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New Trailer For Vin Diesel's xXx Online Now!!
Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
Hey! There's a trailer! And it's for TRIPLE-X. Or xXx. Or the new Vin Diesel movie. However you want to say it.
CLICK HERE!! No, seriously. Click here. Do it. Or Vin will punch you very, very hard.
Thanks to everyone who e-mailed me to point it out. By the way, anyone want to lay bets on when the pinheads at MGM decide to sue Vin for his last line in the trailer?
"Moriarty" out.
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Vin Rocks.
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This guy just reeks of awesomeness.
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A new action hero to fill the shoes of our golden age actors...er baby boom actors. Where did the Swarzennegars or Stallones go?
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or does this like a total piece of shit? James Bond for the new Millennium, my ass.
It's bound be about as subtle as a sledgehammer to the face.
talon_uk
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Talon_uk, where on the trailer did notice a speck of _attempt_ for subtleness?
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Vin Diesel is the 21st century Van Damme
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pravda - thank you for making my point for me. Yet another big, brash piece of crap from our friends in Tinsel Town.
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Is all this is attempting to be...sure it doesn't look like an Oscar winner, but rather a mass of explosions and moderately engaging one-liners. These are the key ingredients in making a good summer Popcorn film: Fast and the Furious, Gone in 60 Seconds, Rush Hour, etc....all fun movies, but nothing more than Summer Fluff.
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This site has been going on and on about XXX, and when I saw the trailer a couple weeks ago in the theater, I was amazed that so much attention was going to something that looks so.... mediocre at best, formulaic pap at worst. Vin, Vin, baby -- I just saw you in Boiler Room, so at least at some point you were looking at scripts with SOME level of ambition; just because you've got the bod doesn't mean you have to be a whore...
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They just aren't. BMW motorcycles through Chinatown while handcuffed to chinese secret agents are, at least until you slide under a helicopter in fake fashion. Dirt bikes leaping over big fake explosions are not.
Wouldn't having a huge XXX tattoo on the back of your neck sort of hinder the "secret" portion of secret agent?
And if he's been one for 2 days, how is the tattoo already done, dry, healed, etc?
Pointless questions I know, summer movie = check your logic at the door.
It still looks better than SW2 though.
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LOL....um...ok....maybe not...just thought it was a funny visual.
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This looks just like SIMON SEZ!! Goddamn how is this guy a secret agent with all those tats and looking like a gorilla?? Noone can spot him?? Diesel sucks, this'll be shite and Jackson does WAAAY too many movies we know you're a bad mofo Samn so gve it up already
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Of course it is a summer popcorn movie. It has Ridiculously over-the-top action, a buff action hero, a contemporary hard rock/heavy metal soundtrack, gratuitous explosions, bad Arnold-esque one liners, the list goes on and on.... It is made for the same people that went to see "The Fast and the Furious" (although I would like to see the summer teen movie of the same name made by Samuel Z. Arkoff 40+ years ago, just for comparison), and made to do the same thing: entertain the audience with cool visuals, and make obscene amounts of money. I believe that is what someone decided "Rollerball" should have been, and it is just bad. I like Vin Diesel, I think he is a good actor and can do a whole lot more than just be a buff bad smashing bad guys, talking trash, and using one liners in a bad action movie. Unfortunately that is probably where he will end up, which means his career will be over in about anywhere from 5 to 15 years. And just how is an "extreme sports athlete" with a "rock star mentality" supposed to be an effective secret agent? What is it he is supposedly able to do that regular intelligence operatives cannot, besides look cool in designer clothes while saying bad one liners? But then I am violating one of the basic rules of a summer popcorn movie: suspend your disbelief and check your brain at the door.
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Did you catch that Vin made a "shaken not strirred" one-liner in the trailer?
Cleary that's a infrigment on Bond, I bet MGM is calling t's lawyers right now!
Also, can MGM sue for copying it's mediocre formula? Seriously, this flick is geared to the same kids that they wanted to sell Rollerball to. I'm gonna keep my arms crossed on this one until they can convice me otherwise..... -
Anyone know what band that is????????????????????????????
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Nothing against Mr. Diesel, but imagine how much better F&F might have been if it had starred Henry Rollins. Then again, who knows? The script and director obviously had something to do with the hollowness of that one. One thing is clear, though. The action stars of the last two decades are now too old. And the kind of films they starred in today look pretty passe (with a couple of exceptions). Ah-nuld and Stallone are clearly beyond help, based on their most recent movies, and Van Damme and Segall were always marginal action stars at best. Each one had one or two decent films in him, but that was about it. That's why people like Vin Diesel and Jet Li exist today. The only action actor who came out of that era who is still bankable, believable and acceptable is Bruce Willis. He wisely turned to a different type of movie in the last few years. He seems to be enough of an actor to have pulled it off, too. Seriously, can you image Van Damme or Stallone in SIXTH SENSE? For that matter, could you imagine any of these aging clowns pulling off FIFTH ELEMENT?
