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Some day I will watch more older action movies that I haven't seen instead of brand new action movies that are no good, but that is not this day. Others I watched with the action tag that I didn't think were actually action movies were Echo Boomers (0.5/5), Train to Busan (2/5), and Breach (1/5). Archenemy (2020) - 2/5 It's a unique movie, but it tried to go too many directions and I was not that interested in the premise to begin with. Archenemy seems like a movie that some people will love and others won't care for, and that's fine. It wasn't exactly for me but I still saw some positives. The performances of the main four actors (Manganiello, Griggs, Brooks, Howerton) were all very good. Decent action, though not as much of it as I would have wanted. It does take a little while to get going, which is a drawback when the movie only runs around 84 minutes. I don't know, I'm having trouble thinking of more to say about it. If you can spare that short running time, you might as well check it out for yourself. 12 Rounds 2: Reloaded (2013) - 2/5, Starz "The Randy One" Randal Keith Orton is a beast, but this is beat-for-beat the same movie as the first one, only with a way lower budget. No reason for it to even exist. It's weird that Orton is not a cop in this, but that detail does make it a little more interesting. And you get to see him backdrop a cop onto the hood of a cop car. Army of One (2020) - 1/5 It took three people working together, including the star of the film, to turn in maybe the most atrocious script I've ever seen in a movie. Abysmal depiction of "hillbilly family running a town," to the point that they KEEP SLAVES. Irredeemable, really. And all of the performances by the supporting cast are unwatchable. About 10 minutes of decent material near the end, to the point that I'd believe they said "let's do the 'get revenge by killing a house full of thugs'" premise and worked backward from there. Highlight was about 2 minutes of single shot action that made me wonder why the whole movie wasn't just that. Ellen Hollman has some level of charisma and aptitude for action, but go ahead and wait for her to be in a real movie and don't bother with this. The Intergalactic Adventures of Max Cloud (2020) - 1/5 What if you took Ready Player One, something that is already truly awful, and made it without any of the licensed references? You get Max Cloud, one of the worst movies of the year. This is a comedy movie without jokes. References aren't jokes. Nostalgia isn't jokes. Where are the jokes? Also wins the award for "worst use of Scott Adkins," because they put him in this to draw people like me and then gave him approximately 100 seconds of action. Those 100 seconds were really cool. What if that was the whole movie?
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Dec 19, 2020 03:06
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drat that's disappointing, I hate when Adkins gets misused. On the other hand, he probably got a pretty nice payday for it.
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Dec 19, 2020 03:16
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I'm watching The Matrix Reloaded because I'd never seen it before. It has made me think about wire work in action films and how I'm not sure I've ever seen it look good. I understand why it gets used but it always looks way too floaty or the wires are too fixed. Like in the first Matrix in the lobby where Neo cartwheels and you can tell he's rotating round a fixed point. *edit also did Trinity never download any marksmanship training because holy poo poo, girl. Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Dec 20, 2020 |
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Dec 20, 2020 00:31
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I thought that cartwheel looked great. It didn't look real, but it looked cool.
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Dec 20, 2020 06:20
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Plenty of wire work looks good, you just don’t notice it. Obvious wire work can also look good when it’s heavily stylized in something like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
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Dec 20, 2020 06:28
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Rick Geteven is a bad motherfucker and a smooth operator and country singer E: Imagine a black tanktop vanity project Expendables with Tommy Wiseau, Rick Geteven, and Neil Breen. Who else gets to go? Firstborn fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Dec 20, 2020 |
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Dec 20, 2020 16:51
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Firstborn posted:Rick Geteven is a bad motherfucker and a smooth operator and country singer Y.K. Kim.
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Dec 21, 2020 03:20
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I ended up watching Jiu Jitsu with Nicolas Cage and Tony Ja . It was about what you would expect but it did have some I thought really well done fight scenes and its worth checking out for Nicolas Cage's character alone.
