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It cracks me the gently caress up that one of JCVD's first credited roles was "Gay Karate Man."
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Nov 6, 2018 16:08
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To go back to Hard Target: you don’t watch Hard Target for JCVD, you watch Hard Target for Lance Henrikson chainsawing his way through scenery and the delight of Wilford Brimley’s Cajun accent.
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I think JCVD is unfairly maligned. He did a bunch of movies with a small budget that made big profits. Now people wants to act like he's a corny relic that was never really popular.Basebf555 posted:I have not but definitely I've heard good things about them. I rewatched Universal Soldier recently and thought it was ok.
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I saw Dean Devlin's last movie and I have plenty against that motherfucker.
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Punisher Warzone digital code: CWJFHW6LC3FPTU59
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Punisher War Zone isn't a good movie. But it is an awesome movie.
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Halloween Jack posted:Punisher War Zone isn't a good movie. But it is an awesome movie. The UHD is really something too, it's a very colorful movie so it's a nice showcase for HDR/Dolby Vision. It's kinda like a proto-John Wick.
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Sudden Death is a legit good JCVD action movie. It's Die-Hard-in-a-hockey-arena and they get a lot of mileage out of the setting, going from the stands to the boiler room to the kitchen to the roof to the luxury box to the locker room and even onto the ice during the game and Powers Booth is the bad guy.
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I rewatched Police Story again and it's still my favourite Chan movie. Such a shame no one is doing anything similar now.
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Fart City posted:To go back to Hard Target: you don’t watch Hard Target for JCVD, you watch Hard Target for Lance Henrikson chainsawing his way through scenery and the delight of Wilford Brimley’s Cajun accent. And Arnold Vosloo grinning it up. Those two are so great together.
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Nov 7, 2018 04:04
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What's that movie everyone was praising, where in the trailer a guy disarms another dude's pistol and then stabs him in the neck with the slide? Or like with a pen?
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Chas McGill posted:I rewatched Police Story again and it's still my favourite Chan movie. Such a shame no one is doing anything similar now. You can make a big fight as good as the mall ending in Police Story. I don't know if you can make one that's better.
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Nov 7, 2018 04:44
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Police Story was flat-out, openly designed as a Jackie-based stunt showcase. Much like John Wick was designed as a Keanu-based stunt showcase. Similarly Ong-bak and a lot of other thread faves. I wish filmmakers could be more honest about this.
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Halloween Jack posted:What's that movie everyone was praising, where in the trailer a guy disarms another dude's pistol and then stabs him in the neck with the slide? Or like with a pen? Was that Upgrade? It came out earlier this year -- really low-budget, but a lot of fun, and it ends up being a lot more than you think it's going to be from the trailer. It would be a really interesting double-feature with Venom, too.
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Nov 7, 2018 06:27
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Upgrade has some flaws, but it's a fun ride. Some gnarly, gnarly gore too.
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Halloween Jack posted:What's that movie everyone was praising, where in the trailer a guy disarms another dude's pistol and then stabs him in the neck with the slide? Or like with a pen? That sounds like something from Shoot 'Em Up but I can't remember everything from that movie. I remember Clive Owen getting the line, "gently caress you, you loving fuckers!" but who wouldn't?
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Jet Li took apart Riggs' gun in Lethal Weapon 4 but I don't remember if he did anything cool with the slide.
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McSpanky posted:Jet Li took apart Riggs' gun in Lethal Weapon 4 but I don't remember if he did anything cool with the slide. Speaking of Jet Li, this loving rules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D1CqVrGXdo
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Nov 7, 2018 09:57
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Fart City posted:To go back to Hard Target: you don’t watch Hard Target for JCVD, you watch Hard Target for Lance Henrikson chainsawing his way through scenery and the delight of Wilford Brimley’s Cajun accent. Henriksen is legendary, at some point he is set on fire and it just makes him really, really angry. Anyone seen Hard Target 2 ? It's got an interesting cast but Roel Reine is a terrible director.
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Fun fact about Lance Henriksen: he received very little formal education and didn't learn to read until he was nearly 30; when he was appearing theatre, he would get a friend to make a recording to the script and then he would memorise the entire thing.
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Nov 7, 2018 13:48
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Was that Upgrade? It came out earlier this year -- really low-budget, but a lot of fun, and it ends up being a lot more than you think it's going to be from the trailer. It would be a really interesting double-feature with Venom, too.
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Nov 7, 2018 15:19
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Halloween Jack posted:No, it was definitely an Asian movie. It's like, a guy approaches another guy in the middle of the street in broad daylight with a gun, and he disables the gun and stabs him in the neck. Someone posted the trailer here and it was discussed in the same vein as films like The Raid 2 and SPL 2. Maybe something like that happens in The Night Comes for Us? So much violence in that movie it would be easy to forget a little bit like that.
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Basebf555 posted:Maybe something like that happens in The Night Comes for Us? So much violence in that movie it would be easy to forget a little bit like that. I saw that two days ago and don´t remember it. Then again, just like you said, there is so much happening small moments don't stand out. Maybe Headshot, the movie before The Night Comes for Us? Same choreography team if I remember correctly. The trailer has someone wielding a gun getting his arm grabbed and then stabbed in the neck with a chopstick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXhoytk0Hfw&t=117s
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I figured it out. I was thinking of Re:Born where he, like...shoots a guy in the neck...with a pistol magazine...and a pen...but no pistol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxM6vsMNwXs
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Nov 7, 2018 15:38
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Wheat Loaf posted:That sounds like something from Shoot 'Em Up but I can't remember everything from that movie. Shoot 'em Up was incredibly dumb. I loved every loving minute of it. I love how the first 2 minutes of the movie are a good test for how you're going to take it and whether or not you should carry on. More movies should do that. See also; Rubber which explains that there's no point to the movie right to your loving face... 
