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(my tradition of ignoring tarantino began with Django. which means i have ignored 3 movies. his whole thing just makes me cringe now. and i can't watch dicaprio in anything ever again. him or johnny depp. or matt damon. brad pitt is a case by case kinda thing. but i can live without him. they all seem like 90s relics now. like they live in some alternate tarantino world of stardom that is just lame now and sad.)

I haven’t watched a second of Obliterated and didn’t know any of the above, but based on the trailer/premise it seemed like it should’ve been a movie and not a whole series. I mean, eventually people sober up.

"made by porn people" is a good way to describe a lot of stuff that's out there now, just absolutely vacant minded infantilizing bullshit which is probably somehow contributing to a form of cultural shit life syndrome. Even when they're supposed to be good, idk.

The first 15 of Obliterated is okay action-trash but then it got so stupid and repetitive I gave up with 10 minutes left.

the difference now too is that action-trash used to be its own genre left alone by respectable people but now helen mirren makes action-trash. everyone does. because you gotta make the donuts. i guess i never thought i'd see a time when every major and not so major star was so all in on guns galore. you would think there would have been some sort of backlash over it but then i remember where i live. i blame tarantino.

"This ain't no Cobra Kai. I can only imagine the number of horrified parents who are discovering that fact the hard way."\

i still feel bad for the hypothetical little kid who decides to watch Daredevil on Netflix. that show is so mean and gruesome. so many comic book sneak attacks on netflix. i do miss when funny books were for the tots. i can't blame tarantino for that though i want to. frank miller will have to do. the Sin City movie some sort of bleak benchmark for future dark marvels. so gross.

aging film guy rant --

i think the John Wick films wiped me out as far as action trash goes, v good series for what it set out to do, i liked so much about the films, but the returns were diminishing and i wasn't left feeling much of anything. and the various knockoffs do so much less. I know those films have a "plot" but they're exhaustingly thin. McTiernan, George Miller, Cameron, those guys know what's up -- smart filmmakers who aren't gleefully reveling in the trashiness of action but just simply making these great films.

i think a lot of these action trash movies are equally as bad as Marvel when it comes to co-opting the time of great actors who just don't belong in the genre, who feel like they're brought in to class up the proceedings and not get down in the muck.

that's why you can't top something like Hard Target, you've got a ridiculous JCVD, and a fully committed Lance Henriksen/Arnold Vosloo combo. showing my age here obv.

Prestige Redbox Action

still plenty of good indian and asian action trash. Song of the Bandits was fun on Netflix! and bloody and had lots of guns but it had more on its mind than that. Bloodhounds was good too and it had mobsters and blood and and all that but also a little...heart? funny moments? i liked it. when in doubt, go Korean.

I usually go for Indonesian movies before Korean ones. I have an actual blu-ray of BuyBust on the way to me, which is an incredible movie if you've never seen it. It's a drug raid/siege movie but the thing that makes it amazing is that the horrifying slum the soldiers and drug dealers are rampaging and mass-murdering through is a giant set that they built! It's the Hard To Be A God of ultraviolent Asian action trash.

(and it should be said that there is a lot of good horror out there from around the world that is exciting and insane and imaginative and bloody and it is not john wick and you don't need movie stars to make good horror. did you guys see When Evil Lurks? from Argentina? ahhhhhhhhhh!!!! that movie is nuts. and does not resemble mundane netflix gristle in any way.)

i own an actual blu-ray of Buybust. i'm not some amateur you know....

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the level at which action cinema from SK has operated at for a long time is really impressive. obv HK and Indonesia have vibrant industries too, though for the former we're past the glory days, when every VHS I'd blind-buy at a shop in Chinatown was at the very least interesting, and definitely not boring.

when i introduced my son to HK films through Drunken Master 2 (the original version, not the m1ramax edit), he was amazed. he keeps talking about it.

I even remember where i got my copy of Buybust. Job Lot in Greenwich, New York outside of Saratoga. I got pizza next door. Not the worst upstate pizza in the world. Not the best.

I would very much bookmark a thread devoted to ultra-violent crime shows and movies on streaming services. I've been watching, and loving, Ganglands. I also really enjoyed Believer and am getting ready to watch the sequel. Anyway, really enjoying the recommendations here.

I think that's a good idea:

Violence Is A Universal Language: International Action Trash On Streaming Services

I have been nodding off momentarily during Mrs. Davis (which is not a criticism of the show, my sleep schedule is just fucked lately) and I think it's actually been the right way to watch this one - kind of like watching TV after eating an edible.

Mrs Davis was a delight

Eh. It was all right for 2.5 episodes and then somehow became absolutely unbearable even though the tone was mostly consistent and there weren’t any wild plot revelations at that point.

yeah same for me

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

I have to say I'm not loving some of the line readings.

