The B Action Movie Thread - Page 1673

Directed by Issac Florentine.

We all know that imdb boards aren't the most reliable of sources. But apparently someone was at a Test Screening of THE BOURNE LEGACY.

He seems legit. Anyway here's what he said and there're some minor SPOILERS.

Hey Guys, Is anyone excited to see the clip from...Arrow...GREENlit for Fall on The CW, and the first clip is on the main page of CHUD?  comicbookmovie.com just released the...Extended Trailer, and it definitely is...On Target!  Basically it is...Arrow Begins.  Since Oliver Queen is a...Rookie Hero, you could say he is too...Green, to be...Super yet.  Katie Cassidy as Dinah Laurel Lance is...Perfectly cast.  I hope the producers put her in the bathing suit and fishnet stockings of...Black Canary...STAT!  I wonder if there is an...ARROWmobile or an ARROWcycle.  I expect Ollie to be a...Straight Shooter, with an...Aim, to be Heroic!

ARROW looks like one of those shitty GRIMDARK comic book fan films. I predict a short run!

Then again, SMALLVILLE lasted about 20 years.

More importantly, DREDD is at Cannes!

Still no trailer, but we definitely know that DREDD spends a lot of the movie's runtime in hallways.

And now we also know that there will be a PINT-SIZED Judge!

wadew1, Now that it has been shown at a festival, I...CANNE not wait to see...Dredd!  I hope Arrow becomes a hit, so that might inspire WB to produce...More Superhero Series.  I hated Smallville.  Sure, they added a small league of...Superfriends, but Superman was the...weakest, of any incarnation of Kal-El!

Hey Guys, I am visiting my mom this weekend, so...Hasta La Vista, til...Sunday Night!

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Oh yeah, anyone thinking of suffering through Battleship this weekend?

I already sat through it a couple of weeks ago when it opened here. Do yourself a favor and skip it. It's the pits... The more time passes, the more its mediocrity begins to stand out. It's the sort of dumb-as-a-post, completely mechanical and uninspired "big ticket" summer movie that The Avengers isn't. So, see that one again instead. Or just choose something else. Fuck Battleship. Let it sink.

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Does Katrina Bowden at least show her boobs in this one? I can't get over on what happened to poor Kelly Brooks in the first one.

Gabe T beat me to it, but most of the nudity comes early on and is brief.  I also felt that the original was kinda disappointing (it needed the action to start sooner) but the sequel falls short of the mark set by that film.

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From word one BATTLESHIP seemed like a bad idea. Never quite understood why Berg got involved with it. I've liked most of his films save for HANCOCK. Seemed like he was somewhat building to a Mann-like career. Not so much anymore.

Berg can bounce back.  It's easy to tell when he's doing blockbusters or films with a little more 'meat'.  He should do a couple of them next. 

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Hey Guys, I am visiting my mom this weekend, so...Hasta La Vista, til...Sunday Night!

Have a good weekend!

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Originally Posted by Erix 

I already sat through it a couple of weeks ago when it opened here. Do yourself a favor and skip it. It's the pits... The more time passes, the more its mediocrity begins to stand out. It's the sort of dumb-as-a-post, completely mechanical and uninspired "big ticket" summer movie that The Avengers isn't. So, see that one again instead. Or just choose something else. Fuck Battleship. Let it sink.

I suppose the problem is right there.  Parts of the world saw it before The Avengers and deemed it a standard braindead summer blockbuster.  After something as satisfying as The Avengers, it really doesn't cut it.  Some of you will wish you just wtched that again. I wonder which film is going to be able to challenge it as the most fun film of the year?

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I suppose the problem is right there.  Parts of the world saw it before The Avengers and deemed it a standard braindead summer blockbuster.  After something as satisfying as The Avengers, it really doesn't cut it.  Some of you will wish you just wtched that again. I wonder which film is going to be able to challenge it as the most fun film of the year?

That's just it. I honestly doubt any of the upcoming releases will. The Summer blew its load really early with this one because it has every element that mass audiences flock to these types of movies for. It leaves you so satiated that you either don't feel like having another one or demand a hell of a lot from whatever you go to next. It's why Battleship pales so much in comparison, yes (it's so lazy it makes ID4 look like a masterpiece). But I think a bunch of upcoming tentpoles are bound to also take a hit.

I don't really count The Expendables 2 in that group because it's getting released much later and will play to a different crowd. In fact, because of that space and aim at a different audience, it might do exceptional business. But all the other ones are in trouble. And we'll have a bigger clue of just how much trouble when Men In Black III (which I wonder how many people actively give a shit about at this point) hits next weekend. (And I am very curious to see Battleship's numbers on Monday. I will be surprised if it knocks The Avengers off the top spot. But, if it does, I'll bet it's not by much.)

