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Is it more or less ridiculous than Charles Bronson shooting criminals with a rocket launcher in Death Wish 3? or was it 4? Maybe it was both.
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MrBling posted:Is it more or less ridiculous than Charles Bronson shooting criminals with a rocket launcher in Death Wish 3? or was it 4? Maybe it was both. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRAT1-c7q98
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I feel like holding the barrel of a big machine gun like that while shooting it constantly is probably a good way to get your hand burned.
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Feb 5, 2020 20:26
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MrBling posted:I feel like holding the barrel of a big machine gun like that while shooting it constantly is probably a good way to get your hand burned. In HBO's Pacific, this is shown on screen because it actually really happened in WW2 and yeah, the guy burned his hand really badly. They show him afterwards getting treated.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:In HBO's Pacific, this is shown on screen because it actually really happened in WW2 and yeah, the guy burned his hand really badly. They show him afterwards getting treated. And a jury rigged solution for the next time he goes out. The Pacific generally wasn't that good, but the good bits are so loving good.
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I watched Point Break for the first time this weekend, and I've been thinking about this scene ever since.
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TheOmegaWalrus posted:When you realize that Bennet was also Wez from Road Warrior, it adds just a whole new level of absurdity. And let's not forget his prosthetic hand vibrator in the PG rated Innerspace.
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A man of that breed could've only existed in the crazy cocoon of cold war and cocaine known as the 80's.
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So the Raid remake isn't exactly a Raid remake anymore...
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flashy_mcflash posted:So the Raid remake isn't exactly a Raid remake anymore... Honestly, I'm okay with this? It sounds like it'll be a rad movie, and not having the Raid baggage attached to it is probably a good thing.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Honestly, I'm okay with this? It sounds like it'll be a rad movie, and not having the Raid baggage attached to it is probably a good thing. Yeah I agree, it sounds like the script evolved away from a remake pretty organically. What makes Raid special is the fighting style and choreography and I don't see how anyone besides Iko and the boys could pull it off.
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Feb 13, 2020 06:22
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It should be illegal to remake movies that soon anyway.
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Lurdiak posted:It should be illegal to remake movies that soon anyway. The ring and infernal affairs both got remakes released 4 years after the original, the raid was centuries ago in comparison
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Not to go too far off the rails, but HBO is remaking Parasite for American audiences, so...
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Franchescanado posted:Not to go too far off the rails, but HBO is remaking Parasite for American audiences, so... I think REC is still the king, the US remake of it, Quarantine, dropped IIRC less than a year after REC was released.
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Neo Rasa posted:I think REC is still the king, the US remake of it, Quarantine, dropped IIRC less than a year after REC was released. I don't even mind it so much for something like REC that didn't get a ton of mainstream attention, but Parasite just swept the Oscars. A remake right now would just be redundant. Maybe it's just in the early stages of pre-production and they don't actually plan to release it for another 2-3 years, who knows.
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Franchescanado posted:Not to go too far off the rails, but HBO is remaking Parasite for American audiences, so... Bong is involved and I don't know if it's a remake so much as a separate story with the same themes. So much of Parasite seems specifically Korean so I don't see how that works with Mark Ruffalo (rumoured to be attached) anyhow. flashy_mcflash fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Feb 13, 2020 |
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Speaking of Korean thrillers, I watched The Villainess again and was surprised that I've enjoyed it more each time I've sat through it. I think I was a victim of my own expectations the first time. Like many, many Korean thrillers, it has pacing issues, but this bothers me a lot less now that I've learned to accept the movie on its own terms. I'm curious about other people's experiences with it.
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flashy_mcflash posted:Bong is involved and I don't know if it's a remake so much as a separate story with the same themes. So much of Parasite seems specifically Korean so I don't see how that works with Mark Ruffalo (rumoured to be attached) anyhow. Yeah like, there's the artistically-bankrupt "just xerox this previously successful thing so we don't have to take risks" remake and then there's the audience-conscious "reinterpret the material to speak to a different culture while communicating the same essential themes" remake.
