Narzack posted: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. Yeah Adkins is not always the strongest actor* but he can glower like a boss, there's a reason Yuri Boyka was his breakout role. I'm in the middle of Close Range because it's the only Florentine/Adkins joint on Netflix I haven't seen yet, and they use this quite cleverly - the film starts with a glowering Adkins murdering his way through a police station in a classic "introduce the bad guy" moment and then it turns out the cops are all bent and he's the good guy, there to rescue his niece who they've kidnapped. Also when the gently caress is Triple Threat coming out already *he was very good in Day of Reckoning imo Clipperton fucked around with this message at 05:04 on May 14, 2018 |
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sponges posted:Who cares about acting in the type of movies Adkins is in? Sure, it’d be nice but it wholly secondary to his athleticism Oh absolutely, and on top of that I'm willing to cut the acting in these movies a ton of slack. They're shot in 3 weeks and every extra take of a dramatic bit is a half hour you don't get to spend on a fight scene. I think Adkins is a good actor, but some roles (brooding loner) are more in his wheelhouse than others (the straightforwardly heroic stuff) which might be why Narzack doesn't see him as a leading man. That said I haven't seen Accident Man yet and I'm looking forward to seeing how he does there.
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Fart City posted:If no one else, between The Matrix and John Wick, Keanu has been carrying that torch for a long while. I will not abide this Statham erasure
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Basebf555 posted:He erased himself by joining up with the F&F franchise and making a horrific Mechanic sequel. He hasn't really been in the leading man spotlight for a while, maybe Deckard & Shaw will change that. Plane shootout in FF8 was dope, so was the prison break. Resurrection was less dope but the pool assassination ruled. I don't think they justify retroactively removing Jason Statham: Action Star from movie history
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Basebf555 posted:Movie history? No of course not, he's one of my all-time favorites. He just hasn't really been around much in lead roles recently(since like 2012) so his status as "action star" is now in question. Maybe Meg will bring that back a bit but it's also possible it sinks him even further. God I have my fingers crossed for The Meg so hard
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I've been reading A History of Violence, the action movie column in The AV Club (yes I know) where Tom Breihan goes through the most "important" action movie of every year since 1968 and Bullitt. It's all a bit arbitrary (I'm not sure he ever completely nails down a definition of "action movie", and he uses "important" very flexibly) but it's a fun read. His approach is less "in-depth analysis" than "holy poo poo that was cool", which is great because it's mine too  Here they all are for easy reference (fair warning, he's a big Donnie Yen fanboy and I know some posters itt consider him Hong Kong Hitler): 1968: Bullitt 1969: The Wild Bunch 1970: The Chinese Boxer 1971: Dirty Harry 1972: The Way of the Dragon 1973: Enter the Dragon 1974: Death Wish 1975: Dolemite 1976: Assault on Precinct 13 1977: Rolling Thunder 1978: The Driver 1979: The Warriors 1980: The Octagon 1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark 1982: First Blood 1983: Project A 1984: The Terminator 1985: Rambo: First Blood Part II 1986: Aliens 1987: Lethal Weapon 1988: Die Hard 1989: The Killer 1990: Total Recall 1991: Terminator 2 1992: Hard Boiled 1993: The Fugitive 1994: Speed 1995: Bad Boys 1996: The Rock 1997: Face/Off 1998: Blade 1999: The Matrix 2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2001: The Fast & The Furious 2002: The Bourne Identity 2003: Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2004: The Bourne Supremacy 2005: Sha Po Lang (Kill Zone) 2006: Casino Royale 2007: 300 2008: Taken 2009: Universal Soldier: Regeneration 2010: The Man from Nowhere 2011: Fast Five 2012: The Raid 2013: Snowpiercer 2014: John Wick 2015: Mad Max: Fury Road 2016: SPL 2 (Kill Zone 2) 2017: Wolf Warrior 2
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300 is gross and the word 'silly' isn't anywhere in that review. "Surface level" I agree with
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Regarding Raiders, I assume you just searched on the word?  it has a nazi monkey, that's pretty sillyi mean he's not calling it stupid, he talks about its "visual wit"
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I know fight scenes are often sped up in action movies so they look quicker and deadlier. How much do they speed them up though? 5-10%? Just wondering, no reason.
