When they made Urban Justice, the director agreed he'd do it only if Seagal stayed on set until he was told to leave. This caused a lot of friction on set and even shut down production one day as they waited. Oddly, it's one of his highest rated DTV where he showed up for most of his scenes. Other movies, he refuses to show up on set so they use a stunt double to do simple things like him walking around and reserved the scenes where he's doing things since it's so hard to keep him on set. So it may be a combination of being lazy or just not showing up for work and they're having to improvise.
Here's my theory: Steven Seagal isn't just an actor; he's a mastermind of the 'Cinematic Money Laundering Universe.' Those bargain bin movies? They're not just low-budget, they're negative-budget! It's like they paid people to watch them. There is no way that these movies are profitable. Who's out there willingly buying or streaming Seagal movies? Who would willingly subject themselves to that much Seagal in one sitting? Maybe it's all just a cover-up for the real action happening behind the scenes! I think It's all part of his grand scheme to keep the cash flowing while we're all distracted by his questionable acting skills!
I'm convinced Adam Sandler movies are similar. He can still putt butts in seats and turn a profit, so whenever his ex-SNL buddies who never made it or had lackluster careers need money, he makes another crappy movie and includes them in the cast. The movie gets made, Sandler stays "relevant," thus setting up his next movie, and his buddies get a payday. If that's true, he's a good dude.
My fav moment in the entire film was when he was on the roof top, shooting down, and then he slowly starts to walk away because the enemy returns fire, but he casually squeezes out a couple more rounds without even looking in the direction he's shooting.
Swapping shoulders with a rifle is an actual cqb tactic when rounding corners. Without giving seagal credit someone obviously making the film had some ideas. It has nothing to do with lack of flexibility.
@@Not_Always he asked her out on her 16 birthday and when she told him she was to young to date him he said he has had girlfriends younger than her,creep!
@Not_Always on the set of Under Siege 2, Ms. Heigel's mom had to be onset whenever she was. Then there's the time he asked costar Jenny McCarthy if she wanted to rehearse the sex scene. Even without there BEING a sex scene in the movie, she was disgusted and quit. Sadly, one of the smartest things she's ever done.
I guess if somehow all that is real it would indeed be pretty terrifying that some large, lethargic obese man is able to defy the law of common sense and physics and patty cake people to death.
The whole thing looks like they suddenly, in the middle of editing said "Do you know what? -Steven Seagal should be in this movie." because none of his scenes is done with the other actors present and his character has almost no interaction with the other characters.
It's kind of like those old Ninja movies made by Godfrey Ho featuring Richard Harrison, where the Godfrey shot a couple scenes with Richard dressed up as a Ninja doing awkward things and then spliced those shots into half a dozen asian b-movies.
A couple directors from previous films said that what happens is that the producers tell them to put Seagal in the movie or else they won't finance it (maybe Seagal has some serious blackmail threat shit going on with these producers is just 1 theory as to why he's in so many of these) So they contact Seagal. He demands his paycut. They reluctantly agree on the pay, then days before shooting starts Seagal tells the directors to make major changes to the script to where most of Seagals parts in the movie are left out (IOW, a director said Seagal told him just 3 days before shooting that he only wants to be in 6 scenes instead of the agreed upon 25 or so & that he won't be showing up until after all the shooting is done & he'll shoot his reduced 6 scenes all by himself to be edited into the movie & of course Seagal won't tolerate any reduced pay for reducing his role by 75-80%. He's still to be paid in full & up front. lol) The directors of course object to this dick move by Seagal but then Seagal threatens them to accept his demands or he's not doing the movie & if he's not in the movie than the producers won't finance it. LMAO) He's done this time & time again. This particular film has Seagal using & abusing this particular director on an entirely whole other level of dick move douchbaggery.
To make it even better, it looks like he's wearing the same gear in every single one of his military movies. This opens up a theory that this is his own cinematic universe where he's some kind of Solid Snake/Sam Fisher type supersoldier that can randomly appear on any battlefield at any time and lazily secure you victory with his mere presence.
I have made two observations with this film. 1 - The majority of the budget must have been spent on the huge amount of KFC that Steven ate on set. 2 - It's amazing that his character wasn't the first to be shot given the fact that he makes the largest and easiest target compared to the other soldiers.
When I was going through and grabbing the posters from a bunch of his movies I coulnd't believe how bad the photoshop was on a bunch of them lol check out the ones for "Attack Force" or "Against the Dark"
@FanboyFlicks It's scary for me to realize that I own those movies, have watched them at least once, and have no memory of doing so. Call it the Seagal Memory Hole.
You think he’s doing nothing, but he’s actually in a zen meditative state, displaying inner peace while war rages around him. This subtle performance really shows his range and talent.
A director from one of these direct to dvd films said he always wears some sort of sunglasses because it makes it harder to see he is just reading his lines from off camera
When I say the title of this video, I seriously thought it was a Space Ice video and expected to hear "Sniper, is the Steven Seagal mega block buster hit, where he showed the world that he couldn't be bothered to act in the movie he starred in!" or something to that effect. But this was just as good! Almost fifteen minutes of Mark just Dogging on Seagal!
I actually heard that on set he couldn’t even holster his own firearm and the crew had to help. He brought in his own set of gear apparently but I think it’s because he’s so large that he was worried he wouldn’t fit and didn’t want to appear like that.
He doesn't walk so much as he just waddles through the scenes but there is indeed a stunt double for longer walking scenes or where he has to go up or down stairs. Watch him really move when he's at an All-You-Can-Eat buffet! Sometime the crew has to tempt him back on set with a cheeseburger.
1:40 It is obvious that it is not Jean-Claude Van Damme. He would never play in Seagal's movie, because he had beef with Seagal. Also Seagal would never hire Van Damme to his movie, because he simply dislikes him (he rejected role in The Expendables because of him).