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Why y'all giving the bourgeois the benefit of the doubt
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Crossposting.Lurdiak posted:
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Found Ninja Assassin at my local Dollar Tree. I think I got my dollar's worth, despite the clash between "grim, serious acting" and "ludicrous amounts of red koolaid posing as blood." I'm pretty sure the big guy he killed in the men's room bled two persons' worth all by himself.  I watched the special feature about training Rain, a singer who dances a bit, into the exceedingly cut Raizo. The two comments that stood out to me were "he could be a real stuntman!" and "we kept having to redo the choreography because he kept getting better." Also, apparently the whole stunt crew (and Rain) trained 6 hours/day for 6 months. I was also pleased that the damsel in distress managed to injure three ninjas. She shot one in the foot while he stood on her car's sunroof, whacked another with her bumper, and shot another during the finale. Damsels are usually limited to shooting a single bad guy.
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Rewatched Fury Road today and it struck me that Immortan Joe must have been a big fan of Thulsa Doom.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:That's because it takes place in the Commandoverse, where such things are common. Hang on, a rocket launcher in a gun shop is a Commando thing? That must mean that Falling Down takes place in the same universe. The Neonazi gun shop guy in that has a rocket launcher too.
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That was just the 80s - rocket launchers and ninjas were a dime a dozen. My dad bought a rocket launcher at the True Value one time, hired some ninjas from the parking lot to take care of the Sandanista problem we had in the backyard.
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BioEnchanted posted:Hang on, a rocket launcher in a gun shop is a Commando thing? That must mean that Falling Down takes place in the same universe. The Neonazi gun shop guy in that has a rocket launcher too. Sure, and you got to put on a Speedo to row a boat. Michael Douglas would have done that as well in his movie if the situation arised. This is all standard stuff. 
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GoodyTwoShoes posted:Found Ninja Assassin at my local Dollar Tree. I think I got my dollar's worth, despite the clash between "grim, serious acting" and "ludicrous amounts of red koolaid posing as blood." I'm pretty sure the big guy he killed in the men's room bled two persons' worth all by himself. That was a movie that really didn't know what it was trying to do. The whiplash between crazy fun action scenes and grim serious scenes was really disconcerting, but what i mainly remember is how much i had to fiddle with my TV's brightness and contrast settings to see anything.
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Rewatched The Rock yesterday. It still kicks rear end. Having a domestic terrorists with a noble motive is actually quite refreshing. Also, burst out laughing when Sean Connery told Cage 'I'm amazed you got past puberty'.
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The Rock is on a short list of timeless action movies. Whatever magic Michael Bay stumbled across, he should have kept with it instead of making a series of trite and derivative cartoon movies. Instead he lived long enough to become the villain.
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TheOmegaWalrus posted:The Rock is on a short list of timeless action movies. Whatever magic Michael Bay stumbled across, he should have kept with it instead of making a series of trite and derivative cartoon movies. If you go back and watch Bad Boys, it's really visually interesting and The Rock is in a similar zone where yea it's clearly identifiable as Bay's style but it doesn't quite have that ridiculous over the top sheen to it that Bay settled on in his later work. They feel like real movies, much moreso than what came after. Only two years after The Rock he did Armageddon and that was all she wrote. Basebf555 fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Mar 4, 2020 |
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Regarding The Rock, I think about the way Cage says “Oh well why NOT” when he guns the car through the plate glass window a lot.
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This doc is worth checking out: In Search of the Last Action Heroes Also available for for rent on iTunes streaming for $1.
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Splint Chesthair posted:Regarding The Rock, I think about the way Cage says “Oh well why NOT” when he guns the car through the plate glass window a lot. He has some truly fantastic line deliveries in that film. So does Tony Todd.
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I wonder if Michael Bay ever sits in his enormous mansion and reflects sadly that he peaked almost a quarter of a century ago and will never make anything as good as The Rock again. He doesn't. Also holy poo poo that The Rock is almost a quarter of a century old. 
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If he has any artistic integrity, he would. Taking bloodmoney to debase your craft so that it could be marketed to authoritarian, genocidal countries would keep most people up at night. No amount of money in the world can wash away that shame.
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TheOmegaWalrus posted:If he has any artistic integrity, he would. Er... it wouldn't keep you up at night if you support authoritarian, genocidal countries, which Bay very clearly does. Dude's a good director but I haven't gotten any indications that he's not a god awful human being.
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LesterGroans posted:He has some truly fantastic line deliveries in that film. So does Tony Todd. "You like Elton John?" "I don't listen to soft rear end poo poo!" I crack up every single time. And that's BEFORE Cage shoots him with a rocket and says "You're the rocket man!"
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It's a grunge thing.
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