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CeeJee posted:Henriksen is legendary, at some point he is set on fire and it just makes him really, really angry. Hard Target 2 is fine, I guess. Not great, but it's not unwatchable garbage. Not the worst Scott Adkins dtv movie, and definitely not the worst John Woo sequel/ripoff/remake of recent years either. The main villain does a pretty fun Lance Henriksen imitation and there's a fantastic fight between two women that's better than anything Adkins gets to do in the movie.
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Halloween Jack posted:I figured it out. I was thinking of Re:Born where he, like...shoots a guy in the neck...with a pistol magazine...and a pen...but no pistol. This was a fun movie, but the plot takes the hero and his small squad off into a forest about 3/4 of the way through and the scene goes on too long by about double, I think they shot a bunch of ‘cool’ stuff and then didn’t have the heart to cut any of it.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:This was a fun movie, but the plot takes the hero and his small squad off into a forest about 3/4 of the way through and the scene goes on too long by about double, I think they shot a bunch of ‘cool’ stuff and then didn’t have the heart to cut any of it. I would agree with you if I didn't feel like the sequence was constantly trying to one up itself by the minute. He's dodging sniper shots, he gets into a fight with a suicide bomber teenager (fun fact; that's Tak Sakaguchi's daughter!), he pulls out two kamas, he's using sticks, then a collapsible SHOVEL? And THEN he pulls out his super karambit looking death blade?? I enjoyed myself.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Shoot 'em Up was incredibly dumb. I loved every loving minute of it. I love how the first 2 minutes of the movie are a good test for how you're going to take it and whether or not you should carry on. More movies should do that. See also; Rubber which explains that there's no point to the movie right to your loving face... loving Rubber man. I loving watched the whole movie, and it's probably the only movie that I actively wished I hadn't watched. Was it made to piss people off?
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Ardent Communist posted:loving Rubber man. I loving watched the whole movie, and it's probably the only movie that I actively wished I hadn't watched. Was it made to piss people off? The cop narrates to the audience; you, played in the movie by the people with binoculars directly that it has no point and they made it because they could. They even kill off the audience and try to end the movie but can’t because there’s still someone alive (you, still watching) so they have to carry on the charade until the end... it’s absurd, very French surrealist and I enjoy forcing people to watch it because the reaction is always annoyance. So as above, yes it was made to piss most people off because it plays the viewer for a fool. What other movie dares to do that?
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Olympic Mathlete posted:The cop narrates to the audience; you, played in the movie by the people with binoculars directly that it has no point and they made it because they could. They even kill off the audience and try to end the movie but can’t because there’s still someone alive (you, still watching) so they have to carry on the charade until the end... it’s absurd, very French surrealist and I enjoy forcing people to watch it because the reaction is always annoyance. So as above, yes it was made to piss most people off because it plays the viewer for a fool. What other movie dares to do that? Funny Games, which is poo poo
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Olympic Mathlete posted:So as above, yes it was made to piss most people off because it plays the viewer for a fool. What other movie dares to do that? Even Adam Sandler movies are only on streaming now
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LesterGroans posted:Speaking of Jet Li, this loving rules: You didn't lie, my man.
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CeeJee posted:Henriksen is legendary, at some point he is set on fire and it just makes him really, really angry. Yeah Hard Target 2 is a perfectly serviceable Adkins dtv actioner you pretty much know what you're gonna get. Some fun in the jungle. Rhona Mitra is always fun to watch too. Reine's done some not bad stuff as these things go as well he did one of the good Marine sequels and a couple of fun Death Races
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McSpanky posted:You didn't lie, my man. Also remember, for a lot of people(like myself), that was their first real introduction to Jet Li. For me he was a name I vaguely knew of, and it was treated as a big deal that here he was going to play the villain in a big Lethal Weapon movie. So that really is one of the more dramatic, effective character/actor intros ever. The final showdown is also really really good, especially considering you're talking about Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as two of the three participants. Gibson and Glover do a great job in that scene of acting completely too old for this poo poo but gently caress it I guess we gotta fight this guy.
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Remulak posted:Police Story was flat-out, openly designed as a Jackie-based stunt showcase. Much like John Wick was designed as a Keanu-based stunt showcase. I'm not sure that this is true, since it's actually a really good cop movie outside of all the stunts. Very few cop films put as much effort into the evil guy's lawyer as Police Story does, for instance. CeeJee posted:Henriksen is legendary, at some point he is set on fire and it just makes him really, really angry. It's barely a film. It's just a collection of action scenes built around Scott Adkins grimacing. It also has b-movie Kate Beckinsale (Rhona Mitra) on a motorcycle that shoots rockets and the tiny lady version of Tony Jaa (Jeeja Yanin, who's awesome) and Temura Morrison doing gun-fu. It's got a really good cast, come to think of it. It's dumb as poo poo, but a good time.
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Snowman_McK posted:b-movie Kate Beckinsale (Rhona Mitra). . . wut. Both of those chicks rule on their own, without any needed comparison qualifier.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Funny Games, which is poo poo I just read the plot of that, man that's insulting. At least Rubber outright tells you what to expect rather than pulling a bullshit twist.
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