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for candy asses to use. They may hurt themselves. They should only be used by men who have a pair (and a few chicks who may have a pair also). The rest of you should watch from the safety of the sidelines.
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I ONLY HAVE ONE COMMENT. PUKE, PUKE AND PUKE! THIS STUPID FUCK NAMED VIN DIESEL IS ANOTHER BIG MUSCLE, WITH THE IQ OF A TOMATO ACTING ABILITIES NEAR ZERO AND HE IS AS UGLY AS HELL. EVEN HIS NAME IS STUPID, VIN DIESEL! I HAVE TAKEN SHITS MORE INTERESTING THAN THIS GUY AND THIS MOVIE!WHAT IS WITH HIS FUR COAT ANY WAYS, HOW ABOUT HIS VOICE, HE CLOULD DEAFEN ME TO DEATH! MY GOD! FUCK YOU IF EVER COMPARE THIS FUCK HEAD WITH JAMES BOND, BOND HAS CLASS! LOOKS, AND STYLE, THIS FUCK IS JUST GOING SMASH, BLOW,AND HUMP EVERY THING THAT COMES ALONG. THIS IS SO FUCKING STUPID, I HATE THS SHIT. JUST WHEN I THOUGHT WE WERE RID OF VAN DAME, STALLONE, SEGAL,... ANOTHER SALUTE TO STEROIDS COMES ALONG.HEY VIN, HOW DOES IT FEEL TO SPEND YOUR LIFE IN THE GYM? PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU HATE THIS SHIT AS MUCH AS I DO.
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This just looks beyond terrible. I'm sure if I was 14 I'd think it looked ruhlly, ruhhly kewl though. Jackson is the black Christopher Walken, he's played the same role so many times it's now self-parody. Diesel = charisma-free lump of meat. I'll wait for the real deal in November.
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I see that Rob Cohen is out to surpass John Badham and Peter Hyams in becoming the absolutely most awfullest American director in Contemporary Cinema.
I actually want to litigate against the idiot who greenlighted "The Fast and The Furious". That movie was by far the worse frilm of 2001, ONLY because it promised to be good and it completely misfired.
"XXX" won't get any minutes of my precious lil' lifetime. I pray that Vin Diesel stops this career path and salvage what little dignity he has left.
Sidenote: Rob Cohen's now tied with the jerk who did "Event Horizon", 'Soldier" and "Resident Evil" s just being awful story tellers. -
Anyone know where the trailer music is from???????
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I hate people yanking my chain, and I'm always cautious with celebrity news. What's the deal? Website? Help.
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"'XXX' won't get any minutes of my precious lil' lifetime" So you're saying that your time is too valuable to waste watching a popcorn flick, but your life is still sad enough that you manage to make room to post your useless, unwanted, unasked-for opinions (like this one) on AICN talkback. Good for you! Think of what you could have accomplished with those precious minutes if you wouldn't have taken the time to read this.. or post your message.. or visit this site.. or kill those ministers..... Wait.. That wasn't you, was it..?
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is absolutely going the ways of
steven Segal and the likes, too bad, Pitch Black was a borderline good movie- his character was played with some depth..i guess, he's going after his 15 mins of fame instead of artist integrity, if i was in the same position, i'd do the same, in the movie biz, you get what you can and fuck the future, cause as much as you'd like to think, the future's not up to you! just look at the trails of "promising" stars...so few makes it to the top.
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The movie could be good but that's how the trailer came off. Maybe if I was still in junior high. Vin Diesel's a bad mother fucker though, I haven't given up on him being in a good movie.
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I'm not really enticed by this trailer or the previous one to see this movie. Will someone please make a smart spy film with no gadgetry or one-liners. I'd just like to see espionage, a twisty plot, and stuff to make me think. Vin Diesel riding a motorcycle over the roof of an exploding house does not make me think.
