Van Damme should sue!!!
JC, ballet-dancer turned Karate King at the Box Office in um, gee, 1987... Should sue these guys. What a thinly veiled attempt at humiliating a guy when he's down.
SOB's. I won't see this garbage.
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MovieChat Forums > Sledge: The Untold Story (2009) Discussion > Van Damme should sue!!!
It's a mockumentary, it's supposed to make fun of people and things. Haven't you seen Spinal Tap?!
I have seen it (my company is doing the VFX) and it's hilarious. Lighten up, it's a flick and laughing is priceless. If Van Damme can't laugh at himself...
Is this really a parody of Jean Clod Van Bum? Damn. That's not good, because, as funny as I expect it to be, it may actually bring enough attention to that washed up loser to lift him out of his gutter. Hell, maybe even pull that other "star", Dolph Ludicrous, up with him...
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Yeah van Damme did study Ballet for several years.
I saw that the leading man for this movie has been van Dammes stunt double in a couple movies. Does this guy maybe look a little like Van Damme too then?
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are you mad!! then what would we rent out when we want something ridiculous to watch? I think "The Foreigner" with Seagal is one of the most stupid, badly thought out films ever, but it was hilarious...
Arrrrr! Squidy!
If you want something ridiculous to watch just get a movie with some rappers in it... hahaha, most of them suck more than the most expensive of whores.
shareYou guys saw Van Damme in Las Vegas right.
Hell, he was enjoying playing himself, and they even killed him off.
I doubt he gives a Sh*t!
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I like Van Damme, particularly Bloodsport and Kickboxer. Not the best movies in the world, but still entertaining.
I wish they had gotten him to be in this movie, even if only for a cameo. That would have been funny.
Van Damme's moves developed out of ballet. He's a gymnast and an athlete but not a martial artist. He took martial arts lessons for a brief period and applied his flexibility and ballet skills to high kicks and so forth. His moves are designed to look good first, not do damage. I hate how some people think Van Damme is a real martial artist. He's an extremely fit guy who knows how to do some fancy moves, but he's not a real fighter.
Still, I agree that Kickboxer and Bloodsport are very entertaining.
Van Damme, Lundgren, Seagall
Out of those three, I think Seagall is the most boring to watch, but he's actually the closest thing to a martial arts expert, having earned a 7th dan black belt in aikido. share
Im pretty sure he is a former european or world champion in karate. Mite be wrong but have heard it.
To be honest I do agree with ur statement that his moves r designed to look good in his movies rather than do damage(if they connected).
Still gotta see Bloodsport!!!
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The guy is Van Dammes stunt man and Van Damme always puts him in his movies, Im pretty sure he knows about the movie and doesnt give a *beep*
shareVan Damme is probably too high right now to give a damn.
Okay, I shouldn't have said that.
"Former European Professional Karate Association middleweight champion."
- His Imdb Pro page
Here are some other bits of information (some strange):
"His fight scenes are so intense that he won't film them in the U.S. for fear of being sued.
In 1989, he was sued for "wilfully" gouging the eye of an extra in a swordfight while filming Cyborg.
Won a court case filed against him by martial arts legend Frank Dux, who claimed he collaborated with Van Damme on his 1996 directorial debut The Quest, only for Van Damme to deny him any share of the profits. His evidence was lost in an earthquake. Coincidentally, Van Damme played Dux in his debut Bloodsport.
Once said he learned to speak English by watching the cartoon The Flintstones.
Speaks Flemish, English, French, Spanish and German.
He became a European Karate Champion in 1979 and went to USA to win the World Championship. He didn't win. Few months later he had a rematch with the opponent he lost against in World Championship and he won in less than 2 minutes.
Former sparring partner of Chuck Norris in the early 80s.
He was the inspiration for the character "Johnny Cage" from Mortal Kombat. One of "Johnny Cage's" special moves was where he did the splits and punched his oppenent in the groin, as seen when Van Damme's character, Frank Dux, punches his large sumo opponent in Bloodsport.
As the original choice to play the role of the alien hunter itself in the movie 'Predator', he hit a few personal snags. For starters, he was not happy with the fact that his face would not be shown on camera, and that he would be having an uncredited special fx role. He was also not fond of the original monster suit...he frequently passed out due to heat exhaustion. Because he complained so much and was very uncooperative, he was fired from the film. When Stan Winston's Predator design came in, Kevin Peter Hall was chosen to play the title role and filled it perfectly. Supposedly, Van Damme has no regrets on backing out of the Predator project."
So, what was so "intense" about his fight scenes? And who would sue him if they were shot in the US? And how does shooting in another country prevent these supposed lawsuits?
I'm a huge Van Damme fan even though I don't think he should be considered a serious martial artist as much as a performer and bodybuilder.
So, what was so "intense" about his fight scenes? And who would sue him if they were shot in the US? And how does shooting in another country prevent these supposed lawsuits?
Van Damme is known not to pull his punches or kicks so much. share
Fight career:
At the age of 12, Van Damme joined the Centre National De Karate (National Center of Karate) under the guidance of Claude Goetz in France. Van Damme trained for four years and he earned a spot in the Belgian Karate Team.
Jean-Claude made his debut in 1976, at the age of 16. Competing under his birth name of Jean Claude Van Varenberg, Jean-Claude was staggered by a round-house kick thrown by Toon Van Oostrum in Brussels, Belgium. Van Damme was badly stunned, but came back to knockout Van Oostrum moments later.
