#action films

[mysharona1987]

Not that I dislike Vin Diesel. But Vin Diesel in his films presents himself as the most Alpha Male Ever~! And it is depressing.

Fast Cars! Explosions! Muscles! Fighting Drug Cartels! Fighting the FBI! Guns! Murdered wife! Former military! No Vulnerability! More muscles! Revenge! Cosplay Liam Neeson!”

I’m not even a man and think many men should be offended by this.

Maybe you are a bit better than this. Such a boilerplate idea of what it is to be a man.

#Action films #fast and furious #Films #Movies

[baddawg94]

Michelle Rodriguez as Letty

2001’s “The Fast & The Furious”

#Michelle Rodriguez #fast and furious #the fast and the furious #hollywood actress #hollywood #action films #puertorriqueños #boricua #race car #girls who kiss girls #girls who like girls #girls and cars #2000s nostalgia #2000s movies #2001 #she so beautiful #letty ortiz

[omercifulheaves]

If the original John Wick had come out today, it would have been called The Dog Owner.

#movies #generic titles #action films #john wick #jason statham #aaron eckhart #ron perlman #the beekeeper #the bricklayer #the painter #the baker

[illyanarasputinfan]

What is your favorite holiday film?

Everly (2015) Dimension Films - Dir. Joe Lynch

Fighting back after four years as a yakuza sex-slave, a woman (Salma Hayek) matches wits and weaponry with a legion of killers who are out to collect the bounty on the heads of her and her family on Christmas Eve.

I love this movie. It’s brutal, action-packed, heartwarming, tragic, and hilarious. I watch it every Christmas season.

#Everly #Salma Hayek #Joe Lynch #2015 #Dimension Films #Movies #Film #Christmas #Christmas Movies #Holiday Films #Action #Action Movies #Action Films

[movie--posters]

#action films #action movies #movies #atomic blonde #charlieze theron #movie poster #james macavoy #salma hayek #everly #terminator #linda hamilton #arnold schwarzenegger #hanna #saoirse ronan #cate blanchett #la femme nikita #salt #angelina jolie #jackie brown #pam grier #the brave one #jodie foster #movie #movie posters #sigourney weaver #aliens #quentin tarantino #female lead action films #poster #posters

[musewrangler]

Ok. Fine. I didnt want to have to do this. But I’m putting together a team to go after the scum sabotaging AO3 right now.

I’m Helen Mirren’s character from Red. Who else is in?

#ao3 writer #ao3 #ao3 is down #let’s help out #😉 #strike team #Who are you? #mutuals #action films #characters #fun #anyone can join #red

[roskirambles]

(Archive) Animated movie of the day: Atlantis The Lost Empire (2001)

Originally posted: January 7th, 2022 Ah, the Disney Renaissance. Their musicals absolutely dominated the 90's, but from Pocahontas(1995) to Tarzan(1999), their box office returns started to go down. So, the house of the mouse decided to try and shift gears, and took a gamble greenlighting some rather odball movies. None of them paid off, but this ended up giving us one of my childhood favorites and frankly an underrated film that, while flawed, still makes for a very interesting experiment.

Distancing itself from it's predecessors, this movie isn't a musical which presents a refreshing change of pace. Songs wouldn't fit in this film anyways, with it's darker tone, heavy action focus and even violent imagery. The body count is shockingly high for a Disney animated feature, and unlike a film like Mulan a lot of them happen on screen.

So, yeah, the film is more violent. And scarier too(Rourke's death is quite gruesome). It's also more visually interesting in some ways. With character designs from creator of the Hellboy comics Mike Mignola, the art direction has an edge to it that complements the action set pieces and adventurous narrative. The city of Atlantis, while decadent, is breathtaking.

What about the characters though? Well, they're really fun! While not having the most deep story arcs, all have a very strong charisma and bounce off each other humorously (my personal favorite is Vinny). Protagonist Milo may be the most plain of the bunch but he's still a likable dork. As out of focus as it is, his relationship with Kida is also charming, both of them understanding the importance of cultural exchange.