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Okay, so "Boiler Room" was good, "Fast and the Furious" passably entertaining, but still, I still can't figure out how everyone's buying into this fuckin' Vin Diesel guy. He's not a great actor, certainly not that attractive (yeah, maybe the girlies think he's got a good body, but then again, I never trust the opinions of "something that bleeds for a week and doesn't die"). And I don't see how his voice--arguably one of the more unique features of the guy--is that astounding, especially when you consider that for the one project that's depended on it the most so far, his vocal work on "Iron Giant," not only was he altering his voice as he read his lines, but it was tweaked even more in post!!! (what the fuck??). I just can't take the fucking guy seriously, and thus am even more annoyed to think that Hollywood's trying to turn him into another action star. Sure, I'd go see a "Fast and the Furious" sequel when they inevitably make it (seeing as how they concluded it so horribly), but with this guy on the rise we're back to the same stupid brute strength values that dominated 80s action movie cinema (and you KNOW it's a bad thing when I can say better that Ben Affleck be Daredevil than him, as they'd originally considered...)
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You can't cure it you can only hope to control it. :)
Seriously, I really can't get into the whole V.D craze.
I can see why others do. He's got that "I'm gonna kick your ass, burn your house down, and then piss on your bloody corpses" look about him.
It's all about potential. Heheh.
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Mar 03, 2002 5:20:03 PM CST
Get off Vin's dick. If you don't want to see his latest
by brooklyn bred
Geez what a bunch of haters. I had no interest in seeing Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter and when I did catch LOTR on black market I was glad I followed my gut and didn't see it. But do I go and post my opinion? No and do you know why? Because that movie was not for me. Why spend the energy and time to bad mouth something you claim to dislike? Triple X looks good and I will support it just like I will support Blade 2 (Another target fav of haters).
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Is Vin Diesel one of them? I don't know, but I'm willing to give him a try. The time for Stallone, Arnie and even Harrison Ford are passed. Watching them in a action movie is like watching one of your favorite metal bands from from the late 70s/early 80s. Yeah, they can still rock and yeah they sound good, but they look a tad bit silly up there on stage belting out those old heavy metal songs. I went to Collateral Damage recently. Someone asked me how I liked it and I told them that I was expecting an "Arnie Movie" and that's what I got. They nodded their head, understanding exactly what I was saying. Is that good or bad? I guess it's neither, which is worse than good or bad. It's what I expected fro an Arnie movie. So who's going to replace our action heros? What is going to turn around our soured attitude on action movies? Vin? Affleck? Damon? Hugh Jackman? Or dare I say Russell Crowe? What do we want? More character development would never hurt an action movie. Probably the reason Gladiator went over so well is that we had a fairly intelligent action movie. It had heart, and decent charaterization. Who knows.
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Which is that the action films of the 1980s and early 1990s are now, with few exceptions, completely passe. Or maybe I should say the style of those films is now passe. Those actors/directors/producers who continue to make these kind of films clearly have lost touch with today's movie audience. And I say this as a huge fan of the action film genre. I adored a lot of those 80s/90s films, even the crappy ones starring second- and third-stringers like Dudikoff and Speakman and Snipes. Even if they are mostly unwatcahble today. For every PREDATOR or DIE HARD , there were 10 or 20 or even 100 bad knockoffs - and I watched veryone of them in their time. In fact, I was watching WATCHERS 3 (a scene-for-scene rehash of PREDATOR) this morning for lack of anything better to do. I had to turn if off about halfway through, though. So back to the point: a new style of actioin film, and action hero, has to be developed. I am not paid to do this, so I have no idea what direction it should take. I pay Hollywood through my theater attendance to figure out what to do next. I do know one thing: Remaking old movies or vomiting out endless sequels to hoary franchises is not the answer. The world definitely does not need a PREDATOR 3 (it didn't need PREDATOR 2, for that matter) or DIE HARD 4 or MARKED FOR DEATH AGAIN. Or even, God forbid I should say this, RAIDERS 4 or another JACK RYAN movie.
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The song is "Breaking Me Down" by Soil. Pretty good nu-metal album. Lots of mindless aggression, which is pretty much what metal is supposed to be.
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More gratuitous slow motion and bullet time? Kung fu influence? Shitty Mtv video style editing? Shit, I'll take Die Hard, The Terminator and Raiders any day.
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Mar 04, 2002 12:12:27 AM CST
A name that even pro-wrestlers would be ashamed of...
by pops freshemeyer
Really now, what else needs to be said? The guy has the charisma of an inanimate carbon rod and should be driving a beer truck or working in a warehouse. From what I've seen, the guy isn't skilled enough to be playing Solomon Grundy in a live action Justice League film, let alone starring in anything that isn't direct-to-video...
