― Curt, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Pyth, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dave k, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Bone to pick with The Professional....sucks......first, I think Luc Besson is a very corny man....his nadir came with the tekno opera fight scene in 5th element....corny corny corny when ya sweat.....but back to The Professional.....all I could think when watching this after hearing all the hype was....hmmm....let's count the possibly interesting angles here......well, there's basically one.......there is a CHILD.....so traumatized she's down with the 187....ok.....oh yeah, another thing.....that *CHILD* is *FUCKABLE!!!*......wow, the tension! subtly arising from this old guy chilling daily this *FUCKABLE..........CHILD!!!!!* That's genius!
― Ramosi, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
As for The Professional, I loved this film. I would recommend that fans see the uncut version, titled Léon. The cut scenes were to, I assume, clean up the pedophilia for sensitive North Americans. After watching this version, I was surprised how unoffensive it was, but then I guess I'm not your typical viewer. Portman does basically flat out proposition Reno, but the whole situation is handled very maturely. Pooh pooh to the MPAA.
― Ron Hudson, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
No, not calling you typical or any of that... Also, I said mature, not artful. Yes, NP is hyper-sexualized in the film, yes, that is surely a strong attraction for male viewers, no, it's not an inventive plot line. Anyways, I really liked that movie.
One other instance of camera rape was Crazy Beautiful, (not proud that I rented that one, but I just had to see the spectacle.) In the dvd 'director and star commentary' version, Kirsten Dunst says to her director, 'you never let me wear a bra in this entire movie!!' and he actually tries to play it off like, 'oh, really, what? Sure I did, what are you talking about!' If you've seen this one, you can appreciate the fact that he knew damn well the status of her breasts during every second of the movie.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ron Hudson, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dare, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kris, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Pyth, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Ron: Whoa, didn't mean to sound like I was fingering you specifically there.....the 'artfully' comment was a general gripe about shit in general my man, no need to correct......I respect your opinion on The PRofessional.....it's all good, you and me baby.....just braying like I did in last month's Ricci thread about the mass dishonesty in *general* when it comes to this area of movie talk and the often very sketchy conscious-or-not imputation of talent and movie genius in order to skirt talking about "it's wrong, but I'd split that shit triple times, shoot".
― Ramosi, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Oh great, now another phrase to get stuck in my head. You had me chuckling all day today muttering under my breath "beast out on that twig, what!" What would Kathleen Hanna think of me taking part in such a conversation? Please don't tell
update plz: what action movies are as good as Die Hard?
― zvookster, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
sci fi doesn't count btw
Point Break comes close.
― Rejoice that you weren't eaten (chap), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Also Aliens, but apparently that doesn't count.
― Rejoice that you weren't eaten (chap), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
"i am not a crook!" yeah u know i think point break does come p close esp. with the swayze surfing mysticism element but it does have some longueurs iirc, been a while since i saw it, must rewatch soon
i can think of tons of gr8 sci fi films u see, but i have this kind of blind spot wrt action films w/o that element so this is kind of a noob rfi abt them i guess
― zvookster, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
The first Bourne is great, the second two good.
― Rejoice that you weren't eaten (chap), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Has Kung-Fu Hustle been mentioned yet?
― Rejoice that you weren't eaten (chap), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTmSJDyav-A
― the size of Snow's skin pistol (latebloomer), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Con Air, Hard Target, most of Steven Seagal's pre-On Deadly Ground movies, first three Dirty Harry movies, Point Blank, Extreme Prejudice, 48 Hours.
― Cars and Freedom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
gr8 like die hard gr8, u guys? just asking
― zvookster, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I like Con Air better than Die Hard but I dunno if it is better. Die Hard's pretty perfect. All those I listed are solid 10s imo. Forgot Midnight Run.
― Cars and Freedom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Well I don't know if there is actually anything else that's Die Hard gr8.
― Rejoice that you weren't eaten (chap), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
really, Dirty Harry is an action movie? The rest of the thread leads me to believe this genre hadn't been invented in 1971.
So, for prehistoric elements like chracterization and plotting:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jVsxsWgYMWk/S33ViuPevLI/AAAAAAAAClM/Sju4M-qbPyA/s400/WagesOfFear.jpg
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Wages of Fear as an action movie seems fair enough. Dirty Harry is a definite stepping stone between the policier and the Action Movie as an 80s phenomenon.
― Cars and Freedom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
while we're being genre nazis, midnight run, which i love, surely a raod movie/buddy movie smash bang fusion
thx for these posts ppl!
― zvookster, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought about the buddy movie aspects of Midnight Run but yeah genres are permeable. By the same token 48 Hours is kind of a buddy movie.
― Cars and Freedom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
watched The Wages of Fear on Netflix tonight due to this thread. wow, really great film. got a laugh out of the final scene ending really abruptly and shooting me back to the Netflix menu though. also enjoyed the fact that two of the main characters were named Mario and Luigi.
― circa1916, Thursday, 27 January 2011 06:20 (thirteen years ago) link
what do you like about die hard? I would recommend Ronin
― based god kwassa kwassa (dayo), Thursday, 27 January 2011 06:41 (thirteen years ago) link
this is probably challops but I don't think the action parts of Die Hard are great. movie's aged well because it has a sense of humor.
― based god kwassa kwassa (dayo), Thursday, 27 January 2011 06:45 (thirteen years ago) link
ronin's cool but it's kind of pretentious & slow, captures that le samourai sort of feeling p well but also a bit "i watched michael mann after he watched antonionionio". and like some of the character interactions are awkward and wrong & some of the spy stuff like i can't really remember but was p hokey and hard to give a shit abt but yeah it's p cool
― zvookster, Thursday, 27 January 2011 06:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Just watched Crank for the first time; clearly no Die Hard, but enormously enjoyable.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Sunday, 30 January 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
no repping for Lethal Weapon on this thread? up there with Die Hard imo. also set at Christmas time oddly.
― piscesx, Sunday, 30 January 2011 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Heat is way better than Die Hard. Can't believe this is the first mention on this thread.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 30 January 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Heat is great.
― ENBB, Sunday, 30 January 2011 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
^^was about to say
― Kerm, Sunday, 30 January 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
as M Z Seitz points out here, this 1964 French thriller-spoof vehicle for Jean-Paul Belmondo has quite an Indy-influence vibe. Some very funny scenes, and great stunts.
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/that-man-from-rio-1964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceB4bqJVEYg
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 03:50 (nine years ago) link