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trevorreznik posted:With the dearth of quality action movies, beggars can't be choosers and all those movies are great!
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Like give me literally any fight in The Raid over this poo poo. The gently caress am I watching, Joe Carnahan? The worst part of this movie other than the runtime. Looney Tunes poo poo.
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Aug 29, 2023 00:52
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Like give me literally any fight in The Raid over this poo poo. The gently caress am I watching, Joe Carnahan? This rules what the gently caress. If Joe Carnahan made stuff like this he'd be so much cooler. It is weird that Carnahan started out with Narc and has done cartoonish stuff almost exclusively ever since. The Grey is probably the only exception.
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Disposable Scud posted:The worst part of this movie other than the runtime. Looney Tunes poo poo. It owned
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Aug 29, 2023 01:42
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No I should be fair Joe Carnahan prays he could make even that scene, it's just still obnoxious and lame to me
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Aug 29, 2023 02:34
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Let Shane Black out of director jail to do another detective movie with Batista as lead
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Aug 29, 2023 06:02
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The Raid 2 is about how the violent life destroys you and just might change you first, except the final form of this change is becoming a huge murder dork like the 3 assassins. IMO it rules
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Aug 29, 2023 06:56
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The Raid 2 is also about how throwing empty water bottles can keep any number of attackers at a distance.
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The Raid 2 is about how working in the kitchen can be a messy affair
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Pillowpants posted:
Totally agreed that The Rock has squandered the opportunity. He's making mega bucks doing what he's doing, but there's not really an amazing "The Rock" film aside from Pain & Gain. Fast 5 (the best one, do not @ me) is close but it's very much an ensemble. He's never had that iconic Top Gun, Mission Impossible, Predator, Terminator role. Except now, because he's The Rock and it's 2023, he has the ability to pick directors and roles as if he has. It sucks! To me, Hobbs & Shaw is interesting, as he's paired with the true successor to the 80s/90s stars - Jason Statham, who is always sorely missing from the "who is the last true movie star?" conversation. He's had the huge franchise roles (Transporter, Expendables, F&F, Crank), the camp foolishness (Crank, The Meg) and the comedy chops (Spy, Crank 2).
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Aug 29, 2023 11:49
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I'd say the Rundown came close but that's also his first breakout movie so
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Statham has always come off to me as a modern Lee Marvin, but you're absolutely right he's left out of the conversation too much. He's done really good work for a really long time in a variety of films. I don't think I've ever sought out a Jason Statham movie to watch, but any time he's in one he's always a delight. But speaking of his co-stars, I'm eager to watch how Wu Jing does next to him. Wu Jing could legitimately be the next Tom Cruise - huge amount of screen charisma in what I've seen of him, plus fantastic athleticism in the SPLs/Wolf Warriors Let's face it though, the heir to Arnold did things backwards of how Arnold did. Comedy first, then action. That's right, Keanu Reeves with his multiple major franchises and great one offs !point break, speed). The antithesis of the Rocks self promotion as well trevorreznik fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Aug 29, 2023 |
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Aug 29, 2023 14:13
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Statham is quietly in a bunch of dogshit too, try and make it through something like Chaos
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well why not posted:Totally agreed that The Rock has squandered the opportunity. He's making mega bucks doing what he's doing, but there's not really an amazing "The Rock" film aside from Pain & Gain. Fast 5 (the best one, do not @ me) is close but it's very much an ensemble. i just watched The Meg 2 and it is glorious. first half is slow as gently caress but my god does it pay off with the type of bombastic and ludicrous action that used to be more common. They completely ignore any kind of scientific realism and poo poo just happens and everyone accepts it, its great.
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Franchescanado posted:If any of you are readers or like listening to audio books, I have to give a strong shout-out to The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage by Nick de Semlyen. Thanks for the recommendation - finished reading it yesterday and had a great time, so many fun anecdotes (both old and new to me)
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morestuff posted:Statham is quietly in a bunch of dogshit too, try and make it through something like Chaos Sometimes it seems like Statham is the only big time western actor committed to making action movies and enjoying the process. I'll take five Chaoses if it gives us one Safe or Death Race.
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morestuff posted:Statham is quietly in a bunch of dogshit too, try and make it through something like Chaos English actors work even if the work doesn’t work.
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dokmo posted:Sometimes it seems like Statham is the only big time western actor committed to making action movies and enjoying the process. I'll take five Chaoses if it gives us one Safe or Death Race. agreed
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Aug 29, 2023 14:44
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The man knows what he’s good at.
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Aug 29, 2023 14:48
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Also like Arnold, he knows how to make fun of himself. See the Crank movies or Spy.
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Shageletic posted:I'd say the Rundown came close but that's also his first breakout movie so 5hr Rundown was fun, but why does nobody mention Rampage? It was a hoot and he was good in it.
