My head cannon is that Steven Segal films are actually just a front to launder money, because clearly no one is buying tickets and they keep making them.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly they do well with my uncles, and likely a ton of dudes in Russia

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My dad used to watch them on cable all the time, had a few of the vhs versions as well. The target demo did enjoy them, it’s just that no one outside of it did.

I don’t think he’s seen any of the new extremely shit ones, but the mid/late 90s movies were what you expected out of standard action flicks of the time

[–] CuttingBoard@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

His reddit AMA was hilarious. "What's one of the most interesting things you've done to one of your Russian sex slaves?" "Is it true that Gene Lebell made you shit your pants?"

[–] yata@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Extra noticeable that he stopped receiving these kinds of awards after 2003, even though he never stopped making movies. The movies just became so bad that he isn't even eligible for bad movie awards anymore.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

There's a YouTube channel called space ice, that just roasts every Seagal movie, I love watching those instead of the movie.

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Change the a in segal to a u and it becomes Steven Seagul

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 points 8 months ago

That's how is name is actually pronounced. He thought the artist "Chagall" had a cool name so he started pronouncing his own name the same way.