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FIRST SCENE = 5 MINUTES OF UNADULTERATED ACTION!

posted 15 years ago by wildpeckinpah
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It was fantastic! Who would have thought that at his age Van Damme could keep it up for so long? (ahem)

[–] Broseth 15 years ago

Yeah that opening title sequence was probably the best I've seen in a movie so far. It's extremely long for one shot and it was perfected well.

[–] Solid_Gear_Metal_Snake 15 years ago

I kept rewinding it to watch that one shot sequence over and over. Its so awesome.

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[–] Sergeant_Detritus 15 years ago

True, and I think the director proved he can direct action as well....

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[–] sunquake-1 15 years ago

that would have been cool in one of VD action movies!

[–] n128 14 years ago

@sunquake-1 Check out Universal Soldier 3, he actually did the same style long take.

[–] outsider-2 14 years ago

Check out the stairway scene in The Protector. That *beep* will blow you away. This was good too

[–] johnslegers 14 years ago

I think it was a way for the director to show off his skills by saying "Hey, I'm making a satire here, but I could just as well have turned it into an action film if I wanted to". Although I did have some pacing issues near the end of the film, it's nevertheless a noble attempt by a director I'd never heard of to make a movie that's both very personal and unique.

[–] Darknessviking 12 years ago

i dont think it was actually shot in ONE sequence.
there is a trick that moviemakers can do in that,everytime the actor disappears out of sight,and it passes by a wall or something,they can cut.

so the opening scene,even though it may look like done in one take,i think it is actually 4-5 takes.

but i liked it :)

[–] prplayer 8 years ago

it was fantastic

so many movies, so little time

[–] henrimaine 8 years ago

I don't think this opening scene was particularly well done as a pure action scene. If this movie had been a "serious" action movie, I would have blamed it for having amateurish action scenes, because several things in this scene went wrong. For instance, there was a guy trying to shoot Van Damme with a flamethrower, but the thrower was pointed at a wrong direction. Of course, in this movie the scene was supposed to be amateurish and B-moviesh. So, in the context of this movie, the scene was indeed "well done". A high-quality action scene would have been "wrong" for this movie.

[–] asom (6509) 2 years ago

Yeah, the point was that the director proved his skill with that scene. Yes, there were some things that were "wrong" because they wanted them to be wrong.