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Dec 21, 2020 05:08
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Basebf555 posted:It's not quite as good, but check out Headshot. Same director, starring Iko Uwais. Oh hey, I watched this and it wasn't bad. Thanks for the rec. I think I'm going to be checking out the rest of director Timo Tjahjanto's work now, since I've liked the two films of his I've watched this month and I according to Wikipedia he did some of the ABC of Death shorts that I remember being good.
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Dec 21, 2020 08:59
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Firstborn posted:Rick Geteven is a bad motherfucker and a smooth operator and country singer Len K.  Actually that's a bit unfair, at least he has some action talent and isn't just a sideshow exhibit like the previous mentions.
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Dec 21, 2020 10:34
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He doesn't meet up to the standards of the pantheon of WEIRD MEN unless he's not good at anything but believes and invests with an inscrutable amount of money into the idea that he is great in everything
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Dec 21, 2020 20:02
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I am about to start a Jet li binge. What are some of his movies I should do watch?
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Dec 21, 2020 20:33
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jase1 posted:I am about to start a Jet li binge. What are some of his movies I should do watch? The One, obviously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w9eQ5FABko
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Dec 21, 2020 20:33
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jase1 posted:I am about to start a Jet li binge. What are some of his movies I should do watch? Once Upon a Time in China 1, 3, and maybe 3
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Dec 21, 2020 20:37
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Gonz posted:The One, obviously. I knew what scene that was even before I clicked the link
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Dec 21, 2020 21:14
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jase1 posted:I am about to start a Jet li binge. What are some of his movies I should do watch? The Once Upon a Time In China films, as noted Fist of Legend Fearless Hero His early Shaolin trilogy is not bad either
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Dec 21, 2020 21:54
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jase1 posted:I am about to start a Jet li binge. What are some of his movies I should do watch? For films in a modern setting, check out Kiss of the Dragon and Danny the Dog/Unleashed. Avoid any of his English speaking films made in America. Also, Endless Ocean if you are interested in a drama with zero martial arts. Edit: or is it called Ocean Heaven? It's something with Ocean in the title.
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Dec 21, 2020 22:16
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quote:According to Li, once, as a child, when the Chinese National Wushu Team went to perform for President Richard Nixon in the United States, he was asked by Nixon to be his personal bodyguard. Li replied, "I don't want to protect any individual. When I grow up, I want to defend my one billion Chinese countrymen!"[8]
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Dec 21, 2020 22:36
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I recently rewatched Kiss of the Dragon and didn't finish it because it was just way to misogynistic for me. Shocking that a movie written by Luc Besson would be like that I know.
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Dec 21, 2020 23:22
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I really liked The Enforcer, i think it's also called My Father, the Hero. The Black Mask was the first movie I saw him in, it was a lot of fun, though pretty goofy.
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Dec 22, 2020 00:08
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Narzack posted:I really liked The Enforcer, i think it's also called My Father, the Hero. The Black Mask was the first movie I saw him in, it was a lot of fun, though pretty goofy. I remember enjoying My Father, the Hero. It has a ridiculous scene where Li is under a truck and keeps himself from getting run over by rolling really fast to outrun the tires.
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Dec 22, 2020 00:21
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Unleashed / Danny the Dog needs to be in there as upper middle-tier Li
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Dec 22, 2020 00:55
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poonchasta posted:I remember enjoying My Father, the Hero. It has a ridiculous scene where Li is under a truck and keeps himself from getting run over by rolling really fast to outrun the tires. His fight scene with Gerard Depardieu is good as well. I also remember seeing Romeo must Die like a thousand times in theaters but haven't done a rewatch recently.
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Dec 22, 2020 01:02
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Was Romeo must die where they did the X-ray of a dudes bones being broke in the final fight? It reminded me of those sniper games.
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Dec 22, 2020 15:04
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jase1 posted:Was Romeo must die where they did the X-ray of a dudes bones being broke in the final fight? It reminded me of those sniper games. I remember that was definitely in the first fight scene when he is hanging upside down from the ceiling. Also this movie has the worst CGI football ever.
