jgpalanca

jgpalanca t1_j60l4sh wrote

Reply to comment by MyAuraIsViolet in Are there any good action thrillers from the last 10 years or martial arts movies with good choreography? by Moon-Unity

When Buybust got released, they kept comparing it to We Will Not Die Tonight since they were both the 1 against many/need to escape the location with a female lead, and so I had to find it. I found a crappy YouTube version (might still be up) which is how I originally saw it but then I was recently able to pick up the Japanese DVD version (from YesAsia, R2). Buybust has a better story but the action is crazier in WWNDT. I think WWNDT is comparable to Jailbreak.

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jgpalanca t1_j2apniy wrote

Reply to Please watch Blackfish if you haven't by kaelrvo

They've already debunked so much from that supposed documentary and some of the full interviews have been leaked showing how much was edited to pretty much falsify what the people interviewed were actually saying. It's basically a 90 minute public manipulation film rather than a documentary.

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jgpalanca t1_j20w9ug wrote

Reply to Donnie Yen by HuskyLove92

It's not that Hollywood isn't trying to get him. They have been. But DY's picky about his projects. That's why he started directing and producing his own movies. Most of his early US films, he wasn't originally intended to star in. At that time he was mostly working behind the camera doing action design. Del Toro hired him to be the action designer for Blade II and then at the last minute asked if he wanted to be part of the Blood Pack. For Highlander, again he was only hired to be the action designer but when it came to the big fight scene he's in, he realized the actors and stuntmen couldn't get the timing and rhythm down so he did it himself. There's an interview where he talks about it, he says he wasn't even in shape but none of them knew the HK style of action so rather than waste time doing take after take, he just jumped in to do it.

Rogue One and Mulan was for his kids. XXX, IIRC, he's friends with several of the other actors and agreed to do it for fun.

He's not like Jackie Chan. He doesn't really have a desire to be famous in the US. He just wants to work on projects where he can keep evolving the action design (which isn't really possible in the US - he won't have the freedom to do certain things like he does in HK). And if you follow his work, you can see how he keeps pushing the envelope on choreography.

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jgpalanca t1_iyeks9l wrote

Reply to Point Break or Fast and the Furious by Professional-Rip-519

Fast and the Furious is a remake of Point Break. They wanted to do a movie about street racers so the pitch was Point Break but with Street Racers in place of extreme sports.

Funny enough, when the Point Break remake was out, a group of high school kids were sitting behind me in the theater. About 20 minutes in they started complaining it was a rip off of Fast and the Furious.

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