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Thanks to whoever here recommended 'The Witch Part 1' it was dope. Without that recommendation, I wouldn't have given it a go and I definitely wouldn't have stuck around for the pretty uneventful first hour. It does a really good job selling superhuman fighting on a limited budget. If anything, the flying around and slamming into each other coming in fits and spurts (rather than some endless, non stop CGI sequence) makes every beat clearer, and makes it feel like they're people making decisions. It's also brutal as gently caress. Is it getting a sequel?
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It's really kind of funny that, when Japan decided to start going scorched-earth on media violence, the entire rest of Asia seemingly went "welp that leaves us a niche" and started making insanely brutal movies e: also, at a google, The Witch Part 1 made 5x its budget back, so between that and the title I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and say it's probably getting a sequel
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Are there movies with good spear fight scenes? I can only remember Hero, but that's about the only one. Doesn't matter if it's Asian or Western.
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Schneider Heim posted:Are there movies with good spear fight scenes? I can only remember Hero, but that's about the only one. Doesn't matter if it's Asian or Western. Troy has a god one, so does Fearless. It is cinematically neglected weapon though.
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Apr 22, 2019 03:16
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The Legend of Drunken Master with Jackie Chan? Underneath the train, that bit.
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Apr 22, 2019 03:40
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There are some trident fights in The Masked Avengers
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Immortals has some spear and trident fighting.
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Eight Diagram Pole Fighter might scratch your itch or smash your teeth.
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Schneider Heim posted:Are there movies with good spear fight scenes? I can only remember Hero, but that's about the only one. Doesn't matter if it's Asian or Western. Red Cliff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC-oZZbET3I Dirty Ho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiFQwyG_epw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p59Q3ZGD3Xo
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Snowman_McK posted:Troy has a god one, so does Fearless. It is cinematically neglected weapon though. Troy is the one that jumped to my mind immediately. For someone who hadn't watched a ton of classic kung fu movies, that scene in Troy really stood out as unique. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon also has some good spear stuff in it.
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This looks like it is going to feature some halberd fighting. They're just fancy spears, when you think about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoJ_FTUirzE
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MrBling posted:This looks like it is going to feature some halberd fighting. They're just fancy spears, when you think about it. I've been pretty skeptical about Zhang Yimou since Curse of the Golden Flower, but I saw this trailer in the theater the other week and couldn't help but get a little bit excited
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This is where I apologize to everyone in the world who told me to watch Kong: Skull Island whom I ignored. I watched it this weekend, and I feel shame for not having seen it in the theater. Jesus, this movie is so good. I was hooked from the first moment of the movie, but around the 30 minute mark I fell absolutely in love. Where the somewhat realistic feeling Vietnam War era military movie changes in the blink of an eye with a tree through a helicopter. I lost track of the amount of times I yelled out, “Holy poo poo, this movie!” while laughing. Perfect balance of brutal action and comedy. We, as a people, do not deserve a King Kong movie this good. It rules. It is So. drat. Good. "That was an unconventional encounter."
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FancyMike posted:I've been pretty skeptical about Zhang Yimou since Curse of the Golden Flower, but I saw this trailer in the theater the other week and couldn't help but get a little bit excited It's getting a UHD release in the U.S. too, which has me looking forward to it even more.
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FancyMike posted:Curse of the Golden Flower
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Chushingura has some spear work in and around the big fight scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfNnGcW8E7g
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Kung-Fu Hustle has some fun spear work.
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FancyMike posted:Dirty Ho this movie is underrated imo, may those who disagree be visited by the Bitter Sisters
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Schneider Heim posted:Are there movies with good spear fight scenes? I can only remember Hero, but that's about the only one. Doesn't matter if it's Asian or Western. The Hidden Fortress is the obvious one. The finale of Wing Chun also has some fun stuff being done with a spear. If poles count, there's this scene from Pedicab Driver.
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Sorry to change the subject completely, but that recent CGI resident evil movie (Vendetta) might have one of the few genuinely good CGI action scenes. It did the rounds on Youtube (link below) but it's where the two heroes John Wick a whole bunch of zombies, using a mix of grappling martial arts and shooting them in the face. What strikes me about is that it doesn't fall into the usual trap of CGI action scenes, thinking 'we can do anything, as big and crazy as you want' and instead does something lower key, that you could do practically. The advantage of doing it in CGI is that you would really struggle to do any of it as smoothly and precisely as they do here. It would take Jackie Chan in his prime, plus the best practical gore effects imaginable to do it this well. It's an otherwise unremarkable movie, but it's a good example of a CGI team thinking 'what should we do' not 'what can we do?' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi3KaxTlbuM
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The RE CGI movies are honestly both a ton of fun.
