he did given that opportunity but he was there at the right moment and took advantage of it.
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Basebf555 posted:It's something that happens when you star in back to back hits the level of a Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World. A career can coast a pretty long way on something like that. Those were also both films that had different challenges than you might think if you just say "franchise", and he definitely got more credit for their success because of that. Guardians was an MCU film but it was obviously a risk at the time and not a property that fans had any particular appetite for up to that point. Jurassic Park 3 made 300ish million, Jurassic World came along more than a decade later and made 1.5 billion. Sam Worthington was in the highest grossing films of all time and we, collectively as a culture, rightfully realised that he wasn't the reason Avatar did so well. It'd be weird if he was somehow still considered a-list in 2017, yet here we are, 8 years after anyone should have a strong opinion on Chris Pratt either way.
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Pratt fundamentally doesn’t seem to get what made him more compelling in Guardians and Parks and Rec, or he does and would rather just turn in bad performances miscast as a badass
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Snowman_McK posted:Sam Worthington was in the highest grossing films of all time and we, collectively as a culture, rightfully realised that he wasn't the reason Avatar did so well. It'd be weird if he was somehow still considered a-list in 2017, yet here we are, 8 years after anyone should have a strong opinion on Chris Pratt either way. I think Worthington has Cameron to blame for that one. If he'd been in a whole trilogy of Avatar films that all made huge money his career would've taken twice as long to fizzle out.
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