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FancyMike posted:Hell yeah Chow Yun-Fat is the best and most charismatic action star Nah, his twin brother is cooler.
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I'd say one of the prototypical roots of the 80s action movie are those over-the-top, cartoonish war adventure films starring crowd-pleasing larger than life characters dodging ridiculous quantities of blanks (before they die nobly in order of ascending fame). The Dirty Dozen, Kelly's Heroes, The Wild Geese, etc.
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Yeah, absolutely. The one (good?) man against an army concept possibly has roots in westerns. I'm under-educated in that genre, but the Django films sure taste similar to me.
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Payndz posted:Can anyone recommend something recent (and good) that would satisfy my itch for some 80s/90s-style squib-and-bloodbag action, preferably with a lone hero facing a small army of bad guys? Have you checked out Brawl in Cell Block 99? It's a strong love letter to gritty, ultra-violent pulp.
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Yeah, I suppose it fails if the small army requirement is primary. But for me, it's the long slow burn into series of acutely escalating sprees of intense violence, soundtrack, and joyful use of practical bone & splatter bag effects to show the consequence of the action that gave me an incredible deja-vu to the action films of my youth. Your nostalgia may vary. 
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I rewatched Riki-Oh over the weekend, and man that movie loving rips and tears, it’s a live action version of The Doom Comic. 
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No Escape can't escape from it's comrade in 90s prison sci-fi shlock, Fortress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U6oLx3xy8s
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Fart City posted:I think the MVP of this for me is Demolition Man, where the apocalyptic hellscape it opens with is set a mere three years after the year of its release. Back in 1985, Max Headroom was set 20 minutes into the future.
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Whilst you're on this unholy spree, be sure to check out Warlock (1989) also.
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"Grounded" rarely means anything. It's predominantly a marketing incantation used to diffuse knee-jerk reactions to concepts that could too easily be seen as silly, outdated, or camp.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Hans is a piece of poo poo but he's still a human being. Not anymore, he ain't! 
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Aug 30, 2018 17:09
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Maybe Hans Gruber has a twin named Ken who serves rice in a NY Chinese restaurant?
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Aug 30, 2018 21:27
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Another here, Pearce is an enjoyable dickhead in it and the two lead bads are also highly entertaining. I feel like Americans may need subtitles though because they're both Scottish... We watched Lockout here last night and it was great fun. Thanks, thread friends, for reminding me of it. As well as the aforementioned opening gag of the punch bending the cigarette, which nicely set up the tone of cartoon-ish violence to come, I also really appreciated the payoff to the ring of lockable explosives "for bulk... heads". 
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Nov 5, 2018 17:35
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Eight Diagram Pole Fighter might scratch your itch or smash your teeth.
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mllaneza posted:Jeeja Yanin has Chocolate and Raging Phoenix on YouTube's paid side. I love Chocolate but didn't know of Raging Phoenix. Thank you for bringing it to my attention!
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There's lots of bits to like in Rothrock's stuff, but you also won't be missing much if you liberally fast-forward through much of their rote nonsense. But yeah, as you say that's just how 80/90s DTV things were. Gravy Jones posted:(Also damnnnn, that smash from Sammo at 1:35! Is that her or a double?) That's her, with an rear end-load of padding, preparation/practice, maybe a rubberised floor, but still... 
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Oh, god, yeah. Tetsuo: The Bullet Man is such a let down.  It's not quite that Every Frame a Painting video but this is very good, particularly for considering Jackie Chan as a combat arena in himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPjG6fe-eTQ
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Jul 4, 2020 12:17
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Yesss... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNrZriuHKpU
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Aug 21, 2020 20:24
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Yeah, Shoot'em Up would've been greatly improved with a Robocop level of splatter. But then again, I suppose few things wouldn't. There's lots of fun ideas in there, but it all feels somehow constrained. Anyway, who's up for some Samo Hung? Featuring a dirty head, colourful costumes, a fanciful villain, a stampede, much facial emoting and possibly more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKdJdKvLhs
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Who fancies some Yuen Biao of a friday? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFtr4ckzb4U
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You're confusing Hard Target with Double Impact, friend. Hard Target is super enjoyable!
