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I have yet to explore the 2000s era of Van Damme. I've only seen parts of those films on TV, but I totally want to check out Until Death, Wake of Death, The Hard Corps, The Shepherd and Universal Soldier 3 and 4. The latter received some unexpectedly high praise from major publications!
Speaking of Belmondo, my latest watch is The Loner (Le solitaire) (1987). Watching Belmondo enter cafés and slap criminals around doesn't get old. The film is cut from the same cloth as Le marginal, but it has less action. I wouldn't have minded a car chase, but 'twas a good time!
I didn't really care much for UniSol: Reneneration, but Day Of Reckoning had a visceral style unique in the UniSol films. And of course having Scott Adkins as the lead, makes up for JCVD being a supporting part in Day Of Reckoning.
Until Death is one of my favourite JCVD films. It won't be for everyone, but if you like the more sombre films like Assassination Games, Six Bullets etc..., then I think you'll approve.
Fantastic film. Great effects! Bruce Dern is tremendous in it! The card game with the robots is a hoot!
Pretty much a middle of the road Godzilla movie, but still entertaining, despite some (very) bad CGI (even for the time). Still, my viewing was a bit tainted by a glitch at the 29 minute mark (I may have lost a scene because of that), and some of the worst english subtitles I've ever seen.
Now, I don't know what I should do : buy the Criterion Shoa collection and resell the ones I've already have (escept for three of them, which are in my Heisei era sets), or getting the last two I'm missing indifvidually (but one of them is really expensive) ? For the Millenium and Reiwa era, I'll have to buy them individually, at least if we can get Godzilla Minus One with at least english (or hopefully, french) subtitles. Too bad the Criterion Collection didn't do sets for the Heisei and Millenium series.
The two exceptions (for me) being GMK and FINAL WARS BTW.
As for what you should do, by all means buy the Criterion Showa Era Collection Box Set as it is the only place to find the Japanese edit of KING KONG vs. GODZILLA outside of Japan. And both versions are almost never streamed due to copyright reasons.
That said, whether you should sell your existing copies depends on their quality. Beginning in 2004 or so, Classic Media/Sony (in north America) had the rights to 7 of the Showa era titles and those disks contained both the Japanese and US edits of the films as well as ready informative auto commentary tracks from a variety of Godzilla film historians. As you are probably aware, the Criterion Box Set only contains the Japanese edits of the films, and the auto commentary/extras were not carried over. For example, the Japanese edit of MOTHRA vs. GODZILLA does NOT contain the sequence where U.S. military officials help Japan against Godzilla. As a result, I held onto my older copies of the films even though they were just of DVD quality.
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