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It's real unfortunate that young, talented martial arts actors are overprone to stupid, lethal accidents- because I really want to see Scott Adkins behind the camera one day.
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well, he's 44. I think he's got most of the stupid out of him by now.
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Aug 21, 2020 22:04
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Yeah, if it makes you feel any better, Adkins has said in interviews that he can't do what he did in his late 20s/early 30s anymore and he's focused more on acting and such. He knows he can't do Boyka triple kicks forever.
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Aug 21, 2020 22:06
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I’m watching that One Night in Bangkok movie. Pretty neat opening montage so far.
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Scott Adkins is the best and I'm glad I brought him up a few pages ago, all his youtubes are great. here's his top5 btw - Still haven't seen Universal Soldier; since I hadn't seen the original, will double-header them tonight. #1 -Avengement #2 - Undisputed III: Redemption #3 - Accident Man #4 - Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning #5 - Ninja: Shadow of a Tear I agree with Avengement; it was the first movie of his that I "got" Scott Adkins - those prison scenes were loving brutal and his story telling in the bar was great acting. Hell yeah just found out Legacy of Lies is out now too
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Gonna try to not spam too much but One Night in Bangkok is essentially Collateral in Thailand, lmao. Edit: there’s a major plot point centered around Bitcoin, lmao Edit 2: I gave it 2.5 stars. Was hoping for way more action and they totally chicken out on the climax when you’re expecting a big fight scene. You could skip it, but it’s not a complete waste of time. Taintrunner fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Aug 22, 2020 |
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Aug 22, 2020 19:53
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Taintrunner posted:Gonna try to not spam too much but One Night in Bangkok is essentially Collateral in Thailand, lmao. gently caress yeah!!! quote:
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Aug 22, 2020 21:36
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Collateral is really good but it's really more of a mood piece than an action setpiece movie. I wouldn't expect a giant climax to a movie that resembles it.
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Lurdiak posted:Collateral is really good but it's really more of a mood piece than an action setpiece movie. I wouldn't expect a giant climax to a movie that resembles it. Yeah but it’s Mark Dacascos and I didn’t wanted a straight remake I wanted the big men to punch each other!!!
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Aug 22, 2020 21:47
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Taintrunner posted:Gonna try to not spam too much but One Night in Bangkok is essentially Collateral in Thailand, lmao. I didn't want to mention before you finished it that the director of the movie previously made two of the worst action movies of all time, so your review indicates a huge improvement in his filmmaking ability.
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I’m making my way through all of Scott Adkins stuff and Savage Dog is top tier. I feel like it’s an 80’s JVD or Stallone type film so it’s giving great nostalgia vibes.
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Aug 22, 2020 23:54
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dokmo posted:I didn't want to mention before you finished it that the director of the movie previously made two of the worst action movies of all time, so your review indicates a huge improvement in his filmmaking ability.  oh my god the Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever guy isn't in movie jail.
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WeedlordGoku69 posted:
YO WHAT Edit: I’m now watching Scott Adkins Ninja 1 and this is a ton of fun for a live action children’s cartoon, somehow the voice actor for the Cowboy Bebop guy is in this? What? Lmao. Taintrunner fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Aug 23, 2020 |
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Taintrunner posted:YO WHAT I recommended it in the old kung fu movie thread and got yelled at. It's nice to find someone else who liked it. The sequel is loving great.
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Snowman_McK posted:I recommended it in the old kung fu movie thread and got yelled at. It's nice to find someone else who liked it. The sequel is loving great. There's a cyber-ninja and there's two ninjas fighting for the climax. It rules. The second is more grounded and a huge step up in production values but it's a fantastic movie centered around the King of the Weebs going on an international rear end kicking tour. edit: and the second one has a dude running drugs through a ninja dojo this poo poo kicks so much rear end edit2: finally finishing Avengement and this dude has a fantastic flight simulator setup 
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Aug 23, 2020 09:58
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jase1 posted:Im making my way through all of Scott Adkins stuff and Savage Dog is top tier. I feel like its an 80s JVD or Stallone type film so its giving great nostalgia vibes. yea, when I started the Scott Adkins derail it was right after watching Savage Dog. What a great little movie. If you haven't check out Avengement; was one of the earlier ones I saw and it's basically what got me hooked on the Adkins diet. Taintrunner posted:The second is more grounded and a huge step up in production values but it's a fantastic movie centered around the King of the Weebs going on an international rear end kicking tour. It reminded me a little bit of The Foreigner (with Jackie Chan) which imo was one of the best action movies of the past few years. Hirez fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Aug 24, 2020 |
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Aug 24, 2020 17:37
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Taintrunner posted:edit2: finally finishing Avengement Lucky... wasn't it so good?! Also just finished Legacy of Lies. Good movie overall, one of his better ones - it helped going in totally blank (as I always try to do) after just finding out it existed/was out.
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Speaking if Scott Atkins has anyone heard of 36 cinema. They are doing a stream of My Lucky Stars on Friday and Scott Adkins is doing live commentary which sounds amazing.
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Adkins and My Lucky Stars? That's insane
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Crying Freeman with Mark Dacascos is phenomenally dumb, absolutely a must-watch. So many ridiculous little details, and this is a movie that opens with exploding guns, only getting more and more ridiculous from there. Great practical effects work and action too!