The one I'm most worried about is The Amazing Spider-Man. Because it will be the superhero "buffer" between The Avengers and Batman, it's bound to get hit hard. Unless it turns out to be reeeeeaaaaaaallly good. As a fan of the hero (he's my favorite comic book hero, in fact) I want that to be the case. But the only thing I'm seeing from the trailers that has me smiling is they seem to have gotten the character right. The movie itself doesn't seem like something that will feel fresh or interesting in the least. And the big action set piece of Spidey fighting The Lizard on some bridge is sure to feel quaint when placed against the spectacle of The Avengers. I'll be sad if Spidey bombs. Because it will mean putting him to rest for a while and he deserves a good film franchise.

I hope I'm wrong.

Did you guys ever hear Sly sing? You can, in PARADISE ALLEY. Sly actually sings the theme song over the opening credits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjXkMdN2Lc4

Movie itself feels like a Proto-Rocky. He plays a guy similar to Balboa who's just hustling around and doing this and that to come through the day. Then professional fighting seems a chance for a better life, but it's not him doing it, it's his stupid younger brother (some guy). He ends up training him and doing so arguing with his older brother, JUDGE RICO Armand Assante. In the end, his brother has to fight Terry Funk in a flooded ring.

There's a standout scene though as Sly and Frank McRae ponder suicide, you get Sly arguing with a monkey and Sly as santa threatening to punch people.

Video Store Adventures: got RED TAILS + WOMAN IN BLACK and old favorites THE KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE + AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON

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Stash House was kind of a stinker. A lot of people rip on Dolph not being a good actor, but I couldn't get over the complete stiff they matched him up with to terrorize this couple. Also, wasn't Sean Faris in Never Back Down? A half hour into this movie, and he's crying and whining like a child. I would say he backed down fairly quickly.

 

Transit - Adequate. Some thieves (James Frain, Harold Perrineau, Diora Boobtastic Baird and some other guy) hide a million dollar stash in some family's car as they go camping, a stupid idea that of course bites them in the ass. Jim Caviezel is playing the dad of the family, so he's stressed out, but he's playing a regular Joe, so he doesn't have to be as dead serious as he usually is. The action near the end is pretty heavy duty, some cool fist fights and shootouts. And god, even all dirtied up, greasy and sweaty, Diora Baird is the very definition of potato in your pants. But there's a lot of double crosses, and it's all really slow to get started, and these characters are just pretty boring people.

As he was, that was a very nice reference.

Suddenly, I imagine Rene ordering Transit!

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Did you guys ever hear Sly sing? You can, in PARADISE ALLEY. Sly actually sings the theme song over the opening credits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjXkMdN2Lc4

As a matter of fact, yeah. I haven't seen Paradise Alley before so I did not know that but apparently at the end of Hunter favorite The Zookeeper, he sings More Than A Feeling, but there's an entire movie devoted to Sly singing. It is Rene favorite Rhinestone, where he does songs like this:

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The one I'm most worried about is The Amazing Spider-Man. Because it will be the superhero "buffer" between The Avengers and Batman, it's bound to get hit hard. Unless it turns out to be reeeeeaaaaaaallly good. As a fan of the hero (he's my favorite comic book hero, in fact) I want that to be the case. But the only thing I'm seeing from the trailers that has me smiling is they seem to have gotten the character right. The movie itself doesn't seem like something that will feel fresh or interesting in the least. And the big action set piece of Spidey fighting The Lizard on some bridge is sure to feel quaint when placed against the spectacle of The Avengers. I'll be sad if Spidey bombs. Because it will mean putting him to rest for a while and he deserves a good film franchise.

I think the geeks are making this sound worse than it actually will be. Speaking as someone who doesn't care much for the Raimi films, what i am seeing so far is a competently made film, that while not very original should be decent in the end. Love the Emma Stone/Peter Parker relationship shown in the Trailers so far.

It don't think it'll bomb, Erix. Bad or good, its a Spidey film after all. Geeks and kids will pour in, whether they are Spidey fans or just coming in to pan the film.

Whenever I hear someone say they don't like the Raimi Spider-man films, I'm completely and totally baffled. SPIDER-MAN 2 is especially great, in my opinion the best comicbook movie of all time. And Willem DaFoe's Green Goblin in the first movie is both hilarious and sinister all at once; brilliantly over the top, and everything you'd want in a comicbook villain. Even the flawed SM 3, gets more right than wrong, and has one classic scene (dark Peter Parker's dance)

I don't know, Fat Elvis. They are good and well made flicks but for some reason i just don't love them the same way some people here do (Though i did like the "He's just a kid" scene in SPIDER MAN 2).

