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I hated the Fury vs cops scene but can’t remember why. I do know part of it was I watched 8 Diagram Pole Fighter the morning I went to see it and...well...
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Professional fighters aren't confused during a fight. Bourne isn't confused when he's in his car chases, he's planning his moves the whole time. Bad action director. Professional fighters describe their own fights inaccurately all the time, not least cause of all the head trauma
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Mar 13, 2018 16:02
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Wheat Loaf posted:I never did see that prequel from a few years ago. It’s very good in point of fact
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Apr 19, 2018 15:44
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Narzack posted:Huh. The way I saw it was that she knocked his gun barrel, pointing it to the floor as he was getting ready to fire at Affleck. He pulled the trigger and Woo'd himself into the air. I’m confused how anyone is not seeing this? Just because it slows a bit when the gun is moving down? Woo loves to throw in 2 seconds of slow mo to clarify what’s going on (guess it didn’t work here)
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May 13, 2018 07:29
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Timby posted:Galaxy Quest is ... decent enough, but the "hurr hurr it's the real tenth Star Trek movie" meme has been nauseating for like fifteen years or whatever. I'm not gonna quibble with you and I'm not a Star Trek dude, but the space shots in TMP are the best thing in the series by such a wide margin that it straight up doesn't loving matter
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Jun 8, 2018 06:38
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Halloween Jack posted:With Ghosts of Mars, which is the first one I was thinking of, $28 million is probably too little to work with for a sci-fi film set on another planet. But there's no excuse for Vampires or Escape from LA. He made far better films in a similar milieu for far less money. The former is an embarrassing contrast to Bigelow's Near Dark, and the latter is an embarrassing contrast to its own prequel, both made for a fraction of the cost. The Ward, by contrast, looks fantastic.
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Jun 27, 2018 21:09
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Harime Nui posted:Bruh, that's very much the intended irony. More directly (and as brawleh’s sick quote highlights) it’s this for some but for the more clear eyed, chaos is a goal itself. Social and economic stability are anathema to the imperial project. Hard men may believe they are making hard decisions to solve a problem, but for another strata of warmonger their being wrong is exactly, and usefully, the point
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Jul 4, 2018 05:04
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Halloween Jack posted:This is my favourite bathroom fight. The villain, Alain Figlarz, is also the choreographer and was a stuntman in The Bourne Identity. This is pretty good, I like that my man had a knife the whole time and didn’t bust it out until round 2
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Jul 12, 2018 15:12
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Snowman_McK posted:https://media1.tenor.com/images/dc8f4dfbc72dd368d0622b5ba2825419/tenor.gif?itemid=8933764 Jose Aldo is great but definitely hits the ring at over 160. 140 at fight time is more like Demetrious Johnson
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Jul 17, 2018 05:34
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bullet3 posted:pho-grittiness. The Vietnamese places in your town must suck
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Jul 29, 2018 14:24
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got any sevens posted:It was neat in Patriot Games when harrison ford is looking at satmaps for a few days and couldnt be sure whether to order a hit squad, then the camp is empty the next day. This but he does it anyway, the rocket hits a school playground and he sent ccd the email to the wrong address and all their informants get murdered and you’ve got it
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Aug 29, 2018 20:31
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SleepCousinDeath posted:Grabbed The Matrix. Thanks! I never got into the series but it’s a solid movie. Local rep is doing that, Akira, Perfect Blue and some other thing for an anime week this month and I can’t believe I’m gonna pay to see 3 animes
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Sep 2, 2018 06:45
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Halloween Jack posted:Hellboy. It's good. He kills a giant with a sword the size of a tree, and later some Beksinski paintings come to life and eat people. It's good. First positive review I’ve seen, but also the most believable
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Apr 17, 2019 22:16
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Failson posted:No. What? Noooo. That can't be real. What’s bad about it
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Apr 23, 2019 23:33
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:My point was that Failson seems to base his "good bad" decision, in this case, on what some imaginary audience would find interesting or bad about a movie. Every time someone tries to explain good-bad, it comes down to them being ashamed of their own taste
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Apr 24, 2019 19:40
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Failson posted:No need to apologize, I was poorly contextualizing my thoughts. Be strong, comrade. That movie whips
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Apr 24, 2019 22:23
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Halloween Jack posted:Unfortunately, the things that drag down good-bad movies are actual mistakes. Like, Bronx Warriors 2: Escape from the Bronx would be an all-time classic if it didn't drag in the middle, which makes me reticent to show it to friends. I want to like Underworld but it's just edited like poo poo. There's already a Blade movie with great action but a stupid convoluted plot; it's called Blade 2. You’re just describing a movie with problems. That’s like...every movie, you don’t have to invent concepts to express the idea that something ain’t perfect Underworld, for example, is just bad. You just said you don’t even like it
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Apr 25, 2019 00:55
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thrawn527 posted:I just can't care about him at all. When he's onscreen, I struggle to keep paying attention. My eyes just drift off of him looking for anything else to lock on to. Exactly. He embodies that role
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May 23, 2019 20:53
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Halloween Jack posted:"Last Blood?" Really? That's not a thing. Wanna bet?
