Wake Of Death

[Angra]

Originally posted by tarcher80
you're really going to make me do this aren't you??? having a degree in gratuitous splits/kicking/showing my bare ass, i feel i am over-qualified to rate the top-10 van damme films and settle this little spat:




10) In Hell
9) Cyborg
8) Lionheart
7) Universal Soldier
6) Death Warrant
5) Hard Target
4) Wake of Death
3) Kickboxer
2) Double Impact
1) Bloodsport

I agree with your top 3.

[Sloan]

Originally posted by Angra
I agree with your top 3.

Well Why Dont You Just Move In With The Guy. :rolleyes:

[Angra]

Originally posted by Sloan
Well Why Dont You Just Move In With The Guy. :rolleyes:

Why don´t you cry me a river.

[tarcher80]

Originally posted by Sloan
Are My Eyes Playing Tricks On Moi? Uni Sol At 7!!! Are You Mad. Swap That With Bloodsport And Bring In A Few To Replace A Few And Your Sorted :D

maybe one spot, but otherwise i stand by my list. us, although it is a good 'action' movie, is not a great van damme movie. what makes a good van damme movie is: multiple martial arts fights, too many man-splits, a training montage, kicks kicks kicks...

[Elvis_Christ]

Really? I thought Double Impact was fucking terrible.

My top 5:

1. Bloodsport
Easily one of the best low budget films that worked. A cast full of hard working actors that were hungry to make it big aswell as some genre greats making comebacks (if only for a few moments). This boasts some of the greatest fight scenes ever commited to film and spawned a shitload of imitators (my favorite was Bloodmatch).

2. Death Warrant
This had a tense atomosphere and is a really great prision exploitation flick. The last role I remember Cynthia Gibb in which is a pity she had a really likeable personality as a actress. Patrick Kilpatrick was a great villian similar to Richard Lynch in style (why these guys aren't utilised is beyond me.... no doubt tared and feathered by film snobbery).

3. Wrong Bet
Lionheart to you guys but I always thought that name sucked. Somewhere inbetween Rocky/Rambo/Death Wish and of course a reworked Bloodsport theme (done a lot better although not as bloodthirsty and nasy minded as Kickboxer). Great story with a lot of heart (hahaha) that's raw, brutal and believable unlike the slick Hollywood Nowhere To Run (which was part of the tuff action hero turning S.N.A.G era). I don't see this around as much as I used to but I'll always have a soft spot for it.... perhaps his best role. Down to earth story that had you rooting for the good guy because you believed in what he was fighting for.

4. Hard Target
Van Damme being hunted by Lance Henriksen directed by John Woo produced by Sam Rami? Fuck yeh great flick! I'd rate this higher but the characters are pretty one deminsional and I didn't really connect to them. This film has some great style and the final shootout at the warehouse is a fantastic piece of action cinema.

5. Universal Soldier
Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren's answer to T-2. This saw him enter the world of bigger budget vehilces (Timecop is probably a better film and executed more effectively but I like US better because its darker and has a more believable storyline). Lundgren's preformance owns Van Dammes and its a pity he never made it bigger than being Stallone or Van Damme's memisis
after some strong preformances in Dark Angel and The Punisher (flame me about the Punisher.... whatever. I don't care its easily one of the best late 80s action flicks).

.....and apart from Cyborg, Timecop and Wake of Death I found a lot of his flicks average at best. I didn't check out The Quest (which he directed) but a friend of mine who is down with 80s action shit told me it was decent so I might give the fucker a day in court.

[Angra]

Originally posted by tarcher80
maybe one spot, but otherwise i stand by my list. us, although it is a good 'action' movie, is not a great van damme movie. what makes a good van damme movie is: multiple martial arts fights, too many man-splits, a training montage, kicks kicks kicks...

Don´t forget:

Close-up shots of Van Dammes bare shaven ass.

[tarcher80]

Originally posted by Angra
Don´t forget:

Close-up shots of Van Dammes bare shaven ass.

right you are! i remember being 10-11 and watching bloodsport and being like, "yes! sex scene! i'm gonna see titties!" then they cut to a scene of van damme's ass...

i think he puts in his contract that the director has to write in a scene for him to showcase his ass.

[Angra]

Originally posted by tarcher80
right you are! i remember being 10-11 and watching bloodsport and being like, "yes! sex scene! i'm gonna see titties!" then they cut to a scene of van damme's ass...

i think he puts in his contract that the director has to write in a scene for him to showcase his ass.

I think you could be right about that.

But he still don´t have the "balls" to give us a full frontal. I wonder why...:rolleyes:

[tarcher80]

Originally posted by Elvis_Christ
Really? I thought Double Impact was fucking terrible.

My top 5:

1. Bloodsport
Easily one of the best low budget films that worked. A cast full of hard working actors that were hungry to make it big aswell as some genre greats making comebacks (if only for a few moments). This boasts some of the greatest fight scenes ever commited to film and spawned a shitload of imitators (my favorite was Bloodmatch).

2. Death Warrant
This had a tense atomosphere and is a really great prision exploitation flick. The last role I remember Cynthia Gibb in which is a pity she had a really likeable personality as a actress. Patrick Kilpatrick was a great villian similar to Richard Lynch in style (why these guys aren't utilised is beyond me.... no doubt tared and feathered by film snobbery).

3. Wrong Bet
Lionheart to you guys but I always thought that name sucked. Somewhere inbetween Rocky/Rambo/Death Wish and of course a reworked Bloodsport theme (done a lot better although not as bloodthirsty and nasy minded as Kickboxer). Great story with a lot of heart (hahaha) that's raw, brutal and believable unlike the slick Hollywood Nowhere To Run (which was part of the tuff action hero turning S.N.A.G era). I don't see this around as much as I used to but I'll always have a soft spot for it.... perhaps his best role. Down to earth story that had you rooting for the good guy because you believed in what he was fighting for.

4. Hard Target
Van Damme being hunted by Lance Henriksen directed by John Woo produced by Sam Rami? Fuck yeh great flick! I'd rate this higher but the characters are pretty one deminsional and I didn't really connect to them. This film has some great style and the final shootout at the warehouse is a fantastic piece of action cinema.

5. Universal Soldier
Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren's answer to T-2. This saw him enter the world of bigger budget vehilces (Timecop is probably a better film and executed more effectively but I like US better because its darker and has a more believable storyline). Lundgren's preformance owns Van Dammes and its a pity he never made it bigger than being Stallone or Van Damme's memisis
after some strong preformances in Dark Angel and The Punisher (flame me about the Punisher.... whatever. I don't care its easily one of the best late 80s action flicks).

.....and apart from Cyborg, Timecop and Wake of Death I found a lot of his flicks average at best. I didn't check out The Quest (which he directed) but a friend of mine who is down with 80s action shit told me it was decent so I might give the fucker a day in court.

i pretty much agree w/ you and death warrant is a highly underrated van damme flick. they way i composed my list was based solely on campy fun and "van damme-isms." universal soldier is probably one the better action films to come out of the nineties, its just not a typical cheesy van damme flick.

[urgeok]

i always liked TimeCop