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dokmo posted:this popped up in my recommendations, a 15 minute short in the style of 70s shaw brothers kung fu movies. Very good. Thank you for sharing! e: Here's their 80s HK action riff. I've been on an early Yeoh/Rothrock kick recently, and this certainly hits the right notes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-xUOQD7kZ4 ynohtna fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Dec 16, 2020 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STyhoKG23b4 He takes them In the woods alongside all the bears, duh.
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I've a big soft spot for some of the "pre-fame" Donnie Yen police-fu procedurals. He used to allocate energy to his facial muscles back then! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JelWs5Taia4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k2NnAHTrtY&t=485s
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I can't stop laughing at this poster: Apparently, Christopher Lambert was considered for the lead role before Hauer. Because, of course.
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Terror Sweat posted:How do you make a sequel to it lol Simple: introduce identical twins of the first film's main characters (they have opened a restaurant in New York city).
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Mar 2, 2021 18:03
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Robot Jox fills me with glee. As does as this slice of vintage Sammo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J53DYPaAm44
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Who's in the mood for some Yuen Biao, the man made of springs? me, always and forever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B970IhbbMbU
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Basebf555 posted:I see it as a necessary trade-off because the CG blood is mostly used to show gnarly headshots, and with squibs you really can't do that. I love noticing goons in martial arts films wearing hats and caps. Guess where they're getting hit?  Basebf555 posted:Yea I mean if we're now going to compare gunplay in every action movie to John Wick we're gonna be forever disappointed. I kinda knew going in that the action wasn't going to be quite up to that level but Odenkirk brought a whole different element to the table that made it entertaining aside from just the action(and the action was very good, it just wasn't John Wick). Yeah, I felt the third act got a bit ragged (and the coda didn't fit) but Odenkirk's dark comedy seasonings and punctuations were what elevated it for me above the standard bloke-sploitation power fantasy flick.
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dokmo posted:I enjoyed this, this is much better than the usual martial artists react to movie fights videos. Yeah, I really enjoyed that too. Especially the extended dive on the veracity of claw hammer unzippering!  e: Some Iko for new page! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp1xEIYckj0
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Basebf555 posted:Another good one to double feature with Virtuosity is Ricochet. It's a Denzel vs. absurd scenery chewing villain double feature. Hell yeah, definitely! Check out how pumped up it's trailer is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDAJI-z7l_c 
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Seems good timing for Accented Cinema to throw out this overview of sleaze: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVZ3duVORbo I have simultaneously seen far too many, but also far too few of these.
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I hope it comes out good, but the tone of the scenes in that trailer are way too forcibly over-stylized for my taste.
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Bang bang! Your dead, bad CGI impacts.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH17Zh09rGY
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Yeah, they're demonstrating a really keen eye for movement and editing. Big respect! If you still hunger for intense whip-pans, zooms, smash cuts and a dash of Bruce-sploitation here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-cZ6l-oDBM
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If only the MCU fights had as much kinetic energy and fun as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5biEyfN7IY
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I really gotta get around to Barry. In the mean time, what you need is... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqvGP47gflY
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"No big deal, just treating my centre of mass like a yo-yo." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J8tRFJg3t0 Such an incredible athlete and performer.
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CeeJee posted:Thai movie stunts, where Safety is just a word Holy poo poo! 
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Just please no more scenes where John fights his way to have a conversation with someone we've never seen (but who has VIP poise) who monologues for ages about how they can't help him because of how important the rules are and you can't ever break the rules or the entire world will come falling down because the High Table and their rules are oh-so very important and unbreakable. John mentions some off-screen favour or obligation. "Oh, okay then."
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