Watching The Raid: Redemption in less than 8 hours. This motherfucker better not let me down.

New One Sheet

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Whenever I hear someone say they don't like the Raimi Spider-man films, I'm completely and totally baffled. SPIDER-MAN 2 is especially great, in my opinion the best comicbook movie of all time. And Willem DaFoe's Green Goblin in the first movie is both hilarious and sinister all at once; brilliantly over the top, and everything you'd want in a comicbook villain. Even the flawed SM 3, gets more right than wrong, and has one classic scene (dark Peter Parker's dance)

Love the first two films, hate the third.  I had no idea of how bad it was going to be when I first saw it.  JK Simmons was uniformly excellent in all 3 films, though.  Shame on whoever forced the film to be made that way. 

I'm of the opinion that the bad in that film UNDOES what was done well. I would have loved to see Raimi's unmolested Sandman film.

I am looking forward to the new one.  I am hoping that we have a trilogy of comic book classics by the end of the Summer.

JUST GOT BACK FROM THE RAID... OH MY GOD, WORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE. JUST WATCH IT AND TAKE PEOPLE TO WATCH IT. I AM TYPING IN CAPITALS! WOO!

According to Van Damme's facebook, he's back in Bulgaria filming more EX2 scenes with Stallone.
 

Thats awesome. The more footage shot the better, but I hope it doesn't get delayed.

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Directed by Issac Florentine.

 

Oooh! Looks promising!

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New One Sheet

 

So wait.  Is this called Sofia or Assassin's Bullet?

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According to Van Damme's facebook, he's back in Bulgaria filming more EX2 scenes with Stallone.
 

What the fuck?  First Adkins and now Van Damme and Sly?  What's going on here?  I wonder if it's a problem with shaky-cam again.  I know Sly wasn't happy with the Li/Lundgren fight in the first film, so maybe he wants to make sure and get it right here.

The Poster for Jackie Chan's latest film CHINESE ZODIAC.

Pretty bad-ass, actually.  Hope the movie lives up to it.

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Gabe T beat me to it, but most of the nudity comes early on and is brief.

Well, what a waste that is, a Piranha movie without copious amounts of nudity!

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JUST GOT BACK FROM THE RAID... OH MY GOD, WORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE. JUST WATCH IT AND TAKE PEOPLE TO WATCH IT. I AM TYPING IN CAPITALS! WOO!

Yeah, it is pretty awesome, isn't it? I am glad I was able to see it twice on the big screen last month.

Not to steal Elvis's schtick, but tonight on TCM Underground is what I understand to be a cerebral horror film from the 70's, Ganja & Hess (I'll at least watch part of it to see if it's for my tastes), and then the Jim Brown in Prison movie The Slams, which I saw and I was eh about but others enjoyed it.

Also, there's Psychotronic Netflix Volume 4, including Willie Dynamite and Troll Hunter.

So, which After Dark movies do I bother with? I take it El Gringo is the only one that might entertain me. Maybe Dragon Eyes for Weller, but is that it?

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A Netflix Instant heads up: Steve Buscemi's very underrated prison flick ANIMAL FACTORY. The cast is pretty cool: Willem Dafoe, a proving-his-critics-wrong great Edward Furlong, Danny Trejo, John Heard, Edward Bunker, and a movie stealing brilliant Mickey Rourke. An unusual, humanist take on the subgenre, and a true gem of 90's Indie cinema.

 

Also of note, for those with Sony Movie Channel, tomorrow at 11 AM is (as you all know) one of my favorite Walter Hill joints, HARD TIMES. Bronson rules!

 

I'm about to watch THE PLAYER for the first time in almost twenty years. So, yay!

That's one I've been curious about for a while. Cast is nothing short of spectacular, though I've actually never seen any of Buscemi's directorial efforts aside from his Sopranos episodes.

Hard Times is great, too. Badass Bronson and a great asshole-y James Coburn performance, plus Hill (his first directing gig) captures Depression-era America beautifully.

I really need to go back to The Player. I got sidetracked from my revisit for class last semester, but that opening scene is just magic. Love Buck Henry trying to sell the studio on The Graduate Part II.

Looks like a poster you'd find in the display at Sam Goody that's bafflingly smaller than a real movie poster.

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Did you guys ever hear Sly sing? You can, in PARADISE ALLEY. Sly actually sings the theme song over the opening credits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjXkMdN2Lc4

 

Movie itself feels like a Proto-Rocky. He plays a guy similar to Balboa who's just hustling around and doing this and that to come through the day. Then professional fighting seems a chance for a better life, but it's not him doing it, it's his stupid younger brother (some guy). He ends up training him and doing so arguing with his older brother, JUDGE RICO Armand Assante. In the end, his brother has to fight Terry Funk in a flooded ring.

