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I saw my old dusty copy of Sabotage the other night and it leaped right back into my top twenty.
The movie has it all :

- Mark Dacascos! hardly doing any kickboxing at all, but still.
- Carrie-Anne Moss! not wearing black plastic, but still.
- Tony Todd! with spectacles and many snappy one-liners.
- Graham Greene! as badass villain, chewing a cigar but not ever lighting up.
- lots of gimmicky weaponry and guerilla booby traps!
- gratuitous slow motion and Full Contact-style bullet cam!
- a gallon of syrup in every blood squib!
- a juicy plot twist revealed in the very last line of dialogue!

Why I haven't been to a video store in three years is beyond me. This is my kind of movie! I need more! MORE!!!

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:17 (twenty years ago) link

Let me point you in the direction of some of the later works of Steven Seagal - straight to video GOLD!!

― David_X (David_X), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:53 (twenty years ago) link

don't forget Jean Claude....

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:54 (twenty years ago) link

also Brain Bosworth. His One Tough Bastard is a delight. Tho i've only seen this available to rent in a petrol station in Blandford Forum.

― David_X (David_X), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:57 (twenty years ago) link

any of those hip-hop artists turned actor flicks are usually direct to video. Master P stars in "I had sex with your bitch, nananana."

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:04 (twenty years ago) link

I have no idea of it's an action movie, but there's a direct-to-video flick at Blockbuster that I'm obsessed with despite never actually seeing it. It's called "Durdy Game." That's right, "Durdy."

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:24 (twenty years ago) link

I'm still itching to rent "Monsturd"

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:25 (twenty years ago) link

"Monsturd" = 1 word review of 9th REM album

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:29 (twenty years ago) link

Also classic, straight to video releases that are blatant rip-offs of big studio blockbusters. My favourite, boxed in near identical packaging (right down to the type face) to the Spielburg classic Raiders of the Lost Ark is the befuddling Raiders of the Lost Code. Needless to say, Harrison Ford was conspicuous by his absence.

― David_X (David_X), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:32 (twenty years ago) link

this is a cheat, but...........

'The Transporter' was on australian screens for all of two days or so it seemed. i caught this on DVD last nite. that oil fite was freaking fantastic!

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 15:35 (twenty years ago) link

Let me point you in the direction of some of the later works of Steven Seagal

I don't know. I saw the first 10 minutes of The Patriot on TV and I found it embarassing how they tried to hide his double chin with all kinds of shawls & bandanas. Will look into it again.

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:03 (twenty years ago) link

they need a friggin duvet to cover up seagals chins.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:07 (twenty years ago) link

Double Team, with Van Damme and Dennis Rodman. Kicking ass in Utrecht and Rome. Villian is Mickey Rourke who managed to put lions on chains in the Colosseum. After they kicked Mickey Rourke's ass the Colosseum blew up from a bomb. Pretty good.

Yous need see it along with the one where the high school teacher in Miami who knows Capuwaya kicks the shit out of a drug dealer who wants to corrupt the youts but who is equally adept at fucking people up.

― Mr. Mincemeat, Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:10 (twenty years ago) link

Brian Bosworth's first film, Stone Cold, is wicked ("Joe Huff is a tough, go-it-alone cop with a flair for infiltrating dangerous biker gangs"). It has Lance Hendrikson in a supporting role and I seem to recall there's a great fight in a supermarket. Lance is also in the brilliantly-titled "Excessive Force" with Thomas Ian Griffith (sequel is "Excessive Force II: Force on Force"!)

― gobemouche, Thursday, 24 July 2003 08:40 (twenty years ago) link

Double Team is great but Van Damme's Knock Off is even better. Bombs! Hidden in pairs of jeans! And Rob Schneider!

― gobemouche, Thursday, 24 July 2003 08:42 (twenty years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

From Last (x) movies you saw

Bought a DVD that contains both of John Hyams' Universal Soldier sequels, Regeneration and Day of Reckoning. Regeneration is extremely dark, but really well directed. The action is crisp and clear, with no shaky-cam bullshit. The fight scenes are really well staged, with some amazing stunts very obviously done by the performers themselves (the primary villain is an MMA fighter turned "actor", Andrei Arlovski). Jean-Claude Van Damme looks really broken down in this, which gives his fights even more impact. I'm definitely looking forward to watching Day of Reckoning.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱)

― Wes Brodicus, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 07:45 (seven years ago) link

Search - Sniper: Reloaded
Destroy - Hard Target 2

― Wes Brodicus, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 07:48 (seven years ago) link

seven months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3YG6bK6wNU
I guess white cops executing black perps with impunity and people getting burned alive onscreen were slightly less offensive in 2010, before BLM & ISIS.

― Wes Brodicus, Friday, 28 April 2017 13:11 (six years ago) link

Stallone hitman revenge Korean guy Hawaiian guy flick from last year gets a big tick from me

― virginity simple (darraghmac), Friday, 28 April 2017 14:17 (six years ago) link

oh glad both universal soldier sequels were mentioned itt. they're both incredible

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 April 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link

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