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Neo Rasa posted:At the same time I'm guessing so high because I'm thinking of instances in action movies where I'm actually noticing it. It stood out for me in Boyka: Undisputed, and now I seem to be seeing it everywhere, but that could be pareidolia or confirmation bias or whatever you call that.
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Saw Accident Man the other day and enjoyed it! Jesse Johnson knows how to make a film look good on a tight budget (more so than Isaac Florentine anyway) and the whole thing moved along very pleasantly, although it fizzled out a bit at the end. Scott Adkins gets to stretch his acting muscles and does quite well, and also gets a two-on-one fight with Michael Jai White and Ray Park. I've seen quite a few people compare it to Guy Ritchie, which makes me sad because Pat Mills (who wrote the Accident Man comic) has been doing that style of violent comedy since before Ritchie's balls dropped.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:what in the tbf if you hadn't seen the first two yet then your priorities would be so out of whack who knows what you'd do
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Penpal posted:I mean poo poo, it's going to Australia, what the gently caress is up? So disappointing. whannell is australian which probably helps. he got his start as a tedious adolescent dipshit reviewing movies on saturday morning tv, whenever i see him or hear his name it feels like a hangover
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The Undisputed movies still look a bit cheap though, as do most Isaac Florentine joints like the aforementioned Close Range. He can direct the hell out of a fight scene though, Close Range has a couple of good ones (I liked the knife/belt fight and the one where he flips the dining room table up then bounces a guy's skull off it. If you haven't seen it already, Savage Dog had the same director as Accident Man, Jesse Johnson, and looks a lot nicer. It's much grimmer though. (e: beaten like a baddie in a Scott Adkins movie) He also directed Triple Threat which whenthefuckisitcomingoutalready
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Lobok posted:Day of Reckoning was pretty good but there were two or three sequences of harsh strobe-lighting that lasted uncomfortably long. I loving loved Day of Reckoning. It's the closest anyone has come to doing an 80s Cronenberg movie since 80s Cronenberg.
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Franchescanado posted:Goldblum as the villain was what sold me. I am probably the only person in the world who liked Mad Dog Time and I endorse this message Basebf555 posted:Is there another Boyka in the works? If there is, they better loving bring back Gaga
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Basebf555 posted:If there's one thing lacking from the past two Undisputed movies, it's a true villain that can stand toe-to-toe with Adkins like he did for Jai-White in Undisputed II. The guy at the end of Boyka was physically impressive but barely a character, and I thought Undisputed II had no memorable villains at all. III had Lateef Crowder! But yeah he didn't have anything to do outside of the ring, he just looked a bit lost the whole time. I don't know what happened there, Crowder was a great villain in Tom Yum Goong even with like 2 minutes of screen time. Nothing against Marko Zaror either, but his fights in III were a bit underwhelming.
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Snowman_McK posted:It's a really uncomfortable scene. Especially since it goes out of way to establish that a) Hung has a lot of kids b) he's not prepared and is twice the age of the other guy and c) he only loses because of a heart attack and keeps getting in there 'for China's pride.' The whole thing is just loving weird, like all the other fights up to that point were whimsical wirework stuff with loads of jokes, then the movie comes to a screeching halt while we watch a senior citizen get mercilessly (and realistically!) beaten to a pulp. That bit where he gets spun around and ragdolls on the floor was just brutal. Not to mention the non-stop racial slurs getting hurled around either side of the fight. Also they portray Western boxing as more sadistic and brutal than they portrayed the Japanese occupation of China in WWII in the first one. I mean this isn't my first Hong Kong movie, I know they like their tonal whiplash, but this was just nuts.
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Fart City posted:The mid-nineties hacksploitation genre is severely underrated, and often absolutely delightful in its naivety about technology. Peak 90s Hacker is the VR bit from Disclosure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFkyV7d5t8o But IMO Wild Palms is the best thing that ever came out of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJMPCGo42cE
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Narzack posted: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. 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. Keanu otoh is the real deal and apparently lovely.