 

There's a standout scene though as Sly and Frank McRae ponder suicide, you get Sly arguing with a monkey and Sly as santa threatening to punch people.

This is one of very few Stallones I haven't seen, and that also includes the perennial Rhinestone, so apparently I've been biased against him singing for too long.

"Too Close to Paradise" makes him sound like Mike Patton doing an impression of Elvis. Nothing, however, can describe ol' Drinkin'stein.

My unseen Stallone, minor roles and The Party at Kitty & Stud's notwithstanding:

The Lords of Flatbush

Paradise Alley

Victory

Rhinestone

Rocky V

Oscar

Daylight

Get Carter

Shade

Avenging Angelo

Who gives a shit about Spy Kids 3D.

Anyone ever have the dishonor of walking out of an action movie? I haven't, but I did bail You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Syriana, and TMNT in my lifetime.

You bailed on You Don't Mess with the Zohan, HT? I loved it!

Of the PSYCHOTRONIC NETFLIX vol 4 entries, I really recommend the eerie and disturbing Jeff Daniels thriller CHASING SLEEP. I took a chance on it a couple of months ago, and was blown away. It's very effective psychological Horror.

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My unseen Stallone, minor roles and The Party at Kitty & Stud's notwithstanding:

 

The Lords of Flatbush

Paradise Alley

Victory

Rhinestone

Rocky V

Oscar

Daylight

Get Carter

Shade

Avenging Angelo

 

Anyone ever have the dishonor of walking out of an action movie? I haven't, but I did bail You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Syriana, and TMNT in my lifetime.

I can't remember which film it was, but I had to duck out of a 60s British thriller because of some work related disaster. There was also Country Bears, which I only mention because not even a bizarro Christopher Walken walk-on role could keep me in there. I had to choose between staying in that film or trying to move my dental appointment up. I chose the latter.

Shade's okay, but mainly just a DTV story with some higher caliber actors involved. Skip Victory unless you think the soccer player Pele is amazing (and he was, despite being past his prime by that time). Daylight is...okay. It's sort of a generic matinee disaster movie that Irwin Allen would have done. While it's really maligned and in no way near as good as the British original, I have a soft spot for Get Carter. It's got some flashes of real sincere acting buried under a boring plot and an unnecessarily flashy style. Plus, Mickey Rourke tapping into his inner Rourke as The Main Guy.

Oh, by the way, RED TAILS was pretty good. I think I prefer the 90's HBO movie THE TUSKEEGEE AIRMEN on the same subject, but this was more action-packed. The Aerial battles /dogfights were pretty exciting.

I'm DVRing THE SLAMS so I can do a Jim Brown triple feature sometime this weekend with THE SPLIT + TICK...TICK...TICK.

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Whenever I hear someone say they don't like the Raimi Spider-man films, I'm completely and totally baffled. 

Whole-heartedly agree.  Spider-Man was my favorite superhero when I was a kid and for me he's still the most human and identifiable.  And while I can agree that the last film had far too much going on (the mistake that was Topher Grace as Venom, Harry's amnesia, the suddenly-whiny Mary Jane, taking the crying hero thing a bit too far), I still have a blast with it and feel it got plenty right (Thomas Hayden Church as Sandman, angry/evil Spidey... and, sorry, but the "hipster Peter Parker" still amuses me). 

SPIDER-MAN:  ***1/2  near perfect

SPIDER-MAN 2:  ****  pretty much perfect (I actually like the secret keepers on the subway train)

SPIDER-MAN 3:  ***  flawed but fun

I have this thing I do...  When there's a big film set in New York City that's especially NYC-ish and looks like it could be just the kind of movie for me, sometimes I travel to NYC specifically to see it and make a day of it.  Call it Immersive Viewing.  (I also enjoy watching Hong Kong action movies at outdoor screenings in Boston's Chinatown, for example.)   It started with SPIDER-MAN 2 at the Regal on 13th & Broadway and then continued with such flicks as GHOSTBUSTERS, 16 BLOCKS, SPIDER-MAN 3, CLOVERFIELD, WHATEVER WORKS, THE WARRIORS and WATCHMEN: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT.  And I hope to see ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK and SUPERMAN there someday.  My theory is: seeing a NYC film on opening day or at a special screening with an NYC audience is a great experience.  Walking around NYC after seeing CLOVERFIELD, for example, makes you look at spots the Time Warner Center and Grand Central a different way.

