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What's the consensus on Scott Adkins? I'm kinda torn on him. On one hand, he's super physically talented. For sure, dude can rock faces off. On the other, I really don't like him as a main lead. I don't know why, but something about him just makes me see him as more of a villainous dude. Maybe it's the constant glare that I don't like, I dunno. I watched him in that Vietnam movie, and while he destroyed major amounts of bad dude face, he seemed totally unpleasant to me the entire time. Plus, he eats a dude's kidney. Which normally, I'd see as cool, but when he does it, for some reason, it seemed pretty hosed. Maybe him as Guyver type character or Snake-eyes where he doesn't need to show his face would be ideal for me. Or him as a right hand bad dude. How off base am I?
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Neo Rasa posted:This is way higher praise than Adrian Paul deserves. You maniac, Highlander ruled. Davros1 posted:Adkins is this generation's Gary Daniels Yeah, he kinda is. But Adkins hasn't been in an awesome Jackie Chan movie, yet.
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May 13, 2018 21:20
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May 13, 2018 22:39
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Holy gently caress, Mark Dacascos. I'm all about that
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May 23, 2018 00:08
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Bloodsport and Kickboxer are the greatest of the JCVD movies. Kickboxer especially has a totally killer 80s faux-oriental score to it. Also Van Damme dancing. Timecop is also cool. You just have to understand that going into them that you're about to watch a Van Damme movie, and set your expectations accordingly. What's that one where he's in prison and kicks a dude into a furnace? That one was cool, too. I think it also had Bolo in it.
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Jun 20, 2018 01:27
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Plus the most legendary of the Van Damme splits.
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Jun 20, 2018 02:43
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Man, you've really got to hand it to Tom Cruise. He may be a shithead, but the dude really puts in the work. I like pretty much all of his action movies, and that bathroom fight in the new Mission: Impossible looks ferocious. He's no spring chicken and he's still doing a lot of brutal stuntwork. It's cool. I feel like he has a real respect for physical stunts and stuntwork and seems to prefer doing things in-camera.
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Jul 12, 2018 19:57
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Clipperton posted:Is he a shithead though? I mean he's friends with David Miscavige and doesn't seem to mind, like, having his motorcycle detailed by a small army of brainwashed slaves, but if you're being charitable you can chalk that up to bad judgement and colossal naivete. His reputation among people who've worked with him seems to be pretty good. I can agree on both counts. Though, it's pretty evident that Scientology is pretty significantly evil. I mean, one could argue that he doesn't really know better, having been a member for a long time, and probably far enough removed from the day to day. Then that leads me to ask, how can he be unaware of all the evil committed by Scientology? Even still, he seems like a man with little to no malice. Keanu is pure.
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Jul 12, 2018 21:56
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Wheat Loaf posted:Die Hard turns 30 this weekend. Now, I'm sure we all like Die Hard, so I'll ask this instead: what are our favourite Die Hard-alikes? I really like Deep Rising, though, I guess it's only loosely a Die Hard-like
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Jul 12, 2018 22:11
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Wheat Loaf posted:I suppose that's fair enough. Under Siege is "Die Hard on an aircraft carrier", Cliffhanger is "Die Hard on a mountain", Air Force One is "Die Hard on the president's plane" etc. but I'm just not sure if it really is "Die Hard on a bus". Oh, yeah, Air Force One is a good one. Love Harrison's speech at the beginning.
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Jul 12, 2018 22:48
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There was also that really good Hollywood Bank Robbery episode of High Impact, that cop show from the late 90s.
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Jul 13, 2018 17:11
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Payndz posted:Ah yeah, the "symphony of screams". You know, it's not bad. Some cool special effects, too. Is it streaming anywhere? I'd be down to watch it again.
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Jul 16, 2018 16:15
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Yeah, as lovely as Bizkit is, their non-vocal part of the main theme is pretty good. And I'm an unashamed Woo lover, so I love most of M:I2. I think the action set pieces are stellar, despite some of the logical faults. The shootout in the lab just looks so drat cool, and the shot in the bunker of Ethan walking through the flames with doves flying and the music kicking in is so rad. Plus he blows up a car with a pistol.
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Jul 17, 2018 04:32
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Neo Rasa posted:I understand why one would like Vampires, but it just didn't appeal to me at all either, I was pretty hype for it too. Yeah, Los Muertos. I saw it once, but I don't it being all that bad.
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Jul 19, 2018 06:07
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:MI:2 established the formula. MI:3 perfected it. Nah, bro, M:I 2 rules.
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Jul 19, 2018 19:57
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Feel good action movie moment of the day. That's awesome. It's definitely my favorite moment in that entire trailer.
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Jul 20, 2018 20:48
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You know, it's pretty well shot, too. The camera is stable enough, not too close and not too spastic. And the edits are slow enough to allow the viewer to parse what's happening.
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Jul 21, 2018 15:11
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I remember it being really mean spirited and very poorly edited . Didn't like it at all.
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Jul 22, 2018 20:39
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Human Tornada posted:
Wow, I didn't know this was from the show, as I've never seen it, but it's all over the N64 Mission: Impossible game.
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Jul 29, 2018 14:08
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Franchescanado posted:I watched Starship Troopers for the first time this weekend. Yes, it does. Yes, it loving does.
