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― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
Literal Facepalms (Dr Godwin)
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't want to wade in because this thread was going so fast at the time, but gotta disagree with all the praise for Die Hard With a Vengeance. It's a VERY dumb movie, obnoxious and silly. Part of what makes the first film the greatest action movie ever is the well-constructed plot and the intelligent characters, so to end up with nonsense like moving hundreds of tons of gold in dumptrucks is pretty pathetic.
Irons shooting Sam Jackson in the leg was rad though.
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
I just watched Die Hard 3 for the first time since it was in theaters, and it was better than I remembered. Boilerplate, and nowhere near the first, but still solidly entertaining. At the time it seemed very going through the motions, but maybe a couple of decades of going further through the motions have cast it into more favorable relief.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
I don't get excited much about it past "Hot Time Summer in the City".
― getting good with gulags (beachville), Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
Well, it is all downhill from there, tbf.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
'Southern Comfort' is on Britishers TV tonight. Worth watching?
― pandemic, Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
yes!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
Is that the Deliverance knockoff with Powers Boothe and one of the Carradines?
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
man this thread has me going through a few of my favorites. especially hk stuff. rewatched the mission this afternoon, the blade yesterday, time & tide in the next few days (still pissed at ilx that this is not gonna place, has some of the most impressive & best action scenes of all time). i know ppl here love johnnie to's election too and it is quite great (that's gonna be for this week), but everytime i think of him i think of that great tracking shot at the beginning of breaking news.
― Jibe, Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
xp Dunno who's in it but it's directed by Walter Hill. I will take Alfred's word and watch.
― pandemic, Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not a fan of Election. I want to say I saw half of it, and by then it all felt like a year of a TV plot jammed into a movie. So many characters ...
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah johnnie to. i forgot about him. running out of time, the longest nite, the mission, exiled all should have placed here. oh well.
btw can we move the "dirty harry = fascism?" conversation elsewhere?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
a movie is either well-made or badly made, nothing more, etc
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
Harry's pretty blatant in its rugged individualism, this is the reason Magnum Force tries to paint Harry as not as bad as yer actual right wing nuts etc
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 19 February 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
tries.
but the first couple look absolutely beautiful, depiction of the city, clothing, jazz scores...beautifully crafted slightly racist paeans to gun law. like Conan, coming up.
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 19 February 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
can't wait for T2 to place. all shotguns should be 1. carried in a rose box and 2. reloaded by spinning them around your finger
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Sunday, 19 February 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
Watched half of it with my kid before bed last night. He fell asleep when they were in the garage after they broke Sarah Connor out of "Pescadero" lol.
― getting good with gulags (beachville), Sunday, 19 February 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
lolhttp://www.theonion.com/articles/moviegoers-not-interested-in-hearing-what-is-isnt,27388/
― piscesx, Sunday, 19 February 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
can't wait for T2 to place. all shotguns should be 1. carried in a rose box and 2. reloaded by spinning them around your finger― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 (dayo),
― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 (dayo),
I know this is a little late, but dayo, will you be my valentine.
― omar leeettle (Leee), Sunday, 19 February 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7FAsUT6FePU/SjSvD7oR06I/AAAAAAAAA1U/crWXr4EwNTo/s400/t2.jpg
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Sunday, 19 February 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
~* tear *~
(of joy)
― omar 13337713 (Leee), Sunday, 19 February 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
To Live & Die In LA just started on tv...yay! I've never seen it before!
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 February 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
prepare yrself imo
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 February 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
hope yr sofa has seatbelts
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Sunday, 19 February 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
The 'etc' is the key bit of the above.
Most films that make it to the cinema are 'well-made' in a boring kid of manner I suppose - but the types of content, for one, are of a variety: so w/Dirty Harry the good content are the action-y bits that are worth youtubing and the bad is the right-wing claptrap that surrounds it.
Not worth moving anywhere, its just some 'light' filler before the end of the poll tomorrow.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 19 February 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
xpost Edward III - my collar is fully popped for this
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 February 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
take out the etc, then, go full wilde. A movie is either well-made or badly-made, and nothing more.
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 February 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
Too late! :-)
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 19 February 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
one of my greatest cinematic joys is showing folks TLADILA for the first time.
― omar little, Sunday, 19 February 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
foiled by an extracetera
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 February 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
re: TLADILA, the character arc for Chance in this film (w/r/t viewer perception, what we're allowed to discover) is pretty singular as compared to other films i've seen w/similar morality.
― omar little, Sunday, 19 February 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
w/characters of similar morality
Post #15 today!
Just to mess with the workweek-only crowd a little...
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Sunday, 19 February 2012 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
hasn't he given you enough?
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 February 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
pppbbbbtttthhhhh
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Sunday, 19 February 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
i'll give you this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh8KnmRvqd0
― omar little, Sunday, 19 February 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
thanking u
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Sunday, 19 February 2012 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
also in UK tv news - Collateral is on Channel 4 tonight preceded by, um, Under Siege 2
― Number None, Sunday, 19 February 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
holy shit i gotta see that rothrock/yeoh movie
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 20 February 2012 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
so many ridiculous plotholes and developments in 'collateral'...
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Monday, 20 February 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
haha true. i still think that having a cab driver actually manage to kill a professional killer, all the while protecting some hot chick he drove around before is bullshit. but i don't really care cos the movie is fun. also, love the fact that STATHAM! is in this but just for a few seconds.
― Jibe, Monday, 20 February 2012 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, February 19, 2012 7:41 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
IIRC the premise is really, really ridiculous but it is egregiously entertaining. righting wrongs is another good rothrock movie from HK.
corey yuen gets some flack from "hardcore" kung-fu dudes for indulging in "wire-fu" but i think he's a total master. that clip above is a great example. the editing is precisely choreographed with the action.
if you haven't, y'all need to see the legend a.k.a. fong sai-yuk w/ jet li.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 20 February 2012 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
xpost
haha STATHAM! should ALWAYS be in ALL CAPS and with an exclamation! mark! at the end.
srsly folks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD1QuGQPJg8
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 20 February 2012 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
that's a good example of "wire-fu" but isn't it great?
All these clips from today are.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 20 February 2012 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
i know. the jet li flaunts it even more, though.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 20 February 2012 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
well?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 February 2012 02:56 (twelve years ago) link
watched la femme Nikita, it's boring as shit.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 20 February 2012 04:33 (twelve years ago) link