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Kermode reviewed Villainess and said it's loving phenomenal, wipes the floor with American Assassin, which makes me so happy. Now if only it was showing in NYC!
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I got a copy of The Villainess without English subtitles and watched the opening 7 minutes or so. Holy hell, is that an achievement for most impressive opening set piece - its five minutes of a one-woman rampage all from first person and it goes hard on the gore and brutality. Blu-Ray drops on the 21st so that’ll be fantastic.
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Yaws posted:I could watch Face/Off once a month until the day I die and never get tired of it. Just look at Castor Troys guns!: My first exposure to these was The Specialists mod for Half Life 1, believe it or not. Those were the days.
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FancyMike posted:Yeah keeping it to music also really emphasized how nightmarish it all was. It’s terrifying. And there seemed to be way more soldiers there than we were told there should be. That battle is so good They do this really well with free jazz in Gundam Thunderbolt, if you're looking for a more modern (and somewhat anime) take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kv2hCZHbn4
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:This is the only thing I remember about Paycheck: This is so stupid it loops back around to it owns
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May 12, 2018 00:11
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Keanu was fantastic in Street Kings and I wish that movie got more love.
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May 14, 2018 18:11
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Coming back to Villainess and giving it a rewatch (okay, I mainly skimmed ahead to the action scenes), I still think it gets a lot of credit for just the sheer imaginativeness of it, the whole end climax fight is really well done and you watch this character get the gently caress knocked out of her and the way they transition to different areas is really fantastic, you really get a sense of her desperation and rage that's just incredible. Even if the CGI starts to fall apart with the bus chase, I think the acting sells it.
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Virtuosity is one of my favorite movies of all time. It’s drat ridiculous and I adore it.
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Basebf555 posted:I wonder if Peppermint will be any good. It's by the director of Taken, so maybe? I saw it tonight, it’s pretty solid. Garner plays a really mean Lady Punisher with a morbid sense of humor, there’s some great gun porn, and some fun twists you don’t see coming.
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Jerkface posted:I saw Peppermint. Spoiler thoughts, this'll be jumbled because I just got out of the theater overall I give it like a B- or a C+: Garner is a believable vigilante physically as she is no stranger to action roles, but the movie essentially glosses over her 5 year transformation into a one woman army, which is fine, but maybe spending more time on that and less time on the 3rd act would have been better. There is 1 really good shoot out scene, the other big one isnt very good for the following reason. The film is reaaaaaaaaaaally sterile which is odd when the hero is pump shottying dudes in the chest at point blank. Theres hardly any blood or squibs (they might be using CGI for the impacts?), and theres no real gore associated with the shooting. Garner herself gets roughed up good but thats it. There is not much in the way of reloading (she reloads a pistol once in the entire film), playing with ammo counts, or creative use of the weapons to build out the scenes. The first major fight scene takes place in a pinata factory and folks, I gotta say, they didn't utilize the pinatas very well at all. And that was the good shoot out! No goons are there blasting away at pinatas, theres no shotgun shooting through a pinata to kill a bad guy. Garner doesn't string up a goon like a pinata and hit him with a bat. WASTED POTENTIAL. The other big shootout happens at the bad guys house and its just pretty meh, garner sneaking around shooting people once with a suppressed rifle she never reloads, didn't care for it. Yeah, that's a fair review. Like I gave it an 8.5 since I'm a Garner fan and I loved whenever she was on-screen, the rest of the movie, eh. Your complaints are pretty on-point, honestly, but I did like that plot twist you're referring to honestly, probably because I'd taken a liking to that character. Like I kept thinking while watching it that Peppermint felt very much like they set out to make an 80s-rear end B-movie in a lot of ways, and Garner does a really good job selling her character. Like she gets the poo poo knocked out of her, multiple times, and just keeps getting back up. She's also improvising a lot with what's around her, which I felt like was a nice touch.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Wasn't there a similar "Lady Punisher" movie with Jodie Foster a few years ago? The Brave One, yeah. She's like a radio DJ/host and it's way less action-y.
