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Action Movies
Do you like gladiator movies? War movies? Gangster movies? Kung fu movies? Swordfight movies? Alien invasion movies?
This is a community for any movie with a punch, a kick, a stab, a shot or an explosion, or preferably all of the above and plenty of 'em.
Everything from Armour of God to Zulu, from Above the Law to Zatoichi.
Feel free to post:
- news
- reviews
- licensed streaming or downloads
- questions & polls
- recommendations
- memes
- etc.
Rules
In addition to piefed.social's instance rules.
- Let's be nice to each other
- Let's keep it legal (e.g. licensed streaming)
- Let's stay on topic
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@Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world 's comment on Uncaged Fury made me rewatch Kung Fury, what a blast! :D
For those who don't know, Kung Fury is a half-hour amazing, hilarious parody of 80s-style action movies and hacker flicks, and 90's beat-em-ups. And the fight against Nazis we all want to see. And even a song from David Hasselhoff!
Kung Fury (2015)
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Full Movie
- YouTube - Kung Fury (requires login to prove you're over 18)
- Libreflix - Kung Fury (for those without a YouTube account or who don't want to log in)
Kung Fury: Street Rage (video game)
True Survivor - David Hasselhoff
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Laser Unicorns
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Kung Fury 2: The Movie (?)
The feature film, starring not only David Sandberg, David Hasselhoff and the rest of the original gang but also || Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michael Fassbender ||, has been trapped in lawsuit hell since production finished in 2019. Will we ever see it? Who knows?
About 6 weeks ago, a 10-minute sizzle reel was leaked, showing highlights of the movie. Sandberg asks people not to view it (I only read that after watching), as it contains lots of spoilers.
If you can't wait or are too cynical to believe the lawsuit will ever be resolved in your lifetime, I've linked the sizzle reel below. It's as much fun as the original Kung Fury, and gives us an idea of what the world is missing. I hope the bloody lawsuits end soon.
Kung Fury 2: The Movie - Sizzle reel
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[Watch party] 'Imperial Sword' '聖劍風雲' (1977)(English) watch party on Mastodon today, Saturday 19th July, 16.00 UTC (12pm US Eastern Time)
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#KungFuSat is a watch party every Saturday at 16.00 UTC (12pm US Eastern Time), with people chatting on Mastodon as we watch a kung fu movie (dubbed into English).
Today it's 'Imperial Sword' '聖劍風雲' (1977) (a.k.a. The Brave in Kung Fu's Shadow / Kung Fu Shadow / Glory Sword).
After her father, a judge, is murdered by corrupt officials, a young woman must set out do recover the Blood Rain Sword, which her father had left to her, and encounters obstacles from the villainous Chao Pai.
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Full movie (licensed AFAIK)
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Find out about lots of upcoming watch parties (including the exact times) on Mastodon and Bluesky from this calendar:
Below I'll post ones on Mastodon.
Wednesday 16th July (Western Hemisphere): #WestWed : 'Hostiles' (2017)
Hostiles is a 2017 American Western drama film written and directed by Scott Cooper, based on a story by Donald E. Stewart. It stars Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, and Ben Foster; Stephen Lang, Jesse Plemons, Rory Cochrane, Adam Beach, Q'orianka Kilcher, Jonathan Majors, and Timothée Chalamet appear in supporting roles. It follows a U.S. Army cavalry officer in [6]1892 who must escort a Cheyenne war chief and his family back to their home in Montana... It received generally positive reviews from critics
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Saturday 19th July: #KungFuSat : 'Imperial Sword' '聖劍風雲' (1977)(English)
a.k.a. The Brave in Kung Fu's Shadow / Kung Fu Shadow / Glory Sword
After her father, a judge, is murdered by corrupt officials, a young woman must set out do recover the Blood Rain Sword, which her father had left to her, and encounters obstacles from the villainous Chao Pai.