I've heard rumors of a certain "movie star" that has an uncle with ties to a particular criminal organization. Making crappy movies could potentially be used to launder money. Only way this makes sense.
Hilarious how hard they worked to make it look like his equipment and body armor actually fits and isn't comically undersized compared to his incredible bulk.
The sad thing is, that if he prepped for a role and "got off the couch" so he could actually move in a convincing way(do some decent action scenes). He could have gone the way of Sylvester Stallone and done some decent movies. Instead he shows up tired, bloated, and unable to walk down a set of stairs without lumbering. What a waste.
Lol, I don't know if it's just me but your commentary was absolutely hilarious this whole video. This is my I'm a member. No other channel does it like you do.
I've seen this one. I think he's on screen for less than 5 minutes in total. Mostly sits comfortably in a chair and talks to other characters, but obviously whenever he's on screen it's established that he's the biggest badass around. I've also watched his vampire movie. Same deal. He's on screen for about 5-10 minutes, the rest of the movie is just the poor underpaid C list actors trying to make the most of what they can from an absolute sh*t script. I don't think we'll ever see another Seagal movie where he actually does stuff and plays the lead role. He's realized that he can still make money even if he doesn't get out of his chair, and he's sticking with that strategy until he croaks.
"The covenant" has the actor that plays the winter soldier, the deep, and the guy who played gambit. 2000's frat boy meets "the craft" It's so bad, it's amazing
I remember asking chatGPT to create a story starring Breen, Seagal and Wiseau. The story involves the trio fighting against aliens invading earth, Seagal uses his fighting skills, Breen uses his mind powers and hacking skills, and Wiseau uses his charm and charisma to distract the security guards of the big alien spaceship.
The thing is, most of the films with Seagal (and Bruce Willis in his later years) could have been okay movies if the budget hadn't been spent on them. A lot of the actors do seem to try and often there is a plot screaming to get out.
It's honestly the last thing I do before shooting a skit because it gets everywhere. As soon as I'm done filming I'm dying to wash it off because it feels so gross lol
It seems more like the movie was filmed with someone else as the sniper and then he quit half way through filming so they hired steven segal to just sit in a chair and occasionally react to something
I remember seeing a dude from the army do a top 5 of the worst uniform inaccuracies in film, and number one is "literally everything ever worn by Steven Segal"
What really bothers me about the movie is how Steven seagal holds the rifle at times like the stock of the rifle is over his shoulder so if he where to pull the trigger the recoil would not be held. And of course many other things.
I was a Green Beret (18A, 18D), and I was Sniper qualified… if you want to see what Green Berets think of this movie, go watch the Beers and Breakdowns on FNG channel. Seagal clearly saw American Sniper and said I can do that.( even give him a Mk18 and .338 Bolt gun). The rifle he’s using is designed for 1000m-2000m… but he’s in a California town and everything seems to be
"who is buying these bargain bin movies?" Divorced dads and very low income households... I've seen "absolution" so many times i can almost remember the plot
12:27 A friend of mine once said to me "Soap Operas are the most successful TV shows of all time and their sole demographic are stay-at-home wine moms". SOMEONE watches these movies. You don't know them, but they exist. Lurking in the shadows.
I used to have a friend in high school that was a genuine fan of Seagal, like would often go trawling through bargain bins to hoard them. I saw more Seagal with him than the rest of my life combined. He also liked all the DnD straight to DVD movies. The only Seagal scene that puts a smile on my face is one where he throws a katana with a horizontal spin through a tiny window on the second floor to decapitate a guy running away like 30m on the ground from him
My mom religiously watches dubbed Turkish soap operas. They all have the same plot - a bunch of wealthy men fight for controll over a family enterprise, recruiting some underworld characters along the way. The one who wins, gets the best chick and the others either die, go to jail.
@@nataschavisser573 I’ve seen a bunch of telenovelas (Latin American, but usually Mexican or Brazilian) and teleseryes (Pinoy tv soaps, but more overdramatic than even the Mexican ones!) online. They do not have a variety of plots, but tend to make up for it by being full of memes!
Reminds me of the story about William Boudine directing a B movie and the studio was telling him to hurry it up; he said "you'd think somebody out there was waiting to see this."
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Note- Delta Force was disbanded in 2005 by SecDef Donald Rumsfeld. The current name is ACE. It was called CAG or combat applications group for many years. It was noted on C SPAN a few years ago said around 75% of ACE are Army rangers, 75th Ranger Regiment.
I love how the dvd covers are just Seagal’s chopped head on a not morbidly obese body. I imagine most of the other actors in this didn’t even know it was a Seagal movie.
I've seen coverage on this film before from GBorBB, but definitely not this much detail! Seagal's requirements to "perform" are unreal, and honestly, I have to wonder how much longer he'll be around. The report of him vomiting and passing out is terrifying, that’s a great way to aspirate food and choke. I knew a family who lost a daughter when she threw up in her sleep one night, and they found her the next morning... Really sad.
He holds and carries rifles like he’s never seen one before. You know the cast and crew were constantly talking about how absurd this project is when Seagal wasn’t in ear-shot.
You know it's a bad movie when Steven Seagal doesn't even look like a legit soldier. He looks more like someone cosplaying as a generic video game soldier.
What’s interesting/funny about this movie is that, from what I understand, it was actually meant to capitalize on the success of the then-recently-released American Sniper movie. I’m guessing the reason Steven Seagal’s billed in it yet does virtually nothing is that it was literally the only way they could’ve drawn ANYONE’S attention to what would’ve otherwise been just another bog-standard mockbuster that people would spot at Redbox and then promptly forget about.