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Go back and watch some of the old Stallone/Arnie action movies. A good example is Total Recall, Demolition Man and to some extent True Lies. Action movies went through a phase where violence was treated in an almost a comic manner. Cartoonish. YOu see it now, rarely, but that style is very passe. In Total Recall, check out Ronnie Cox's character stepping on that dead guy on the elevator. I watched Total Recall recently and some of the violence made me wince a bit. It was over the top and a little *too* gratuitous. This may sound like an oxymoron, but what I think we're looking for are cerebral action movies. Action with a good solid *smart* plot and fleshed out characters--I wonder why that's so difficult for Hollywood? Right now if you want action, character & plot, you have to read a Ludlum or Stephen Hunter novel (try Hunter's Bob Lee Swagger novels, dare I say they need to be made into a movie?). I have high hopes for "The Bourne Identity", the book was incredible, but having heard how it's been changed I'm starting to have a niggling of doubt. Hollywood again mucking with a plot that doesn't really need to be mucked with.
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Sorry about that. I should have double checked.
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Yeah, I liked this movie the first time I saw it when it was called "If Looks Could Kill". I have to admit though that Fast and Furious (Point Break on wheels. . . "I am an F B I agent!") was pretty entertaining. Then again I actually like Point Break.
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XXX II- Y2K (2003) Dir: McG Starring Vin Diesel, Tony Hawk, Evel Knevel, Jeremy McGrath, Bob Denver, Keri Russell, and Adrian Zmed as Cool Ryder. XXX returns to kick some ass, say some badass lines and do some over the top stunts cut to some crappy K-Rock flavor of the month Rap/metal act. Features an unbilled Michael Bay as a gang rape victim. 78mins. Followed by Slyvester Satllone in COBRA.
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XXX II- Y2K (2003) Dir: McG Starring Vin Diesel, Tony Hawk, Evel Knevel, Jeremy McGrath, Bob Denver, Keri Russell, and Adrian Zmed as Cool Ryder. XXX returns to kick some ass, say some badass lines and do some over the top stunts cut to some crappy K-Rock flavor of the month Rap/metal act. Features an unbilled Michael Bay as a gang rape victim. 78mins. Followed by Slyvester Satllone in COBRA.
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Ally is right again when she says action films could probably use more character development. Maybe that is what will set them apart from the tired formula that was developed in the 80s and continues to limp along even now. Will this mean a more cerebral action hero? Perhaps. How about a younger version of Bruce Willis, as opposed to yet another Van Damme? Anyone remember karate high-stepper Jeff Wincott, by the way? He was in a whole bunch of straight-to-video kung fu thrillers in the early to mid 90s. Same time frame as Segall-lookalike Jeff Speakman. I am wondering if Michael Wincott (the terrific bad guy in THREE MUSKETEERS, COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO and ALONG CAME A SPIDER or KISS THE GIRLS) is related. Seems like a stretch, though, since Michael can act and Jeff cannot. Anyhow, Ally shoots and scores!
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Like I'm gonna read it now. "What happened to you?" "Vin Diesel punched me." "Whoa!" "That's not all. He threatened to make me his bitch." "Would you dribble some blood on me?" "Get lost, Harry."
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Y'know, music sucks these days. It's either saccharine Prozac pop or an overcompensation the other way. Granted, not every band, but don't tell me that metal isn't more stooopid than ever. There's no swagger anymore, just forearm shiver intimidation. But generations of inbreeding are responsible for today's target demo, I guess. I hated--HATED--this trailer. And I don't "get" Vin. I don't hate him...yet...but I definitely don't understand what's going on here (the appeal, not the 'plot'). The paradox is that to be an ideal movie badass, you have to have just a sliver of vulnerability, and this trailer shows me none. But this is a day and age (full-on old man mode here) where Best Buy can't keep "State of Emergency", a slightly above-average PS2 riot simulator on the shelves. It's funny, but I don't remember Metal Gear Solid 2 being omniabsent. It was only one of the top three games of 2001, and definitely the most hyped. But it was smart. Sorry, denied top shelf status by Marky Mook. I think Vin Diesel (like that's a real name, sort of the brawler equivalent of a porn moniker)is the embodiment of testosterone gone into the "Tilt" area. "Ugh, we don't want no fuckin' fag Kee-ah-noo gettin' fuhck-en knocked 'round by no fuckin nerd in a suit!" "Fuckin' pansy-ass Wolverine. Prob'ly more kin-cerned with doin' crunchizz then doin' fuckin' Rogue! I'd fuhck-in put a white streak in her hair, ha ha!" What's so funny is that the same chromosome-deficient fucks that wear a permascowl and have shaved heads and "fucked-up" goats and listen to only bands with masks or at least mispelled names would be the same guys with ten-foot high Aqua Net specials, courtesy of C.C. Deville circa 1987. Don't tell me that these guys would be on the old-school Metallica tip. 'Cause that shit was for real psychos. No, they're all fucking frontrunners who have painted themselves in an impossibly angry corner, without allowing themselves any margin of deviation in masculinity. Congrats. And I only wanna see a movie called "xXx" if that's the rating, and V.D. is only something the stars try futily to avoid, or at least a rough 'n' tumble look at the hardcore moonshine business. "I don't wanna hear how you're so weary/I don't wanna know your influence/If you say it, mean it/if you mean it do it/you can't live your life through me.../move on/Take your Packaged Rebellion..." Ten points for the house that can name the artist.