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Sep 11, 2018 00:04
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Jerkface posted:Garner handled all the action well if they had the wick guys directing instead of the taken guy it'd probably be much better. Comically enough I think you could say the same for the first Taken, Liam Neeson was the only reason that movie really worked. That's also why I disagree with you, I think I wouldn't have liked this movie half as much if Garner's character was as surgical as Wick. She's way more of a blunt object in Peppermint and I honestly prefer it that way.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Alias was a big deal, right? I got into it quite a while after the fact (not until after I'd watched all of Fringe); I learned from this thread that Abrams was picked for M:I3 because Cruise had watched and enjoyed a ton of Alias. However, I'm not sure what its legacy is, or what its place is in the history of that era of television. It seems like it gets overshadowed by Buffy on one side and 24 was an unintentional satire of the world Fox News wanted you to believe in, Season 1 was a legit compelling action drama, Season 5 was when it went so far off the rails it became a masterpiece of madness firing on all cylinders. Alias was a weird spy show that centered around this bizarre conspiracy plot around the research of some ancient Renaissance inventor, Rambaldi, with all sorts of weird poo poo like a giant floating red ball. It went super off the rails with all sorts of spy family drama as Victor Garber was also a spy that played Jennifer Garner's dad, her mom shows up at one point as an antagonist and becomes a main cast member. Bradley Cooper gets his start here as a weird in and out of the series boyfriend character I wanna say. Ron Rifkin played a really good main bad guy throughout the series, and the action/adventure was fun enough with a fair share of globetrotting. Lots of double crosses and twists, too.
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Wheat Loaf posted:As I recall, there was even an aborted plan where they'd reveal that Victor Garber actually was Rambaldi, who'd discovered the secret of immortality so that would all tie together with the whole "Sydney is the chosen one" prophecy angle from season one and the implied "Something weird happened in Sydney's childhood". Obviously the number of episodes involved makes it unwieldy for anyone to try, but I remember thinking it made for a very interesting "double-bill" binge back-to-back with Fringe. On second thought, it would have been a lot better if Alias ended with Sidney turning into Goku.
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There's a brand new British thriller series called Bodyguard that has some pretty good political thriller melodrama with some occasional gun porn, if you're still nostalgic for Alias. The main character is really compelling and he gives no fucks about putting himself in harm's way.
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Not sure if this counts but my god is Fire Birds with Tommy Lee Jones and Nic Cage one hell of a cheesy helicopter porn knockoff of Top Gun. It’s a perfect double feature with The Substitute as far as ridiculous Drug War action movies go. Jones chews the hell out of the scenery as an aging chopper pilot trainer against Cage, who is just the worst meathead who you wish would die horribly. My favorite is the bad guy chopper being an American AH-6 Little Bird they call a Scorpion for the sake of melodrama. Taintrunner fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Sep 19, 2018 |
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FancyMike posted:Anyone here with a netflix account should probably check out The Night Comes For Us Holy loving poo poo that trailer. Sold.
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Alhazred posted:Because wrestling matches also looks bad. Congrats on making this the worst thread on the forums. I've come to educate you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5HChuoBcKs Pardon the music choice.
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My melodramatic posturing aside, uh, Robert Rodriguez directed a 20 minute virtual reality short movie that may yet be the worst film I've seen in the past decade. And it's not even the fault of Michelle Rodriguez or Norman Reedus, the main actors. Like you go from loving Oscar-worthy class-act Widows to this and Michelle is selling the premise like it's her life work, and RR is half-assing everything the past few years of virtual reality development has made totally obvious basics - and Norman doesn't even get five whole minutes to actually act. It's really heartbreaking, honestly.
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A lot of confidence for someone who’s obviously blind.
