Face/Off, Con Air, The Rock

[CaptainWacky]

WHY ARE THERE NO ACTION MOVIES THAT GOOD ANYMORE? Even without Nicholas Cage it should be possible.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Too much CGI, not enough ludicrous chase scenes!

 

[CaptainWacky]

Seriously, I'm not usually one to compare about CGI, but nineties action movies feel more...solid.

 

[Mentalist]

I have watched Con Air at least 20 times. I love that movie.

"Put the Bunneh back in the box."

 

[whisky]

Wasnt there CGI in con air, I am thinking with Colm in the helicopters in some scenes.

Watched a bit of it last night, I really must get round to watching the uncut DVD soon

 

[whisky]

Wasnt there CGI in con air, I am thinking with Colm in the helicopters in some scenes.

Watched a bit of it last night, I really must get round to watching the uncut DVD soon

 

[Fuddlemiff]

There might be bits and pieces. Definitely some blue screen, but nothing like the overuse of CGI in the climax of Die Hard 4, or the entire Transformers movie (yeah, I know it would have been difficult to do the fights without CG, but come on...).

 

[CaptainWacky]

Sorry about your car.

 

[whisky]

I think its the same car Kirk drives off a cliff in the movie, or if it isnt, it should have been

 

[CaptainWacky]

There should been a spin-off movie with Meaney's character hunting Steve Buscemi's paedo character.

 

[Ramen]

Dante's Peek and Deep Impact were the death knell for the 90's action movie schtick. They tipped the action & comedy / melodrama scale too far towards melodrama and it fell apart faster than you could say "maverick."

 

[CaptainWacky]

Yeah, who cares about Tea Leoni and her long last dad when the world is about to be DESTROYED?

 

[whisky]

At least Belker from Hill Street Blues got to go out cool, sitting on a bench reading a newspaper while a mile high tidle waves comes down the street.