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Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 8:45 am
by thibodeaux
Finally watched this. It was like a Jackie Chan movie with not as many cool stunts, and not as much Jackie Chan.
Also, Stanley Clarke's soundtrack was GODAWFUL.
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 8:56 am
by GORDON
I think it was Transporter 2 that turned me off ever wanting to see another movie with Handsome Rob. It was the "stunt" where there is a bomb on the bottom of the car and he does a massive jump and a barrel roll and while the car is upside down he knocks the bomb off the car with the hook of a massive construction crane. Then lands on his wheels and drives away, possibly while getting a handy-j from a hot chick 20 years younger than him.
I don't even give a shit if I spoiled the movie for you, because that shit destroyed an entire genre of movies for me.
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 10:33 am
by Malcolm
You're choosing that specific sequence as the one that ruined the genre ... why? What makes it more over the top than other similar things?
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:21 am
by GORDON
Malcolm wrote:You're choosing that specific sequence as the one that ruined the genre ... why? What makes it more over the top than other similar things?
Just is.
I am able to overlook a lot of impossible, stupid physics in movies... but that one just stuck in my craw.
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 12:16 pm
by Leisher
Who is Handsome Rob?
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 1:07 pm
by Malcolm
Leisher wrote:Who is Handsome Rob?
This dude.
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 1:35 pm
by thibodeaux
So, I watched this with my wife, the budding auteur. We joked about how the fight sequences were very "stop-motion" like. Not sure how to describe it, but it was like Jason Statham would block a punch...wait...then counter-punch...then wait...then kick. She blamed the editor: it was the editor's first action movie or something.
Anyway, I read this quote by Statham just now:
You see a lot of action films, and it's almost (like) you can't tell who's doing what. It's chopped up so much, you just see a fist, a leg - it's all driven by the sound, boom, pow, boom. You wouldn't know what was happening otherwise. The people who inspired me growing up, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, that's the real deal. You see them, the camera's way back, there aren't a lot of cuts - you feel like you're really in there. Today, there's so much technology and green-screen and CGI, you can turn your grandma into an action star. But people are getting wise to that, I think. There's no substitute for the real thing.
And this is so true and I absolutely agree! I HATE the way fight sequences are done in most movies today: really tight shots with the shakey-cam. I much prefer the Jackie Chan type stuff, where you can tell, sure, it's kind of choreographed and probably fake, but damn, these guys actually have some skill.
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 6:59 pm
by TheCatt
Half the time I can't even tell who's doing what in those close action shots.