In 1977, at the WAKO Open International in Belgium, Jean-Claude lost a decision to fellow team mate Patrick Teugels. The experience left an impact on Claude Goetz and he felt that Jean-Claude needed more training before competing again.
After six months of intense training and sparring, Master Goetz decided to unleash his prized pupil on the European Full-Contact scene. Jean-Claude won his first tournament by scoring three knockout victories in one evening. However, in a 1978 match for the Belgium lightweight title, he again lost a decision to Patrick Teugels. Once again, the loss left an impact on Claude Goetz and a few months later at Iseghem, Belgium, Van Damme came back and knocked out Emile Leibman in the first round. In 1979, Jean-Claude and the Belgium Team became European Team Champions.
Next, Jean-Claude faced Sherman Bergman, a kick-boxer from Florida (USA) with a long string of knockout victories. For the only time in his career, Jean-Claude was knocked to the canvas after absorbing a powerful left hook. However, Jean-Claude climbed off the canvas and with a perfectly timed ax-kick, knocked Bergman out cold in 59 seconds of the first round. Van Damme ended 1979 with a stoppage of Gilberto (Gil) Diaz in one round.
In 1980, Jean-Claude Van Damme defeated former Great Britain karate champion Michael J. Heming. Next, Van Damme scored a knockout over France's Georges Verlugels in two rounds. After these victories, Jean-Claude caught the attention of the European martial arts community. Professional Karate Magazine publisher and editor Mike Anders, and multiple European champion Geet Lemmens tabbed Jean-Claude Van Damme as an upcoming prospect. However, Jean-Claude's ambitions now focused in the direction of movie acting.
Van Damme ended his fight career at the Forest Nationals in Brussels. He knocked Patrick Teugels down and scored a first round technical knockout victory. Teugels suffered a nose injury and was unable to continue.
Following the victory, Van Damme retired from martial arts competition. His final fight record was 18–1, with all wins being knockouts and the loss being a decisions after two rounds.
Van Damme will make a return to fighting and is scheduled to fight former boxing Olympic gold-medalist Somluck Kamsing in a regulated K-1 bout in March 2010. The winner of that match will face current world champion Jeffrey "The Squasher" Sun. At the prospect of being the first man over the age of 50 to fight professionally in Macau, Jean-Claude Van Damme stated, "It's kind of dangerous, but life is short."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Van_Damme
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Calling himself the "Fred Astaire of karate," Jean Claude Van Damme thrills his film audiences with his ability to deliver a kick to an opponent's head during a leaping, 360-degree turn. It is said that his fight scenes are so intense that he won't film them in the U.S. for fear of being sued.
Having dropped out of school at the age of 16 to concentrate on his karate, he won the European Professional Karate Association's middleweight championship when he was in his late teens. He received his black belt in Shotokan karate from Claude Goets in 1978 and briefly studied kickboxing in Paris with French karate king Dominique Valera. He won numerous tournament championships on the European karate circuit. Van Damme went on to study classical ballet for five years, and eventually put the combination of his athletic abilities to work in the martial arts action films for which he is famous.
Van Damme works as an actor, director, writer, model, and producer, making such films as: Bloodsport, Kickboxer, Double Impact, Universal Soldier, Nowhere to Run, Timecop, Maximum Risk, Legionnaire, The Order, and Derailed.
Born Jean Claude Camille Francois Van Varenberg on October 18, 1960, in Flanders, Belgium, and raised in Brussels, Van Damme came to the US in 1981, with no English and no friends. He worked as a chauffeur, a carpet layer, a pizza deliverer, a trainer, and a bouncer, before he finally started to find roles in very low-budget films. He finally got his break when he made Bloodsport, a film shot in Hong Kong on a meager $1.5 million budget, which was so bad that he finally helped to recut it himself, and begged producers to release it. When they did, it became the US box office hit of that summer, and Van Damme was a star.
http://www.answers.com/topic/jean-claude-van-damme
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From another source:
Belgian-born film star Jean-Claude Van Damme can be called an actor, although it would be more accurate to describe him as a bodybuilder and kickboxer. It evidently wasn't in the genes; Van Damme's father was an accountant and flower salesman. Taking up the study of Shotokan karate at the age of ten, Van Damme went on to win the middleweight championship of the European Professional Karate Association, where he thrilled one and all with his 360-degree leap-kick. Cashing in on his fame, the 18-year-old Van Damme launched the California Gym in Brussels. When he moved to L.A., he had 7,000 dollars to his name and spoke only French and Flemish. At first, he took many odd jobs, the least prepossessing of which was as a carpet layer. Van Damme's first film was a bit part in Chuck Norris' Missing in Action (1984). Groomed for stardom by Cannon Films' Menahem Golan, Van Damme became a big box-office commodity via such epics as No Retreat, No Surrender (1986); Bloodsport (1988); Cyborg (1989); Kickboxer (1989), which he co-wrote; Lionheart (1990); and Universal Soldier (1992).
http://www.fandango.com/jeanclaudevandamme/biographies/p72739
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no i dont think it is taking a shot at van damme, i think it is aimed at the industry in general.
the jimbo part is clearly stallone, and the below the law part is seagal.
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