Even dissenting reviews pointed out that Brolin was pretty good in it, so that's the least of its problems.
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Kill me now. Hollywood is remaking The Raid: Redemption with Expendables 3 Director
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Even dissenting reviews pointed out that Brolin was pretty good in it, so that's the least of its problems.
I completely agree. It really makes me wonder how Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon made as much money as it did in NA back in the day. Must have been lightning in a bottle as far as martial arts films go.
Yekshemesh
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The Expendable films has the worst action sequences/scenes in the history of action movies. Every single action scene in the two movies are corny as shit. I have zero faith the Remake will be good in any way.
Snkfanatic
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This is a amazing gif haha
FlashbladeGAF
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matrix-cat
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Pretty sure I actually climaxed the first time I saw that. That machete fight is still the most violent martial arts scene I think I've ever seen. God, it absolutely kills me that The Raid 2 wasn't theatrically released where I live. I've got my Blu Ray pre-order money all wadded up with nowhere to throw it.
To be fair this guy didn't direct the first two movies.
ReturnOfTheRAT
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Sorry Evilore. I'll just put him on ignore.
For all the fans of The Raid, our movie(s) still exists. Nothing will change about those. Hollywood can remake them and attempt to match their greatness. History says they won't do it justice, but that's to be determined.
Sorry Evilore. I'll just put him on ignore.
For all the fans of The Raid, our movie(s) still exists. Nothing will change about those. Hollywood can remake them and attempt to match their greatness. History says they won't do it justice, but that's to be determined.
You should see the Rama vs Baseball Bat Man and Hammer Girl fight. It's much more gruesome.
F0rneus
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I was about to go on a "yeah but in The Raid 2..." spiel but...you didn't see it haha. Prepare yourself. PREPARE THINESELF.
Anyway, I was thinking that the remake does need a silat representative. Sure they want to have a mix of styles, but they definitely need some silat in there. It just looks so goddamn amazing on screen.
The Assassin vs Rama in the kitchen represent! Good lawd.
It will be a great day when that blu-ray arrives, as the Raid 2 was freakin awesome. Watching them back to back will be glorious.
matrix-cat
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YOU'RE KILLING ME
btw, watch white-ificated Mad Dog be this guy:
It's inevitable.
Tragicomedy
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Edit: missed the cease-fire call.
ZiZ
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It was real to me!
youre nuts its one of the best action movies ive ever seen
I'll need to watch it a few more times, but my initial impression after watching that fight is that it's the greatest martial arts fight ever filmed. I actually applauded when that fight finished and I've never clapped in a movie theatre in my life.
Incendiary
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Good. As much as I loved the first movie, the second one is a mess comparatively. Did NOT need to be two and a half hours long, good lord.
Spring-Loaded
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I liked The Raid, but the whole time I was thinking "this would be much better if it were american." Really can't stand all the asian stuff (language, setting, Etc.).
Thank god for this and for Elementary.
Thank god for this and for Elementary.
Skiptastic
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FUCKING INTERNET HIGH FIVE RIGHT HERE
I tried to like The Raid but I just got bored halfway through, had to leave to run an errand
when the two brothers met
It's the same way I thought about The Hunger Games and Battle Royale. People were saying Hunger Games was just a Battle Royale ripoff, and my thinking was, "Not like Battle Royale couldn't be made so much better than it was."
I can adhere to this, but I don't think it detracted from the fight scenes which I personally found better then all the last (Apart from the finale). You can't blame Gareth for trying to add a bit of substance though, and yeah it was too long but the heart was in the right place. Hopefully, he's learnt his lesson for the 3rd and if that means he put out a film with the story quality at even 30% of the fighting quality I'll be happy. I do agree though, the film could easily be taken down to 2 hours, maybe a bit less
Too bad The Hunger Games isn't even close to as good as Battle Royal.
F0rneus
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Actually that might be a common reaction, because most of my theater started clapping at the end of that fight too. I was honestly stuck by how out of breath I was after the whole thing. I felt exhausted. The scene is just a gorgeous display of martial artistry, that evolves into pure tension and grueling violence. It's a goddamn rollercoaster ride, printed on film.
Net_Wrecker
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I can't help but laugh at the line of thinking that "Well, more story could improve on the original." That's like missing the entire point of what The Raid was. That's like a foreign remake of Gravity with 5 central characters instead of 2 and a bunch of human drama because "Well the first one ain't got no story." The Raid is a pure survival-action martial arts movie about a SWAT team that goes into an apartment complex and gets stuck in hell, period. One central location, minimal story or characterization, lots of crazy action, END. It's great because of how stripped down it is. Not everyone will like that sort of thing, but "more story" wouldn't make it a better Raid, it would make it a different experience.
I gonna silat your face!
I literally held my breath through the pinnacle of that fight, when it was over I let out a huge exhale.
That's never happened to me before, saying it's the best fight ever put to film isn't far off.
Aizu_Itsuko
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Incendiary
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I know this is most likely sarcasm, but Elementary is actually good. I don't have as much hope for a Raid remake, though.
Pretty much the entire last 45 minutesish was glorious top tier action in line with the first Raid. The hour 45 leading up to it was a bloated, self-indulgent suckfest. I get what they were trying to go for but it just didn't work at all.
"More story" is exactly what the Raid 2 had and it made the movie suck. If the American version takes its cues from the sequel, I'll definitely be passing.
Of course the first post in the worst post.
I really hate this idea that a remake has to be made on this movie.
This post, I don't understand it.
Net_Wrecker
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"More story" doesn't inherently make The Raid 2 worse. You might not like the execution, but it's a completely different style of film which called for a bigger scope and more characters.
He's joking.
Skiptastic
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True, but Battle Royale isn't the cinematic classic some would have you believe. It is entirely ripe for a true Western remake.
Are you fishing for gifs?
lol I can already see it:
Plan A. Infiltrate Crime Gang as a teen-aged indonesian baseball team.
After their cover is blown, as its Sylvester Stalone and Dolph Lundgren's jersey is the wrong size.... They go to;
Plan B. Destroy entire building.
Femmeworth
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But Dredd already exists.
Edit: Like this joke, apparently.
Edit: Like this joke, apparently.
Okay, for this scene, the original had an amazing five minute action sequence. Our version, we're gonna have Jason Statham punch a guy, then a guy's behind him, then Stallone shoots the guy and Statham turns around, and they banter back and forth wooden and sarcastically each delivering badass lines like "That's one for me," and "I had him right where I wanted him," for four and a half minutes.
sixteen-bit
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Epic fail, Hollywood. Epic Fail.
Yeah seriously...they spent $50m on Dredd and it made like $12m domestically (and only $35m ww). This remake could be an Oldboy (or to a lessor extent Let the Right One In) bomb all over again (with the original far exceeding the remake movie wise as well).
Ever since The Departed, Hollywood keeps chasing that remake money, but it's rarely there.
When its one thing I hate about action movies, than it is seing that noone is getting hit. I probably can't watch fjghting scenes anymore.
crazy monkey
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the raid and raid 2 both are classic and i say classic action movies. one of the best of all time.
TheLostBigBoss
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Treythalomew
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As a huge of fan of the original and a huge fan of action movies in general, I welcome it. Expendables 2 had some amazing fight scenes so I don't see the issue.
Also if they think there is a market for an english Raid movie, then they sure as shit need to make Dredd 2.
Also if they think there is a market for an english Raid movie, then they sure as shit need to make Dredd 2.
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