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I'm a Die Hard fundamentalist; for it to be a Die Hard clone, the hero can't go into the building/ship/hockey game already knowing the villain is there. The villain has to show up when the hero's already there, minding their own business. So Dredd and The Raid are both out 
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Wheat Loaf posted:Lithgow has the single silliest (but funnest) scene in the movie, where he assets himself as the top dog in prison by fighting the leader of the neo-Nazi gang, for which purpose they both fashion suits of armour by taping books to themselves. It's the dorkiest-looking thing. Also, said Nazi is played by Jesse Ventura. That scene is utterly out-of-place, and blatantly only exists because Mulcahy had a little trouble letting go of Highlander. And yeah, it's far and away the best scene in the movie.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AObzrCwAga8 Clipperton fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Jul 13, 2018 |
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:I haven't seen Die Hard 4 since it came out, but I wonder if I'd like it more now that I'm a fan of the actors playing the two villains (Timothy Olyphant and Maggie Q) and McClane's daughter (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). Also it's got Cyril Raffaelli from Banlieue 13 and he has some fun scenes
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RIP Ringo Lam
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LesterGroans posted:Triple Threat finally has a release date Ha, just found this out and came straight here to post it. So hyped for this movie, although is it just me or do a lot of those fight scenes look unwatchably dark
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thrawn527 posted:Solomon Kane. also John Carter Basebf555 posted:The Undisputed series is also worth a look, but you can just start with Undisputed II because it really has no connection to the original. I get real mad when people write off the first Undisputed. It's not a classic or anything but it 's well worth it just for Peter Falk's two big scenes.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:It has an incredible vibe. I would love to see somebody else go for a "David Lynch style action movie" that wasn't a pastiche. More Cronenberg than Lynch imo, and yes it rocks
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quote:Indeed, the character will soon star in an Undisputed television series, with Florentine set to direct. Production will reportedly begin in early 2020 with Adkins’ Boyka in the leading role. loving YES They better bring back Gaga
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One thing I will say for 6 Underground is that casting Ryan Reynolds was a smart move A big reason Bay movies annoy me so much is their motormouthed douchebag protagonists, and Reynolds's entire wheelhouse is making motormouthed douchebags
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brocked posted:I just watched that over the last couple nights.... I thought it was garbage-horrific editing, nonsensical over complicated schemes, XXX-level "extreme" sports tacked on, wannabe edginess, and a main character I don't think I could spend 5 minutes with Well yeah but it's Bay I didn't even finish it tbh, the only reason I stuck around as long as I did was 1) I liked Reynolds and thought he had good chemistry with Dave Franco, and 2) inertia after Franco copped it
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FancyMike posted:The first Undisputed isn’t like the sequels at all but it’s alright. It’s a Walter Hill movie with Wesley Snipes, Ving Rhames, and Peter Falk as the grumpy boxing old-timer. I recommend giving it a shot. Falk's back-to-back monologues (the one about his wife and the Meyer Lansky story) are worth it all by themselves
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Happy 74th John Woo
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Happy 44th Scott Adkins (and Scott Adkins's taint)
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Boco_T posted:Action Movie Fan Streaming Update: July 2020 Goddamn Bullet Man was a disappointment. The monster is very cool when it's on screen (so for about 10 seconds) but the lead actor was terrible and Shinya Tsukamoto trying to recreate his balls-out turn from the first movie as a beer-gutted 40something was just depressing.
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Guns Akimbo is one of the most obnoxious movies I’ve ever seen, and I’m not sure that’s entirely a criticism
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Basebf555 posted:Not really, not as an action movie anyway. It's more of a comedy with a few decent action scenes. But not a particularly good one. Yeah it's basically a poor man's Neveldine/Taylor movie, if you've seen the Cranks it doesn't have much to offer at all. The title is the best part That said, Radcliffe is engaging as always, as is Rhys Darby. Also I found the OTT bad guy (who I was convinced was Barry Otto until the credits rolled) and the physical comedy with the guns bolted to Radcliffe's hands amusing Clipperton fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Jul 5, 2020 |
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Lumbermouth posted:I’ve seen The Thing within the last month or so, so I think I’m gonna boot up Hard Target tonight. What a beautifully stupid movie. Never actually saw The Thing! I'll cue it up after my annual Riddick movie rewatch is done
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