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~FazeShift~
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How can you make a "Best Church Shootout" category?? That's like making a "Best Use of a Frisbee" in a Bollywood Vampire Rom-Com. Best Deaths: Jango Fett, Grocer (from Grosse Pointe Blank), Norman Stansfield (from Leon) and The Black Knight (from Holy Grail).
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SlaytanicMaggot
Professor
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Vin Diesel killing a prison guard with a teacup in "Chronicles of Riddick." A huge metaphor for the whole movie: absurd and kinda stupid, but oddly intriguing...
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Mr. Potter
Professor
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Death: The prostitute in Se7en.
Action: The Battle at Guadacanal in The Thin Red Line.
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Nasty Pasty
DOOP Secretary
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Death: Kruge, Star Trek 3
Action: They Live (also see Cripple Fight from South Park)
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EvilLunch
Professor
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Death: Mister Orange and Mr. White, Reservoir Dogs Action: The House of Blue Leaves, Kill Bill.
Tarantino rocks.
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Tweek
UberMod
DOOP Secretary
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Some favourites have already been mentioned, such as Shootout at the House of the Blue Leaves and the church scene in The Killer, others that come to mind: Angel Eyes out in The Good, The Bad and The UglyThe lighthouse scene in Battle Royal.The death of Professor Dent in Dr No: "That's a Smith and Wesson - and you've had your six." I'll post a few more when I've given it a bit more thought
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SlaytanicMaggot
Professor
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Deaths: -Boromir defending the hobbits in "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"
Action Sequences: -Any action scene from "The Matrix"
-Burly Brawl and Chateau/Car Chase in "Matrix Reloaded"
-Defense of Zion/Super Burly Brawl in "Matrix Revolutions"
-Any Jackie Chan movie
-Any Jet Li movie
-Elvis battles an egyptian scarab in "Bubba Ho-Tep"
-Any battle sequence from any of the three "Lord of the Rings" movies
-The car chase in "Ronin"
-Any action scene from "Equilibrium"
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SlaytanicMaggot
Professor
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Lemme change my death scene list to "Any Sean Bean death scene," after having watched Equilibrium" last night.
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Melllvar
DOOP Secretary
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Death: Paul McCrane in acid/car interface, in Robocop.
Action: Bank shoot-out in Heat.
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Otis P Jivefunk
DOOP Secretary
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Action: Terminator 2 building blowout
Death: dunno...
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newhook_1
Urban Legend
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« Reply #17 on: 06-21-2004 17:39 »
« Last Edit on: 06-21-2004 17:39 »
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Death: Palpatine, "Return of The Jedi" Action: Battle for Helms Deep, "The Two Towers"Yes I am a dork . *Edit* Action: Battle in the belfry, "Batman"
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Klumsy Kitty
Bending Unit
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Deaths: Don't remember a name, but when that guy stuck his head out of the hole in the ground in "The Prophecy" and the giant mutated Bear swatted it off like he was playing whack-a-mole was pretty damn good for me. Boromir in TFOTR was pretty good too since somebody else mentioned it. ANY death with the scarabs in either of the 2 Mummy remakes with Brendan Frasier were pretty neat...I loathe bugs. :P Best in Show though has to go to Samuel L. Jackson 'getting his bite on' in Deep Blue Sea. Action Sequence: Damn! Mellvar beat me to it, that bank robbery scene in Heat was surprisingly intense, LOUD too...I wasn't expecting it. It probably doesn't really fit this category but the Charge of the Rohirrim in TROTK really had my juices flowing, I can't remember the last time a movie had me on the edge of my seat for real. For all that it was not all that as a movie, the defense of Zion battles were what salvaged the 3rd Matrix movie for me. The final defense/kitchen scene in Dog Soldiers was great;gory,funny,hyper... I won't spoil it for you if you haven't seen it. Still the best for me is Bruce Willis in the first Die Hard movie kicking butt & taking names while getting pounded to snot himself, just classic.
