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Saving Private Ryan didn't deserve to win either, should've gone to The Thin Red Line.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Which one did it beat that evoked classic adventure movies?
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Apr 5, 2018 17:45
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I know it’s like beating a dead horse this point, but the Academy has repeatedly cemented themselves as being grossly out of touch with what constitutes important cinema. Neither Hitchcock or Kubrick got best director. Samuel L. Jackson’s performance in Pulp Fiction lost to Martin Landau in Ed Wood. The list goes on and on.
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Apr 5, 2018 17:48
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Basebf555 posted:Saving Private Ryan didn't deserve to win either, should've gone to The Thin Red Line. Academy Award for Best Actor-winner Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful) will forever remain one of the "You sure about that?" choices in the history of the awards. Also up that year were Tom Hanks (Saving Private Ryan), Ian McKellen (Gods and Monsters), Nick Nolte (Affliction) and Edward Norton (American History X).
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Apr 5, 2018 17:49
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Basebf555 posted:Saving Private Ryan didn't deserve to win either, should've gone to The Thin Red Line. Not in the Action Thread it doesn't, pal!
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Apr 5, 2018 18:06
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Not in the Action Thread it doesn't, pal! Fury Road should've swept the Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actress for Theron. There I made up for it.
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Apr 5, 2018 18:10
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Huge snub that Van Damme’s spinkicks never got the best supporting actor nom.
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Apr 5, 2018 18:29
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Fart City posted:Huge snub that Van Damme’s spinkicks never got the best supporting actor nom. Indeed. Especially after they won all those Blockbuster Entertainment Awards.
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Apr 5, 2018 18:33
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And the Academy Award for Best Feature Film goes too... that scene in Timecop where Van Damme does the splits on his kitchen counter to avoid getting electrocuted!
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Apr 5, 2018 18:33
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Wheat Loaf posted:Indeed. Especially after they won all those Blockbuster Entertainment Awards. I worked at Blockbuster for a while and we carried like four different movies where the plot was Jean Claude van Damme must stop and evil version of himself (Maximum Risk was in theaters but the rest were DTV).
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Apr 5, 2018 18:35
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Seagal believed that On Deadly Ground was going to be his big awards-bait prestige piece. Now, there's no real evidence that he thought that, but by the same token, there's no evidence (real or otherwise) that he didn't either.
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Apr 5, 2018 18:52
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Really there's no evidence that Steven Seagal even existed at all. Makes you think.
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Apr 5, 2018 18:52
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On Deadly Ground is absolutely Steven Seagal’s Dances With Wolves.
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Apr 5, 2018 18:53
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Fart City posted:I know it’s like beating a dead horse this point, but the Academy has repeatedly cemented themselves as being grossly out of touch with what constitutes important cinema. Neither Hitchcock or Kubrick got best director. Samuel L. Jackson’s performance in Pulp Fiction lost to Martin Landau in Ed Wood. The list goes on and on.
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Apr 5, 2018 18:57
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Fart City posted:I know it’s like beating a dead horse this point, but the Academy has repeatedly cemented themselves as being grossly out of touch with what constitutes important cinema. Neither Hitchcock or Kubrick got best director. Samuel L. Jackson’s performance in Pulp Fiction lost to Martin Landau in Ed Wood. The list goes on and on. I don't think Samuel l Jackson's performance needing an Oscar is really the hill you want to die on
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Apr 5, 2018 21:48
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I saw Dances With Wolves and Waterworld a few million years ago, and didn't touch another Costner movie until recently (in the discount bin). Three Days To Kill is a bit goofy (spy with terminal cancer goes on last mission in return for drug that delays death for a bit, but also gives him seizures when it wears off). Criminal is less goofy, and he does a good job of being confused as hell (psycho prisoner gets brain-print from dying spy via computer, in hopes of getting location of the McGuffin; prisoner escapes but calls on phone when the spy-print starts showing up). I was pleasantly surprised. Not blockbuster material, but actual action movies with a lead who can act better than my hero, Dolph Lundgren. (Don't tell him I said that.)
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Apr 5, 2018 22:02
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Basebf555 posted:Saving Private Ryan didn't deserve to win either, should've gone to The Thin Red Line. There's a good movie in The Thin Red Line, but it didn't get released. Neo Rasa posted:I worked at Blockbuster for a while and we carried like four different movies where the plot was Jean Claude van Damme must stop and evil version of himself (Maximum Risk was in theaters but the rest were DTV). Jean Claude Van Damme only co stars with Jean Claude Van Damme. gently caress you, that's why. Wheat Loaf posted:Seagal believed that On Deadly Ground was going to be his big awards-bait prestige piece. On Deadly Ground owns because, at the end, after two hours of exceptionally brutal killing (even by Seagal standards) the film ends with him giving five minute speech about alternative energy. Literally just five minutes of Seagal talking about alternative energy. GoodyTwoShoes posted:a lead who can act better than my hero, Dolph Lundgren. (Don't tell him I said that.) Lundgren is so adorably self deprecating I really don't think he'd mind. He had that great quote, something like 'I was a movie star first, then I learned how to be an actor'
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Apr 5, 2018 23:33
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Hey, don't knock action twin movies.
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Apr 5, 2018 23:48
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No one is. Double Impact was the second time I saw boobs in a movie. It's great. Though, for years, I'd only seen the first twenty minutes and the sex scene. I cannot explain this.
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Apr 5, 2018 23:50
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brocked posted:I don't think Samuel l Jackson's performance needing an Oscar is really the hill you want to die on Never planted a flag, my dude. But if you want to go to bat for Landau as being more relevant to cinematic history, step up to the plate.
