'Underneath'
A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Not Asian enough to be Jet Li, not American enough to be the nation's own hero?
God, I love that man. But I have to try and not see his movies where he doesn't fight. So far, they tend to be worse than his fighting ones. Or at least don't have the distraction of ass-kickery.
I'm not quite sure why Mark Dacascos never made it bigger.
I think it is the protruding eyeballs.
I don't get the protruding eyeballs thing, myself. His eyes are the prettiest thing about him.
I'm not quite sure why Mark Dacascos never made it bigger.
I think my favorite fights of his so far are the Pact Des Loups fights. Lots of flipping and jumping.
Actually, although I suspect his slightly asian looks might be holding him back a little, I think he should be good looking enough to get past that.
I'm betting the reson he doesn't get more mainstream work is that traditionally, action stars that come from his background (martial arts pro) usually can't act any better than a 2x4 that's a really bad actor. I think Mark's got some chops, but there's probably enough of a stigma attached to the Don "the Dragon" Wilson/(other martial arts stars whose names escape me at the moment) type action star that it causes him some problems getting work.
Also, I was very amused while reading through Mark's IMDb bio that he's the nephew of Iron Chef's Chariman Kaga.
I was very amused while reading through Mark's IMDb bio that he's the nephew of Iron Chef's Chariman Kaga.
No, he's not. That's just schtick for the show.
I'm betting the reson he doesn't get more mainstream work is that traditionally, action stars that come from his background (martial arts pro) usually can't act any better than a 2x4 that's a really bad actor.
But still they keep trying to force actually good HK actors of similar backgrounds into clunky vehicles -- perhaps a native English speaker would have a better time than Jet in a foreign language.
I'm not quite sure why Mark Dacascos never made it bigger.
Hey. He's the Chairman's Nephew! [x-post]
No, he's not. That's just schtick for the show.
IMDb has NO fact checking. Bastards.
But still they keep trying to force actually good HK actors of similar backgrounds into clunky vehicles --
They think all we want is to watch these guys hit stuff.
And they're not far off -- we'd just like to see a little quality filmmaking to go along with the hitting stuff.
t geek We did a quick Ravenloft adventure using Mani and Fronsac as the two PCs. It rocked. It was also easy to roleplay thanks to Le Bihan and Dacascos as actors. t /geek
YOU'RE SUCH A GEEK, RAQUEL!!!
(I'm so proud of you).
(beams)
