tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196474091232449207.post2172033535580999326..comments2024-03-15T20:14:57.052-04:00Comments on Direct to Video Connoisseur: Sworn to Justice (1996)Direct to Video Connoisseurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02310858965138247572noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196474091232449207.post-64446356022298765662011-06-08T22:42:59.144-04:002011-06-08T22:42:59.144-04:00Oh, the distorted image, I hated that. I had frie...Oh, the distorted image, I hated that. I had friends with descramblers for channels like that, but it's still no where near what a high speed Internet connection can do. Kids have no idea how easy they have it.<br /><br />I think we're in agreement about the nudity thing as well. Shower scenes, strip clubs, I don't care, just have Wilson sitting off to the side watching them. Seagal is the king of the old dude young chick thing though. Unlike Van Damme and Dolph, who might be in their fifties but like to show off how fit they still are, Seagal is pretty much "I'm 60, I'm a movie star, I'm doing some love scenes in my sweatshirt and jeans because I can.", and I can get behind that-- I mean, if I can get away with that at 60, more power to me too, right?<br /><br />The initial point I wanted to make is actually kind of interesting now that we've come full circle-- essentially that the action movie love scene is the last thing Rothrock should want to be doing so her action movie can be just like one of the guys'-- because, out of all the action stars, she's probably the one we'd most want to see in one! Of course, you still have the dude in the scene, so we're back at square one...Direct to Video Connoisseurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02310858965138247572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196474091232449207.post-69462350213183677032011-06-08T21:29:26.854-04:002011-06-08T21:29:26.854-04:00"now for TJ and his nudity"
MY nudity? ..."now for TJ and his nudity"<br /><br />MY nudity? Trust me, you would NOT want to see that! A brilliant sentence otherwise, though :)<br /><br />Sorry for the long rant, but female nudity is an extremely important subject which takes some explaining! I agree 95% with your thoughts. The other 5% is with older guys getting it on with young chicks. I mean, I'm in my thirties now, but when I'm in my fifties and sixties, I'll still be drooling over 20-somethings, so since we now have cougars, I think it's only fair we have older guys with young girls. This doesn't have to be in an action movie, of course, but it gives us men hope that even old age has more to offer in the women-department than ugly single mothers of five.<br /><br />Also, and I think we're on the same page here, even an action movie that doesn't have a lot of plot, often needs to have a few scenes where some guys meet and make plans. You know, scenes where we find out what's going on? The hero is looking for info on some punks or something like that? These are almost always boring scenes, but nearly always still necessary. So what I'm getting at here is, instead of these guys meeting at some apartment or a restaurant, why not use the old favorite, the strip club? We get to hear the necessary info, but the scene is not a total waste. And these girls would be professionals who do it for a living anyway, so no additional embarassement-factor for them there.<br /><br />I can understand why action guys want love scenes in their films and why producers put them in. An action movie is primarily a male fantasy where a guy is so tough and cool, he can kick anyone's butt and get any girl he wants. But having said that, I have to say I don't like love scenes in general, even when they offer quality nudity. Your example guy, Don Wilson, banged Athena Massey in Virtual Combat. Massey is a babe, but that scene did nothing for me. The previous scene, with just Massey nude in the virtual world... Although a very brief scene, that's a whole different story.<br /><br />So may I suggest a compromise? Get rid of the love scenes and replace them with, say, shower scenes with just the girl? I mean, I love to see Maria Ford naked, but I find erotic thrillers quite boring (and even there the guys are often gross). Perhaps you should put a vote on this subject on the main page or something? If a movie shows nudity, should it be in a scene with A) Don Wilson, B) Don Wilson and Athena Massey or C) Athena Massey? :)<br /><br />Finally, man, we certainly come from the same place. These kids today... Spoiled rotten, the bastards! To watch an early PM-trash with Hilton-Jacobs just because of the nudity and to have first encounters with actual adult entertainment on encrypted channels that showed that negative, distorted image... That was hardcore! Current youngsters don't even know what they're missing!TJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02361258547048668035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196474091232449207.post-75733175448395283332011-06-08T17:50:33.138-04:002011-06-08T17:50:33.138-04:00All right, a lot to get to, so I'll dive right...All right, a lot to get to, so I'll dive right in.