Trailer
Full movie (licensed AFAIK)
Sunday 20th July (Western Hemisphere): #Monsterdon : 'Maximum Overdrive' (1986)
Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 American horror film written and directed by Stephen King, in his only directorial effort. The film stars Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, John Short, Yeardley Smith and Christopher Murney. The screenplay was inspired by and loosely based on King's short story "Trucks", which was included in the author's first collection of short stories, Night Shift, and follows the events after all machines (including trucks, radios, arcade games, vending machines, etc.) become sentient when Earth crosses the tail of a comet, initiating a worldwide killing spree.
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Announcement
EDIT: Sorry about the broken Mastodon links, apparently I found a bug in PieFed.
You can look up those users on Mastodon to find their posts:
- Taweret AT timeloop.cafe
Sync stream with some extras
Look up "miru AT social.miyaku.media"
Monday 21st July (Western Hemisphere): #MondayActionMovie
I don't know what the film will be yet. But the last two films had Kim Coates so maybe it will be a KC trifecta :)
Tuesday 22nd July (Western Hemisphere): VCR Party https://ohai.social/@vcr@watch.vcr.party
I don't know what the next film will be, but by chance I caught it last night and the film was 'Convict 762' (1997) (trailer, a scifi-horror flick with action stalwarts Billy Drago and Frank Zagarino.
NOTE: VCR Party's chat is not on Mastodon, but on its own website https://watch.vcr.party/
NOTE 2: It is literally a VCR party! The movie and other items are really played from VHS tapes, made clear when the host actually rewound the film :)
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'Baby Assassins 3' is coming out online August 26th.
Trailer for 'Baby Assassins 3':
And in anticipation of that release, The Action Elite gives a brief review/reminder of the first two films.
Wikipedia on the Baby Assassins franchise:
Baby Assassins (ベイビーわるきゅーれ, Beibi Warukyūre) is an action comedy crime film series written and directed by Yugo Sakamoto. The series follows two teenage female contract killers as they struggle to adjust to modern society. The series, distributed in Japan by Shibuya Productions, consists of three films and a twelve-episode television drama.
Trailer for 'Baby Assassins 1':
Trailer for 'Baby Assassins 2':
Official website (in Japanese):
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For Superman, it was ‘truth, justice, and the American way.’ Well, they dropped that… They came up with ‘truth, justice, and a better tomorrow.’
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Summary
Inspired by the real life martial artist Huo Yuanjia 霍元甲, the creator of the Deceptive Fist style (and whose apprentice was in turn the inspiration for Bruce Lee's character in Fist of Fury).
Huo shows up in Beijing to challenge another martial arts master, only to find himself caught up in the Wuxu Coup of 1898 (a conservative backlash against attempted reform).
Trailer
Full Series
Details
Unless otherwise stated, all full movie links I post are for free, no account required, licensed (AFAIK, IANAL) streaming VOD in English (or original language with English subtitles) and work at time of writing in my location, Mexico. Availability and language options may be different in your location. Asterisk by the one I watched.
- iQiyi - Heroes *
Mandarin audio, with subtitles in English and other languages.
Note: video didn't play for me in Zen/Firefox browsers, I had to use a Blink/Chromium-based browser. - YT: CCTV - 大侠霍元甲
Mandarin audio, no subtitles in any language.
Legal Stream Finders
- https://nobraincellsleft.github.io/JustWatch-Search/title/ts263589
- https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/heroes-2020
Info
Cast
- Vincent Zhao (a.k. Chiu Man-cheuk) (Fong Sai-Yuk, Once Upon a Time in China IV & V, The Blade)
Opinion
Looking for free, licensed streaming action and martial arts , I came across this on Chinese streaming video site iQiyi. And found that iQiyi offers not only English subtitles but also a complete English-language version of their site (unlike QQ Video in the Future X-Cops post).
Zhao didn't ring a bell at first, but looking him up I now realize he was the main villain in Fong Sai-Yuk, fighting Jet Li.
