Quoted from Penoyer what made Under Siese work was watching Gary Busey and Tommy Lee Jones turn the movie into their own personal "scene stealing competition"

Gary Busey`s teeth usually steal the scenes for me

Mark

Under Siege rocks!  The knife fight is up there with The Man From Nowhere and that other knife-fight-is-the-best-part Tommy Lee Jones actioner, The Hunted.

To be perfectly honest, my money's on Seagal in a real-life fight with, say, any two people from Simply.  I've trained with a couple fat old guys in my friend's karate dojo and I assure you ain't nothin' fat or old about them when it comes to throwing a punch.

I mean, consider fat ol' Sammo Hung (at 55): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-zE2YFp7lU

...I'm an action junkie...

Quoted Text To be perfectly honest, my money's on Seagal in a real-life fight with, say, any two people from Simply.

Surely there's a script to be written there!

Quoted from Heretic I mean, consider fat ol' Sammo Hung (at 55): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-zE2YFp7lU ...I'm an action junkie...

Now you went and done it...
Referenced someone I can resist going all tangential about!

I had the distinct honor of being Sammo Hung's assistant during a U.S. visit.
At the time, I was the Operations Manager for a retail company in Boston.
We specialized in J-pop culture and Hong Kong media rights acquisition.
Keep in mind, this was back in the late 90s before this stuff was "cool" here.

To help promote some movies we acquired, we got the MFA involved.
They put together a film retrospective.
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/movies/97/08/14/SAMMO_HUNG.html

While we organized a meet and greet in Harvard Square for the man and his wife.
God, Mina was so beautiful. She was Miss Philippines back in the 80s.
She met Sammo on the set of Eastern Condors.
She played the leader of the female hit squad.  And they got married.
We were also cross promoting the HK home release of Mr. Nice Guy.

People lined up around two blocks meet the man.
He was late for the retrospective opening at the museum.
Sammo and Mina didn't want to leave.
He was moved to tears in our store and was so gracious...

Later I learned that this was the first time EVER, he had this during his career.
All those decades of jaw dropping awesome films... not one meet and greet.
So, I'm grateful for the small part I played in giving that man some overdue fan love.

Forgive the geek tangent on the thread...
Couldn't resist after Sammo came up!

Regards,
E.D.

Quoted from Penoyer79 this conversation is starting to depress me.. they just dont make action stars/tough guys like they used to. it used to be chuck norris, clint eastwood...etc etc.... and we get Shia LaBloulf. *puke*

Well, not so true.
Jason Statham seemed to fill those shoes. Still does for the most part.
Ray Park's kind of around, but usually has to cover his face.
Jeremry Renner could be the next big action star. and it looks like he's going in that direction.

And now, in the past month, Gina Carano.
Rampage Jackson has had supporting roles...

Now someone give Jason Mayhem Miller a contract.

Quoted from Penoyer79 honestly i stopped watching Seagal after On Deadly Ground...so i wouldnt know.

Wonderful! Maybe noe someone could explain to me what the dream sequence with the topless cave eskimos was all about- especially when Seagal's character dismisses it in a later scene, and it's never mentioned again.

I still watched Seagal, there was one flick he did that had Vinnie Jones in it and B-action star Gary Daniels (The 'Brit' from Expendables')...I think Bob Sapp also showed up..but Seagal was badly dubbed. Submerged, I think the film was.

I kind of liked Into The Sun, where it cloe to 'Hard To Kill' type action...

Maybe Cohen (who I don't care much for) can be in an action-comedy film with Seagal. Seagal was good at poking fun at himself in Machete.

Quoted from DarrenJamesSeeley Jason Statham seemed to fill those shoes. Still does for the most part.

You gotta love the Stath! Has come a long way since Lock, Stock.