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That's already in the OP (it has been for a while) 
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 05:03 |
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 I was just so overwhelmed by all the action!
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 05:25 |
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Efexeye posted:Full list of theaters and dates: Nearest one is Richmond? Oh southern Virginia, you never fail to disappoint.
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 07:06 |
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Capn Beeb posted:Nearest one is Richmond? Oh southern Virginia, you never fail to disappoint. Sorry bro. The theater in Indy that will be showing it starting the 13th is about 5 minutes away from work, I think I'll need to get some people together for after work beer then go see this.
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 12:43 |
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Hot drat, a closer showing than Cincinnati!
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| # ? Apr 5, 2012 03:51 |
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Going to see this in 3 hours and I am unbelievably pumped.
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| # ? Apr 6, 2012 22:34 |
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This movie is absolutely an instant classic. It paced well, and the action was incredibly intense. Everyone needs to see this.
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| # ? Apr 6, 2012 23:24 |
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My boyfriend and his friends are excited to see this for tomorrow. I as well.
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| # ? Apr 6, 2012 23:39 |
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Saw this today and really, really liked it. I feel like this movie could be wildly successful, but I've only seen one commercial for it. The part that I really thought was cool as gently caress was at the end when Mad Dog fights the brothers. When the hell was the last time you saw an action movie where the good guys had the upper hand in a fight? It's two on one, and loving Mad Dog still almost wins. He didn't cheat, he didn't go for his gun, nothing. He just gave them a better than fair chance to beat him. Does anybody remember what the description of Mad Dog was when they were driving? It was something like "a hurricane of feet and fists" but I don't remember the quote.
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| # ? Apr 7, 2012 05:06 |
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I'm glad this film is getting a pretty decent release in the US. I'm surprised it's hitting a bunch of theaters in the south. I can't wait to see it next Friday.
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| # ? Apr 7, 2012 09:06 |
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Saw this film earlier today, definitely as awesome as everyone is saying it is. One thing I'd like to zoom in on though, the fight between Jaka and Mad Dog. When Mad Dog puts the gun down and gives his little speech about how killing a guy with his hands is more fun than shooting, is it just me or does Jaka give the slightest confused glance? Like he's thinking "We're really doing this?" I thought that was hilarious considering that I wasn't expecting a little self awareness in such an unflinchingly badass movie
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| # ? Apr 8, 2012 05:52 |
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Just saw it. The first 20 minutes were boring, but it got better once the 70 minutes of non-stop rear end-kicking set in. Last fight. Best fight.
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| # ? Apr 8, 2012 07:13 |
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Ok, I just got home from watching this movie. Best action movie I've seen in years. I really enjoyed it. The gun fights were almost as good as the martial arts. It reminds me how I used to love HK movies when I was a kid, like Hard-Boiled. I even got a little teary-eyed when Rama was thinking of his wife and unborn baby. I'm buying this movie immediately when it comes out on blu-ray.
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| # ? Apr 8, 2012 22:17 |
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PonchtheJedi posted:The part that I really thought was cool as gently caress was at the end when Mad Dog fights the brothers. When the hell was the last time you saw an action movie where the good guys had the upper hand in a fight? It's two on one, and loving Mad Dog still almost wins. It reminded me of Riggs and Murtaugh vs Jet Li in Lethal Weapon 4.
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| # ? Apr 9, 2012 00:33 |
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AgentHaiTo posted:The gun fights were almost as good as the martial arts. It reminds me how I used to love HK movies when I was a kid, like Hard-Boiled. A good description of The Raid might be "the best 10 minutes of any Chow Yun Fat movie, plus the best 10 minutes of any Tony Jaa movie, multiplied out over an hour and a half."
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| # ? Apr 9, 2012 04:29 |
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Oh my sweet Jesus it's playing at my local theater that never gets ANY foreign films. Best birthday ever!
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| # ? Apr 9, 2012 12:52 |
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The director is from my town, yet we don't get it for months. Unfair, cruel world.
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| # ? Apr 10, 2012 13:36 |
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I went with a few friends and we were all thoroughly impressed. The fight scenes were beyond just entertaining. Each one had unique elements and none were held onto for too long. All of us could not sit still from how much we were enjoying the movie. The scenes without fighting were still intense. Dialogue may have been minimal but so much was said between the characters without even talking.
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| # ? Apr 10, 2012 14:50 |
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Not a single showing in Maine  What a boring state to live in.
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| # ? Apr 10, 2012 16:34 |
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Oh cool it at least comes to a theater near New Orleans, definitely checking it out.
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| # ? Apr 10, 2012 17:05 |
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The only theater showing this in my state is the one that's within walking distance of my apartment. Awesome.
