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by **Crusader Corim** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:46 am UTC

I created an account just to mention that this movie already exists.

It's called Tom-Yum-Goong, or in America The Protector with Tony Jaa.

Note: I'd still watch River Tam beats up everyone

by **Powder** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:47 am UTC

Xxpeyotedragon wrote:Has anyone here seen "crank"?

Yeah, 4 times I think. In my defense I was in Afghanistan at the time but I do think it was a good movie for the budget.

by **vampyre459** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:50 am UTC

/drool. would watch, but i gotta say one huge action scene would get kinda boring after a while.

by **grySqrl** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:52 am UTC

I saw this directly after watching Objects in Space. Spectacular timing.

by **podbaydoor** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:54 am UTC

Made me laugh out loud. Perfect timing.

Guys, what about the action sequences in Shaolin Soccer?

by **sdmorr** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:02 am UTC

Wait, nobody's mentioned District B13 yet? It's exactly what this strip is looking for...

by **uberfubar** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:09 am UTC

jibbajabba

by **reach42** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:13 am UTC

sdmorr wrote:Wait, nobody's mentioned District B13 yet? It's exactly what this strip is looking for...

best action movie mentioned in this thread so far.

by **TheKhakinator** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:15 am UTC

blind visionary wrote:
simen wrote:No real action movies?

WHAT
ABOUT
300?
Nope, they added in the fucking extra part about the queen.

Yeah it is a fucking extra part, she got fucked. Ahahahah.

And what ever happened to that movie with Janeane Garofalo on the space station? It sounded pretty action.

by **DarkWeaver** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:27 am UTC

uberfubar wrote:Mmm, Jewel Staite. I was quite elated when I found out she's joining the cast of Atlantis!

Is it a permanent role now (i.e. she's actually in the next season too)? From what I last saw, she wanted to go home. That'd be awesome though, Jewel is awesome.

by **poconut** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:52 am UTC

sketchyd wrote:Instead of bothering with plot at all, make a dvd with all the best action scenes from other movies.

Off the top of my head, the must haves -

-The ridiculous fight in the first Matrix movie, right after 'I need guns'
-Scene from Kill Bill in the restaurant with the yellow suit
-Yoda's lightsaber battle
-the Battle of Hoth

Post your favorites, and I'll try and put it together.

Does fantasy count? I'm thinking siege of Gondor

by **Forthur** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:00 am UTC

/drool. would watch, but i gotta say one huge action scene would get kinda boring after a while.

Well, there's action and there's action. Throw in a car chase, an over-the-top interior shootout, lots of acrobatic hand-to-hand combat, some Jackie Chan-style common-objects-come-weapons, some ninjas, some high-tech gadgets, lots of katana, etc. That combined with a main character that's very nice to look at will not get boring very soon.

by **manFey** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:10 am UTC

noone mentioned 28 weeks later?
man i saw the movie saturday ... it's a effing slaughterfest.
just the one scene where he shredds the .. aw, i will cut the spoilers. just watch it.

by **JustTheBast** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:26 am UTC

japanese_jew wrote:Alternate Text: By my count, only 48 of the 158 minutes in Live Free or Die Hard have action. That's pathetic, guys. Crank is better, but needs a bigger budget and more Summer Glau.

Crank kicked ass, but was in '06, and, yes, needed a bigger budget. Oh, right, and comic, pure win. I don't think we even need exposition there. And the badass Assassin from Serenity could stick around too.

Oh, that is so wrong. The whole point of River Tam's Waif Fu is that she's so frail and vulnerable - until suddenly she's not. If you take away the first ingredient, the second loses more than half its excitement.

If such a movie were made, I'd refuse to shell out for it and thereby validate the studio's decision to completely distort a character's integrity for the sake of milking the fanboy craze.

Don't get me wrong, I'd still watch it - I'd just steal it via the internets and watch it shamefacedly behind closed doors. ;-)

by **Jivlain** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:51 am UTC

You lot need some Matthew Reilly. The movies are still coming, but the books are pretty darn good in the meantime.

AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE!

by **ScottTFrazer** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:02 am UTC

Summer Glau is already signed up for a series this fall...

[spoiler]
http://imdb.com/title/tt0851851/
[/spoiler]
She's going to kick some ass

Also, here's the long take from Tom-Yum-Goong (The Protector). 4 minutes of action with no cuts. Pretty cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K06wDn3XsZE

by **almosthonest** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:18 am UTC

Don't forget the final fight sequence in Equilibrium! -hurt it wasn't mentioned earlier- Raw awesome plus sheer balls, plus the world's best argument against using lie detectors...

by **SilentDragoon** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:53 am UTC

ex-parrot wrote:Am I the only one who doesn't like the use of Papyrus on the poster?

No, I also don't like it. It's not as bad as Comic Sans, but it's close.

EDIT: Also, AVP-R looks like it has a few good fight scenes in it. Actually, it looks like mostly fight scenes.

by **Maurog** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:58 am UTC

By the way, one-liners don't count as "talking", right?

by **madjo** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:30 pm UTC

Maurog wrote:By the way, one-liners don't count as "talking", right?