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... wait what the gently caress when did they make a third one? I legit only saw Degeneration and Damnation and had no idea that one existed. I need to see this ASAP, the first two rule. e: holy poo poo, the guy who directed the Hard Revenge Milly movies did Vendetta? I haven't seen those in... literally about a decade, but I remember them being among the highlights of all the weird Japanese poo poo on early Netflix, definitely up there with stuff like Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police. WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Apr 23, 2019 |
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Thanks to all the responses, everyone! And yes poles are also good.
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I love polearms and wish they got more play in martial arts/action flicks, especially the humble quarterstaff.
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If you like poles I watched Once Upon a Time in China 2 last night and Donnie Yen and Jet Li have two great fights https://youtu.be/826JgxsoDDM FancyMike fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Apr 23, 2019 |
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so uhm .. this is apparently something that is happening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNloYlIjLnI
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MrBling posted:so uhm .. this is apparently something that is happening. No. What? Noooo. That can't be real. thrawn527 posted:This is where I apologize to everyone in the world who told me to watch Kong: Skull Island whom I ignored. I watched it this weekend, and I feel shame for not having seen it in the theater. Jesus, this movie is so good. I was hooked from the first moment of the movie, but around the 30 minute mark I fell absolutely in love. Where the somewhat realistic feeling Vietnam War era military movie changes in the blink of an eye with a tree through a helicopter. I lost track of the amount of times I yelled out, “Holy poo poo, this movie!” while laughing. Perfect balance of brutal action and comedy. We, as a people, do not deserve a King Kong movie this good. It rules. It is a fantastic bad movie. I hope it gets the cult following it deserves.
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Failson posted:No. What? Noooo. That can't be real. It's not, it's some rich failson doing a fan film with MMA fighters (including Sage Northcutt) apparently.
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Failson posted:No. What? Noooo. That can't be real. What’s bad about it
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DeimosRising posted:What’s bad about it Hiddleston and Larson both really stink in it
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They're so out of place and clearly give less than zero fucks. Should've just been Goodman and Sam with their crews.
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DeimosRising posted:What’s bad about it The “it’s the goddamn 70s” chromatic aberration in every shot got annoying.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:The “it’s the goddamn 70s” chromatic aberration in every shot got annoying. I loved it, because it felt like an actual Vietnam War movie until a loving tree was chucked through a chopper. It effectively sold these characters, who felt like they were from a different movie, being freaked the gently caress out at a giant ape tearing through their team.
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Larson was ok but given very little to do, so I don't blame her. Hiddleston I actually enjoyed quite a bit, I liked his take on the whole badass jungle guide character. At this point I know I'm in the minority but I never really understood the criticism there.
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Best part of the movie was Samuel L. Jackson, in the middle of a very tense scene, yelling “BITCH PLEASE” at Brie Larson.
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Basebf555 posted:Larson was ok but given very little to do, so I don't blame her. Me neither. Larson just has a lovely character and script to work with. Her scene with the islanders was good. Hiddleston has never looked more badass, and if you're saying "well he's not really that badass" I agree with you, he looks like Lord Fauntleroy's inbred evil son most of the time and the fact that they were able to get him into a passable leading action guy look is pretty impressive. Also don't sleep on John C "it's a fuckin' ant" Reilly
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Also don't sleep on John C "it's a fuckin' ant" Reilly Does anyone know if that line was improv? It feels like it, and it rules.
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The easiest way to improve Skull Island would be to completely eliminate that sideplot with the southern dude who writes to his wife or whatever back home and then they find his dog tags later. None of it lands and there had to be a more efficient way to show that Jackson's character was going full-Kurtz than that.
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Also that bummed me out, I liked that guy! Was glad to see him in The Hurricane Heist.
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thrawn527 posted:I loved it, because it felt like an actual Vietnam War movie until a loving tree was chucked through a chopper. It effectively sold these characters, who felt like they were from a different movie, being freaked the gently caress out at a giant ape tearing through their team.
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