Yeah, having been a teen/young adult during the mid-80’s-mid-90’s, I’ve pretty much seen just about every single movie he’s covered for this series…and, for the most part, Chris has Impeccable taste in High Quality “B movies”!
I'm shocked Strange Days made so little $ domestically. First time I saw it was in H.School & my friends then (& now) still think it was a masterpiece. The concepts, themes, acting, foreshadowing was & still is incredible. The end credits visuals & music still resonate.
It's weird how things go: I found "The weight of water" and "K19, the widowmaker" more watchable and enjoyable than "The Hurt Locker". Maybe it's because I have a more critical eye on hyped movies. That said: I don't think I've been bored by anything Bigelow has done... but she should be doing action movies full time... "Near Dark" was an instant love and "Blue Steel" for all its weak spots solidified my interest in her movies.
Replacement Killers was awesome. Also if HBO has all those movies I wonder why they won't just upload them to their app. Seems like if you have the content you'd want to put it out there. Maybe some of them are lost or something.
Dude, No Escape further proves that ray Liotta is one of the best actors working in Hollywood. His performance in that silly damn movie was real, powerful, emotional, and believable.
I didn't realize Strange Days did so bad financially when it came out. I loved this movie and still have a copy of it today. It still holds up til this day too. 1of my fave movies. Alot of noticable faces in this movie too, starring roles and character actors
Hard Target is one of the 1990s action films that doesn’t get the respect it deserves. The action sequences are just unreal and they are the product of actual stuntmen, vehicles and explosives. No thanks to CGI, we’ll never have any large scale practical effects action films again.
the HK trio action stars that i frequently saw during 80s-90s were: Felix Wong Yat-wah, Andy Lau Tak-wah, and Chow Yun-fat. most of Felix Wong's films that i saw were kung fu period films. Wong's and Andy Lau's stardom were propelled after playing the lead in two television series adapted from two novels (of a trilogy): The Legend of the Condor Heroes (Wong) and The Return of the Condor Heroes (Lau).
Yeah, I got the Replacement Killers, and Strange Days, and love these two, and watched them both a bunch of times. Man, Angela Bassett was so frigging hot. When she took off her jacket and had that sleeveless shirt, then later wearing a skirt. She made me feel kinda funny. Yeah
K19 the widowmaker was another awesome film I liked by Kathryn Bigelow too. I thought it was just as good a movie as the other big submarine movie at the time starring Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington called "Crimson Tide". I still can't choose which is better of the 2 movies. 1 thing that I do favour over Crimson Tide is that K-19 The Widowmaker is a true story and shows how close we got to nuclear war in this 1 incident and really captures your interest with very tense life n death situation s and examples of some of highest forms of bravery by man that I've ever seen.
Underrated 90's films... I would suggest the "Hornblower" movie series of the 90's (& early 2000's). (Mostly 90's.) The movies are great but nobody recalls or are aware of them.
@@lavanna80 The series starring Ioan Gruffud (or a name similar to that) the actor who eventually acted as one of the Fantastic Four (as the stretchy one) and another actor who was Dr Who for a while.
Instead of "The Replacement Killers", I will put Chow Yun Fat's other American movie, the 1999's "The Corruptor", as one of the best underrated 90's action moves. First of all, Chow Yun Fat gives a much strong performance in "The Corruptor" than in "The Replacement Killers". Secondly, the only thing that "The Replacement Killer's" offers are bunch of gun fight sequences (they are done 10 times better in Chow Yun Fat's Hong Kong movies with John Woo) ; all the characters in the move are simply card board/ one dimensional characters; they mostly give simple dialogues such as "another problem?" and "what is going on?"....etc. The 1999's "The Corruptor" at least has more depths in terms of its story, it kind of remind me a little bit of the 1997 American movie "LA Confidential" (event though that is a much better movie than "The Corruptor").
I never could understand why Strange Days didn't take off like it should have. It's a solid flick all the way through, and fine example of cyberpunk aesthetic in the mid-nineties. I was working in a video store when it came out on VHS, and we only got two copies of it (which, if you ever worked in a video store, you knew that meant it tanked in theaters), so I took one of them home to watch the night before we put it on the shelves, and I didn't bring it back for a week; I ate that thing up. Still have it in rotation with Johnny Mnemonic, both Blade Runners, The Matrix, etc, whenever I'm in the mood for a cyberpunk marathon.
