The B Action Movie Thread - Page 2

DRIVE is one that I'd like to give another shot. It just didn't do anything for me when I first saw it and none of the fights left much of an impression on me. I guess if you view KISS OF THE DRAGON as a European kung-fu flick then I would take the fights in both LITTLE TOKYO and RAPID FIRE any day over the ones in DRIVE.

What's the word on Dacascos' CHINA STRIKE FORCE? I've had that recorded for a while now and just haven't had the time and/or urge to watch it yet.

Coolio is a contributing factor as to why I haven't watched it yet, and recently seeing Dacascos play an underwelming bad guy opposite Rutger Hauer in RED LINE isn't going to get me to check CHINA out anytime soon either.

If you're giving Drive another chance, see if you can do it with the full theatrical cut. Of course, it's only available as a region 2 pal disc. But it really is a better film than the truncated cable version we got here.

So should Blade 2.

My grandpa loves his B action movies it's unbelievable.

Spent christmas watching Belly of the Beast(not a bad film on seconds viewing) and American Yakuza 2 which fucking hilarious.

The American Yakuza 2 video had previews of other really bad DTV releases which I never want to see again.

Sadly, nope. But Crying Freeman is from the same director and has some decent action sequences. Nothing as ass-kicking as Dacascos' scenes in Brotherhood though.

Since he hasn't come up yet, I'm gonna give a shout-out to Jake Speed himself, Wayne Crawford.

A coupla buddies of mine did the Special Effects for an old movie of his called Snake Island and I gotta tell ya, it's pretty much the worst film of all time - but in a "so bad it's good" way. In fact, IMDB had so few positive reviews that the producer logged on twice (USING HIS OWN NAME) and wrote a glowing review in the guise of someone who's just seen the film. Check it out, it's hilarious.

Crawford also starred in a film called LAPD: To Serve and Protect which has the quadruple B-Movie punch goodness of him, Michael Madsen, Marc Singer and Dennis Hopper.

And I always thought that if a movie with that many bad actors was made a black hole would open up and suck in all of humanity...

Jake Speed rocks. I meant to dig out my old, ex-rental VHS (you know, those massive boxes?) when it came up on the Daily Graboid a while back. Its just such a bizarre setting for a film of its type... Gotta love the Kid.

CONTEMPORARY ICONS VOL. 1 PART 1: PATRICK KILPATRICK



The world of B-action movies is full of actors who shot to quick fame playing heroes but blew their load playing the same role over and over. So while Sasha Mitchell just delivered my newspaper this morning, guys like Patrick Kilpatrick maintain long careers playing characters with names like “Mance,” “Jaggart,” and “Ray Booth.”

Kilpatrick has appeared in many high profile projects. ERASER, THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS, and REMO WILLIMAS just to name a few (Was REMO WILLIAMS high profile?). But those films tend to find Kilpatrick appearing for precious few minutes before getting his ass handed to him by the star (Does Kilpatrick get his ass handed to him by Fred Ward in REMO WILLIAMS?). As great as he is in those roles it is the smaller genre films where the man truly gets to shine, such as the following selections.

RIOT: For most of this movie the audience believes that our hero, played by Gary Daniels, is punching his way through an urban riot zone to rescue an heiress from a common street gang. But as the story unfolds it is revealed that the gang is merely doing the bidding of a former IRA madman with an axe to grind. Kilpatrick takes the “American doing an Irish” accent to new levels as O’Flaherty, a man so sinister that I have barely been able to eat a bowl of Lucky Charms since.

BEST OF THE BEST 2: In a motion picture with more great performances than films like BEST OF THE BEST 3 and BEST OF THE BEST 4 combined, Kilpatrick glows as Finch. Nobody can bring something new to the cliché role of guy-who-heads-security-at-illegal-fighting-tournaments quite like Kilpatrick. I admire any actor who can remain cool even after they’ve been kicked in the face by Eric Roberts.

DEATH WARRANT: Not a huge fan of this one. I’m moving on.

THE SUBSTITUTE: FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION: When most film series are running out of steam on their 4th entry, THE SUBSTITUTE films fuck that trend thanks mainly to Kilpatrick. He dons the role of Brack, the sadistic head of a once prestigious military academy who is secretly brainwashing his students into becomming white supremacists. One problem for Brack, there’s a new substitute American history professor in town who doesn’t take kindly to what’s going down.

MINORITY REPORT: Screw Cruise, to hell with Colin Farrell. For all the praise Steven Spielberg has received over his career he made his biggest mistake since HOOK by not giving Kilpatrick a larger role in this 2002 Sci-Fi blockbuster. At the very least Spielberg should make up for this blunder by producing a TV series showing us more exploits of Kilpatrick’s beloved Officer Jeff Knott (That’s Knott with two “T’s” baby!).