Seeing SPIDER-MAN 2 and 3 in New York were great, great times.  The audience ate everything up.  Yes, even the dance sequence in 3.   It's so much fun seeing the right film in the right place with the right people.  And I'm in the midst of planning an overnight for when THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN comes out.  NYC hasn't let me down yet.   And neither has Spidey.

How I loathe what Spider-Man 3 ended up being. I HATE the dance sequence, and douchebag hipster Parker can burn in celluloid hell.

The one sequence I love from that one is the birth of the Sandman.

I was absent from here for most of the evening due to finishing up Duke Nukem Forever. I've been playing it the past several days, and despite a ton of reviews that say it's not good, it's right up my alley. The "dated film references" I ended up really enjoying, and this game is SLEAZY. One mission involves you getting a bag of popcorn, a dildo, and a condom for a stripper and you're rewarded with a lapdance. Plus there is TONS of juvenile humor. Like I said, this game is right up my alley. Loved it.

Had dinner with my Parents, my Grandparents, and my Grandma's brother since yesterday was my Grandpa's birthday (87 and still being awesome!). After that I made a detour to Target and picked up The Grey on Blu-ray and Max Payne 3. Hilariously enough, as a "Target exclusive" the game comes packaged with the greatest hits verison of GTA IV. I've already got GTA IV, and I haven't even gotten that far into it. Maybe I'll sell this copy off or trade it.

Watching my Netflix disc of the week, I Drink Your Blood. Evil "Manson-like" hippies go to a town, mess around with a kid's sister and grandpa, and the kid exacts revenge by contaminating their food with rabies which turns them into mouth foaming nutsos. Then they contaminate other people, and soon there's a bunch of nutsos running around. Pretty good exploitation movie that's another in the "known about this for years, but am now just seeing it" line for me.

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According to Van Damme's facebook, he's back in Bulgaria filming more EX2 scenes with Stallone.
 

Can we take it seriously? I have mu suspicions about the guy running it and the deformation/manioulation of the "infos" posted there...

Just saw The Raid: Redemption.

Talk about some full blown violence here. Throat slashes. Brains blown out. Head shots. All in graphic detail. My first thought was "It's John Rambo all over again."

I think the music plays a very important part of the film working in addition to the violence. The techno music really highlights the danger and action in the film.

Definitely an awesome film. I can see how Hollywood could potentially fuck up the remake though.

The Official Trailer for Jackie Chan's CHINESE ZODIAC is up!

Hey fellas

Long time reader, first time poster here.  Figured I'd jump in and give it a go. 

Getting ready to check out The Raid in the next hour.  It's finally arrived across the pond.  Really hoping it's as good as every one says.  I know this is a bit late, but here's my top ten action movies of the 90's.

1.  Hard Boiled

2.  Face/Off

3.  The Rock

4.  The Long Kiss Goodnight

5.  The Last Boy Scout

6.  Point Break

7.  Speed

8.  Hard Target

9.  Stone Cold

10.  Marked for Death

I left off The Matrix and Terminator 2 because I figured they fell into the Sci-Fi category. 

Got to see Mel's latest last weekend - How I spent my Summer Vacation - great return to form for the crazy Australian.  It's a really fun movie, like a pseudo-sequel to Payback.  Also saw the Piranha 3DD.  Okay lower-budgeted sequel.  If you like the first one you'll probably like this.  A few good sequences, but the Gary Busey outtakes are better than what's actually in the movie. 

Okay, headed out to see The Raid.  Catch you guys later.
 

Welcome aboard, Gunner! Always great to have new people joining our little B-Action family.

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JUST GOT BACK FROM THE RAID... OH MY GOD, WORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE. JUST WATCH IT AND TAKE PEOPLE TO WATCH IT. I AM TYPING IN CAPITALS! WOO!

I have my own personal countdown.  Hopefully later tonight, i'll have seen it.

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According to Van Damme's facebook, he's back in Bulgaria filming more EX2 scenes with Stallone.
 

Intriguing.  But as Jox said, we don't what or even if that is true.

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Anyone ever have the dishonor of walking out of an action movie? I haven't, but I did bail You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Syriana, and TMNT in my lifetime.

Syriana is an action film?  If you went in expecting one, i'm not surprised you bailed.  I was expecting Traffic with oil instead of drugs and I really enjoyed it.

I've never walked out.  Closest I ever came was Transformers 2.  I went in expecting an event following the tease of the first film and realised that they ran out of real ideas and were doing the same but bigger and louder (the third was the same but had some actually good action). 

It is responsible for my growing Shiallergy, something that will be tested when Lawless comes out.  I have read the book and if done properly, will be Tom Hardy's film.

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Just saw The Raid: Redemption.