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May 30, 2019 18:40
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Basebf555 posted:Re: Wu Assassins: Yea it's amazing to see a full 10 episode series that seems to really just exist to showcase Iko's skills. That said, it's definitely cheesy(I find it charming), and Iko really doesn't have enough of a handle on the English language and it effects his ability to act the scenes convincingly sometimes. He's doing his best but sometimes I really need the subtitles to understand him and some of the phrases he uses come out unnaturally because he doesn't really have the rhythm of speaking quite down yet. But hopefully this show will have been a great practice ground for him to improve on that and maybe give himself a chance at higher profile movie roles. If the fights are good I’m ok with that. Does he fight Mark Dacascos cause would be cool
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Aug 9, 2019 22:01
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Basebf555 posted:I'm only 3 episodes into it but the answer is probably no, given the character that Dacascos is playing. You'll see what I mean. No I got from the trailer that he’s like, possessed by Dacascos or w/e but that doesn’t rule anything out really
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Aug 9, 2019 22:10
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dokmo posted:I don't think this was posted here, but mubi has a very good article on the best action scenes of the last decade. Anyone who describes Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning as “oneiric” is ok with me
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Sep 10, 2019 19:18
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The order of any list is just to generate controversy. It’s a good watch list with no major omissions except the aforementioned lack of anything from the Indian subcontinent
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Nov 20, 2019 20:36
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B-Rock452 posted:My wife and I have been going through the older Jackie Chan movies and it is so frustrating that drunken master ii and Police Story 2 aren't available on Prime. Supercop and Project A are available though and both are a ton of fun Police story 2 is on criterion, and they’re adding several other of his early films next month
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Apr 25, 2020 16:42
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dokmo posted:My faves are 70s exploitation things like Lady Snowblood and Ms 45 and Thriller - A Cruel Picture. Any mention of Lady Snowblood should be accompanied by Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion, a similarly great revenge movie with the same lead actress. She’s also in several of the Battles Without Honor and Humanity films, which aren’t really revenge movies but almost always have at least one revenge subplot
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Jul 8, 2020 00:26
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Boco_T posted:Oops I forgot to post my reviews in here for a while, here's a pile of them. Watching a few older ones this week because I signed up for the 7-day trial of Starz on Amazon when I wanted to watch Wayne's World the other day. I really appreciate your write ups
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Sep 24, 2020 05:00
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midge posted:Van Damme Top Ten : how can you leave out universal solider: regeneration and day of reckoning
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Oct 2, 2020 20:39
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The extremely vile sex assault stuff is the main reason Castor Troy is such a memorable villain. If he's just a generic crime guy the movie is a lot less interesting, there's no particular reason a cop would have trouble pretending to be a gangster, they're already practically the same thing. But this particular cop isn't a sex criminal and has to amp himself up to be a guy who just goes around licking and groping people
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Mar 9, 2022 22:58
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High Warlord Zog posted:I was not expecting RRR to be that gory. Lot of cues taken from 300, John Woo and Mel Gibson's historical flicks MacheteZombie posted:RRR was loving amazing. Beat action blockbuster in years. I love how it takes the Mel Gibson historical fantasy and updates it with modern action sensibilities like the Zack Snyder style action scenes. The music is wonderful. It wears its influences on its sleeve, this is definitely the stuff i thought of too. I also see some se asian/thai influence on the choreography, there's some tony jaa in the fighting styles for sure dokmo posted:Watched RRR. I can't remember the last time I watched a three hour movie that had three hours' worth of movie in it. It ruled. I always feel like Indian blockbuster cinema, especially south indian but really to some extent across the board, follows a philosophy of "if you paid for a movie ticket, you get every kind of movie". There gonna be fight scenes, dance scenes, romantic comedy, melodrama, historical commentary, you name it. Basebf555 posted:Pretty sure they didn't do that in this case. I remember at least a few times where he speaks English to the English officers. There's something weird going on with the scene where he convinces the governor to execute Bheem outside the city instead of in the prison, he keeps switching between english and hindi seemingly at random. other than that yeah he uses english when it makes sense for him to.