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Can confirm with the digital release that Peppermint is an 80s-rear end 80s action movie, warts and all. In exchange for forsaking the gospel of Cynthia Rothrock, you got Jennifer Garner of Alias fame carrying this potential shitshow on her back. And it's honestly pretty entertaining! She goes all loving tacticlol out on some competent drug cartel shitlords (while getting loving brutalized in the process) You get your MP5k porn, your Glock porn, your tacticlol M4 holosight porn. The movie doesn't shy away from this. It's not like the main character, this pretty white lady suburban mom, just loving stampedes over any and all resistance and walks out the hero - if anything the movie is constantly ridiculing her for it, as she staples her own wounds back together in the back of a goddamn Punisher van in Skid Row. Also the bad guy mustaches are loving ridiculous and are very obviously a signal of absurdity worth paying attention to. But at the end of the day, Jennifer Garner loving sells it like it's life or death and she deserves some goddamn credit. We will never get a Lady Punisher movie, much less a sequel to the Lexi Alexander instant classic Punisher: War Zone, so Peppermint is what we have to settle for. And honestly, I had a hell of a lot of fun with it. Riley North is cool as hell. I hope we get another schlocky action flick with her.
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Can confirm that if you like westerns and 24, the Kiefer/Donald Sutherland flick Forsaken is fuckin’ rad as hell, albeit slow to start. Kiefer’s character is endearing and fun as hell, and the ending is absolutely worth it. I came away very happy I sat down to watch this movie after Unforgiven.
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Franchescanado posted:So I take it this thread is really cold on You Were Never Really Here, then? I was pretty cold on it, I guess I just wasn't feeling the ending. I liked the scene with the cops in the hotel room and the early bits where he was being a fixer or whatever, but once the main plot really kicked into it's back half I was pretty tuned out of it.
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Frank Grillo of Purge fame has a new film on Netflix, called Wheelman which I guess got some good reviews? Did anyone else watch it?
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More of like a thriller than an action movie, but Destroyer starring loving Nicole Kidman of all people, and directed by Karyn Kusama, who directed Aeon Flux, is a really solid flick. A great female-led take on the Max Payne sort of burnout fuckup undercover cop at the end of their rope. There's a really good bank robbery shootout in there, it just takes a while to get up to that point.
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Like an older Tom Cruise in a midlife crisis after doing meth for a decade, yeah, I can see it.
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Disposable Scud posted:I wanted to say I hate films where the hero doesn't get hit but I realized I came into this thread to announce that RE:Born is now on Shudder... This is why I hate John Wick 2 & 3 so much. lolbulletproofsuit get the fawk outta 'ere! mobby_6kl posted:Actually you might like The Foreigner Genuinely a solid action movie.
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Takashi Miike's First Love is a beautiful shitshow in every meaning of the term. If you like the Yakuza games, you'll love this. Everything just spirals out of control so quickly.
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Jump on Netflix right now and check out Shadow - don't feel afraid to skip, like, the first 45 minutes of the movie, because it's a total drag and I completely checked out for most of it. Then the actual movie starts and goddamn. I mean goddamn. UMBRELLA WARFARE. Really exciting, stylish, and inventive. I've had a ton of fun watching it, even if the first half of it is a complete drag.
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Tokyo Tribe is an absolute spectacle and worth watching at least once. It's truly a sight to see.
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I can confirm that Beyond Skyline absolutely lives up to the hype. That was a ton of fun, and better than, well, most of the trash coming out of AAA blockbuster Hollywood. Was really happy to see they built physical suits for the aliens, I guessed that was all CG.
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47 Ronin rules. What a great amount of dumb fun. Keanu must have had the time of his life making such a ridiculous film.
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Finished Man of Tai Chi, which was rad. Keanu is a fantastic villain, and the big “twist” near the end was actually pretty clever.
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I'm like 30 minutes into Lockout with Guy Peace and Peter Stormare in a space prison and this is so hilariously over the top ridiculous that I can't help but reccomend it. There's even an LOPD (Low Orbit Police Department) and Guy Pearce has to enter a space station via skitching on the wing of a shuttle edit: the opening 30 minutes are the best part. Everything else sucks. Lmao. Taintrunner fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Aug 7, 2020 |
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flashy_mcflash posted:This movie is fuckin wild, everyone. Yes. I am so horny for this.gently caress 1917, this is when real movies are made.
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Finally watched Carlito’s Way, which has just a phenomenal climax. Really excellent NYC crime movie, and definitely one of the classics.
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I’m watching that One Night in Bangkok movie. Pretty neat opening montage so far.
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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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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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Hahaha if that’s the case. Well, I found it enjoyable, if uninspired. But they say the best way an artist can improve is by copying the greats.
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