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Dec 22, 2020 15:45
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jase1 posted:Was Romeo must die where they did the X-ray of a dudes bones being broke in the final fight? i have to watch streetfighter again, that movie rules so hard. 
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Dec 22, 2020 15:48
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Found it. I’m not sure how to embed it but here is the link. https://imgur.com/gallery/QcyzaQi
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Dec 22, 2020 16:36
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dokmo posted:i have to watch streetfighter again, that movie rules so hard. 
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Dec 22, 2020 16:42
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poonchasta posted:For films in a modern setting, check out Kiss of the Dragon and Danny the Dog/Unleashed. Avoid any of his English speaking films made in America. Also, Endless Ocean if you are interested in a drama with zero martial arts. unironically Lethal Weapon 4, he's loving great at that Shageletic fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Dec 22, 2020 |
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Dec 22, 2020 16:47
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Shageletic posted:unironically Lethal Weapon 4, he's loving great at that Yeah I don't know what it is about Jet Li but ive never enjoyed a movie where he's the lead. The two I like most with him are LW4 and Hero (one of my all time favorite movies ) Vvvvv exactly what I was thinking of. Greatest introduction of a foreign actor to america mastershakeman fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Dec 22, 2020 |
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Dec 22, 2020 16:48
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D1CqVrGXdo This loving rules
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Dec 22, 2020 16:50
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mastershakeman posted:Yeah I don't know what it is about Jet Li but ive never enjoyed a movie where he's the lead. The two I like most with him are LW4 and Hero (one of my all time favorite movies ) So much better than Donnie Yen's. Although I do have a soft spot for The Replacement Killers which is I think Chow Yun-Fat's first american movie and it rules.
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Dec 22, 2020 19:03
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Would you consider Highlander or Blade 2 his intro?
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Dec 22, 2020 19:10
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Narzack posted:Would you consider Highlander or Blade 2 his intro? Highlander. I mean I might have been the only one in the entire country to see it so maybe Blade 2 should count
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Dec 22, 2020 19:26
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B-Rock452 posted:So much better than Donnie Yen's. Although I do have a soft spot for The Replacement Killers which is I think Chow Yun-Fat's first american movie and it rules. Whatever happened to Chow Yun-Fat? There was a time where he rode his Hong Kong fame into America, but it seemed to have swept him away, just as fast. Did he just give up and head back to HK? Leave showbiz, entirely? And agreed -- Replacement Killers is pretty stylish for a B-movie. Apparently Mira Sorvino (sp?) was rotten to him, on set
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Dec 22, 2020 19:38
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null_pointer posted:Whatever happened to Chow Yun-Fat? There was a time where he rode his Hong Kong fame into America, but it seemed to have swept him away, just as fast. Did he just give up and head back to HK? Leave showbiz, entirely? I think part of it was that he didn't make it to Hollywood until he was over 40, so within a few years he was pushing 50 and getting past leading man age. He's in his mid-60s today.
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Dec 22, 2020 19:47
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No love for Bodyguard From Beijing?
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Dec 22, 2020 22:28
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brocked posted:No love for Bodyguard From Beijing? I love that one! I just couldn't remember the name. Isn't the bad guy the same actor from My Father, the Hero? That guy is awesome and I think he was also Seraph on the Matrix sequels.
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Dec 23, 2020 09:36
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null_pointer posted:Whatever happened to Chow Yun-Fat? There was a time where he rode his Hong Kong fame into America, but it seemed to have swept him away, just as fast. Did he just give up and head back to HK? Leave showbiz, entirely? Tried to find anything on that and found this instead quote:You’d never know it, but Mira Sorvino speaks five – count 'em, five languages, including Mandarin Chinese. By contrast, Chow Yun-Fat’s native tongue is Cantonese, although he also speaks Mandarin to a lesser degree.
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Dec 23, 2020 18:04
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