Comments on: Shoot ‘Em Up http://outlawvern.com/2007/09/05/shoot-em-up/ Vern's writings on the films of cinema Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:15:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Nod324 http://outlawvern.com/2007/09/05/shoot-em-up/#comment-738597 Nod324 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:40:07 +0000 http://outlawvern.com/?p=2300#comment-738597 Can I just say what a reduction to find someone who truly knows what theyre talking about on the internet. You positively know how one can convey a problem to gentle and make it important. More folks need to read this and understand this facet of the story. I cant consider youre no more in style because you undoubtedly have the gift. Can I just say what a reduction to find someone who truly knows what theyre talking about on the internet. You positively know how one can convey a problem to gentle and make it important. More folks need to read this and understand this facet of the story. I cant consider youre no more in style because you undoubtedly have the gift.

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]]> By: CJ Holden http://outlawvern.com/2007/09/05/shoot-em-up/#comment-69511 CJ Holden Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:58:37 +0000 http://outlawvern.com/?p=2300#comment-69511 I noticed that my comments made me look like I hated the movie, but no, I really enjoyed it too. I noticed that my comments made me look like I hated the movie, but no, I really enjoyed it too.

]]> By: RRA http://outlawvern.com/2007/09/05/shoot-em-up/#comment-69509 RRA Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:54:50 +0000 http://outlawvern.com/?p=2300#comment-69509 Ehhh...I liked this? Ehhh…I liked this?

]]> By: CJ Holden http://outlawvern.com/2007/09/05/shoot-em-up/#comment-69422 CJ Holden Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:29:55 +0000 http://outlawvern.com/?p=2300#comment-69422 BTW, I just remembered that Hans-Ulrich Pönack, Germany's worst movie critic (and IMO one of the three worst in the world) really loved that movie! That is not just remarkable because he has zero taste in movies, but also because he hated the first LORD OF THE RINGS, because he found it too violent!!! Imagine that: Someone who called THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING out on public television for being too violent, loved the shit out of SHOOT 'EM UP! (A few weeks later he called JOHN RAMBO a violence-glorifying and flat out racist piece of shit, though.) BTW, I just remembered that Hans-Ulrich Pönack, Germany’s worst movie critic (and IMO one of the three worst in the world) really loved that movie! That is not just remarkable because he has zero taste in movies, but also because he hated the first LORD OF THE RINGS, because he found it too violent!!!
Imagine that: Someone who called THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING out on public television for being too violent, loved the shit out of SHOOT ‘EM UP! (A few weeks later he called JOHN RAMBO a violence-glorifying and flat out racist piece of shit, though.)

]]> By: CJ Holden http://outlawvern.com/2007/09/05/shoot-em-up/#comment-69418 CJ Holden Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:23:14 +0000 http://outlawvern.com/?p=2300#comment-69418 In this case it's even worse, because the director of photography was Peter Pau, Oscar winner for CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON and the guy who even made BRIDE OF CHUCKY and DRACULA 2000 look beautiful! In this case it’s even worse, because the director of photography was Peter Pau, Oscar winner for CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON and the guy who even made BRIDE OF CHUCKY and DRACULA 2000 look beautiful!

]]> By: Amazing_Larry http://outlawvern.com/2007/09/05/shoot-em-up/#comment-69295 Amazing_Larry Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:04:06 +0000 http://outlawvern.com/?p=2300#comment-69295 I really wanted to like this (Hard Boiled is the most important film I've ever seen and changed my entire life), but like you mentioned about the close-up camera work Vern; what's the point of going to all this trouble if you film it in a shitty way? I love even weak Hard Boiled clones (like Lundgren's 'Joshua Tree' or 'The Matrix' lobby shoot-out) but they were filmed properly. I still can't get my head around how someone would love Hard Boiled enough to go to all this trouble to make this elaborate homage/update/riff and then not take a single lesson from Woo about how to film action. The way Woo stages and shoots his action scenes is the reason he's the master of action cinema (it also helps that he knows how to create characters we care about). So why go to all this trouble and then put the camera on a jack-hammer again? I'm so sick of almost-good-action-films like this one being undermined by their photography. It's a real shame. The Expendables was just the same. I really wanted to like this (Hard Boiled is the most important film I’ve ever seen and changed my entire life), but like you mentioned about the close-up camera work Vern; what’s the point of going to all this trouble if you film it in a shitty way? I love even weak Hard Boiled clones (like Lundgren’s ‘Joshua Tree’ or ‘The Matrix’ lobby shoot-out) but they were filmed properly.

I still can’t get my head around how someone would love Hard Boiled enough to go to all this trouble to make this elaborate homage/update/riff and then not take a single lesson from Woo about how to film action. The way Woo stages and shoots his action scenes is the reason he’s the master of action cinema (it also helps that he knows how to create characters we care about). So why go to all this trouble and then put the camera on a jack-hammer again?

I’m so sick of almost-good-action-films like this one being undermined by their photography. It’s a real shame. The Expendables was just the same.

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