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null_pointer posted:Somewhat off topic, but I've seen this before, in all places of a cooking video. The dude would just jump between Hindi and English phrases, without any seeming order to it. It. Maybe it's just something that happens with Hindi speakers? does anyone know if he does that in the telugu version?
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Jun 7, 2022 20:01
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forest spirit posted:And it loving rules. Probably the only dodgy effect besides that one tiger close-up during Bheem's wolf trap chase. a lot of the cgi is "dodgy" but who gives a poo poo. the problem with that scene is it's like they cut several frames out of the flip, the car just fucken teleports.
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Jul 8, 2022 22:57
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forest spirit posted:I certainly don't, if that's what you mean, I'm 100% here for the juicy melodrama, ballads, and plans being made wordlessly and executed perfectly, not for cgi oh no, i just mean i wouldn't say those are the only fake/cartoony looking effects but i don't see that as any kind of problem. the car crash is the only thing in the movie that i think just looks bad
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Jul 8, 2022 23:58
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Scuffy_1989 posted:A pitch for an action movie. lmao what is this
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Jul 12, 2022 23:19
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Caught this in the Greenlight'd thread, "Carter" on Netflix. Not sure how I feel about it but you won't mistake it for anything else: If only there were a chance the DPRK were actually the good guys in this
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Jul 20, 2022 16:12
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Darthemed posted:A few weeks ago, something put me in the mood to revisit the Joe Don Baker version of Walking Tall. Not without its rough spots, but it was about as enjoyable of a retribution flick as I remembered, maybe a little better. Browsing around its Letterboxd page led me to Framed, another Joe Don Baker movie, with the same director, released two years after Walking Tall. And while the first movie has a lot of non-action scenes concerning various efforts to clean up the town, once Framed has its story pieces all lined up, it cuts loose with some fantastically grimy '70s fights and stunts. There's one scene in particular (viewable here, if you don't mind some minor spoilers) which must have been insane to set up and execute, the pyros are cut so close on the stuntman. Well worth checking out if you're a fan of sweaty, gritty '70s punch-'em-ups. his legs very visibly catch fire from the train crash explosion
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Ulio posted:Watched KGF while I was in my trip in India, it was super hyped up but I thought it was very meh. Nowhere as entertaining as RRR. I almost made the same call, but 2 is a huge step up on 1. it's still pretty stupid, but it's way, way better looking and better choreographed. the final fight in 1 is cut to poo poo, guys get hit in the head when their head isn't even in frame, the performers are whiffing moves left and right, it's a mess. the action in 2 is extremely good. it sucks rear end that both movies establish a badass warrior woman who then immediately stops doing anything badass (or indeed even talking in the first movie) once she gets a boyfriend
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dokmo posted:Fellow action goons, I am 10 minutes into Carter (it's on netflix), and it is bananas. Imagine a pseudo one take movie, but everything is filmed like the fight scenes in the Villainess. the north koreans turn out to be the bad guys thought don't they 
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Aug 5, 2022 17:03
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dokmo posted:yes, but just a rogue group of north Koreans who want to topple the "current regime" Interesting
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CelticPredator posted:I really disagree with the notion the predator needs to be scary and not cool. I’m sorry but that trick works one time and you can’t do it again. Which is why Predator 2 is the best predator movie because the Predator just gets to be cool and badass through the whole movie. Laying waste to everyone and everything. How many times can gray aliens be scary
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Absolutely deranged to not find Parasite funny. It’s almost more comedy than thriller. And yeah that’s just the standard mode for Korean movies I think
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