I've only seen the first episode so far. And so far, it has some impressive fights, and a budget equivalent to every 70s and 80s kung fu flick put together, but comes off a little stale. The good guys are just so gosh darn virtuous.
I've only now seen the trailer which shows Huo fighting a ridiculously CGI-enhanced gwailo baddie, so hopefully it will get a little more lively.
Oh, and while there will apparently be women later in the series, there were none in the first episode.
iQiyi
Now that I've (re)discovered iQiyi, I'll check it out for more action, kung fu, wushu etc. Note that while Heroes is free, not everything on iQiyi is (they push you to buy the "VIP" package). However they do make it fairly easy to find the free stuff.
Side note
When you go full screen in iQiyi, you see an option "Edit subtitle". Holy crap, yes, you can "edit" the subtitles. Or at least, submit your edits for approval.
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Tagline
They will seduce you - just before they kill you!
Elevator pitch
'La Femme Nikita' meets 'Hong Kong's Next Top Model'
Summary
40 kidnapped girls are trained to become smoking hot international assassins. But there can be only one! *
Trailer
Movie
Details
Unless otherwise stated, all full movie links I post are for free, no account required, licensed (AFAIK, IANAL) streaming VOD in English (or original language with English subtitles) and work at time of writing in my location, Mexico. Availability and language options may be different in your location. Asterisk by the one I watched.
Legal stream finders
- https://nobraincellsleft.github.io/JustWatch-Search/title/tm108540
- https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/naked-weapon
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Personnel
- Director: Tony Ching Siu-tung (Chinese Ghost Story, The Swordsman, Dr. Wai in 'The Scripture with No Words'; action choreographer for Shaolin Soccer)
- Writer & Producer: Wong Jing (Naked Killer, Future Cops)
Cast
- Maggie Q
- Anya Wu
- Daniel Wu
Opinion
Thinking about Category III movies (see here), I searched for Wong Jing-directed Naked Killer but could only find Wong Jing-scripted Naked Weapon. (Which I don't think was rated Cat III.)
Around the world, 40 sporty 13-year-old girls are kidnapped and taken to a tropical island to be trained as assassins... which is, like, totally not an excuse to have six years later lots of sweaty girl-on-girl action in skimpy thin cotton outfits.
With the exception of an unnecessary rape scene (if you want to skip it, it's ||right after they drink the wine Madame offers them||), this actually manages to be a decent action movie, far less schlocky than I was expecting... until the last 20 minutes, when the director decides to dial up the wire fu, bullet time and sappiness to 11.
The film tends to flag every time we get Daniel Wu's CIA agent, but Maggie Q does well in the lead.
A 7 out of 10, imho.
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(Suffering a little compression going through various apps and Pixelfed)
Slinky model assassin knows snake style!
Caption should have read "Pew, pew!"
Emotional support soaping
A slice and a miss!
I think I remember this one from the Kama Sutra... the Congress of the Thigh Lock?
Don't show. Tell!
She'll seduce you... just before she kills you!
Is Dennis Chan (Kickboxer, Future Cops)... checking this woman out in her moment of grief???
Commence romance!
Final battle
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I've been watching a lot of free streaming lately, to explore what's out there and to post something that hopefully everyone can see without having to pull out a credit card, but the other night I revisited the dark side and browsed Amazon Prime for some action, and went big budget Hollywood with The Accountant 2.
Legit stream search
- https://nobraincellsleft.github.io/JustWatch-Search/title/tm1520381
(Looks like it's Amazon all the way down)
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He sees what others can't. He does what others won't.
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Personnel
- Ben Affleck
- Jon Bernthal
- Cynthia Addai-Robinson (Colombiana, Shooter, Spartacus)
- J.K. Simmons
- Daniella Pineda (Plane, Jurassic World, Cowboy Bebop)
- Andrew Howard the Welsh Jason Statham :) (Tenet, Revolver, Limitless)
- Writer: Bill Dubuque
- Director: Gavin O'Connor (The Accountant, Miracle, Pride and Glory)
Opinion
Affleck reprises the role that obeys Lazarus' Law ("Never go full {Rain Man}") and that shows that, like his best bro Matt Damon, he's not a total Streisand.