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Aug 29, 2023 15:12
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baseball boy and hammer girl are obviously, objectively sick
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I rarely watch any of his movies, but just for Gamer I'll throw Gerald Butler into the mix. He's in alot of action stuff, fallen or not.
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morestuff posted:Statham is quietly in a bunch of dogshit too, try and make it through something like Chaos Chaos is awful but I really enjoyed Safe and even Parker. Statham really should get mentioned more, he is a solid stunt performer and decent actor as well. I mean I am kind of ashamed to admit but Wrath of Man is probably one of my top five movies that have come out in the past few years. Legit though, I have to talk myself out of watching Safe everytime I see it on streaming. Solid movie. Home front is good as well if you want to see James Franco playing a really stupid villain named gator
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Statham (and maybe Scott Adkins, too) are kinda our next-gen Dolph Lundgrens. You just know they could bring it to the next level if only they could line up the moonshot ticket of ideal role, script, co-stars, director and marketing.Uncle Boogeyman posted:baseball boy and hammer girl are obviously, objectively sick A world without gimmick fighters? No thank you.
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Yea Safe is one of those movies that I feel like I just end up watching every year or so because it always pops up on one streaming service or another and it never gets old. It's a more action packed version of The Man From Nowhere.
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ynohtna posted:A world without gimmick fighters? No thank you. i've been going thru tons of Shaw Bros/Golden Harvest movies and that's like at least 70% of those movies.
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Shageletic posted:Also like Arnold, he knows how to make fun of himself. See the Crank movies or Spy. This I think is the biggest way the Rock's ego effects his work. Like even in Hobbs and Shaw, the scenes where Statham is making fun of him I'm confident they're so clearly not in the same room/shot from the back with just one actor visible is so they wouldn't have to get notes from the Rock about how no one can make fun of his character like that. Maybe I wouldn't have thought that if I saw the movie when it came out but seeing it more recently it feels almost blatant like they had to film the deprecating-to-the-Rock parts AROUND him instead of WITH him.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i've been going thru tons of Shaw Bros/Golden Harvest movies and that's like at least 70% of those movies. There's some good ones in the Lone Wolf and Cub series too. I particularly liked the woman assassin who specialized in the throwing daggers, she would toss one up in the air and then as the opponent was focusing on that dagger she would leap up in the air and throw another dagger right in their grill. Pretty cool.
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Basebf555 posted:There's some good ones in the Lone Wolf and Cub series too. I particularly liked the woman assassin who specialized in the throwing daggers, she would toss one up in the air and then as the opponent was focusing on that dagger she would leap up in the air and throw another dagger right in their grill. Pretty cool. i'm due for a rewatch of those, i just started rereading the manga from the beginning. super sick.
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Grendels Dad posted:I rarely watch any of his movies, but just for Gamer I'll throw Gerald Butler into the mix. He's in alot of action stuff, fallen or not. Butler will be in anything. Say, a movie called Plane.
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Basebf555 posted:There's some good ones in the Lone Wolf and Cub series too. I particularly liked the woman assassin who specialized in the throwing daggers, she would toss one up in the air and then as the opponent was focusing on that dagger she would leap up in the air and throw another dagger right in their grill. Pretty cool. I'm partial to the woman with the scary tattoo on her tits, which she reveals the moment before she stabs you to death.
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The Lone Wolf is basically the coolest gimmick fighter himself, he's Baby Cart Man
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dokmo posted:I'm partial to the woman with the scary tattoo on her tits, which she reveals the moment before she stabs you to death. Seems kind of redundant, if you ask me.
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Its not even that they're gimmick fighters, the first one just set such a high bar that their fights look like poo poo in comparison, but I'm glad people enjoyed it
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Aug 29, 2023 16:49
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Butler is the Bruce Willis replacement. Statham is the JCVD replacement The Rock is Steven Segal Adkins is Chuck Norris Grillo is Lundgren Vin Diesel is Stallone Tom Cruise is Harrison Ford John wick is Arnold
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Shageletic posted:Butler will be in anything. Say, a movie called Plane. Again, British actors. I doubt this will be the case with the current crop though because they’re all baronets snd billionaire’s kids and so forth, not working actors
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Pillowpants posted:Butler is the Bruce Willis replacement. The Rock, Adkins, Grillo and Diesel are an incredible fit. Butler is too much of a brawler and an asskicker to fit for Willis, at least if you mean pre-Die Hard IV. I think it's perfectly fine to say Tom Cruise is just Tom Cruise.
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DeimosRising posted:Again, British actors. I doubt this will be the case with the current crop though because they’re all baronets snd billionaire’s kids and so forth, not working actors Butler would kill you, much like he killed people in the movie Plane, if he heard you refer to him as British.
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Yeah dude is welsh
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