I think that noone would count "Yippee kay yay" as a valid sentence.

by **randomman289** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:07 pm UTC

A minute of "Yippee kay yay" followed by Bruce Willis killing the "bad guy"
Bruce willis surfing on a truck (Die hard with a vengeance)
Bruce willis taking out a helicopter with a neon sign (Die hard with a vengeance)
Bruce Willis taking out a boeing 747 with...something (Die Hard 1)
One of those random slo-mo scenes from 300 (Or 5)
Bruce Willis driving through a helicopter (Even though I think it's been mentioned...)
The T-101 shooting the T-1000 with a bazooka (T2)
The computer exploding and taking out two assassins (Live free or die hard)
A car exploding 10 feet from Matt Damon (Bourne Ultimatum)

by **saranac** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:34 pm UTC

ScottTFrazer wrote:Also, here's the long take from Tom-Yum-Goong (The Protector). 4 minutes of action with no cuts. Pretty cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K06wDn3XsZE

Yes! That clip leads all action movies in "stuntmen crippled per minute" and "asses kicked with Converse All Stars."

Tony Jaa needs a breakthrough over here. His blend of parkour, thai fighting, and utter disregard for his stuntmen's health would go over HUGE. The jump-knee to the face through an appliance never gets old.

And he can breakdance...

by **Domovoi** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:59 pm UTC

madjo wrote:I think that noone would count "Yippee kay yay" as a valid sentence.

"Yippee kay yay, motherfucker" however, is perfectly valid.

by **schrodingersduck** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:01 pm UTC

alt text wrote:By my count, only 48 of the 158 minutes in Live Free or Die Hard have action.

That's a bit unfair, Die Hard was half an hour shorter than that, and that's with the long dull end credits; I'd say it had an action:talking ratio closer to 0.9. But yeah, still too little action (should've been closer to 2).

by **madjo** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:34 pm UTC

Domovoi wrote:
madjo wrote:I think that noone would count "Yippee kay yay" as a valid sentence.

"Yippee kay yay, motherfucker" however, is perfectly valid.

Too bad you don't actually hear McClane finish that sentence in DH4.0 - LFoDH.

Bunch of mother f*gunshot*ing rating-board execs.

oh and Lucy McClane... yumyum.

But that's off topic.

by **Mythi** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:05 pm UTC

Evil Dead 2 wasn't all that bad in terms of action vs. talking. I watched it just a few days ago.

Transformers - EVEN THE TALKING WAS ACTION. Well, not really. But the whole thing was so incredibly retarded that it deserves a mention here. I loved it.

by **ErinnDruid** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:08 pm UTC

CitizenErased wrote:I wouldn't complain watching 2 hours of River....

but give me 2 hours of Kaylee any day!

/agree!
Maybe a happy medium of the two? *ponders*

by **thedufer** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:26 pm UTC

Mighty Jalapeno wrote:Also, for action...

The Boondock Saints. THERE WAS A FIREFIGHT!!!!!!!!

I'm not a huge fan of action movies, but that is by far the best I've ever seen.

by **grythyttan** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:45 pm UTC

I think Shoot 'em up will have at least a lot of action. I read somewhere that it had 11 major action scenes/sequences and I'm gonna guess at an average length of 5 minutes which would give more action than die hard 4.

How long is an average action scene?

by **Herman** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:49 pm UTC

WHAT
ABOUT
300?

Oooh man! How about River Tam vs. the 300 Spartans. She owns, of course.

by **Augo** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:50 pm UTC

Papyrus?!?!?!

I HATE PAPYRUS

by **Mighty Jalapeno** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:54 pm UTC

Herman wrote:Oooh man! How about River Tam vs. the 300 Spartans. She owns, of course.

Yeah, but... but... but.... who's side do you root for?!?

by **jasticE** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:06 pm UTC

The most impressive action movie I remember seeing is "Run Lola Run". It consists almost solely of actual action in some form.

by **Sprocket** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:08 pm UTC

Excuse to make a giant River Tam reference. Plus, what percentage of Fire Fly fans would be really interested in a pure platonic action flick? It's Joss' writing we're after.

All in all, yes I thought it was a cute comic. Geez-mon, what a soft shell I'm turning out to be.

by **Gadren** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:09 pm UTC

Augo wrote:Papyrus?!?!?!

I HATE PAPYRUS

I feel your pain -- I too have a pet peeve about Papyrus.
But that's what's used on the Serenity logo.

by **Sprocket** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:10 pm UTC

Gadren wrote:
Augo wrote:Papyrus?!?!?!

I HATE PAPYRUS

I feel your pain -- I too have a pet peeve about Papyrus.
But that's what's used on the Serenity logo.

I like Papyrus, it's purty and omni-present. It's kind of like how I enjoy going to Harry Potter movies and complaining about all the stuff they left out or totally misrepresented.

by **roxormancer** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:15 pm UTC

*giggle*http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/teddyslayer/river.jpg

by **Chipersoft** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:18 pm UTC

ex-parrot wrote:Am I the only one who doesn't like the use of Papyrus on the poster?

Papyrus is the unofficial font for all things Firefly. It's what the Browncoats Society (Firefly fan club) chose to use for all their promotional material.

by **Mighty Jalapeno** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:18 pm UTC

roxormancer wrote:*giggle*http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/teddyslayer/river.jpg

"Undiscovered website" my ass.

by **Chipersoft** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:19 pm UTC

DarkWeaver wrote:
uberfubar wrote:Mmm, Jewel Staite. I was quite elated when I found out she's joining the cast of Atlantis!

Is it a permanent role now (i.e. she's actually in the next season too)? From what I last saw, she wanted to go home. That'd be awesome though, Jewel is awesome.

Yes, she is permanently on the show for this season and the next.

At the Atlantis panel at comic-con this year, her entrance got more cheers then anyone else on the cast.

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0311: "Action Movies"

Re: better idea - action movie dvd mix tape

Re: "Action Movies" Discussion

Summer Glau is already signed up for a series this fall...

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