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Jul 30, 2018 02:37
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Yeah, I found the movie to be a really frustrating experience, even though I wanted to like it. It was such a chaotic mess of visuals.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Patriot Games is my favourite of the three good Jack Ryan movies. Clear and Present Danger is very good as well and probably has the best action scene of the series (when Ryan's team is ambushed in Mexico) but its villain isn't as good as Sean Bean. Yeah, man. It's a really great scene. Builds up tension expertly, the music starts to clue you in that something is amiss, and the shot above when the convoy enters the killzone is really good: the way the bad dudes kinda pop into frame. It's a really intense and kind of terrifying scene. You know that there is no hope for these dudes. And there's something about the way they all kind of sacrifice themselves to get Jack out. He barely makes it out alive, and once he's out side of the ambush spot, it's like he's in a different world. It really, really stood out to me when I was younger. Plus, Harrison Ford can sell the gently caress out of anything. A punch, a kick, an explosion. Both giving and receiving. Someone upthread really nailed it talking about the everyman aspect of Harrison Ford action dudes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2w9XDc7Ago
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Aug 30, 2018 19:33
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ynohtna posted:Maybe Hans Gruber has a twin named Ken who serves rice in a NY Chinese restaurant? As long as there is also an insane, mansion shattering shootout at the end.
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Aug 30, 2018 21:36
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Fart City posted:Again this is where I mention that the best last Die Hard movie is actually Max Payne 3. A washed up alcoholic New Jersey cop famous for his ultra violent exploits finds a new line of work as private security for an afluent family in Brazil, who are then targeted in a Byzantine terrorist plot that is all about misdirection, and hinges specifically on the cop being famous for those ultra violent exploits. Along the way, said cop finds himself wandering around a high rise wearing only an undershirt, defusing bombs, and having a shootout at an airport. I dig it.
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Aug 31, 2018 16:21
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Rewatching Hardcore Henry with a film buddy to see if I was unfair to it the first time.
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I wonder if maybe he's just not a good director. Or he's gone like Frank Miller and kinda lost his touch.
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Wheat Loaf posted:His last movie was The Nice Guys and I thought it was good. Maybe he's just better for movies like that and Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang than big action tentpoles? Yeah, maybe the dude just needs to play to his strengths. Big action sci-fi spectacle movies are tough, though, especially with the way studios are so desperate to min-max their investments and returns. Plus, it's been eight years since the last Predator movie and twenty years before that. Obviously AvP count as neither Alien nor Predator movies. Hell, they barely even count as movies at all.
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Has anyone else seen Jailbreak? Everything ever written about it until the heat death of the universe will call it the ‘Cambodian answer to The Raid.’ Which is actually pretty accurate. It’s not great. Not terrible, but not nearly to the level of The Raid. I think what brings it down is the unimaginative lighting, the dull, repetitive sets, and the fighting style itself: bokator. There’s some decent camerawork there, but none of the fights really stand out, except for one which has some brutal machetework out of nowhere. Overall, I just wasn’t impressed by action choreography. It just didn’t have the wild brutality of Silat and Muay Thai that Iko Uwais and Tony Jaa blew us away with. Still, it’s worth checking out. Especially if you are interested in seeing a full length film that is comprised of nearly 90% dudes getting kicked.
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I know it's not really an action movie, but I finally watched Unforgiven. Probably my second favorite Clint movie after Josey Wales. And, holy crap, he basically has the most cinematic face in all of filmdom.
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Tezcatlipoca posted:Josey Wales doesn't hold a bison tallow lantern to Unforgiven. Why do you like it so much? OneTruePecos posted:It's even better than that, in the context of the full movie, because Munny doesn't tell the kid that - Little Bill tells Beauchamp that. But even so, that's just part of what is going on. This is a great post. And I just finished Night Comes for Us. Good flick. It almost feels like a horror action movie, because the violence is so unrelenting and bloody and nightmarish. Anyone else get that feeling?
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Oct 25, 2018 02:24
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FancyMike posted:The first RE is actually my least favorite of his, but I'm due to rewatch and reconsider the whole series after how great The Final Chapter was. Mortal Kombat rules, bro-with-an-awesome-av. I thought AvP was embarrassingly bad, but somehow not as bad as the sequel.
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Oct 25, 2018 19:39
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It's a funny movie, because it Guy Pierce giving the most phoned-in performance you'll ever see. Like, it feels as if he really didn't want to be in the movie, at all. But, it kind of adds a world weary sardonic humor to the character. It kinda worked for me.
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Oct 25, 2018 19:58
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A Better Tomorrow 1 and 2.
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I dunno, man. It's better than Blackjack, but I think JCVD (for the only time ever) brings it down a lot. EDIT- I know someone is going to post the snake punch is response. Narzack fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Nov 6, 2018 |
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Nov 6, 2018 03:32
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Well, I also like Broken Arrow more than Hard Target.
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Nov 6, 2018 06:18
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Snowman_McK posted:b-movie Kate Beckinsale (Rhona Mitra). . . wut. Both of those chicks rule on their own, without any needed comparison qualifier.
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Nov 8, 2018 23:49
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Just rewatched The Raid since it's on Netflix how. So gooooooooood.
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got any sevens posted:Every rambo is a must-watch, for different reasons This guy gets it.
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Basebf555 posted:Yea they hosed up by choosing that for the preview clip because it killed my desire to watch it immediately. I'm struggling through it right now . It's not very good. Pretty boring, even. EDIT- Managed to finish it, it's not really worth watching unless you want to see a bunch of dumpy housewives get beat up and electrocuted set to some punk riffs. Narzack fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Nov 26, 2018 |
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The stunt work is what makes that scene for me. Tony's stuff is cool, but I think the real stars are dudes he hurls off the balcony and blasts through doors. Them and the cameraman himself.
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