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Heavy Metal posted:That is a challenge. If we're counting punching sports action, Rocky Balboa is a great comeback movie. Stronger than his work on some flicks like Rocky 5 (not too tough to top). I watched Toxic Avenger for the first time at an outdoor theater. The movie loving rocks. Bizarre, hilarious, weirdly uplifting. No fat, just fun things happening every scene. And it ends before it gets old. First Troma movie i watched from beginning to end. Then Kabukiman came on, too long imo, fell asleep in parts. Any other Troma flicks as tight as Toxic 1?
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Neo Rasa posted:George P. Cosmatos made up for the lack of great shot choices in this by passing down to his son like, maximum great shot choice ability as we've seen in Beyond the Black Rainbow and Mandy. I mean that on every level too as Panos was second unit on Tombstone which was also directed by his dad and then was able to make Beyond the Black Rainbow with residuals from it. You ever read the interview where Kurt Russell comes and out and says he directed Tombstone and told Cosmos to take a nap or something for the entire shoot?
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Snowman_McK posted:I really couldn't get into Danger 5. I gave it a good go, but good gags were stuck in a poorly paced show with a lot of dead space did you get to S2
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Wtf Thats so much photoshop they just used the paint icon for most of the main dude
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He doesn't meet up to the standards of the pantheon of WEIRD MEN unless he's not good at anything but believes and invests with an inscrutable amount of money into the idea that he is great in everything
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poonchasta posted:For films in a modern setting, check out Kiss of the Dragon and Danny the Dog/Unleashed. Avoid any of his English speaking films made in America. Also, Endless Ocean if you are interested in a drama with zero martial arts. unironically Lethal Weapon 4, he's loving great at that Shageletic fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Dec 22, 2020 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D1CqVrGXdo This loving rules
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null_pointer posted:Whatever happened to Chow Yun-Fat? There was a time where he rode his Hong Kong fame into America, but it seemed to have swept him away, just as fast. Did he just give up and head back to HK? Leave showbiz, entirely? Tried to find anything on that and found this instead quote:You’d never know it, but Mira Sorvino speaks five – count 'em, five languages, including Mandarin Chinese. By contrast, Chow Yun-Fat’s native tongue is Cantonese, although he also speaks Mandarin to a lesser degree.
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Snowman_McK posted:I have a few more suggestions and recomendations for that list if you'd like. It's an interest of mine. I did a bit of kali/eskrima as a young man and a good knife fight is loving terrifying. Raid 2?
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Terror Sweat posted:You should watch The Night Comes for Us. Now that movie is brutal as hell and is from the raid guys. Hammer girl is a supporting character and has some crazy cool fights. Honestly the movie probably has the most original action scenes and brutality I've seen in a movie in the longest time That movie exhausted me. How many loving potential protagonists did it go thru. Anyway Boss Level was great. Fantastic screenplay and expertly directed by Joe Carnahan, who is prob the most underrated director in Hwood. Apparently him and Grillo formed a production company together to pump oit movies after previously workong together in the Grey, another perfect genre movie. loving Peckinpah/Oates collab redux. Curious to know what ppl thought about the action itself in the movie. Kinda feel like it was thw only.minor flaw. Dunno if it was the lower stakes from the premise, the more surreal comedic angle of the script, or just how good action has been generally, but I thought it didnt really hit that hard or have especially good setpieces.
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ynohtna posted:Hell yeah, definitely! its funny to think that John Lithgow used to just be the bad guy in movies. Tho he's a fantastic serial killer/assassin in Blow Out.
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David D. Davidson posted:Yakuza Apocalypse is like Miike wrote the script for a yakuza movie then dropped some acid beginning work on the second draft. sounds like Point Blank, one of the greatest movies of all time.
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Heavy Metal posted:Ah the 80s. You just might like the Miami Vice episode Viking Bikers From Hell, story by John Milius, with Reb Brown as the big villain. We're talking about 47 of 1987's finest action packed minutes. Pretty funny too, and most righteous. Streets of Fire and Cobra. Lol cannot get enough of leather men clanging their weapons in unison on the street. Streets of Fire is such a pure movie, just not even bothering to stop from the first minute. Walter Hill is a treasure. E: the movie loving ends in a sledgehammer fight
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lol that stretch in the 80s when JAMAICAN GANGBANGERS were in every movie
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Snowman_McK posted:Ioan Grillo had a good chapter in one of his books explaining the conditions that lead to that dominating the imagination for that brief period. what were the conditions, increasing amount of immigrants from the Caribbean?
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goddamn sally field was a stone cold fox in Smokey and the Bandit
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B-Rock452 posted:Definitely a fan of the practical stuff but (and oh god I know this makes me a giant nerd) but I always appreciate when movies or shows take the time to train their actors with modern (or period appropriate) tactics and gear. In Strike Back, Stonebridge is easily one of the most competent actors I have seen with a handgun and like I said the way they wore their gear during the show evolved as some changes came down due to all the wars going on. wanna go more into the Barry example? I dont know much about military tactics.
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Snowman_McK posted:It's also that taking a bit of consideration and grounding a characters actions tend to straight up make the action scenes better. Wick having to reload a lot helps set the rythmn for the gun fights. It feels more like a person moving through a space and doing things than someone in a blank void where mooks simply pop into existence to be shot. I was literally going to post about the movie here after watching the first Act, the subsequent ones then made me realize its not really an action movie. Shame.