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| # ? Apr 10, 2012 20:39 |
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Just got out and I think I'm ruined for life. There is no chance any western action flick this year is going to surpass the sheer artistry demonstrated in those scenes, holy crap. Totally dragging my coworkers in for a second round later in the week.
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| # ? Apr 11, 2012 05:20 |
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I saw this with my brother over the weekend. I liked it. My brother didn't . One thing I thought was interesting was that this movie could have easily have been two movies pushed into one. There is definitely a shift half way through the movie when they basically abandoned their weapons and went into full on rear end kicking mode. I actually liked the beginning where the elite squad whatever is in full on stealth mode and there is some insane gun fights and the bad guys basically sniper everyone outside (let them scream) and take out everyone on the groundfloor. That stuff was awesome and intense. And then movie shifts and the cops go martial arts and the movie is a different kind of beast. The movie is light on plot/story and heavy on action. Some scenes go on a bit too long and I was taken out of it a bit when the martial arts were done more to look flashy and less to take someone down (again in an opposite trait to the beginning of the film). Still a lot of fun and the soundtrack was pumping quite a lot too.
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| # ? Apr 11, 2012 05:34 |
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Madkal posted:I saw this with my brother over the weekend. I liked it. My brother didn't . I don't mean to pick on you specifically, but your train of thought sparked a question in my head. When you see a trailer for an action movie, and after seeing it, why do the minor plot points stick out so much? The obvious the focus of the movie was the intensity/crazy action scenes and not making sure plot or logical character decisions make sense. In my mind, for a crazy action movie like this, getting bothered by plot points is like wondering why Rambo never had to reload any of his guns. I just turn my brain off and enjoy the ridiculousness on screen. The whole point of these action scenes were to be flashy and awesome, not realistic. I'm sure in all of my favorite action movies i could point out plot points, but logical plot decisions aren't the main attraction in those movies for me.
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| # ? Apr 11, 2012 05:46 |
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Madkal posted:The movie is light on plot/story and heavy on action. Some scenes go on a bit too long and I was taken out of it a bit when the martial arts were done more to look flashy and less to take someone down (again in an opposite trait to the beginning of the film). Still a lot of fun and the soundtrack was pumping quite a lot too. I see your point there and what I take out of it is when poo poo gets real, we go back to basics. Screw police training, we goin' mano-a-mano. Dudes watch movies this for whatever reason girls watch Dancing with the Celebrities and Glee. Martial arts is basically dancing for men. It looks purdy and is sensually stimulating. If we really wanted to see realistic things that are specifically designed to take someone down with the most efficiency we might as well actually watch MMA. But we don't because in real life its slower and uglier and real life.
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| # ? Apr 11, 2012 06:04 |
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I think I might have been misunderstood. I loved the martial arts parts of the movie, but I also loved the tactical aspect at the beginning of the movie. I understand that the movie was an all out action martial arts film and I have no problem with that, just like I wouldn't have had a problem if the movie was about an elite killing force taking out an entire building in a stealthy ninja like way. I also understand that the movie dealt with escalation. We start with gun fights and then we get machetes and then bare fisted punching.
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| # ? Apr 11, 2012 06:11 |
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Gonna go see this Friday after work, I can't wait. 
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| # ? Apr 11, 2012 15:06 |
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I thought the reason for dropping the guns was because the sound of it makes everyone rush to that position and there are too many bad guys to take on at once. Unless you are Rama of course. Now I don't know why the Machete gang didn't have guns themselves, but they seemed to be a themed gang with a miniboss. Someone said earlier those guys were a different ethnicity and spoke funny, so maybe machetes were their signature weapon. That miniboss had some crazy bugged out eyes too.
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| # ? Apr 11, 2012 19:20 |
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Glad to seee some showings that is south of LA (especially in Chula Vista, no hour drive for me!), definitely checking this one out after work.
