So I finished watching Chocolate and that movie is just badass! More than enough action to keep an action junkie satisfied for a while. I like the story too. It's certainly not the reason for anyone to watch this movie, but I think it holds up surprisingly well. The fight scenes are the real selling point here though, and they more than deliver. Just when I think the movie has run out of gas, it throws another even more badass fight scene at me!
IP Man 2
Great follow up to the first movie, though I wasn't too keen on the focus on boxing and the whole East meets West story. I still really enjoyed it overall though, but seeing boxing being presented as a real threat to martial arts masters just made me laugh. That's not even remotely believable. It I have to bet money on a fight between a top boxer and a Kung Fu master, my money's not going on the boxer. I prefer the first movie's kung fu versus kung fu approach
RyaNtheSlayA wrote:
Seriously. Screw you Shao Kahn I'm gonna play Animal Crossing.
I have a feeling the 3rd Iron Man will outdo both of them. They were both entertaining movies but could have been a lot more. I pretty much feel that way about all the marvel produced movies though.
They were alright. Tin Tin was really sloppily put together, though. :\
Haywire was told inconsistently, but was decent overall. (Yay plot threads that go nowhere ... they're not loose threads, they get resolved ... they just amount to nothing)
What an underrated action gem. This is easily Van Damme's second best film. Oscar worthy? No, but a hell of a good time and shot very well by John Woo.
The movie is cheese, but its just so damn endearing. JCVD is still in control at this point of his career and gives a passable performance, unfortunately hed only have a few more movies after this before his drug abuse got completely out of control. Lance Henriksen steals the show as the villan and Yancey Butler gives another solid performance in her 90s heyday.
Also how many movies do you get to see The Quaker Oats man himself, Wilford Brimly shooting guys with arrows?
Yes, I love bad movies. Let me put it like this, I really thought DOA was a blast. I found House of the Dead to be hilarious. I'd recommend Mortal Kombat to all of you. But this? Just not good. I actually wondered while watching it (haven't seen it since the theater) if the script started as a completely unrelated action movie, and once they got the rights to use the SF name they just threw character names and costumes from the series into the script?
House of the Dead was one of the most ridiculous movies I've ever seen and was, in fact, quite hilarious.
I want to say the director of Street Fighter just wanted to use the license to make a big budget 'serious' action film, while every single other person working on the movie just hammed it up and had as much fun as possible. I haven't seen it in a very long time, but I remember Raul Julia's M. Bison being by far the best part of the movie.
I need to find my VHS of that SF movie and give it another watch. I didn't even pick it up because I liked Street Fighter, I bought it when I was young because somehow I thought it would be like Bloodsport since it had Van Damme... I vividly remember Raul Julia as M. Bison was fun and I remember that aside from him I thought the movie was pretty boring but I don't really remember why I thought it was boring.
I vividly remember Raul Julia as M. Bison was fun and I remember that aside from him I thought the movie was pretty boring but I don't really remember why I thought it was boring.