Oscar-winner Kirk Lazarus
Oscar-winner Matt Damon
Good performances, high stakes, serious action (both hand-to-hand and pew pew), with some more touching moments and a little comic relief. Hall of Fame? No. But an enjoyable watch.
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Michael Madsen’s brooding charisma needed Tarantino to unlock it | Peter Bradshaw
(www.theguardian.com)
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Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Murder
Elevator pitch
The Incident meets Reservoir Dogs
Summary
A few people late at night in a remote diner are taken hostage... and it only gets worse from there.
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Personnel
- Director & Writer: Mark H. Young
Cast
- Michael Madsen
- Amber Benson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gryphon)
- Harold Perrineau (Jr) (Sabotage, Oz, The Matrix Reloaded)
- Kevin Gage (Con Air, Heat, Blow)
- Jake Busey (Starship Troopers, The Frighteners)
- Danny Trejo
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With Madsen's recent passing, I decided to find a few of his films I hadn't seen yet. Turns out with him doing 8 to 15(!) flicks a year, it wasn't that hard.
This is a low budget thriller where Madsen probably comes closest to literally reprising his Mr Blonde character from Reservoir Dogs.
Like The Incident, we see that while the bad guy is bad, no doubt about it, the good people were not as good as they first seemed. The Killing Jar doesn't pull it off as well as The Incident (and adds a lot more violence) but it does give a chance for the actors to shine, Harold Perrineau impresses in particular.
Movie
Unless otherwise stated, all full movie links I post are for free, no account required, licensed (AFAIK, IANAL) streaming VOD in English (or original language with English subtitles) and work at time of writing in my location, Mexico. Availability and language options may be different in your location. Asterisk by the one I watched.
- Tubi - The Killing Jar (2010) *
- Plex - The Killing Jar (2010)
- Mercado Play - La Cena Mortal (2010) Spanish or Portuguese audio only (that site now blocking my primary browser? maybe because of the ad blocker)
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- full movie: https://tubitv.com/movies/100020465/when-taekwondo-strikes (this is where I watched it... I'm sure it's other places too...)
- look for clips on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=when+taekwondo+strikes
Guess who wins this fight.
...a 1973 Hong Kong martial arts film ...The story is about the Korea under Japanese rule during World War II. A Korean nationalist played by Carter Wong gets into a fight with some Japanese people and is chased into a church. The priest there is captured and tortured. Trying to secure his release, the leader of the resistance, Jhoon Rhee is himself captured and tortured by the Japanese. Carter Wong, Angela Mao and Anne Winton have to now try and rescue him. This leads to an explosive climax with the heroes having to fight the likes of Wong In Sik (Hwang In-Shik), Sammo Hung and Kenji Kazama.
Background
Rhee landed the role in the film with help from his friend Bruce Lee whom he met in 1964 while both were performing demonstrations at an international karate event held in Long Beach, California.[3] In 1972, Lee went to Golden Harvest Films boss Raymond Chow with the idea of making a movie about Taekwondo with Rhee in lead role. Rhee who never thought of himself as an actor didn't think it would come to fruition but a year later in the summer of 1973, Rhee was flying to Hong Kong to star in the film which was set in Korea, playing the part of Master Lee, a leader of a group of underground patriots. The plot for the film was based on a synopsis written by Rhee. It didn't take long to produce the film and by 19 July Rhee was back in the United States. This was when Bruce Lee called him to let him know that the film's editing had been done and it was ready for release.[4] Rhee was looking at the possibility of more film work but with Lee's death which was around the film's release and the possibility of being away from his family didn't appeal to him. So this became his first and last film.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Taekwondo_Strikes
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