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Apr 6, 2018 00:21
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Snowman_McK posted:
You're probably right. I swear that man was scientifically designed to push all my buttons, so he'd probably be humble-ish instead of an egomaniac.   Why do Manliness Scientists want to push my buttons??? Actually, he's older than I am. Oh god, was I scientifically designed to have buttons pushable by HIM???? GoodyTwoShoes fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Apr 6, 2018 |
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Apr 6, 2018 00:25
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GoodyTwoShoes posted:You're probably right. I swear that man was scientifically designed to push all my buttons, so he'd probably be humble-ish instead of an egomaniac. You know that theory that Jared Leto is actually a fan fic that came to life? I'm pretty sure Lundgren is a GI Joe character.
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Apr 6, 2018 00:36
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Just on Kevin Costner he is still frequently in movies so I don't know what that talk was about (how did you not see Hidden Figures wtf) but one most probably haven't seen is Criminal, where he plays a psychotic serial killer implanted with the memories of hero dead agent Ryan Reynolds and trusted to complete his mission. And he meets his wife and all that. Pretty good performance and quite an interesting movie all around.
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Apr 6, 2018 01:31
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You talking about winner of the Saturn Award for Best Action or Adventure Film Hidden Figures? I haven't seen it but if it's a "best action or adventure film" then I think I may have to.  (HOW?)
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Apr 6, 2018 08:11
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Haha you weren't kidding. Well it does involve the action of a space launch and the adventure of being a black woman fighting oppression in the 1960s?
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Apr 6, 2018 09:23
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It's probably because the Saturn Awards people love NASA and desperately wanted to award it but didn't have a suitable category to nominate it in. Of all the semi-notable awards shows, the Saturns must be the worst about staying within the genre they assigned themselves. Noted science-fiction/fantasy/horror series Breaking Bad has a bunch of Saturn Awards, for instance. Still not as egregious as Hidden Figures winning "best action/adventure movie" though.
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Apr 6, 2018 09:38
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How's Tomb Raider? I see that walton goggins is in it, thats the only reason i might go see it
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Apr 6, 2018 09:59
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Tomb Raider's perfectly competent but unremarkable. Diverting enough if you don't have high standards. If you like Goggins I guess you would enjoy his role as the villain, again it's a pretty standard bad guy character though
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Apr 6, 2018 10:06
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Kurtofan posted:How's Tomb Raider? I see that walton goggins is in it, thats the only reason i might go see it It’s the film equivalent of a neuralizer.
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Apr 6, 2018 10:16
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Wheat Loaf posted:You talking about winner of the Saturn Award for Best Action or Adventure Film Hidden Figures? It's obviously not action or adventure, but it's a wonderful movie that is worth seeing.
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Apr 6, 2018 13:20
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I'm not really keen on biopics despite/because of (delete as appropriate) watching Ray on a weekly basis when I was in school.
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Apr 6, 2018 13:28
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Kurtofan posted:How's Tomb Raider? I see that walton goggins is in it, thats the only reason i might go see it Spends way too long on the uninteresting half of the movie. The tomb raiding itself is pretty good, though.
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Apr 6, 2018 14:04
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Yesterday’s Waterworld chat jostled the memory of another 90’s gonzo sci-if action flick: No Escape: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YYL10FtU_Bo Ever wanted to see Ray Liotta fight some future barbarian cannibals on a prison island? Now you can. Tart Kitty fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Apr 6, 2018 |
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Apr 6, 2018 14:20
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Me and a friend stumbled on No Escape when it was on like HBO or Showtime back in the mid-90s when it would've just come out on home video. hosed our heads right up, we had seen very few rated R movies at that point.
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Apr 6, 2018 14:32
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Basebf555 posted:Me and a friend stumbled on No Escape when it was on like HBO or Showtime back in the mid-90s when it would've just come out on home video. hosed our heads right up, we had seen very few rated R movies at that point. Same. I have very vivid memories of the graphic death of the villain getting seared into my brain at a very young age.
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Apr 6, 2018 14:35
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No Escape is like, ALMOST amazing but it's so, uh, 90s TV mini-series? I don't know how to describe it but the pacing just feels so weird in it. I loving love it of course for likely already mentioned reasons and some of the action and actually having a decent budget for such a premise. It got a halfway decent video game too that was sort of a more actiony Prince of Persia. Stiff controls but in between levels you'd go back to to the hub area and chat with Lance Henriksen/Ernie Hudson/Otho to trade items you found to get/craft other gear to let you progress further. Legit good SNES soundtrack too both on the SNES and Genesis. It's a janky licensed game but interesting because you can see how some thought was put into it beyond just cashing in. One of the rarest games on either system that actually got an official release but IIRC it's never that expensive because it is still a janky licensed game at heart.
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Apr 6, 2018 14:55
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No Escape can't escape from it's comrade in 90s prison sci-fi shlock, Fortress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U6oLx3xy8s
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Apr 6, 2018 14:56
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ynohtna posted:No Escape can't escape from it's comrade in 90s prison sci-fi shlock, Fortress. This would be an amazing double feature come to think of it. Fortress is so awesomely weird and ambitious but stupid at the same time, it's amazing.  There was a direct to video sequel, Fortress 2: Re-Entry where Lambert returns leading a resistance movement against the corporations but he of course is caught and imprisoned in a new Fortress that's a space station. It's very  because it's one of those late 80s/early 90s space stations that looks suspiciously like a dark warehouse and none of the technology or advanced weapons/cyborgs/etc. from the first movie are to be seen anywhere, but it's on a space station.
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Apr 6, 2018 15:01
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I had forgotten how much fun of a cast No Escape had. Lance Henrikson! Ernie Hudson! Kevin Dillon! Kevin J. O’Connor! The guy who played Mayor Ebert in Godzilla 98!
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Has anyone else seen Lambert's late 90s sci-fi version of Beowulf?
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