<br /><br />It's action oriented enough, but the Lifetime mix with the action was what didn't work, and diminished the great action that was there.<br /><br />I think you might dig it Mr. Gable. It was close to really doing it, as Ty said, but I have a feeling the fact that it didn't work might be more your style.<br /><br />Okay, now for TJ and his nudity. First off, I should mention that a good portion of the early traffic to my site was based on nude scenes in the movies I reviewed. Part of it was just a mere mention that an actress took her clothes off triggered my page in search engines. The other thing is, I often only had nude or scantily clad shots of the women in the movies I was reviewing, because when I first started I didn't have any software to capture my own images, so I had to settle for ones people already posted that I could hotlink. <br /><br />Second, growing up in the late 80s early 90s, before the age of the Internet-- and later high-speed Internet-- nudity in bad movies was often our best bet, considering porn was often expensive or not readily available to kids under 18, and not everyone had Skin-a-max. It's an important aspect of the nostalgia that we can't overlook.<br /><br />Finally, let's distinguish between gratuitous female nudity in the DTV horror or comedy, versus the love scene in the DTV action film. In the horror or comedy, it's more like some seedy "casting agents" are sent out to bus stations in LA to convince all the girls coming in from small Midwestern towns that getting nude in their flick is the best chance at stardom, and naively they agree, only to be never heard of again, marry an investment broker from Van Nuys, and 20 years later her son's shitty little friends unearth the movie, much to her chagrin.<br /><br />That's not the action movie love scene. As opposed to the gratuitous boobs in the horror and comedy, which are meant for us guys, the action movie scene is like "hey, don't you guys wish you were as cool as me?", and often, some of these guys are so gross that's it's only a step below the idea of my parents getting after it as far as stuff I'd rather not see. Seriously, how much are we watching a Don "The Dragon" Wilson flick and thinking "man, I want to see him awkwardly making out Maria Ford."? We need action movies to be more like their horror and comedy counterparts.Direct to Video Connoisseurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02310858965138247572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196474091232449207.post-17334404537645836732011-06-08T17:17:12.529-04:002011-06-08T17:17:12.529-04:00I actually didn't mind the Lifetime plot so mu...I actually didn't mind the Lifetime plot so much, I thought the lesbian-crush thing was handled really well, i'll admit the comical action scene did feel a bit out of place(though it was well doen otherwise) that scene felt it like it belonged in a Jackie Chan film. You'll certainly NEVER hear me complain about a love scene in an action film.venomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06632381738581803935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196474091232449207.post-78610236826862494282011-06-08T10:48:10.605-04:002011-06-08T10:48:10.605-04:00Saw this on Netflix ages ago.
Definitely agree w...Saw this on Netflix ages ago. <br /><br />Definitely agree with your review. It was really close to being a decent action flick, but the Lifetime-type plot hurt the movie in the long run.Tyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06188012325610596179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196474091232449207.post-32449910257914246432011-06-08T08:27:26.789-04:002011-06-08T08:27:26.789-04:00I've had this one in the queue for awhile. I d...I've had this one in the queue for awhile. I didn't realize the premise was that corny. I must watch this. And I really could go for a Rothrock Love scene.<br /><br />Hopefully all her "green" movies go to instant alongside a lot of other green movies.Mr. Gablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10692611832324650463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196474091232449207.post-41497311252819043852011-06-08T07:29:23.792-04:002011-06-08T07:29:23.792-04:00While I certainly agree that a love scene has prob...While I certainly agree that a love scene has probably never made an action movie better and has almost always made it worse, I hope you're not even remotely suggesting that gratuitous female nudity should also be left out?TJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02361258547048668035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196474091232449207.post-50326133652814868882011-06-08T02:29:39.880-04:002011-06-08T02:29:39.880-04:00Huh. I kinda figured when you said "love scen...Huh. I kinda figured when you said "love scene" that this would head toward Lifetime-ville. But, that's a pretty awesome premise, anyway. I just wish it stayed more action-oriented.Our Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11871631563187531878noreply@blogger.com