 

Talk about some full blown violence here. Throat slashes. Brains blown out. Head shots. All in graphic detail. My first thought was "It's John Rambo all over again."

 

I think the music plays a very important part of the film working in addition to the violence. The techno music really highlights the danger and action in the film.

 

Definitely an awesome film. I can see how Hollywood could potentially fuck up the remake though.

I remember seeing Ong Bak for the first time and am hoping for a similar experience.  Not long now....

Welcome Gunner.  Are you based in the UK?  You're viewing schedule and opinions seem really close to my own.

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He was getting fat at one point during Lost.  He 'lost' that around the time he did Speed Racer and now it seems he went off the deep end for this role.  He looks perfect.  Tyler Perry is going to have to win me over, he has a 'funny' face that I may have trouble taking seriously.

Rob Cohen has been quiet for a while.  This is his first since the forgettable Mummy 3, right?

Thanks for the welcome guys.

Hey Macready, I am based in the UK.  Originally from the States, but have been living over here full time for the past two years.  I take full advantage of the Cineworld cards over here. 

Just got back from seeing The Raid - Holy-Fucking-Shit!  In my humble opinion this is one of the finest action movies of the past decade!  The violence is brutal, the action spectacular, and the fight scenes unbelievable!  Plus, no shaky-cam to be found anywhere.  Really loved it, and can't wait to pick it up on Blu. 

As for the new Alex Cross pic, I think Rob Cohen is a decent director, and I'm a big fan of XXX, but I'm just not sure if I can buy into Tyler Perry.  Dude from Lost certainly has the look of a cool bad guy, so I guess I'll wait to reserve judgement on this one.  Hopefully Cohen can inject some life into this franchise. 

Getting ready to sit down and check out Transit, then the Stone Cold pic Recoil.  I've heard a few decent things on Transit.  Any news - good or bad - on Recoil?
 

This is something that could easily be great or a complete failure (if it does actually get made)

Kitamura getting a shot at something like this could be based on how good No One Lives possibly is.  Or maybe he got the gig on the strength of his Japanese work.

Cage and Rourke really need a winner/sucess.  It has been too long since they had a hit.
 

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=34005

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Thanks for the welcome guys.

 

Hey Macready, I am based in the UK.  Originally from the States, but have been living over here full time for the past two years.  I take full advantage of the Cineworld cards over here. 

 

Just got back from seeing The Raid - Holy-Fucking-Shit!  In my humble opinion this is one of the finest action movies of the past decade!  The violence is brutal, the action spectacular, and the fight scenes unbelievable!  Plus, no shaky-cam to be found anywhere.  Really loved it, and can't wait to pick it up on Blu. 

 

Getting ready to sit down and check out Transit, then the Stone Cold pic Recoil.  I've heard a few decent things on Transit.  Any news - good or bad - on Recoil?
 

Same here with the Cineworld.  I am probably not the ideal customer for them.  I never buy the 'food' that they sell and I watch as much films as I can.

So excited to be finally watching The Raid.   The response has overwhelmingly positive, even from large parts of the Critical community. 

I haven't seen Transit, it has been available for a while.  Recoil is an OK low budget action film.  Bear that in mind and you might have fun with it.  I love how they try to portray Stone Cold and Trejo as physical opponents.

Watching Statham's Blitz right now. I like it.

It's almost like a Dirty Harry film. With Statham hunting down the Scorpio Killer. Luke Evans (Immortals) has a small role in this.

P.S- Glad you loved The Raid, Gunner. Didn't you just love that Wall Knife slicing scene?

 Yeah, I'm pretty much the same.  The movie deal is pretty sweet, but I mostly pass on their food as well. 

I'll let you know what I think of Transit and Recoil in mind.  I'm a big fan of Stone Cold and really hope he can start stepping up into bigger budgeted films. 

I'm pretty sure you'll love The Raid.  I can't imagine anybody on this forum not liking it. 

Finally caught Saints and Sinners (called Bad Cop over here).  For a low budget DTV I thought it was very well done, especially the action scenes. 
 

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The Official Trailer for Jackie Chan's CHINESE ZODIAC is up!

 

hey, Rene, you might want to add this to your Jackie Article.

So felix, what are your thoughts on this trailer?

I for one am pumped about it.  It looks to touch on all the things Jackie made famous and in turn made him probably the most influential Movie Star, not just action star, of all time (feel free to debate that).

There is clever physical action (the couch scene), environmental fight scenes (the umbrella thing), some just wild set pieces (the paragliding thing)...I am not sure which scene represents the "big stunt" but Im sure its there.

The movie has a look and feel similar to OPERATION CONDOR, which I think is a good thing.

