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"Because it will hurt more!"
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eta, and I totally agree. I'd love to have seen what else he could have done. He only had one other (not terribly good) movie, right? Which was a more straight-forward action movie.
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. . . and cancel Christmas!
I watched The Crow a few months back with my best bud who, oddly enough, had never seen it. (Oddly in that we've pretty much got the same media vocabulary, most of the time.) After it was done she was all, "Ooooooo, lovely -- what else has BL done?"
"Die" was not the answer she was looking for. Definitely a life cut tragically short.
Julian McMahon is in negotiations to play Dr. Doom in the movie of the Fantastic Four -- according to Zap2it.
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Huh, actually a half dozen plus, including, KUNG FU: The Movie, and KUNG FU: The Next Generation. He played Chung Wang. There's also a character named Wyatt in it. Does this mean the Shanghai Noon movies ripped off Kung Fu?
Sadly, nothing else he did sounds anywhere near as good as the Crow.
As I recall, Lee had to put in his journeyman dues a lot. I think The Crow was the first and only movie that didn't make hay (or some melodrama) out of his race -- he just had an indeterminate-ethnicity name, and did stuff, and that was all.
Julian McMahon is in negotiations to play Dr. Doom in the movie of the Fantastic Four
What, does he scare people away with his tanned buttcheeks of doom??
Sadly, nothing else he did sounds anywhere near as good as the Crow.
Yeah, they were all pedestrian action flicks. Crow was going to be his break out role.
I just finished reading the book for Black Hawk Down, and it was very well done. The movie changed a few things here and there, mostly to present the battle in the most effective way possible.
Prime example - Josh Hartnett's character Sgt. Eversmann really existed, but his chalk was transported out of the battle by the first convoy to leave the city. They made the decision to have his chalk be the one to make it on foot to the first crash site in order to preserve a coherent narrative through line.
Some other tidbits and facts - most people (partially because of the movie) think that the Somalis only took out two helicopters. They actually took out five, only two of them crashed. The rest were able to limp back to base under their own power, but were still effectively taken out of the fight.
While we refer to it as the Battle of Mogadishu, or the Battle of the Black Sea, the Somalis refer to it as "The Day of the Rangers."
Even though the images of Ranger corpses being dragged through the streets caused enough of a stir back home to cause us to pull out of Somalia, and the mission went about as far south as you can go, the operation is still considered a military success - a force of 100 men wound up pinned down and surrounded by possibly as many as tens of thousands of local militia and were able to hold off their enemy long enough to be pulled out. They did far greater damage to the Somalis than they took themselves - the conservative figures on the Somali side are over 1,000 dead and wounded. But most importantly, the Rangers succeeded in their objective of capturing the local warlord figures they had set out to capture.
Very interesting book to go with a very interesting movie, about an intense and contentious battle.
Very interesting book to go with a very interesting movie, about an intense and contentious battle.
The movie is also becomes quite a session of "Hey, it's that guy!" Of course, it later turns into "Hey, which guy is that?"
Rapid Fire was decent, Showdown in Little Tokyo had its moments, and Laser Mission was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Legacy Of Rage helps define the term pedestrian, and I suppose Kung Fu: The Movie was okay -- if you don't hate the Kung Fu franchise.
The movie is also becomes quite a session of "Hey, it's that guy!" Of course, it later turns into "Hey, which guy is that?"
Yep. Plus there's two character actors in that movie that I awlays tend to conflate anyway, and putting them in the same movie where they both wear desert fatigues doesn't help.
Also, about half the American soldiers in the movie are played by Brits doing American accents. Not to mention Jason Issacs doing a Texan accent.
Rapid Fire was decent
I've been meaning to catch this one, as I heard it was passable.