And that's the deal. This film is closer to Raider's of the Lost Ark than Beauty and the Beast. It's a death defying adventure with just enough plot and characterization to justify the action. There's still some compelling drama here, but the focus isn't the romance or the self discovery. It's the crazy, cool journey.

#roskirambles #animated films #disney #michael j fox #james garner #cree summer #don novello #phil morris #claudia christian #jackeline obradors #florence stanley #david odgen stiers #john mahoney #jim varney #corey burton #leonard nimoy #mike mignola #atlantis the lost empire #action films #science fiction

[fenchy]

Jean Bell in TNT Jackson (1974)

Aaliyah in Romeo Must Die (2000)

Vivica A Fox in Kill Bill Vol 1 (2003)

Halle Berry in Catwoman (2004)

Danai Gurira in The Walking Dead (2010 - 2022)

Tessa Thompson in Thor:Ragnarok (2017)

Zazie Beetz in Deadpool 2 (2018)

Emmy Raver-Lampman in The Umbrella Academy (2019)

Lashana Lynch in The Woman King (2022)

Joy Sunday in Wednesday (2022 - )

#tnt Jackson #kill bill #the walking dead #deadpool 2 #wednesday #the woman king #catwoman #romeo must die #aaliyah #halle berry #tessa thompson #danai gurira #lashana lynch #black women in action #action films #fight scenes #hand to hand combat #black women in film

[theersatzcowboy]

Mission: Impossible (1996)

Director: Brian De Palma

Cinematographer: Stephen H. Burum

Starring Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Ving Rhames, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave, and Jean Reno.

#mission: impossible #brian de palma #tom cruise #mission impossible #90s films #90s movies #90s cinema #90s icons #kristin scott thomas #vanessa redgrave #jean reno #ving rhames #emmanuelle beart #henry czerny #spy films #spy movie #action films #tv adaptation #classic film

[kevinsreviewcatalogue]

Review: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

 Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

Rated PG for action/violence, rude humor/language, and some scary moments

<Originally posted at https://kevinsreviewcatalogue.blogspot.com/2023/12/review-puss-in-boots-last-wish-2022.html>

Score: 5 out of 5

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is a movie I missed last year, which made it kind of annoying to hear so many people praising it to the heavens as one of the best animated films in years, not least of all because I'm the kind of guy who does not like spoilers. Flying down to Florida just in time to share a house with three little kids over Christmas break gave me the perfect opportunity to check it out, and the only thing I'm disappointed about is not seeing it sooner. It doesn't reinvent the wheel or have any pretensions of being a particularly revelatory movie, but it's still an outstandingly well-put-together one in everything from the animation to the characters to the humor to the mayhem. Putting it side-by-side with Shrek, the film that put DreamWorks Animation in the spotlight and which this one is a sequel to a spinoff of, shows just how much the studio has evolved in the twenty-plus years since then, going from mischievous, Looney Tunes-esque pop culture spoofs with barbs aimed directly at Disney to a kind of family-friendly, character-driven adventure comedy that's clearly inspired by the Mouse but still has enough unique style and dramatic edge to stand out. I don't really have much to add to the conversation on this one except to say that it's easily one of the best films that DreamWorks has ever made, especially given what I thought of the movie they released just eight months before this, and one that I expect to stick around as a classic just like Shrek itself.

Set in a fantasy/fairy-tale version of Spain, our eponymous protagonist is an intelligent cat who has exploited his nine lives to become an adventurer who doesn't fear death... at least, not until he loses his eighth life thanks to his carelessness fighting a monster attacking a town. Suddenly, he no longer feels so invincible, especially once he encounters a mysterious wolf bounty hunter who seeks to claim his ninth and final life after watching him squander his previous eight. Going into retirement in an elderly cat lady's home after burying his sword and gear, Puss is dragged back to the world of adventure when Goldilocks, the thuggish leader of the Three Bears Crime Family (guess who her "enforcers" are), seeks to hire him to find the Wishing Star, a magical rock that would grant one wish to whoever discovers it -- and she won't take no for an answer. Puss decides that this star is his key to regaining his nine lives, and with help from an old flame named Kitty Softpaws, he sets out to find it himself, staying one step ahead of Goldilocks, the evil businessman "Big" Jack Horner who wants it for his own ends, and of course, the Wolf.