For those of us who can't really handle ultraviolence but still like to dabble in a bit of the old punchy kicky, The Brothers Sun is a good time. It's very competently made, basic American telly with some fun martial arts fight scenes thrown in. Jokes are good, characters are likeable.

I watched the first ep of Masters Of The Air on Apple+ (Spielberg/Hanks/WW2 series abt airforce pilots)

It’s a lot cleaner-looking than Band of Brothers & some of the line readings are bit clunky, but jesus the combat sequences are really good, i’m def in for this one

i really like Austin Butler & Barry Keoghan so far (also Cary Fukunaga directing = looks fkn great)

recommend if you are at all WW2-pilled
if not then this is is just dudes in planes please don’t @ me

Sold obv

:D

Masters Of The Air is seriously my shit presumably, but it's down the queue. I'm back on Gyeongseong Creature after taking a break. It's great horror, but rough going - the main plot of the show - a Unit 731 operation in occupied Seoul manifests an unstoppable, shoggoth-like Something - doesn't hold back on portraying war crimes while the rest of the plot goes on.

Mitigating factors: we've recently watched is Raoul Peck's Exterminate All The Brutes (legit must watch) and Kieślowski's Dekalog (first rewatch since the 90s). Both brilliantly great, but heavy going.

Also, Slow Horses has become total comfort food programming.

ep 2 of Masters of the Air was even better, seriously the logistics of these bomber squadrons is so crazy, dudes mustve had nerves of steel

I have an allergy to Austin Butler. Some of the action scenes look good but I just can’t find time for a show with him as the lead.

;_;

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Just learned about this movie (the director’s pissed it’ll be a Prime exclusive). I’m pissed at the very idea of remaking a cult classic!: https://deadline.com/2024/01/road-house-movie-doug-liman-boycott-sxsw-premiere-amazon-1235803736/

I saw the poster that was posted in the Jake Gyllenhaal thread the other day and didn't even twig it was a remake of the Swayze film

i would watch the nu-Roadhouse if it was directed by that guy who directed Brawl In Cell Block 99. doug liman probably hasn't made a good movie since bourne identity. or go. or swingers starring Brawl In Cell Block 99 star Vince Vaughn.

A Go remake with Jakey G in the Katie Holmes roll, that I would watch.

Edge Of Tomorrow (aka "Let's Kill Tom Cruise Again!") was very good. I don't think Liman's done anything interesting since then, though.

Yeah the biggest films he's made since then are american made, which is that Tom Cruise drug flick which looked pretty terrible, and the Tom Holland / Daisy Ridley flick chaos walking which looked even worse.

The declines of '90s film directors would be a good thread topic.

American Made was a snooze. Didn't even realize it was Liman

There are definitely a lot of great genre directors who stopped getting work or who simply chose shit projects. Having verhoeven, mctiernan, andrew davis, etc at the helm of so many great films back then, we didn't know how good we had it. Then we wind up with brett ratner and bryan singer. Signs of civilization's decline.

everyone went to television. for money. or lots of people did anyway. when i watch streaming shows i'm amazed at how many past Sundance darlings i see in the credits.

McTiernan went to jail too.

I liked Mr. & Mrs. Smith when I saw it in the theater but I've never gotten around to watching it again to see if it's actually good.

i mean look at Andrew Davis, these films are all great -- Code of Silence, Above the Law, The Package, Under Siege, The Fugitive. and of course to cash in on his mega-success, he makes...Steal Big, Steal Little. a comedy movie starring Andy Garcia as twins. might as well have made an Ernest film.

I liked Mr. & Mrs. Smith when I saw it in the theater but I've never gotten around to watching it again to see if it's actually good.

I watched it less than a year ago. It's not good.

i would watch the nu-Roadhouse if it was directed by that guy who directed Brawl In Cell Block 99.

Kind of apropos, given this comment on the "Roadhouse" thread:

Mystified by this sudden convergence of reactionary politics and Hollywood action movies

Wonder what S. Craig Zahler has been up to. He hasn't made a new movie since "Dragged Across Concrete," which came out in 2018. He writes books and graphic novels too, right?

as far as i know he has only done the three movies. bone, brawl, and dragged. and he wrote a nazi puppet master movie starring udo kier.

i liked all three of those movies though i grit my teeth to watch a new mel gibson movie. i only watched it because i liked brawl so much.

I feel like I read somewhere that he's got a new one coming. But his movies don't make any money, so I wonder where he got the funding. I hope not from Ben Shapiro.

Could imagine Zahler doing TV in the vein of the Sons of Anarchy guy.