Man of Tai Chi is easily the best movie in which Keanu directs himself as the devil imo
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I canāt believe the Crank movies are too old already.
Kung Fu Jungle was pretty good. It felt like the HK Expendables with all of the cameos.
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i know itās 2009 but unisol: regeneration is way better than day of reckoning for me. and far more ~action~ focused.
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DTV is where itās at for action (with a few exceptions like PWSA and some of the things mentioned here so far)
Florentine & Hyams own this stuff.
(another 2009 one but w/e)
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How could I forget, Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengence is the action movie of the decade.
Tommy Wiseau plays the villain, and they seem to pretty much let him improv all his scenes.
If you get the DVD/Blu-Ray pack, they forgot to get rid of the placeholder soundtrack on the BR, so Neu!'s Super plays throughout instead of the cheesy pop punk songs. The bizarre long tail of Master of the Flying Guillotineā¦
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itās an asylum mockbuster, but i really enjoyed avengers grimm.
apparently sinister squad is a sequel to it, but i havenāt seen it yet
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Oh man, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
went to see that movie w/ friends and i was super pissed/disappointed when we walked out and they all thought it sucked for the same reason i thought it ruled (firm dedication to ludicrous spectacle)
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none really come to mind bcuz i havenāt kept it with it but i am kind of surprised no korean thrillers have been mentioned besides the man from nowhere (which i still need to see as well)
though maybe itās cuz i secretly want suggestions
oh wait snowpiercer was mentioned. that was really good. i think that was my favorite movie of whatever year it came out in, really.
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I am iffy on including thrillers in best action movies but that does open things up a bit. Blue Ruin/Green Room are gimmies at that point, but Iād have to do some research to remember when what Korean thrillers came out.
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ghost protocol in imax is one of my favourite cinema going experiences. up there w something like a 16mm print of la region centrale
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michael mann is too slow making movies
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No Manās Land (ę äŗŗåŗ) 2013
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āthe nice guysā and ākingsmanā are both phenomenal through and through. so is āskyfallā, but for overall diferent reasons
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Kingsman has very weird tonal shifts but still largely works
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Kingsman and Skyfall are both garbage 8)
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It should be easy to find it with English subtitles. It may be difficult to find it with big clear easy to read subtitles.
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I loved how basic the action was. It was very evocative of the late 80ās-early 90ās style. Yeah though, the action-comedy is tilted more towards the comedy as typical of Shane Black films. Also, how cool is it to see Keith David in a semi-major movie?
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Iāve really come around on CG blood. Itās kind of endearing now.
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the only 007 films iāve seen are āgoldfingerā and āon her majestyās secret serviceā and i only marginally enjoyed the latter, so i donāt have much of an attachment as well.
i like skyfall i guess because itās so focused on the myth of james bond while not feeling like a deconstruction or self-satire thing or whatever. itās like, i donāt know, a sculpture of a film. timeās moving on, mr.bond! youāre becoming a relic of the past. all the odds are against him, but when itās [action scene] you get this stoic, unbelievably believable demonstration of skill and this taciturn posture and, i donāt know, power. itās like heās barely a human being, but like, in a quasi-poetic way?
the theme song really helps branding images in your head too, so thereās that
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that SONG
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