The look of the film is one of the most immediately striking things about it. While it's not the first film to use cel shading to make computer animation emulate the look of hand-drawn animation while being distinct from both (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and The Mitchells vs. the Machines did something similar recently), it's going for a different set of influences than those films, its look instead resembling a mix of the fairy tale artwork that the Shrek movies have always spoofed and anime in the action scenes. The settings feel lifted almost from a highly stylized painting or storybook, while the action looks downright sublime, the film's characters doing battle, chasing one another, and facing various treacherous foes on their quest for the Wishing Star in all manner of awesome ways. Even as cats, Puss and Kitty came across as credible and cool adventure heroes, especially with Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek Pinault leaning heavily into their live-action screen personas, Banderas playing Puss as a riff on Zorro where the only real "parody" element comes from his species and Hayek playing Kitty as the cool femme fatale who has history with the hero that they'll inevitably have to settle. Florence Pugh was hilarious doing her best gender-flipped Ray Winstone impression as Goldilocks, especially with the real Winstone himself voicing one of the three bears (alongside Olivia Colman and Samson Kayo), while John Mulaney made Horner into an absolute bastard who I couldn't wait to see get his well-deserved comeuppance. At first glance, with three separate groups of characters all racing for the Wishing Star, this film can feel sprawling, and yet it always manages to tie these three stories together in a way that feels organic.

The key to doing this was the Wolf. From the moment we're introduced to him, he's presented as a metaphorical representation of death itself, an impossibly skilled fighter who trounces and nearly kills Puss in their first encounter and who is seemingly unstoppable from that point onward, every meeting he has with Puss feeling like it could be their last. The film's comedy stops dead cold whenever the whistling announcing his arrival starts up, Wagner Moura's performance lending him an almost demonic menace without going over-the-top into cackling supervillainy. He is one of the best villains I've seen in any animated film in a long while, a no-nonsense monster whose evil combines the most terrifying elements of an unstoppable force of nature and somebody who hates you personally, the closest thing that a family film could come to an outright slasher movie villain. There have been many jokes made about this film having one of the most realistic depictions of a panic attack in any animated film, but watching it, it was no joke: I understood immediately how this guy completely disarmed Puss' suave, arrogant demeanor and left him a trembling wreck running for his life. The Wolf wasn't just scary, he was a perfect villain for Puss, a representation of how his wasted life is finally catching up with him, and watching Puss reach a place where he can finally confront the Wolf and turn the tables on him was immeasurably satisfying.

From this, we get a fairly simple moral that largely boils down to a celebration of living life to the fullest rather than either wasting it on hedonism or remaining stuck in an idealized past. It's nothing revolutionary, but not only is it exactly the kind of thing that the fairy tales this movie is sending up have long embraced, it's well-told enough that I fully bought into it. If the original Shrek was a deconstructive parody of fairy tales that sent up their moral messages while offering a few of its own, then this film serves largely as a more faithful, straightforward throwback to them, amped up with a swashbuckling action/adventure plot and some jokes for the parents but otherwise falling squarely within the modern, post-Kung Fu Panda DreamWorks wheelhouse.

The Bottom Line

It's a very straightforward movie once you get past the stylish animation, but hardly to a fault, as it's still a riotous, heartfelt, and just plain awesome ride that delivers exactly where it counts and doesn't overstay its welcome. Easily one of the best family films of the last ten years.

#puss in boots #puss in boots: the last wish #shrek #2022 #2022 movies #animated films #dreamworks #adventure films #fantasy #fantasy films #family films #action films #antonio banderas #salma hayek #florence pugh #wagner moura #olivia colman #ray winstone #john mulaney #kitty softpaws

[scarletwidow66]

Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1

I'm back! It's been a while but I'm back with a new *mini* review, this time we've got Mission Impossible 7.

