Budget is not needed in action, Gavan proves it

Troler
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#Gavan #Toho #Japan #Tokusatsu #Action #YoshiakiKobayashi #movies #film #SonnyChiba #KenjiOba #review #cinemastodon

Is clarity in action a bad thing?

Blender Dumbass
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I often hear how good action film-making is always clear and easy to follow. Camera isn't shaking like crazy and editing isn't filled with ADHD mania. Yet the more I think about it the less this makes sense.

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Predator: Badlands 2025 is like Avatar 2009 but Horror

Blender Dumbass
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Predator: Badlands is Dan Trachtenberg's third Predator movie after Prey 2022 and Killer of the Killers 2025. And strangely enough non of these movies have any kind of connection to one other. They are not sequels. They are stand alone films, different in style and tone. Telling different stories and having different structure. The only thing that binds them together, so to speak, is the fact that they are all technically a part of the Predator franchise.

#predatorBadlands #predator #ellefanning #DanTrachtenberg #horror #action #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Red Heat 1988 is unintentionally funny for those who speak Russian

Blender Dumbass
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Our main character Ivan Danko ( Arnold Schwarzenegger ) is introduced with a shot showing his magnificent muscular butt-cheeks, right before a fight breaks out between naked men in the snow, all trying to scream words and sentences in Russian, sounding utterly stupid doing so. That is how Red Heat, a 1988 Walter Hill movie, begins.

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The Driver 1978 is not quite the original Drive from 2011

Blender Dumbass
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A lot of people say that Nicolas Winding Refn's 2011 film Drive is a remake of 1978 film The Driver by Walter Hill. And to some extent it is true. Both are about a getaway driver. And both drivers are these tough, melancholic characters played by a guy who's first name is Ryan. But that seems to be about it.

#theDriver #WalterHill #action #film #movies #review #cinemastodon

Predator 2 ( 1990 ) is a Predator, Alien and Lethal Weapon sequel all at once

Blender Dumbass
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Death Proof 2007 is a genius art house action film that people didn't get

Blender Dumbass
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Quentin Tarantino's 2007 film Death Proof is considered the only bad movie written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. For the uninitiated the film seems like a boring film where 90% of the time nothing happens. And for those who know Tarantino it feels like Tarantino is trying too hard to flex his dialogue muscle while forgetting to tell an actual story.

#DeathProof #QuentinTarantino #film #review #movies #grindhouse #horror #action #cinemastodon

Die Hard is a phenomenal showcase of filmmaking talent

Blender Dumbass
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Somehow, for all these years I avoided the first ever Die Hard movie, even though I had watched the sequels. And even though the sequels are varying in quality, the first film is a fucking masterpiece.

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Lethal Weapon is what happens when a good screenwriter writes his first script

Blender Dumbass
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Directed by Richard Donner ( Superman, The Goonies ) from a script of Shane Black, Lethal Weapon is a film about cops. On the surface there is no concept to the movie what so ever. It is just simply a regular, straight forward police bromance. Yet somehow the movie moves.

#lethalweapon #film #review #movies #action #cinema #cinemastodon

Ballerina 2025 did what Spy Kids should have but couldn't

Blender Dumbass
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When I reviewed Havoc I wrote about this strange feeling that I dubbed "short orgasmic blackout" when I see a stupidly serious, angry face of a female character that is really cute. And one of the most cutest actors living these days is fucking Ana de Armas. Let me illustrate. We see young Victoria Comte playing Eve ( the main character ) while being 11 ( Comte was born in 2013, do the math ), and then the film says "12 years later" so now she is 23. Yet de Armas playing her is 36 ( at the time of filming ). She plays somebody almost half her age and it works. Why? She is fucking cute! That's why. And because of that I knew I was probably getting the "short orgasmic blackout" the movie.

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Havoc ( 2025 ) is a pornographically satisfying violence movie

Blender Dumbass
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Again I found a movie that makes me question my own ideas as a filmmaker. Havoc ( directed by Gareth Evans ) is so stylized and fucking awesome that they had to go a CGI route for a lot of the shots to even be possible in the first place. Which created a similar situation, which I discussed in my review of Shazam! 2.

#havoc #tomhardy #GarethEvans #film #review #movies #action #martialarts #cinemastodon

I don't remeber Wanted ( 2008 ) to be that good

Blender Dumbass
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If you never was in post Soviet country in 2008 you don't know how much of a big deal this movie was. For Americans, I suppose, it was just another action film. For anybody who speaks Russian it was a miracle.

#wanted #TimurBekmambetov #JamesMcAvoy #AngelinaJolie #film #review #action #movies #cinemastodon

Michael Bay is a Properly Good Director and I Will Stand by it Because it is True

Blender Dumbass
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It seems like the entire world of film-enthusiasts came together and decided to bully one person for no reason what so ever. And that one person is Michael Bay.

#MichaelBay #Cinema #Film #Filmmaking #Auteur #Action #Transformers #BadBoys

Bad Boys 2 is Michael Bay's Magnum Opus

Blender Dumbass
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Similarly to Michael Mann's Miami Vice Bad Boys II is about love, man... It is about how both Will Smith and Martin Lawrence love Gabrielle Union. And how they are willing to do international terrorism and kill many many people, to save her. True love bro!

#BadBoys2 #BadBoys #MichaelBay #WillSmith #MartinLawrence #Bayhem #Action #Film #Review #Movies #Cinemastodon

Revenge ( 2017 ) is a kind of movie Nicolas Winding Refn would masturbate to

Blender Dumbass
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Obviously I watched Revenge because it was directed by Coralie Fargeat, the director of current world-wide phenomenon The Substance. Even though Revenge is her directorial debut, I didn't not think it would be a bad film going into it, based on what I know about The Substance. And my expectations were pretty much met exactly.

#Revenge #Revenge2017 #CoralieFargeat #MatildaLutz #NicolasWindingRefn #Film #Review #TheSubstance #Horror #Action #Movies #Cinemastodon