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[winos5]

Saw the Hobbit #2.   Not bad, Jackson took lots of artistic liberty and deviates from the book quite a bit, but entertaining.</p>

 

[BiscuitintheBasket]

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HUGE fan of Kagemusha. But admittedly, I will watch just about any samurai flick. 
 
Ok maybe not Samurai Cop...</p></blockquote>

If Samurai Cop doesn't work for you, you should try American Samurai. Any movie that starts with American and has an Asian word following it is B�jakubujin osoroshī to the Hànrán zhēn bang!

 

[The Count Dante]

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If Samurai Cop doesn't work for you, you should try American Samurai. Any movie that starts with American and has an Asian word following it is B�jakubujin osoroshī to the Hànrán zhēn bang!

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Ok, I'm in. Look at the UNIT on that guy... </p>

 

[TSD]

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If Samurai Cop doesn't work for you, you should try American Samurai. Any movie that starts with American and has an Asian word following it is B�jakubujin osoroshī to the Hànrán zhēn bang!

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There were a string of those "American  Asian word" movies in the 80's im pretty sure American Ninja had like 6 entries.</p>


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Its funny that it was Bruce Lee that kicked off the wave of martial arts films made in the US in the 80's(even though he was already dead), but like none of them had an asian lead (save for the occational Brandon Lee flick) until the martial arts movie revivals in the late 90's - mind 2000's (Jet Li, Jackie Chan).</p>

 

[The Count Dante]

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There were a string of those "American  Asian word" movies in the 80's im pretty sure American Ninja had like 6 entries.</p>
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I have seen a bunch of those too man, guilty pleasure.</p>


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I think my favorite might be:</p>


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I mean, who isnt TERRIFIED of this bad guy...</p>


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[TSD]

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I have seen a bunch of those too man, guilty pleasure.</p>


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I think my favorite might be:</p>


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I mean, who isnt TERRIFIED of this bad guy...</p>


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Hey me too, its the only reason I even know who the hell Michael Dudikoff is. a billion american ninja movies.  </p>

 

[TSD]

man and I just looked him up, you know your acting career is over when you go from starring in films 30 years ago to your most recent role your name didn't even show up in the credits.</p>

 

[TSD]

The funny thing about the predominant 80's/early 90's white martial arts film stars is despite how cheesy, they arent fakes, even Jean Claude Van Damme (in like 60 sumthin fights in his kickboxing career before he started acting he only lost 5 times).  Before he ever acted Steven Seagal was the first foreigner ever to open an Akido Dojo and instruct in Japan.  Chuck Norris legend was already known far and wide before he got into acting.</p>

 

[BiscuitintheBasket]

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="The Super Douchiev" data-cid="219189" data-time="1389888786">

There were a string of those "American  Asian word" movies in the 80's im pretty sure American Ninja had like 6 entries.
 
Its funny that it was Bruce Lee that kicked off the wave of martial arts films made in the US in the 80's(even though he was already dead), but like none of them had an asian lead (save for the occational Brandon Lee flick) until the martial arts movie revivals in the late 90's - mind 2000's (Jet Li, Jackie Chan).</p></blockquote>

They did try to import Jackie Chan in the mid 80's with the Hollywood crapper The Protector. Which is too bad as he did get some recognition with the Big Brawl and the Cannonball Run flicks. Too bad they did not try to push Project A or Armour of God. Both of those would have made the Jackie Chan gold mine start much earlier than Rumble in the Bronx

 

[BiscuitintheBasket]

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Ok, I'm in. Look at the UNIT on that guy...</p></blockquote>

 

[winos5]

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The funny thing about the predominant 80's/early 90's white martial arts film stars is despite how cheesy, they arent fakes, even Jean Claude Van Damme (in like 60 sumthin fights in his kickboxing career before he started acting he only lost 5 times).  Before he ever acted Steven Seagal was the first foreigner ever to open an Akido Dojo and instruct in Japan.  Chuck Norris legend was already known far and wide before he got into acting.</p>
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I think Norris actually played a villain in a Bruce Lee film back in the day.   May have been his first movie role.  </p>

 

[roshinaya]

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Saw the Hobbit #2.   Not bad, Jackson took lots of artistic liberty and deviates from the book quite a bit, but entertaining.</p>
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They added a bunch of stuff from the appendices. It makes sense since Gandalf fucks off in the middle the Hobbit only to reappear towards the end and it would be stupid in a movie for such a major character to disappear without an explanation. And the tone of the Hobbit is much lighter than LOTR and adding the extra stuff makes it fit with the overall tone of the rest of the movies. And expanding it to three movies also means more cash.</p>

 

[TSD]

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I think Norris actually played a villain in a Bruce Lee film back in the day.   May have been his first movie role.  </p>
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The famous chest hair ripping scene.</p>

 

[MassHavoc]

I'm confused, but intrigued....</p>


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The Zero Theorem - Official Trailer

http://youtu.be/rae7_O_6EtU</p>


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Terry Gilliam Direct, Christopher Waltz stars.</p>

 

[Variable]

Rush was so good.</p>

 

[the canadian dream]

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I'm confused, but intrigued....</p>


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The Zero Theorem - Official Trailer

http://youtu.be/rae7_O_6EtU</p>


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Terry Gilliam Direct, Christopher Waltz stars.</p>
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Def looks like a full force Gilliam film. Yikes wonder what the set was like for this one. Terry has a reputation of being much more than eccentric on sets and off of them and spending a shit load of money past budgets. It's been a while since a full on Gilliam film..wonder how long he has worked on it and if he has recouped from the don quixote fiasco.</p>

 

[the canadian dream]

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The famous chest hair ripping scene.</p>
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7:55 mark to the 8:10 mark is the greatest film making ever</p>


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isnu0wtZHGc</p>

 

[BiscuitintheBasket]

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I think Norris actually played a villain in a Bruce Lee film back in the day.   May have been his first movie role.</p></blockquote>
He did, and Bruce wanted him in the flick. Completely launched his entertainment career that eventually allowed him to do Bow Flex commercials.

 

[the canadian dream]

saw Her. thought it was garbage. mule is mad at me for not liking it. not only did i dislike it but it gave me anxieties all the way through it for reasons i cant explain or come to terms with yet. i typically like spike jonze films but this one just didnt do it for me. i dont think joaquin pheonix was as great as everyone has been saying he was either. seen that character played out in a zillion films before and dont think joaquin brought anything new to that character type but a creepy moustache. seen that theme a million times also. making a character an ios device doesnt make the theme any more interesting or new to me. maybe the commentary went over my head but i couldnt get past the schlocky  overindulgent dialogue to give a shit. apparently there are some japanese films out there that use the ios relationship story line much better. i wont bother looking into them.</p>


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on the flip side Nebraska was great. bruce dern was great...actually he was fucking fantastic. not a lot of dialogue for his character and he didnt need it great actors can sell that type of character with minimal dialogue and just body language. the viewer begins to learn of his past anyways through other characters as the film moves on and the character begins to develop through that. will forte was a great surprise in a more dramatic roll..not that it demanded a lot of versatility but i thought forte did really well and sold the character. june squibb may have stollen the movie though. i liked the simple story and simple art direction and thought the film lent perfectly to black and white. </p>


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and better latter than never i actually watched black swan late on tv. what a load of shit that was. how did that piece of garbage get so much attention. it felt like a made for tv movie from the early 90s, acting was horrible and the entire film was a david lynch rip off...and a really bad rip off at that. one of the worst criticaly acclaimed films i have ever seen.</p>

 

[winos5]

Black Swan, If I recall that film is a love/love triangle story among anorexic ballet dancers?  </p>