Overall it was a good action film, it took me a little bit longer to get into than the others but that was because there were a LOT of characters and stories to keep up with. The train scene was really good but I think the bad guy essentially being an evil Alexa (a more intelligent Alexa I'll admit) was a bit weird. Still I'm looking forward to seeing part 2 and how this series is going to end.

#movies #popular #trending #films #movie #mission impossible #dead reckoning part one #mi7 spoilers #mi7 #tom cruise #action films #action movies #thriller #action adventure #simon pegg #rebecca ferguson #hayley atwell #cinema

[mysharona1987]

Matt Gaetz wanting such a high political profile for himself after *that* child trafficking scandal might seem crazy and erratic. But it is not. He has to win over Qanon people, right?

Qanon people think human trafficking is what you see in a Liam Neeson film. (Guns, quippy one liners, big cool explosions.) In reality, a lot of the time it is just desperate men buying and exploiting desperate girls over Vemno and taking them across state lines.

Qanon never got the nuances of the situation.

#matt gaetz #us politics #action films #qanon #trump #news #liam neeson

[maysshortmoviereviews]

Monkey Man (2024)

An anonymous young man unleashes a campaign of vengeance against the corrupt leaders who murdered his mother and continue to systemically victimize the poor and powerless.

This is a fantastic, original, and action-packed debut by Dev Patel, the newly minted director. Some parts of it, which included the flashback scenes, dragged on and felt a little repetitive, but overall this is a very good movie which felt original and set in an Indian city. So, the new location and different scenery, plus the very good soundtrack as well as the fight scenes, made for an exciting movie experience.

Until now, I had not seen Dev Patel as an action hero, but he really was excellent in it. Also, I liked that it had a bit of story rather than just mindless fight scenes.

I look forward to watching what Dev Patel does next. Kudos to him for coming up with an original story. Fans of 'John Wick' may enjoy this too.

#Monkey Man #Dev Patel #Action films #John Wick #Sharlto Copley #Pitobash #Sikandar Kher #adithi kalkunte #sobhita dhulipala #Original movies #original writing #jordan peele #good movies #films to watch #boxing #fight scenes

[shaurya-isnt-funny]

Why aren't movies fun anymore?

Watching the new Road House on Prime left me confused, a film that whose original work was amazingly charming, cheesy, and altogether left me feeling happy and with a dopey smile on my face.

Road House, or any film like Road House, should give us amazing action, slick cinematography and dialogue, and the UFC angle, (when it was announced) intrigued me even further, however in the movie, it fell flat, making the UFC fight feel traumatic and scary instead of a badass backstory, and the movie didn't feel like a Road House remake, it felt more like a Western Spaghetti movie remake, but worse.

The disappointment of Road House has now led me to believe that so many modern Hollywood films are just falling flat, (I'm not even gonna mention Marvel) and apart from a few, the old formulas of superhero films, Oscar-bait films and many other boring films now just feel extremely repetitive.

I know certain movies tend to aim to be more realistic, as UFC would be, but do we watch movies for realism and realistic trauma portrayal or for escapism and wonder.

What do you think?

#roadhouse #primevideo #film #movies #cinema #action films #opinion #criticism #discussion

[ruleof3bobby]

ARKANSAS (2020) Grade: C

Had some cool scenes. The Vince Vaughan story line half was interesting. I didn't care for the Liam Hemsworth story line much. Ending was average. Got a little bumpy with the flashbacks.

#C #2020 #Crime Films #Action Films #Clark Duke #Mystery Films #Drugs #Drug Kingpin #Liam Hemsworth #Jacob Zachar #Patrick Muldoon #Eden Brolin #John Malkovich #Small town #Vince Vaughn #Vivica A. Fox #Chandler Duke #Barry Primus #Michael Kenneth Williams #Troy Faruk #Robert Herrick #Larry Barnette #Demián Castro #Drug Dealer #Youtube

[showtiming]

Léon: The Proffesional (1994) Dir Luc Besson.

#leon proffesional #luc besson #natalie portman #jean reno #action films