I haven't done my top 10 of the 90s yet, and I dont think I am ready to yet, but here are my top 10 Jackie Flicks...you'll notice a lack of stateside productions.

1. Drunken Master 2 - Also one of my top 10 action flicks of the '90s, also one of my top 5 pure MOVIES of all time.  It just doesn't get better than this.

2. Police Story - This was the game changer.  This changed not only HK cinema by being set in modern day, but also changed International cinema.  Amazing.

3. Project A - game changing in HK cinema terms as it was one of the few kung fu flicks at the time to not be set in ancient China.  If you guys haven't seen the bike chase yet, watch it now...it is a piece of art.  Also a great collaboration with Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao

4. Supercop - wow just wow.  my first introduction to Michelle Yeoh.  

5. Armor of God - this was one of the first of many Jackie flicks that I found stateside on my personal list of "hard to find imports".  Kinda set the groundwork for a lot of his hits to follow.  the opening scene is amazing (and almost famously killed him!) and the ending is fantastic.

6. The Young Master - never been too big a fan of his period pieces from early in his career, but this was definitely a Jackie production.  You could see and feel the flair of what would become a Jackie film.

7. Wheels on Meals - this is a tough one because it is almost completely devoid of action until the last 35 minutes...but what a 35 minutes!  I still remember watching this VHS for the first time after finding a copy at a local Suncoast Motion Picture Comapny on a Saturday afternoon.  My jaw dropped.  The fight between Jackie and Benny Uruquidez is still to this day the best on screen one on one fight scene I have ever seen.  So masterfully edited and shot by Sammo.  When Benny starts fighting as Jackie is pushing back the banquet table and then kicks out the fucking candles I went nuts!

8. Dragons Forever - almost underrated now.  The rematch between Jackie and Benny is classic.  Yuen Biao also got a chance to show off his acrobatics a lot more.

9. Rumble in the Bronx - Jackie's first HK movie to hit it big in the states.  Just a really well made movie.  Great pace.  Funny.  Great stunt at the end.  Classic

10. Shanghai Noon - I know I said I'd leave american films off this, but this one was always kind of monumental only because if you know Jackie's story or read his book you know that one of his all time dreams was to make a Western "chinese style".  Unfortuantely, Sammo stole the idea and went and made a ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA sequel set in the old west with Jet Li.  Now SN has its issues, but I thought it was done pretty well overall and allowed Jackie to play with some of the old west set pieces he had been thinking about for decades.

It looks okay. Some of Jackie's action seem a bit touched up though.

I do believe Oliver Platt will be co-staring with Jackie in CHINESE ZODIAC as well.

I was going to say on repeat views, it does look like there is some wire enhancement in some scenes

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Can we take it seriously? I have mu suspicions about the guy running it and the deformation/manioulation of the "infos" posted there...

You might be right. I bought it because we know Adkins already did some additional shooting. The fact that the FB post said Stallone was also there seemed a bit odd since he's filming THE TOMB right now. Guess we'll know for sure at some point.

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Getting ready to sit down and check out Transit, then the Stone Cold pic Recoil.  I've heard a few decent things on Transit.  Any news - good or bad - on Recoil?
 

Welcome Gunner! I caught RECOIL a couple months back and mildly enjoyed it. I'd say it's the best of Stone Cold DTV flicks I've seen, but it still has a bit of a TV movie feel to it. With a plot like that (Vengeful ex-cop Vs. sadistic biker gang) you kinda want some big scenes of Stone Cold mowing down swarms of damn dirty bikers. RECOIL just didn't have the budget to make that happen. Still, it went down smooth enough and I liked Danny Trejo in the picture.

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Originally Posted by Macready 

This is something that could easily be great or a complete failure (if it does actually get made)

 

Kitamura getting a shot at something like this could be based on how good No One Lives possibly is.  Or maybe he got the gig on the strength of his Japanese work.

 

Cage and Rourke really need a winner/sucess.  It has been too long since they had a hit.
 

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=34005

Oh boy, Cage and Rourke? Hope this one happens. Recall seeing MARBLE CITY for years listed on IMDB with Tom Sizemore, Ving Rhames, and William Forsythe set to appear.

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He was getting fat at one point during Lost.  He 'lost' that around the time he did Speed Racer and now it seems he went off the deep end for this role.  He looks perfect.  Tyler Perry is going to have to win me over, he has a 'funny' face that I may have trouble taking seriously.

 

Rob Cohen has been quiet for a while.  This is his first since the forgettable Mummy 3, right?

Matthew Fox's transformation is impressive, but he'd have to swallow a pelican whole to get me to plop down money to watch a Rob Cohen flick starring Tyler Perry.

