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Wheat Loaf posted:I just started watching the first Mission: Impossible movie. I actually love that, the very rare times the opening credits are designed to look like a TV show, suggesting countless other "episodes" and stories and adventures we only get glimpses of. The Charlie's Angels movie with Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz, and Drew Barrymore also did that, but I don't remember if they were opening or closing credits. I know it isn't well regarded, but I thought that movie was lots of fun, and it introduced me to Sam Rockwell. I'm surprised some of the superhero movies haven't done that, hinting at untold, unfilmed stories in some kind of montage.
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Neo Rasa posted:Everyone in this thread should watch Doomsday. Second. You get about 4 movies for the price of one. You get a zombie movie, a cop movie, a rampaging hordes vs. cop movie, a little bit of excalibur, and then it finishes with a Mad Max impression.
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Oh, mid-90s Internet. Hard to believe "Scroll Usenet Groups" was once the source of all knowledge. 
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Wheat Loaf posted:Rhona Mitra was the model and voice for Lara Croft between 1997 and 1998. To this day I wonder if Rhona Mitra is bitter about Kate Beckinsale.
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The Way of the Gun is fairly forgettable movie overall but the gunfight at the end is hands down the best I've ever seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20oEmQZrqyI I love the way they do brass checks and reload their pistols. A minor thing but something a lot of movies ignore. Yaws fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Jan 19, 2018 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:To this day I wonder if Rhona Mitra is bitter about Kate Beckinsale. the fact that they both exist and look almost identical? Yaws posted:The Way of the Gun is fairly forgettable movie overall but the gunfight at the end is hands down the best I've ever seen: lol at Way of the Gun being forgettable. It opens with Sarah Silverman getting punched in the face.
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Snowman_McK posted:the fact that they both exist and look almost identical? The Way of the Gun is bookended with great scenes. Everything in between is mediocre. I love The Way of the Gun.
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Snowman_McK posted:the fact that they both exist and look almost identical? Rhona Mitra was clearly like a year or two early to being Kate Beckinsale, yeah.
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It's been a while since I've seen it but to me The Way of the Gun is basically Sarah Silverman gets punched. mumble mumble mumble, exposition exposition mumble mumble They kidnap Juliette Lewis mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble They shoot a couple of cops mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble Big awesome gunfight that goes on forever Fin Like, I've seen the film maybe 6 times and I still have only the vaguest idea what it's about.
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Disgusting Coward posted:It's been a while since I've seen it but to me The Way of the Gun is basically Juliette Lewis is pregnant, but she's just the surrogate for a wealthy couple who hire James Caan to go after the baby/ransom money and then everyone has a big showdown at the end as she's having an emergency c-section.
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Basebf555 posted:mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble 
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It's not that complicated. Also, not that terribly interesting.
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Buncha terrible hot takes in this thread.
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Snowman_McK posted:Buncha terrible hot takes in this thread. The Way of the Gun is a drat fine movie. There.
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Some John Wick 3 news, Stahelski is back for directing, pretty much everyone from 2 is back (Fishburne, Common, Ruby Rose) with Hiroyuki Sanada as the villain.
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muscles like this! posted:Some John Wick 3 news, Stahelski is back for directing, pretty much everyone from 2 is back (Fishburne, Common, Ruby Rose) with Hiroyuki Sanada as the villain. Thank you god. I wonder if we're gonna get like a little team-up action with Wick and Common, that would be loving amazing. Can you imagine a tandem scene with two top level Continental assassins mowing through a room full of bad guys?
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Basebf555 posted:Thank you god. This is what I'm expecting. Their rivalry was great but mostly professional, right? Not personal. There's hardly a better opportunity for a former villain (of sorts) to get on side with the hero. Ruby Rose though, probably not.
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It starts filming March 1st and there's still a new character that hasn't been cast yet (or hasn't been announced,) a female lead.
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Lobok posted:This is what I'm expecting. Their rivalry was great but mostly professional, right? Not personal. There's hardly a better opportunity for a former villain (of sorts) to get on side with the hero. It's actually a bit of both, and the personal thing is EXTREMELY personal. It's subtly implied that Common and Giovanna were romantically involved, so Wick killed his "ward" but I got the feeling it's much more than strictly a professional beef. That said, it wouldn't be tough to figure out a way for them to call a one time truce to take out some common enemy.
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Lobok posted:Ruby Rose though, probably not. I'm really excited about her coming back either way because she's rad and her look in 2 was like David Leitch making up for King not being in the King of Fighters movie. Common HAS to come back and help Wick out it will be awesome. They have to keep the running thing going where Wick has a small circle of pals to bail him out. It will never be a surprise again like Willem Dafoe in the original but still.
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Cassian is absolutely going to start the movie going after Wick and then switch sides mid-picture when he realizes his employers are morally degenerate pieces of poo poo willing to murder any number of innocents to get the payout. These guys are too savvy in the ways of heroic bloodshed to do it any other way.
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Wick was like an extremely powerful demon in Hell, but he escaped and found out how great Heaven is. So logically the only way this can end is for him to find and murder Satan. Maybe that's who Sanada is playing, the head of the entire Continental organization. We haven't seen anything of how the Continental is run in Asia, maybe the Main Headquarters is there.