Who knows when Kilpatrick will dazzle us with his abilities in the future? Actors like him can go years in between memorable roles. But what's truly important is that every casting director in Hollywood knows precisely where to flip the rolodex when looking for a guy to play any number of homicidal maniac-type personalities.

Yeah, but he was the best part of Death Warrant, unless you count the one eyed Benson.

I just wanted to say that The Protector is on Spike right now, almost over, but I'm sure it will be on later tonight. I truly believe that this movie contains Big John Stud's best performance ever.

I still remember seeing him in 'Death Warrant' as a sadistic inmate and the villain of the piece. What a piece of work he was in that film, it's funny to see him show up in 'Minority Report'

Just gonna throw it out there....

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man.

I loves it, no matter how bad it is (I actually don't think its so bad).

This is where I go for my Big John Stud fix. The film has so much to offer. Daniel Baldwin in a bulletproof leather coat, thin Sizemore, and Don Johnson joining the illustrious list of actors who have beaten the crap out of Branscombe Richmond.

Speaking of Branscombe, check this site out

It's full of interesting facts. Did you know "Branscombe Richmond and the Indian Motorcycle company have an excellent relationship. Any time you see Branscombe on a bike...it's an Indian. Branscombe's notoriety and hard work brought him to being the National Spokesman for the Indian Motorcycle Company and the position of V.P. of the Office of Public Affairs of the Indian Motorcycle."

All that and he has his own band! Any way you slice it he's Contemporary Icon material.

I saw DEAD BANG recently and it's not bad, what hurts it is the Neo-Nazi bad guys are a little too generic. But Johnson does a good job of playing a very Un-Crockettish lawman and Bob Balaban is a perfect contrast as a probation officer who is forced into helping Johnson with his case. William Forsythe goes way against type as an FBI agent who is upset by Johnson's constant use of foul language. It's quite a stretch for Forsythe who has always had one of the more potty-mouthed cinematic vocabularies known to man.

Speaking of Forsythe, gotta love Stone Cold (the Brian Bosworth one, not the recent Tom Selleck one). Bikers, titties, oodles of things blowing up and a monster shootout in a courtroom. And of course, Lance Henriksen as Chains. Awesome.

My STONE COLD appreciation borders on the unhealthy. To me it blows away POINT BREAK as the most ridiculous undercover cop movie of 1991. Gotta love the names they give the bikers of the brotherhood. Chains, Ice, Gut, Tool, and Mudfish.

I've seen ads for FREEDOMLAND which is a new Julianne Moore and Sam Jackson film and it looks like Forsythe has a fairly large role in that one.

I haven't seen it on cable recently. The only way to go is to rent it on VHS as of now. There are bootleg DVDs on Ebay but no official release.

Four words for ya: SNAKES ON A PLANE.

Can't wait for a trailer....

Well he had THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT which rises above most B-movies thanks to Shane Black's script and Renny Harlin's direction (yep, I just thanked Renny Harlin).

At this point I'd like Jackson to just be in a movie that doesn't make me ashamed to include him as one of my favorites. Nevermind THE MAN or the XXX movies, even when he does stuff like NO GOOD DEED it's close to unwatchable.

This thread begins and ends with Samurai Cop. A truly jaw-dropping achievement.

Actually, I believe it began with Transporter 2. And I don't think it's ended yet, but if it has, it's ended with Transporter 2 as well.

Forget what I said about the Branscombe Richmond site being great. It still is but it can't hold a candle to Sonny Landham's. The voiceover alone will make it at least a once a week visit:

http://www.sonnylandham.com/

Check out this bit from the site's "Legal Fight" section:

Good God, there is actually a Federal court case titled "U.S. Vs Landham."

Only you can answer that question. By which I mean that I'm assuming you're the only one who bought it.

That...that was hilarious.

Sadly, that Seagal game was never released. But here is a shot of the menu:



There was a UNIVERSAL SOLDIER game for Genesis but it was pretty bland. Jet Li had "Rise to Honor" for the PS2 but I never played it. Aside from the "Die Hard" games (the original Playstation ones were pretty cool) Bruce Willis had a game called "Apocalypse" that he lent his voice to and appeared in the cinemas.

Bruce Lee had a game just a couple of years ago, and that was notoriously unimpressive. I think Jackie Chan had one too, or at least there was one in development. May not have ever seen the light of day.