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| # ? Apr 13, 2012 17:39 |
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I caught the last screening of this in Canberra. What a movie. It simultaneously reset the bar on martial arts films, yet also very much did its own thing. It also, aside from the Korean film "The City of Violence" had one the strictest implementations of that "conservation of karate" rule, where a huge number of villains will take about as much effort to dispatch as a much smaller number, as he effortlessly schools about 800 people in the hallway, then struggles to take out 5 machete wielding enemies, and fights mad dog for what seems to be about an hour. Can't wait to see what that team comes up with next, there's something very special about seeing martial arts movies on the big screen
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| # ? Apr 14, 2012 01:50 |
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That final fight was honestly one of the best fights I've seen in a long long time. The last time I saw something so amazing was the hallway fight from Oldboy. Our friends didn't know who Mad Dog was, so we called him the "honorable midget" instead. Mad Dog loving owns. I want to watch this again. edit: windsor posted:There were also a ton of little references to other martial arts or Asian movies. For example, the character of Mad Dog was definitely homage to the same character in Hard Boiled. That came out in 1992 and oh great now I feel old. He kinda resembles him too, sans gun of course: http://smilingdamned.blogspot.com/2010/06/mad-dog.html
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| # ? Apr 14, 2012 08:18 |
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Mad Dog reminded me of Al Leong (from Die Hard, Big Trouble in Little China, Lethal Weapon, etc.). I loved his line from right before his first fight: "I've never liked using these things, you just pull the trigger... it's like ordering take-out"  Anyways I enjoyed the movie -- I appreciate one that pushes the envelope in terms of violent action, like at this point I can watch guys getting stabbed and slashed without really being fazed, but that whole "stab-then-drag-the-knife" thing that they had going in a couple of the fights really me squirming. Didn't really get the subplot with the corrupt cop -- as in, I didn't really get who he was supposedly working for, who double-crossed who and why the team still kept him around after they realized he was crooked -- especially the guy who he shot right at the end! but that was kind of secondary to watching guys get beat up for an hour and half.
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| # ? Apr 14, 2012 13:25 |
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God this movie was incredible. I have a feeling the entire subplot that emerged in the last five minutes is just there to give a reason for The Raid: REVENGEANCE or whatever. But goddamn this movie was crazy. I think the parts that got the biggest parts were the ones that were the simplest, really. Stuff like spiking the guy's throat on the broken door in the machete scene, smashing a dude's head against a wall and breaking a light, stabbing Mad Dog with the broken light bulb had the entire place freaking out. I need to see this again.
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| # ? Apr 14, 2012 20:07 |
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If I had one question/complaint, as small as it is, did anyone else feel the two Mad Dog fights felt like kind of out of place? Like how they specifically had to move the characters into a big empty room for the action to take place? I really enjoyed the stuff that was in context more than anything else, than those two fights.
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| # ? Apr 14, 2012 23:37 |
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Saw it again with another group of friends, still worth every penny!
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| # ? Apr 15, 2012 02:30 |
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scrooger posted:Not a single showing in Maine It was worth the trip to Boston for me.
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| # ? Apr 15, 2012 12:50 |
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Just saw it last night in a sadly empty theater. This is one of the best action movies I have ever seen, my girlfriend agreed. The whole movie was just insane, I'm normally quiet during the movie but I couldn't help saying godDAMN at certain point. The gunplay was great, the knife fighting was great, and the hand to hand fighting was great. Some of the scenes were more tense than any horror movie I've seen recently, it was just amazing. The second Mad Dog fight was just batshit insane. I know some people have said that the fighting was too flashy and not 'realistic' enough. gently caress those people, no fighting you will ever see on screen is realistic, not even UFC. If there are rules and two people are equally matched, it's not realistic. The fighting in this movie was art. Just take a second to imagine the choreography behind any of the fight scenes, it's mind blowing. There is one thing I didn't like about this movie: It's basically ruined action movies for me for a couple of months. I mean seriously, what's coming out that is any where near the quality of this movie??
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rxcowboy posted:Just saw it last night in a sadly empty theater. This is one of the best action movies I have ever seen, my girlfriend agreed. The whole movie was just insane, I'm normally quiet during the movie but I couldn't help saying godDAMN at certain point. The gunplay was great, the knife fighting was great, and the hand to hand fighting was great. Some of the scenes were more tense than any horror movie I've seen recently, it was just amazing. The same team did a film called "Merantau" a little while back. It's another take on the same type of story Ong Bak was doing (wide eyed country boy goes to the big city, dispenses justice) and is also superb.
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| # ? Apr 15, 2012 13:20 |
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Quick question for those with good memories -- did the skinny dude who pulls the machete from under the table near the beginning of the movie get killed later? He killed the one cop with the machete initially and then he shot another one later when he came running down the hall pretending he was being attacked, but I don't remember if he showed up later in the movie or not. I dunno why that's bugging me, but it is.
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colonel_korn posted:Quick question for those with good memories -- did the skinny dude who pulls the machete from under the table near the beginning of the movie get killed later? He killed the one cop with the machete initially and then he shot another one later when he came running down the hall pretending he was being attacked, but I don't remember if he showed up later in the movie or not. I dunno why that's bugging me, but it is. You see him lying on the floor following the propane tank in the fridge moment. As he is crawling forward, the machete gang enters, finishes off anything moving on the floor including him and then the hunt begins
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