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TIFF: Anton Sirius on JCVD and J-horror style misfire SAUNA!!

I never by Harold-Sherbort	Sep 5th, 2008 06:35:16 PM
thought Japanese horror movies were that great. Give me the american classics anyday.
Oh yeah.... by Harold-Sherbort	Sep 5th, 2008 06:35:58 PM
..The Italian classics too.
Sorry to hear Sauna may not be up to snuff by Movietool	Sep 5th, 2008 06:55:00 PM
The guys at Twitch had me at least interested in it. But your line about J-style horror rings true. Even the Japanese are forgetting how to do it effectively.
Forget JCVD by jonathanhemlock	Sep 5th, 2008 07:01:55 PM
Unless it's a two-hour loop of the little Chinese guy getting him wasted, dancing with the Thai hookers, and beating the snot of the other fighters in the bar. Pure gold!
WHAM BAM...! by Hikaru Ichijo	Sep 5th, 2008 07:08:33 PM
you know the rest. I'll check this one out for sure
JCVD by Forsakyn	Sep 5th, 2008 07:23:13 PM
Damn, I really want to see this movie.
Mysterious Yobo by TheNorthlander	Sep 5th, 2008 07:36:58 PM
The 70s had the best movies and the best rock music, so No. It was not shit.
JCVD is wildly overrated by Garbageman33	Sep 5th, 2008 09:28:33 PM
Not just by Anton, but by damn near every review I've read. Some are going so far as to call it the best thing in the whole festival. If that's the case, I may as well just leave now. JCVD isn't a bad film. For starters, it's got a great premise. But the director has no idea what to do with it. So he just keep replaying the post office robbery over and over from different vantage points. Thing is, it wasn't that interesting the first time. In short, JCVD is a couple great scenes in search of a much better movie.
Van Damme playing weary and worn out? by worldofwarcraft	Sep 5th, 2008 11:16:10 PM
He did that to perfection in 'Hard Corps'. And he's not acting, is he? "...the hardest of the hard core.". What a line, what a delivery.
Agreed by desmond	Sep 5th, 2008 11:35:34 PM
I saw these two flicks as well. JCVD is a very good movie, don't know about best of the festival, it's only day 2. I think it's mostly ok with enough really bright spots to make it well worthwhile. Sauna is a very nice looking movie that does nothing. When the scare comes at the end it's fairly effective but with no real sense to it at all. Could've been so much better.
Holy Crap by Anton_Sirius	Sep 6th, 2008 01:24:45 AM
Nice of me to flush my pop culture credibility down the toilet with the first review... I suspect my 4 am thought process went something like old = John McCain = John McClane. At any rate, Danny Glover said the damn line in Lethal Weapon, not Bruce Willis in Die Hard. Ugh.
IMO by PacmanFever	Sep 6th, 2008 02:51:54 AM
Van Damme was the weakest of the major action stars of the 84-95 period (the peak of American action!). That's not to say I didn't enjoy some of his films, but I would say overall he had the weakest filmography. I will admit this is probably because stuff like Bloodsport and Kickboxer doesn't really appeal to me, although Lionheart was good.
And The Quest is hilarious by PacmanFever	Sep 6th, 2008 02:53:28 AM
I love the way Roger Moore(!) says he's the best fighter he's ever seen after JCVD beats up, what, three thugs
Kurt over at Twitch loves Sauna by ELGordo	Sep 6th, 2008 09:32:20 AM
I'm more inclined to follow his advice. I'll take a gander at it at Fantastic Fest if I can.
Mr Saxon by Anton_Sirius	Sep 6th, 2008 11:41:54 AM
No, the dead girl is Finnish, and her hair is blond.
Mr Saxon by Bass Bastardson	Sep 6th, 2008 07:05:41 PM
You are a douche.
From what I've heard many people don't get this flick by ELGordo	Sep 7th, 2008 01:00:29 AM
And thus hate it. And we all know that humans destroy what they don't understand.

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