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Finally exposed myself to the glory that is Pyun's Nemesis. Marvelous.
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James Woods Fan posted:Finally exposed myself to the glory that is Pyun's Nemesis. Marvelous. Now watch the first five minutes of the sequel and try and work out how late in production they decided it was a sequel.
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Aw yeah, Netflix just put up Boyka: Undisputed [4]. I know what I'm watching tonight.
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Lobok posted:Aw yeah, Netflix just put up Boyka: Undisputed [4]. I know what I'm watching tonight. It's slightly disappointing that Zaror didn't come back, but it's pretty loving cool. It's not quite as good as the third one.
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I'm here to report that A Better Tomorrow 2018 is bad there's nothing in it to like don't watch.
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James Woods Fan posted:Finally exposed myself to the glory that is Pyun's Nemesis. Marvelous. YESSS this movie rules.
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Mission: Impossible was a pretty good spy movie. Mission: Impossible 2 is pretty different. It's got its positives and negatives. I like the characters and I like the action scenes; a lot of it is very John Woo. However, a lot of it has that very early 2000s, "Well, I suppose we had better do a sequel " sensibility to it that you get in a lot of, well, early 2000s sequels.Nonetheless, thanks to Woo, there's more of a directorial vision to it than if it had been directed by, say, Brett Ratner. Edit: That whole scene at the end when Tom Cruise and Dougray Scott arrive at beach where they face off on motorcycles and rev threateningly at each other is one of the funniest things I've seen, although I must admit, I'm not sure it's supposed to be. Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Jan 21, 2018 |
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I maintain that MI: II has some of the best PG-13 action in film. Shame about the rest of the movie.
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Yeah, it grew on me when I watched it recently, but there's a lot to slog through to get to some of those great scenes.
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My biggest criticism with MI: II is that it feels so slow. I don't know if it has something to do with the pacing, or maybe a sluggish middle, but it feels like it runs much longer than either Ghost Protocol or Rogue Nation, even though it's shorter than both. That being said, when it finally goes full-tilt Woo in the finale, it makes the whole thing worth it. Why does he stop to put on sunglasses? Shut up.
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Fart City posted:My biggest criticism with MI: II is that it feels so slow. I don't know if it has something to do with the pacing, or maybe a sluggish middle, but it feels like it runs much longer than either Ghost Protocol or Rogue Nation, even though it's shorter than both. That being said, when it finally goes full-tilt Woo in the finale, it makes the whole thing worth it. He also pauses in destroying the virus to remember how important it is to destroy the virus, which gives time for the badguys to show up and stop him destroying the virus. It's glacial.
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Mission: Impossible 3 was quite good and Ghost Protocol was even better. The team in MI3 didn't feel quite as together as the one in Ghost Protocol, but you people certainly weren't exaggerating when you said Philip Seymour Hoffman played a great villain; he was very entertaining. Perhaps a strange comparison, but MI3 vaguely reminded me of Casino Royale, much as MI2 felt like Face/Off with a twist of The Matrix. That's been an interesting thing about watching these movies; they have their own identity but also reflect (particularly because they're averaging out to one release every five years) the development of the action genre in the 20 years since the first one. I suppose the same is somewhat true of James Bond. Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Jan 21, 2018 |
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FancyMike posted:I'm here to report that A Better Tomorrow 2018 is bad there's nothing in it to like don't watch. Luckily The Foreigner (I guess they didn't want to call it "The Chinaman" after the novel) fares a bit better think, and is pretty decent to good depending on how much rear end Jackie is kicking at the moment. It's more than a bit ridiculous and relies on the ever popular "father saves/avenges daughter" to motivate the character but I won't complain too much.
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The bad thing about The Foreigner is how there just isn't enough Jackie Chan.
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I feel like there's just enough, if there was more, the actual movie would seem totally bewildering.
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I still haven't seen The Foreigner. I can't get over how perfectly Pierce Brosnan seems to be channelling Gerry Adams in everything I've seen from it, though. It's too distracting. My fan theory is that Pierce Brosnan's character in The Foreigner and his character in The Long Good Friday are one and the same.
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Basebf555 posted:Wick was like an extremely powerful demon in Hell, but he escaped and found out how great Heaven is. So logically the only way this can end is for him to find and murder Satan. Maybe that's who Sanada is playing, the head of the entire Continental organization. We haven't seen anything of how the Continental is run in Asia, maybe the Main Headquarters is there. It's only been a few years since the original, they could do a The Killing of Satan style ending to John Wick 4 where he kills Satan in hell and technically all dogs go to heaven but they could literally have his original puppy return but grown up and they walk off into the sunset together. Like whatever direction the TV series or movies go end up going in that has to be the final ultimate ending.
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Apparently Taxi 5 is on the way, presumably without Samy Naceri after his personal problems. The first two Taxi movies are great fun though. The third has a dubbed Sly Stallone in the opening sequence and that is all I remember from it. Haven't seen 4 or the american remake.
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