Shout out to Fortress! that movie kicks total ass!! Fortress and No Escape/Escape from Absalom were both filmed in Australia, not a lot of people know that.
I am here to see if Cynthia Rothrock are in any of these. I must say that The Replacement Killers is a favorite of mine. Mira Sorvino and Chow Yun-fat were quite a team. The shooting scenes were like a ballet. The Bulletproof Monk was pretty cool also.
No Escape is a great movie with fantastic action sequences although Ray Liotta as an action hero is sometimes hard to believe. This movie is certainly available on the web. Great reviews as always JoBlo.
I like The Replacement Killers even if it isn't as well done as John Woo's films. I recently bought a copy of Hard Target on bluray because it's the uncensored version and I like it more than the R-rated version originally released in the U.S.
I will definitely check out The Replacement Killers! I completely agree with No Escape and Strange Days those are highly underrated films and desperately need a re-release because there great films that I reference a lot too friends to this day.
I wondered why there weren’t many recent movies with a dystopian future, then I remembered, we’re actually living in one… Pan demmick, authoritarian government, people encouraged to snitch on their neighbours… That’s a 90s dystopian future right there.
Its sad that Chow and John Woo never worked again after Hard Boiled; those guys had 3 or 4 more great films left in them and I can sadly say that we missed out on those films that never got made. Replacement killers was alright but I felt like it was too stylized and has too many of the infamous tropes we've come to associate 90s films with. Its a guilty pleasure because of Chow himself.
Chow Yun-Fat is the Chinese John Wayne. End of story. And, as a high school kid, I crushed ridiculously hard on Mira Sorvino as Meg in The Replacement Killers.
The iPhone didn't kill the PSP, the PS Vita did. That thing flopped so hard they got rid of them in Germany by making them a midrange "reward" for collecting customer-points with a fuel station chain.
I don’t remember it, but I know I saw The Replacement Killers because I had a friend who had the hots for Chow Yun Fat, who dragged me to every movie he released in the US.
The replacement killers n other 90s action films were amazing. You could always tell when a film would be rated R bc if a character would shoot a bad guy more than twice it couldn’t be PG13. Watch you can see. Every PG13 film wouldn’t have ppl getting shot more than twice. It’s different now though because they’ve been able to push the PG13 rating even to include a couple f bombs. Shit they put f bombs in tv now on channels like FX. They never used to.
This is a HBO 4xs a day movie of the month from mid 90s, rays bad choices after goodfellas, epic movie, just not one time could you ever mention this flick in a convo & have anyone get the reference. As obscure as a Dennis miller reference, of a norm McDonald piece
@@JoBloOriginals Might be a solution then to just grab one from abroad, I'm in Germany and most DVDs/home releases here have the OV/english audio included.
Every actress that was blackballed because they wouldn't have sex with Harvey Weinstein should get there roles back. And he compensate by the maramax studio
the bad guy from No Escape, he was just cosplaying for a role in Battlefield Earth. you know, that terrible sci fi movie with John Travolta. can't believe i sat through that crappy movie. i rather watch Judge Dredd with Stallone over and over before Battlefield Earth.
@@Zombiesnyder13 Fine I'll watch it. But there are other directors I can think of whose entire careers seem to be an audition proof-of-concept reel for helming a Star Wars movie. Roland Emmerch Gore Verbinski David Fincher Alex Proyas Matt Reeves Joseph Kosinski Wes Ball Len Wiseman Francis Lawrence Rupert Sanders Neill Blomkamp Guillermo Del Toro Stephen Sommers Carl Rinsch Nic Mathieu Stephen Norrington Dan Trachtenberg Michael Matthews Michael Bay
@@Zombiesnyder13 That is realistic. All those directors would want to make a Star Wars film. Under Jon Favreau anyway. What makes you think they aren't realistic options? Fuqua most vfx heavy feature was "Infinite" which seemed like an audition for Marvel.