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For those of you who are hatin' on me for, yo, like my intense lack of comprehending, and, ooh, it really makes you want to "Break Stuff", check this: I saw Nashville Pussy open up (I just realized what I typed) for Reverend Horton Heat (I was saved!) last night and I'll bet their guitarist could kick your masked bands' asses. And SHE'S a better musician, too. P.S. Props to Wes Borland for embracing his inner freak openly and leaving. Like that guy EVER sounded happy in a 'Limp' softball interview.
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but it's gonna suck. And just because SLJ is in it won't give it integrity- ever see Great White Hype? Shit.
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What do you think? Unlike Military Intelligence, I don't think that's an oxymoron. I thought back on some of the action movies that I watch over and over and I asked myself why I keep watching them. Take 'Blade Runner' for example. You have a hero who is smart, tough yet vulnerable and you have a plot that keeps you guessing, it never dumbs down, and has been literally *debated* for over a decade. "Gladiator", you have a hero who is smart, tough yet vulnerable, and you know that eventually he'll not survive one of those gladiator fights. How will he get his revenge? Or will he live long enough? (I just realized both those movies were directed by Ridley Scott. Hmmm.) Here's another one. The Matrix. The archtyptical reluctant Mesiah/Hero, Neo whose quest it is to save the world. Yeah, I even like Keanu. My computer engineering friends and I debated for weeks how to to program gravity. Did the machines not perfect it? Is that why the cell phone didn't fall right away? Look at the building ripple from the inpact of the helicopter. How to program cause and effect? Helicopter into building=explosion. I guess my point is, these movies struck a chord in a very large majority of movie goers. I wish there was a way of kicking writers/directors/producers in the ass and letting them know the cookie cutter action movie isn't what we want. I should probably say something about Vin Diesel. I really liked him in "Pitch Black". Fun movie. "The Broiler Room" showed him in a different light. I liked that. "The Fast and the Furious", I would have been pissed as hell if I paid full admission price to see that movie. I rented it and I can sit through just about anything for $2.99. My brother used to be into the street racing scene, and so I didn't buy into the plot. That's enough rambling for now. My horses are looking hungry. -Ally
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Anyone here seen "Six-String Samurai"? Fantastic movie. I saw it during a dive trip in Bonaire (Netherland Antillies). Instead of going out to the warm, tropical sunny beach right outside my hotel room, I was stuck to the TV screen. SSS had me completely mesmerized! I'd never seen anything like it. Jeffrey Falcon, the star, needs to be in more movies.
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Once again Ally comes through! BLADE RUNNER was on last night, the version with the elevator-door-closing ending. While it is a deeply flawed film, it is eminently watchable. It makes you think, a rare situation from an action movie. The protagonist is at best a reluctant hero who apparently is beginning to tire of killing. You can hear his mental wheels grinding throughout the movie. Highly unusual. Typical of literature but rare in movies. And the main villain also turns out to be a thinker, perfectly capable of killing but also tiring of it. And trying to make the hero understand what's wrong with the world. And simply shutting down at the last minute, which is a truly haunting image. Hauer at his finest. What a shame the poor quality of most of the films he has done since. Ford is not at his best in this film, admittedly, but he still gives it a game shot and comes across a lot better than most actors of that period. I cannot imagine anyone else playing the role, although I think Ford was out of his depth. (He's no deep-thinker in real life, plainly.) But again, the film makes you think. Action, sci-fi trappings and thinking. What more could one ask for from a movie? (Actually I suppose one might hope for a true adaptation of Philip K. Dick someday.)By the way, which version (I have seen three of the four) is supposed to make us think Ford may himself be a replicant? And at what moment does this occur? I like the film, but I have never made an attempt to spot that moment. Which version has that moment? Anyone know ?
By the way, anyone remember a samurai film from the 1970s (I think) that had a one-armed swordsman single-handedly (no pun intended) storming a castle and dispatching literally hundreds of bad guys? I loved that movie but can never remember its name.
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