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Yup gun shooting is only fun in 2 ways, super realistic or completely bonkers. Nothing in between.
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clockworkjoe posted:Yeah, JCVD fridays are an excuse to do an online hangout with my brother and some friends. He's way more into JCVD than I am but it has been fascinating to watch the highs and lows of JCVD's career. What's interesting is JCVD has not entirely checked out like Bruce Willis or Steven Seagal. There's some good movies in his later career like Universal Soldier: Regeneration and Day of Reckoning - some ensemble pieces that are fine like Swelter and Welcome to the Jungle (a comedy!) and of course JCVD the film itself is great. On the other hand, he made a lot of films with HK directors like Ringo Lam and some of them are just miserable. In Hell is a mean-spirited prison movie without any redeeming elements. I need to rewatch Double Impact/Sudden Impact for an Impact Impact marathon I remember Knock Off starting in the most ridiculous way, JCVD pulling a rickshaw as Rob Schneider whips him lol
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duz posted:It's as enjoyable as the others, also just as unsubtle. I've only watched portions of these movies whenever they pop up on TV, but I really liked the bit I saw where Grillo is basically the Terminator.
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mastershakeman posted:I finally watched Chocolate , directed by the guy who did the tony jaa thai stuff, about an autistic chick who learns to fight watching jaa's movies I've never seen a blooper reel that made me more morally conflicted. Jesus christ, I think my mind was telling them it wasn't worth it. Great movie tho.
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Just looked it up. One 77 minute fight scene being the movie sounds baller as gently caress. But I guess its boring as hell to watch?
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I like Megalobox, if you're in the mood for grounded, cool action. e: oh yeah Castlevania Shageletic fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Jan 3, 2022 |
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Payndz posted:It's 2 hours 18. Which is on the higher end of length for an action movie, but still a long way short of the bloated near-three-hour marathons that have somehow become the fashion. get rid of the will they/won't they incest plot and you'll easily get under 2 hours. You know what's funny? The best action I've seen lately is loving Peacemaker.
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Octy posted:I feel mean, but that was my first reaction as well. Afaik aphasia can be a symptom of dementia Anyone remember Willis popping up in the comment thread on Ain't It Cool News and showing a pic of himself to prove that it was him Maybe he had those symptoms for awhile
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Make better movies idiots
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Speaking of Michele Yeoh just watched Everything Everywhere At Once and she absolutely kicks so much rear end there. Kinda a spoiler, but it's revealed if you watch the trailer. loving astounding movie.
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mastershakeman posted:I'm slowly working through this giant backlog and... is Project A the best all around jackie chan movie? I really enjoyed it and wasn't as let down by the non action scenes as I often am. having Sammo and Biao helped a ton Just looked at the trailer. Lol, never seen it but have seen the behind scene bits. That tower stunt is insane, and there's a video of Chan doing it over and over again. e: found this vid, jesus christ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO-LmaccB74
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MrMojok posted:
Feels like with Seagal, he was carried by the production and actors around him. He's this weird squinty dude flapping his arms around and running hilariously while Tommy Lee Jones or Henry Silva actually carry the movie. Lol found this on the Above the Law wiki: It has been reported that Seagal was asked to make the film by his former aikido pupil, agent Michael Ovitz, who believed that he could make anyone a movie star. It was set and filmed in Chicago, Illinois, over 60 days between April 27 and June 26, 1987.[6] Shageletic fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Apr 16, 2022 |
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High Warlord Zog posted:Speaking of formative 80s(ish) film figures, Walter Hill's directoral run of Hard Times, The Driver, The Warriors, The Long Riders, Southern Comfort, 48hrs and Streets of Fire (plus a hands on producer role on Alien) is incredible, then after that you can really start to see him struggle with the way Arnold and others changed the action landscape. 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. Also Eddie Murphy's arc in the first movie is to get laid, with him just barking at random women to gently caress him and trying at one point to pretend to be a lawyer to gently caress some ladies in a closet.
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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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The only thing I remember from Eraser is those stupid guns
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MI:1 is so loving good. It really holds up and has style for days. Also the climactic train scene is so loving cool come on.
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brocked posted:Not looks like, it's that one-note oily voice and demeanor Andy Dick has a piercing high voice and PSH has a deep burly voice lol
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The only thing I've seen of Ambulance is that behind the scenes clip floating in twjtter a few months ago of a stunt involving an ambulance almost taking out half a dozen crew members. Bat is absolutely going to do a Landis one day.
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garycoleisgod posted:I caught The Gray Man on Netflix last night and woof, that's a miss. I'm thinking the Russo bros were talking about streaming and how cinemas are elitist because they kinda knew if this was a traditional theatrical release it would sink without a trace. It's basically a subpar Bourne film, with bad imitation Michael Bay action. I was gonna say Top Gun Maverick is the best action movie I've seen this year. And you know what the secret is? I never knew who or if anyone was gonna die! That never happens in a movie.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I never really got into John Wick and i just really cant express what doesnt click...i saw the first one, liked it okay, think i watched one other sequel, but for some reason they all pass thru me leaving no memory. Compared to say, Collateral, which I cherish and remember well. I dont even think of Collateral as a an action movie really. Thriller yeah but I wouldn't consider it in the same genre as Wick
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