How come there's sufficient brain damage in the games industry to make someone think that a Fight Club game was a good idea, but there's no fighting game based on Bloodsport? It's a natural. You could even have a playable cutscene where you have to tell your biker buddy that you love him.

You might be thinking of JACKIE CHAN'S STUNTMASTER. It was a PS1 game.
Wasn't that bad.

For $50 on Ebay this can be yours. Colecovsion system not included:

First off, just wanted to say a thread like this could be my dream come true. I'm no b-movie action king like Moltisanti, but I certainly love my fill of unknown action movies. Hey, who doesn't?

Desslar, I'm not a huge Dudikoff fan, but I did enjoy a movie he made called Avenging Force. It's another variation on the 'Most Dangerous Game' type of movie, only this one has rich and corrupt men of power who are doing the hunting. They like to take their victims out into the bayous of Louisiana and hunt them out there. Each hunter has his own "gimmick," i.e. one of them is dressed like a Samurai with a mask. Dudikoff and Steve James end up teaming up to go against these guys. The movie is full of ridiculous non-stop action, and, if I remember correctly, one of the action scenes takes place during some sort of Mardi Gras parade.

The only downside to the movie is that I believe Steve James was upset by the racist undertones of the movie. I think I remember hearing he wasn't too happy with the director, Sam Firstenberg, who was also at the helm of such 'classics' as Revenge of the Ninja, Ninja III: The Domination, and the first two American Ninja movies.

That's my Dudikoff recommendation. You can't go wrong with the first two American Ninja movies, either.

Has anyone ever played the Demolition Man game for the SNES? It may have been for the NES, I'm not sure. Anyway, the whole game is made worthy by the fact that you start off the game the same way they start off the film: by bungee jumping into Simon Phoenix's lair. It's pretty cool. I always have to bellow out, "Send a maniac to catch one. PHOENIXXXXXXXXX!!!!!!!!!" whenever I play.

F.T.W. Kid

Yeah, I don't think Avenging Force will ever see the light of day on DVD. I bought mine at some used video game store for $1.00 on VHS. Since I'm probably one of five people to own the thing, I doubt the demand is very high. Still, if you should ever happen to stumble on it like I did, check it out.



Oh yeah. It was definitely on the SNES, maybe even the Genesis. Decent game, I thought. What's even more sad is that I own the FMV first-person shooting game on the 3DO. I believe they actually filmed stuff not from the movie for that game.

For better or worse all the AMERICAN NINJA films are on DVD. 2 and 3 are packaged together on a single disc. The first was enough for me but the rest are out there for the taking.

I have a faint memory of seeing AVENGING FORCE when I was a kid but outside of the general plot I don't recall much. I'd be willing to check it out again only because Steve James and the always solid John P. Ryan would probably distract me from my Dudikoff hatred.

I don't know if I'd fully recommend Avenging Force based on what you said, Moltisanti. Steve James isn't really his usual bad assed self in this movie. And if you don't like Dudikoff, I doubt you'll become a fan after this movie - while he isn't exactly horrible, let's just say the interaction between him and his younger sister in the movie is about as bad as it gets. We're talking No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers type bad acting. But if you have a high tolerance for crap, and don't mind Dudikoff, I'd say check it out.

Another movie I don't really see mentioned anywhere at all: Hunter's Blood. Based on the novel of the same name, the movie stars some unknowns, John Travolta's brother, Clu Gulager, Crispin Glover's dad, a young Billy Drago, and a young Kim Delaney. A bunch of friends go hunting out in the Arkansas wilderness. They stumble upon some notorious poachers, who then decide to pull a Deliverance and go after the group of friends. Let's just say the poachers don't exactly stick to hunting just animals. Sounds like just another Deliverance knockoff, right? In some ways, it is. But this movie adds some gore, some surprisingly decent character dialogue, more action, and a twist ending that isn't exactly a happy one. Pretty cool little action movie if you can find it.

Think again, my friend.

And I think I speak for people of taste and refinement everywhere, Moltisanti, when I request Part Two of Contemporary Icons, Vol. 1.

Me too. I still have nightmares about how difficult the one for the NES was. Has anyone else seen Decoy? I know I can't be the only that was dissapointed by that one. Robocop and the T-1000 and it still sucked? Yes, it did. Maybe someone can help me with this one: couple months back I saw a movie in Hollywood Video that starred Andrew Dice Clay, Don "The Dragon" Wilson and Shaft himself, Robert Townsend. For the life of me I can't remember why I didn't pick it up; when I went back I could'nt find it. Maybe it was all a hallucination. A movie like that can't possibly exist.

F.T.W. Kid