STATHAM

Statham in a Scanners remake could be entertaining

I would pay all this money for that.

no! i don't want to think about anything deforming his beautiful dome

people itt need to found the law firm of Dumi, Statham & Howe

lol

"Fahkin' hate green screen. Pay significant amounts of money never to do it again. You cannot fake adrenaline."

my wife loves statham, probably more than i do.

My gf likes Statham as much as I do. For her birthday over the weekend, we went to a drive-in to see a bizarrely programmed double-feature of Safe and The Dictator. We both loved Safe, but I do have to mention one thing... seeing a Statham movie at a drive-in automatically makes it 12x as righteous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GMBXStd3SA

Clowns, priests, and JLo.

Love Point Blank and almost-love Payback, wary of this one. Parker doesn't need to be all Cranked-up.

love this guy. he's a genre unto himself.

as a parker movie it looks awful (lol at his rule about not hurting people 'who dont deserve it'), but as a statham flick it looks a little better than the stuff he's been doing lately.

How did Transporter beat Crank? Crank is a genuinely inspired piece of film making.

Because Transporter has the Rules of the Car.

First rule of the car: Respect a man's car, a man will respect you.

wau at calling that Parker - while he was alive Westlake almost universally barred the name even being used for the character in adaptations, now they're adapting one of the late ones that specifically depends on him being forty years deep into his career and casting a young(ish) man and expecting the weight to be carried? booooo.

yeah it's pretty gross that they waited for westlake to die so they could shit all over his character

Statham's cowboy hat in that trailer makes him look uncomfortably like Michael Gira.

man Blitz is grisly

Chiklis in that trailer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe6Viz3Jw3Q

oh hai i wrote about the parker movie here --
http://murderjones.tumblr.com/post/44829394012/parker-vs-parker

i didn't know ade was a westlake fan! that's great! he never visits the westlake thread when i revive it though.

Saw a preview for the new Statham movie "Homefront" (actually it was the ad that came up before watching a Lou Reed YouTube someone posted on Facebook) where he plays American (?) and his 10-11 year old daughter beats up a bully Statham-style and puts the family on the bad side of a meth dealer played by James Franco and also Winona Ryder is involved somehow? Looks amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjSOj8b804U

Sad LOL at having to watch an ad before watching this trailer (i.e. an ad)

where he plays American

He's supposed to be American in quite a few of his movies, but it's hard to tell as his efforts at an accent are pretty minimal.

I'll definitely be watching this new one.

Just watched Homefront. It's definitely worth seeing. All the usual Statham ass-kickery with a side order of redneck blood-feudin'. Kate Bosworth's great in it (seriously - she plays a mom who'll burn the world down if she thinks she's been disrespected, and she's the scariest, most real thing about the movie); Winona Ryder and James Franco are...also in it. Script by Sylvester Stallone. Still recommended.

http://www.vulture.com/2014/11/what-its-like-to-be-a-movie-body-double.html

Crank (2006)
Amy Smart’s body double
“My most fun moment on set was Crank. Jason Statham made me feel so comfortable. I can’t remember exactly what he said, but I remember telling my husband later — something so charming, like, 'Don’t worry about it, I got ya, love.' He didn’t make me feel stupid or naked. And I had to be completely topless, and it was this crazy scene outside with all these background actors. But I was like, 'This is not a bad day. I’m taking my clothes off for Jason Statham. I’ll be okay today.' I remember getting the call for Crank 2; Amy Smart requested me and I thought that was really nice. But I was pregnant and couldn’t do it, and I was so upset. But you can’t be a pregnant body-double. It’s a liability.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6anGt4u2Aq0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6gqpPqDPJk

Statham vs. Shark feels vaguely like internet meme bait. Guess that's how movies are made now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsLk0NPRFAc

It's a bummer that this thread wasn't revived a few years ago to discuss his fantastic performance in the Melissa McCarthy movie Spy.

yeah he's the best thing in that movie - i've unironically loved statham for years but he's genuinely a revelation there, a fantastic unselfconscious comic performance

(there's a thread for the meg in its own right btw: Come anticipate THE MEG: THEY FLY @ JASON STATHAM)

hate to see this genius shaded by wins

The Bank Job -- Non-action Statham and was watchable, if a bit uneventful

six years later I want to bristle at this faint praise - a heist movie by Dick Clement & Ian LaFrenais! it's in my top seven Stathams.

it’s good! hate to see this proud, beautiful bald man in a hairpiece tho, gotta dock it a couple of points for alone

er, for that alone