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Taintrunner posted:Crying Freeman with Mark Dacascos is phenomenally dumb, absolutely a must-watch. So many ridiculous little details, and this is a movie that opens with exploding guns, only getting more and more ridiculous from there. Great practical effects work and action too! This was a movie I knew nothing about until I watched the Adkins youtube episode with Dacascos. Same for Drive, and it turns out both are on Prime. Cryman Freeman is I guess where Dacascos met the director of Brotherhood of the Wolf, which is also great. edit: lol the movie should've been called Cryman Freeman instead Basebf555 fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Aug 25, 2020 |
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Aug 25, 2020 01:37
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Yeah, I just started watching BotW, which is hilarious. Mark is a martial arts Native Americans is a ridiculous combo. Plus it’s got Vincent Cassel!
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Watching Hard Boiled yet again because it fuckin' rules and like, drat, this movie fuckin' rules so hard even after so many years of watching it. Even the non-action parts are like, like Tony Leung/Alan's intro where he's driving to the library and it freeze frame fades to him entering the building and then the music cuts out as he takes his sunglasses off, like holy poo poo.  the caliber the of shots and setups in this. Everything feels so dense like you could pull an entire movie out of characters like Uncle Hoi that are on screen for like five minutes, like every single time any two actors are on screen together there's like perfect chemistry. The entire warehouse raid -> Uncle Hoi being dealt -> the police raid right after would be the ridiculous highly lauded climax of any other action movie but then the action in the final act is so good people don't even bring it up.Honesty The Killer really is a better and more focused movie overall but holy poo poo, Hard Boiled is one of my favorite flicks ever. Also more movies need to have a scene where the character loads SHINY GOLD shotgun rounds into their shotgun so that there's an excuse to have ever single shotgun blast result in an explosion and people being set on fire.
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Crying Freeman is an adaptation of a Kazuo Koike manga, so it's the same source author as both Lone Wolf and Cub and Mad Bull 34. That is why it's insane, everything he writes is insane and great. Drive is one of the top-tier action movies of all-time, but if you can find the Director's Cut instead of the one that always gets loaded to streaming services then you should watch that. I actually own a bootleg DVD set that sold both together, it used to be very easy to get on eBay but apparently that has dried up in the last decade as people started to avoid physical media. https://twitter.com/Boco_T/status/650489473151684608
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Another Crying Freeman movie is The Dragon From Russia from 1990. It's pretty crazy and has Mrs. Jet Li in a shower fight. The HK Legends DVD has a fascinating commentary with director Clarence Fok and (of course) Bey Logan on shooting without permission at the famous Peninsula Hotel and in Moscow just after the collapse of the Soviet Union. And how the studio kept messing with the movie to add whatever their whim of the moment was. You can find the commentary audio on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDGb25WMLpU Look at that knife action ! (and sloppy editing) CeeJee fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Aug 25, 2020 |
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CeeJee posted:Another Crying Freeman movie is The Dragon From Russia from 1990. It's pretty crazy and has Mrs. Jet Li in a shower fight. Holy poo poo I somehow had no idea there was more than one of these. :O
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Thread hero Scott Adkins is doing live commentary over the Jackie Chan/Sammo Hung movie My Lucky Stars this Friday. Tickets are free but limited. quote:
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I paid 8 dollars for mine...
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B-Rock452 posted:I paid 8 dollars for mine... Oh sorry! It says something about a code so maybe you're supposed to use that. It doesn't seem to be working one way or the other for me in Canada so I guess it's geolocked.
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New Adkins youtube episode debuts today at noon. He's interviewing Richard Norton, who was a fight coordinator on Fury Road and Suicide Squad and has worked with a lot of notable action stars of the 80s and 90s like Jackie Chan, Cynthia Rothrock, Chuck Norris, and Michael Dudikoff.
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Norton was the bad guy in a million direct to video action movies in the 80s and 90s, including one of my very favorites, Tough And Deadly, starring Billy Blanks and Rowdy Roddy Piper (who plays a guy named Elmo Freech, how great is that?). That film is a loving hoot.
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Aug 27, 2020 14:29
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He also was fight choreographer on the seminal action masterpiece, Gymkata.
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flashy_mcflash posted:Oh sorry! It says something about a code so maybe you're supposed to use that. It doesn't seem to be working one way or the other for me in Canada so I guess it's geolocked. Oh no I ordered it on Monday from I believe a different site. I was fake complaining
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This little documentary follows Norton and Cynthia Rothrock while visiting Germany for an action movie convention. They're so cute in their passion for what they do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QevSX7ruTk
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Stone Cold's end credits feature a really nice tracking shot. I must have taken a lot of coordination to get all those folks on cue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7eBXMqsePE
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That Richard Norton interview was pretty good, it's mostly about his experiences doing Hong Kong action movies, including getting uppercutted 20 times by Sammo Hung on camera and enjoying it.
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dokmo posted:Norton was the bad guy in a million direct to video action movies in the 80s and 90s, including one of my very favorites, Tough And Deadly, starring Billy Blanks and Rowdy Roddy Piper (who plays a guy named Elmo Freech, how great is that?). That film is a loving hoot. I've met Norton. He's also a pretty high level BJJ guy and taught a seminar that i attended. He was super loving cool and has an incredible speaking voice. Since we're talking about his roles, 'Salute of the Jugger' is a post apocalyptic sports movie that's way better than that ridiculous description implies.
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For those who don't know, it's a Rutger Hauer movie
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