Thanks for the welcome Molt. I enjoyed Recoil for what it was.  I agree with you that it had that TV production feel to it.  I'm really looking forward to the Stone Cold/Fat Sensei pairing.  I'm keeping my expectations low, but hoping for the best.  Getting ready to watch Transit now.  I thought Dragon Eyes was pretty decent, although the script wasn't much to write home about.  I liked Cung-Le as the lead and John Hymes can shoot action.  Can't wait to see UniSol 4. 
 

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Thanks for the welcome Molt. I enjoyed Recoil for what it was.  I agree with you that it had that TV production feel to it.
 

Seems like that's case more and more with DTV stuff for right now. Feels like they're all being filmed in about 3 weeks which means you're not going to get the sort of bang for your buck that we were seeing in similar films just a couple years ago.

That's one of the reasons US4 is so anticipated, believe they actually filmed for about 6 weeks and had a decent DTV budget at least by today's standards.

Found this link on Jox's site:

http://yellowcranestower.blogspot.fr/2012/05/huang-yi-and-dolph-lundgren-team-up-in.html

Guess they had a ceremony to launch the production of the new Lundgren/Adkins pairing LEGENDARY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON:

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Anyone ever have the dishonor of walking out of an action movie? I haven't, but I did bail You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Syriana, and TMNT in my lifetime.

I've never walked out of any movie at a movie theatre... unless you include the few times that I got pissed off at audience members being assholes so I left and got a free pass to see the movie again at a later time; I've never left because a movie pissed me off. At home, it's a different story. If a movie isn't doing anything for me, it's real easy for me to give up on it.

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Originally Posted by Rene (Mr.Eko) 
I was absent from here for most of the evening due to finishing up Duke Nukem Forever. I've been playing it the past several days, and despite a ton of reviews that say it's not good, it's right up my alley. The "dated film references" I ended up really enjoying, and this game is SLEAZY. One mission involves you getting a bag of popcorn, a dildo, and a condom for a stripper and you're rewarded with a lapdance. Plus there is TONS of juvenile humor. Like I said, this game is right up my alley. Loved it.

I can't say I've played any of the Duke Nukem games before but I understand why people were PISSED at how it turned out given that it took fifteen years for it to be made due to ridiculous reasons, and when the greatest game of all time did not come out, people were enraged after waiting for so long. From what I heard, it does sound like something which would make me laugh; I know one of the first things you do is take a piss! I do laugh at crass games; I know this as way back in my N64 days I played Conker's Bad Fur Day and it's about a cartoon squirrel who loves getting drunk and encounters wacky adventures such as going to a rave inside a giant cave, talking to a sunflower that has giant boobs, cows that have diarrhea, a giant opera-singing shit monster that sings 'I Am The Great Mighty Poo", and a whole lot of drug-related, scatalogical, and sex-related humor, while spoofing such things as Aliens, Saving Private Ryan, A Clockwork Orange, The Matrix, and The Terminator... this may be my all-time favorite game to play! What a messed-up and yet awesome game.

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Hey fellas

 

Long time reader, first time poster here.  Figured I'd jump in and give it a go. 

Welcome to the thread, Gunner.

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How do you get me to watch a film starring Tyler Perry and directed by Rob Cohen?

That definitely wasn't what I was expecting to see, but still, those two names attached are a big turn-off.

What is a big turn-on is this bit of news from Twitch Film involving The Raid: Redemption guys and Marko Zaror!

Welcome, Gunner! This place will never be "full". Always room for more fans of action and other cinema!

I'll be adding that Chinese Zodiac trailer to the article in a bit, of course with full credit going to felix. It looks pretty good, and I haven't seen a Jackie film in a long time, so this looks to be one I will be seeing.

As for Recoil, I've seen that it's at the Redbox, but I haven't gotten around to seeing it.

Forgot to mention on thursday, I ended up  at K-Mart after taking my Mother there because she needed to get something, and we'd eaten at a restaurant nearby, so we went there. I headed to the electronics department, and picked up Ti West's The Innkeepers for 10 bucks as a blind buy (I've seen all his films, and there's enough there for me to make a blind buy.) as well as finding in their dump bin, the Dragon Dynasty version of Super Cop for 3 bucks! Looking forward to revisiting that one.

Right now I'm watching a Kung Fu movie called The Godfather Squad. It's part of a double feature with a Bruce Lee knock off called Bruce's Last Battle. It's not bad so far. In the beginning they show Interpol agents getting bumped off, and one gets attacked by a dog that had a bomb placed in it's collar. It goes crazy for some reason, then the lead actor kicks it away and it EXPLODES. Not bad for something I scored for about 5 bucks.

About to watch William Petersen blaze in TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.