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canned eggs
Space Pope
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« Reply #20 on: 06-21-2004 20:15 »
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Some of the best action set pieces in kung fu movies are the "sea of fire" fight in Iron Monkey, the foundry fight in Drunken Master II, the alley fight in Fong Sai Yuk II, the ladder fight in Wong Fei Hung, the fight between Jackie Chan and Benny Urquidez in Wheels on Meals, the final fight in Instructors of Death, and pretty much all of Fist of Legend, Challenge of the Ninja, and Legendary Weapons of Shaolin.
Kill Bill didn't have much in it kung-fu wise that actually lived up to the Shaw Brothers movies it ripped off, like Shaolin Martial Arts and Executioners from Shaolin, or the new wave stuff it copied staging from. Still rocked.
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DrThunder88
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Originally posted by SlaytanicMaggot: -Elvis battles an egyptian scarab in "Bubba Ho-Tep"
Thank god! I thought I was the only one tricked into seeing that movie. Just to expand though, any Bruce Campbell fight scene is worth watching...with a grain of salt, of course. -The car chase in "Ronin"
Yes! Plus, Sam is a 1911-fan. The Heat shootout was absolutely stunning. Even the tapes from the life-mimmics-art North Hollywood Bank of America shootout didn't look so rough after that. Two of my favorite action-oriented scenes from cinema are the T-Rex/main road attack in Jurassic Park, the lobby shootout in The Matrix, and the entire third act of Terminator 2: Judgement Day (from the lab through the factory). Best deaths would have to be Gennaro and Muldoon in Jurassic Park, Katagiri in Godzilla 2000, that guy "Eddie" from Twister, and Captains Frye and Darrow in The Rock. I know there are other good ones, but those stick out in my mind.
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SlaytanicMaggot
Professor
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Another great death scene: Matthew Broderick near the end of "Glory." God, what an awesome movie that was.
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~FazeShift~
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I'm trying remember one martial arts film where there was a guy who was beating up loads of people and he was doing great stunts like jumping along rooftops, balancing on ladders and huge stacks of boxes. He was bald and was wearing white and had one of this little skullcap type hats, the story was pretty simple, guy avenging a girl or something. I've been trying to find the name of it but I realise I've probably described half of the martial arts movies in existence!
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~FazeShift~
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Eh..... it was in colour? I don't think it was a samurai movie, just some guy who could kick ass, no swords or knives, maybe a big stick or two. I think he was avenging his sister.... maybe. I'm afraid thats all I got, it was about 7 years ago and it was on around 2 in the morning when I saw it. Meh, it's not that important, just name a few cool kung fu movies and I'll watch them!
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SlaytanicMaggot
Professor
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« Reply #32 on: 07-18-2004 02:00 »
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anybody seen "The Duel?" It's been playing on the showtime movie channels sometimes...it's so funny, but it's also a great martial arts movie...I'm surprised it wasn't released in theaters... http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0243876/ ------------------ Please edit your sig to 120 pixel height max. [This message has been edited by Administrator [-mArc-] ---------------------------------- If you want to be a film director do it only if it is in your blood - the journey is long, hard and often lonely. Can you handle rejection? No? Then plumbing is a much better option.-Louis De Barros
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canned eggs
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« Reply #33 on: 07-18-2004 05:35 »
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I have it on DVD. It's not Andrew Lau's best work. See Stormriders or A Man Called Hero. They even have almost the same cast.
Edit: Faze, you're retarded. If you want to see what you just described, watch any kung fu film ever made. But you could take a hint about Stormriders. It rocks. I don't know if that's the R2 title, though. Also, see the kung fu films I mentioned above. Iron Monkey,Drunken Master II,Fong Sai Yuk I & II, Wong Fei Hung, Wheels on Meals, Instructors of Death, Fist of Legend, Challenge of the Ninja, and Legendary Weapons of Shaolin.
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Tweek
UberMod
DOOP Secretary
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« Reply #35 on: 07-18-2004 07:00 »
« Last Edit on: 07-18-2004 07:00 »
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Originally posted by SlackJawedMoron: Anyone mentioned the Pram bit in "The Untouchables?" No? I am, then. That is just a rip off from Battleship Potemkin though.
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