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Jmart
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 Re: Bullet to the Head Banana boat?
What sort of gay lingo / in-joke am I not being clued in on?
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Algren
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Re: Bullet to the Head Jmart wrote: Banana boat?
What sort of gay lingo / in-joke am I not being clued in on? Are you white or black? If you're black, then it's funny. If you're white then, I have no idea. I assumed you were black because David used that phrase. _________________STOP UIGHUR GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG
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David
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Re: Bullet to the Head Yes, it is more of a racial term.
I just used it to use it. I cannot get it out of mind after hearing James Gandolfini awesomely wheel it out multiple times in Not Fade Away.
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Algren
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Re: Bullet to the Head It is a great term. I love it when the older generation use it in annoyance.
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Jmart
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Re: Bullet to the Head I'd say I'm about as black as Excel or Magnus are.
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Thegun
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Re: Bullet to the Head I like the finale in Expendables 2, even if it is poorly lit, and statham's final fight was cooler. It wasn't as "ok" finale Eric Roberts got.
This one was a little heavily edited for my taste, could have used some far sweeping shots, I thought the rest of the action was great up until that, this was just ok.
I'd totally see Another Another 48 hours if I wasn't for Nick Nolte, the man needs 4 cups of coffee, a couple jacks and a car battery to nuts to just walk around and almost be understandable. That's per take
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David
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Re: Bullet to the Head Every action scene here is helped by the sound design. The punches are thunderous.
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Jmart
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Re: Bullet to the Head David wrote: Every action scene here is helped by the sound design. The punches are thunderous. That I'd agree with, especially during the Turkish bath fight. The punches sounded like gunshots. _________________My DVD Collection
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Thegun
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Re: Bullet to the Head No black person finds Marion Cotliard hot. In their words, she's just Aight
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David
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Re: Bullet to the Head I saw this again today. Just as much fun the second time.
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Algren
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Re: Bullet to the Head Wow!!!  Good man. _________________STOP UIGHUR GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG
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David
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Re: Bullet to the Head I love how simple this film is. Just straightforward, right for the jugular. There is such a genuine pleasure in observing an old-fashioned revenge story play out to its natural conclusion. Walter Hill creates zest via the atmosphere, the attitude, the humor, and the pace, but knows not to complicate the beautiful simplicity of the film's core arc.
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Algren
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Re: Bullet to the Head I love the beautiful simplicity of your writing.  _________________STOP UIGHUR GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: Bullet to the Head Algren reading those reviews about Bullet  _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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Algren
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Re: Bullet to the Head Haha. Great smiley.
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David
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Re: Bullet to the Head Another great stylistic detail in this movie: after the obligatory no-cell-phones/go-purchase-popcorn/enjoy-the-show advertisement, one expects two or three full studio logos and then the actual film. I love how this movie jolts you with a bullet flying directly through the three logos, shattering them into small pieces, and then into the camera. Fantastic touch. Sets the tone.
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Algren
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Re: Bullet to the Head Like in the trailer?
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BJ
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Re: Bullet to the Head BJs Grade:
C+
This movie has moments of glory and was saved by an outstanding ending but overall I didn't like what I was seeing.
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Riggs
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Re: Bullet to the Head This was such a lazy movie. I wasn't excited for a second for anything that happened on screen, but I wasn't bored either. Stallone was fun and I liked Momoa as villain, that guy is a beast. The end fight was indeed pretty cool and the best thing about this movie. Other than that, there just wasn't anything worth talking about.
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Re: Bullet to the Head Riggs wrote: This was such a lazy movie. I wasn't excited for a second for anything that happened on screen, but I wasn't bored either. Stallone was fun and I liked Momoa as villain, that guy is a beast. The end fight was indeed pretty cool and the best thing about this movie. Other than that, there just wasn't anything worth talking about. Very true. _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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David
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Re: Bullet to the Head "Lazy" is the wrong word. It is conservative, favoring maximum dominance of its own domain to any bid for ingenuity. Walter Hill knows this is not the project with which to revise the rules of the action genre, and he knows his craft and his worldview are relics in the computer generated superhero age. His response is perfect, though: he pretends it is 1985 and creates an earnest ode to the masculine B style he helped pioneer. Anyone seeing this in search of new ground is misguided. It is great because it returns to familiar territory not as ironic camp, but with absolute authenticity. This film this way, pure and straight, is not conceivable in 20 years. The talent will be dead. This will stand as one of the final dispatches of a glorious, decadent era.
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Riggs
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Re: Bullet to the Head I love those 80's macho-action movies you're talking about, and it was obvious Bullet tried to be one of those, but other than some nice Stallone one-liners and the last fight, the movie just had absolutely nothing exciting to offer. And I think lazy is the perfect word to describe this film. At least it's the first one that comes to my mind when I think about Bullet.
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Thegun
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Re: Bullet to the Head I don't think it's lazy, it's more refreshingly straightforward. Take out the stronger one liners, and overall good performances and editing, it's really not more than a DTV Seagal Movie. The thing that this film works the most is Stallone shows he's always been an A list talent, and everything is elevated because of it.
Again going back to why it flopped, this kind of low concept doesn't really sell anymore.
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Algren
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Re: Bullet to the Head It's coming out in Hong Kong on April 4th. YES, YES, YES, YES! I was worried I wouldn't get to see it on the big screen. Kudos to the Hong Kongenese, and a big middle finger to the Chinese! _________________STOP UIGHUR GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG
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Algren
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Re: Bullet to the Head So I'm seeing this on Thursday or Friday in HK. It's a holiday over here so we're going for the weekend and making a romantic break of it, we're going to do a few nice restaurants, go to this lovely scenic water park and just enjoy ourselves, but all I can think about is seeing Bullet to the Head.  _________________STOP UIGHUR GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG
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