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I'm with you, I absolutely love this movie. I'm due for a rewatch.
Lets just say he's funnier than a Whoopee Cushion...... :))
aka Druk
Starring our good old friend Mads Mikkelsen. Directed by Thomas Vinterberg.
Fantastic film about four teachers that decide to test their abilities while keeping an alcohol percentage of 0.5 % in their blood at all times.
Funny, moving, nuanced and well-acted. Highly recommended.
Mikkelsen/Vinterberg pairings are always wonderful. I'm glad you enjoyed this one.
Born To Raise Hell (2010)
*deep sigh* Where do I begin? The dubbing was better in this film, other than an obviously not Segal narration at the start. The fights damn near gave me motion sickness. They so choppy. Segal gets into a fight, slaps 'em a few times, and they fly back against the wall something out of Mortal Kombat. And the sex scene? Oh dear lawd, it was the most deeply uncomfortable thing I have ever witnessed. Back in the day, when he could have had them in his films, Segal never had a sex scene. These days, when he shouldn't, and when the actress involved is young enough to be his daughter (possibly even grand daughter) now they're in his films.
---The Good
1. Under Siege (1992)
2. Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
3. Exit Wounds (2001)
---The Bad
4. Submerged (2005)
---The Ugly
5. Born To Raise Hell (2010)
If I survive this, then I was a knighthood.
1974 Not my favorite version of the story though good nonetheless, great cast including a few Bond Villains.
Make that three Bond Villains, I always forget Orson Wells voices U. N. Owen.
I know I saw it over thirty years ago in a cinema, and I don't think "alone", but my wife says she hadn't, which causes a bit of a problem since we were already together when it was released in Germany in spring 1990, but let bygones be bygone.
Anway, we both enjoyed it immensely as a character-driven, actor-centered tragicomedy. Nothing much happens except LIFE - people getting older, portrayed for about thirty years of their lives. An older Jewish lady in Atlanta, GA (the brilliant, brilliant, insurpassable Jessica Tandy) is more or less forced by her son (Dan Aykroyd) to accept a Black driver (the brilliant, brilliant, unsurpassable Morgan Freeman) as her driver after she ditched her car in a pond due to mixing up the pedals. They spend thirty years together, proceeding together from racist condescension by the "white" woman, over her helping him to learn how to read for the first time, to being both discriminated against by "Christian" Alabama state troopers, and the Atlanta Temple being blown up by racists, to the lady finally realizing that her driver Hoke is her "best friend" - when she is 97 and in a nursing home.
To maybe repeat myself, both Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman (and yes, Dan Aykroyd also shows his action chops beyond his Blues Brothers and Ghost Busters fame) deliver perfect acting. Not a single scene that is unbelievable or that doesn't draw the viewer in emotionally. If one is ready to let it happen, it's a perfect movie...without anything resembling "action'".
It is a truly lovely, hearwarming drama, and I really wonder why it took me so long to watch it again, at least 20 years earlier when I would have had the chance to see it in its original version on DVD. I'd sort it into my top ten movies of any kind right now (though it's getting crowded up there by now).
Saw this a few years ago, but before I was into Villeneuve s ouevre, so decided to watch it again. As always, a slow build-up to an intriguing development and crescendo.
The film that introduced Segal to the world. You can tell that this is early Segal, as his ego wasn't so big as to stop anything happening to his characters.
---The Good
1. Under Siege (1992)
2. Nico (1988)
3. Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
4. Exit Wounds (2001)
---The Bad
5. Submerged (2005)
---The Ugly
6. Born To Raise Hell (2010)
Quite a chilling little Australian horror. Almost a two hander between the mother and son characters. A gruelling performance from Essie Davis as well as a powerful one from the young Noah Wiseman, although his character is realisticly annoying.
Well shot with some effective scares and sound effects this also has an intriguingly dark ending.
Felt like a little self-punishment, eh, Major? He doesn't even try anymore, it seems, just sits in a chair, taking part in one simplistic action sequence, if that, while hiring a younger, more in shape (which isn't saying much) actor for the rest of it. I saw a good old fashion roasting of his Sniper Special Ops movie on YouTube, I can only assume it's 100,000x more entertaining than the film itself.
Really liked that movie, though horror is not a favourite genre!
Well made, and the character himself is wonderful creation.
Would love a copy of that book.....though i dont tbink I'd ever open it!! 🤣🤣
I loved THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, which came out a few years later, but this one is just insane, like an unpleasant dream. Jodorowsky must have been just crazy before he became a genius.
To be honest. I wanted to see for myself, just how bad it gets. Though I have talked shit about Segal over the years (he has talked enough shit about my boi JCVD so it evens out), I have actually seen very little of his films. Mostly his early stuff, and some 90's/early 00's stuff. The rest was clips of various of his latter films.
The roasting video, would it by any chance be this one:
I disagree with what they said about his early films. In fact, he was still in good shape up to the 2000's. He started to go out of shape toward the end of the decade.
I think he's one garbage human being anymore but I'll forever enjoy those first few films he put out, especially Out for Justice and Under Siege.
Wonderful book!
I second this. I got it on a whim, because truth be told, I've only seen two Seagal films, and only bits and pieces of the rest of them, but going through his early filmography (up until Exit Wounds perhaps) is a long-term life project for me, and this book is the perfect companion. As author Vern says: "the French invented the auteur theory, but I invented the badass auteur theory." And that badass auteur is Seagal, whose interests in the environment, Buddhism, etc., are sprinkled throughout his movies.
Yeah, that book is a powerful looking prop. I wouldn't want it on my bookshelf...😱
If there was something like that for JCVD, i'd seriously grab a copy. But Segal? Nope. I will give him credit for his first 5 films standing the test of time as genre classics, and for around a decade afterwards, he was still putting out decent enough stuff (even if the slide downward had already begun). But I don't like him (enough) to want to get that book.
This is at least better than the first three. I really like the Dubai sequence, but once it goes to India, it becomes a bit boring. Good cast.
Yes, probably the only one of the series that's rewarchable! Rest, particularly the recent two just blend into each other.
Has the best ending too in that strange car park facility! ( though it was a little similar to a sequence in Spielbergs 'Minority Report')
I prefer the one in Minority Report. This one stretched it out to the point it became like a parody. Instead of creating excitement, it achieved the opposite for me.
Yeh, you're probablt right!
Loved 'Minority Report' apart from the ending!
You can tell straight away, what Segal we are about to get. In his first scene, he is about to have his memories erased, but his expression is more "Did I set my Sky+ Box to record that Gene Lebell documentary on tonight?" Given how he was already on the slide downwards by this point, Segal should have retired. He can even get through a fight without the use of a double, or careful/obvious editing. This was released in 2007, that same year, Van Damme released Until Death. Both dtv, but there is a BIG difference in quality there.
---The Good
1. Under Siege (1992)
2. Nico (1988)
3. Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
4. Exit Wounds (2001)
---The Bad
5. Flight Of Fury (2007)
6. Submerged (2005)
---The Ugly
7. Born To Raise Hell (2010)
To ME, Seagal's last really good movie was Executive Decision (1996) in which he let them kill him instead of letting Kurt Russel take all the screen time & dealing with it. The last film he made that I liked at all was Fire Down Below (1997). After that, it was all a rapid slide into crap for me....
What's the reasoning behind that decision from Seagal, anyway? I'm honestly surprised he had the attitude necessary to die early and let someone else take the mantle in any film.
Actually, I think at first, he refused to die on the day they had to film his death scene.