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what with Cellular on last night, the bank job in cinemas and film4, who are doing a double bill of transporter movies this week (tho i think they will be on a 9pm rather than much later - which is the time you want these cheesily brilliant action masterwerks to be shown), and with the transporter 3 coming along soon

i was wondering whats your opinion on the films of Jason Statham???

did anyone else see the bank job???

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Cellular was a really good triller, but that was'nt much to do with Statham tbh. The Transporter was pretty good, but the sequal was awful to say the least :lol:

He's an absolutely SH!T actor, with no talent at all... The bloke only has one emotion - "pissed-off Mockney geeeezaaaahhhhh", he only has on facial expression - "Constipated, Mockney geezahhhhhhhhhhh". Statham is, quite simply, the WORST actor to "grace" our screens since Steven Segal...

 

...And most of his films are utter SH!T as well.... The only reason "Snatch" was any good is because of the rest of the cast (Brad Pitt, Mike Reid, Dennis Farina, Benicio Del Toro, the nasty little DOG, etc..), whom, thankfully, are good enough to make you forget that Statham is even in the film......

Dire "actor", has a face that looks like a bulldog chewing a wasp and has all the on screen charisma of a dead dog

 

Really deserves to be up there with Van Damme, Seagal, Lundgren and so on in terms of woodenness

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Really deserves to be up there with Van Damme, Seagal, Lundgren and so on in terms of woodenness

He's an absolutely SH!T actor, with no talent at all... The bloke only has one emotion - "pissed-off Mockney geeeezaaaahhhhh", he only has on facial expression - "Constipated, Mockney geezahhhhhhhhhhh". Statham is, quite simply, the WORST actor to "grace" our screens since Steven Segal...

 

but i think you have missed the point - if Statham, Van Damme, Seagal, Lundgren were all brilliant actors - there would be nobody to appear in these cheesy (and mostly dtv) dumb action movies.

 

if he was a really good actor, wouldnt the criticism be that he was wasting his time and sqandering his talents in the transporter, crank, crank 2 and war (and i guess you would really want to go see Jet Li, Tony Jaa, Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar appearing in Macbeth or The Metropolitan Opera's production of La Fille Du Regiment as they are so good actors as well????)

 

watched Lucky Number Slevin on dvd over the weekend and even tho i enjoyed it some might think that Morgan Freeman, (SIR) Ben Kingsley and even Stanley Tucci were wasting their time appearing in things like this (and in the case of Freeman esp in the bucket list) - even tho Lucky Number Slevin wasnt the cheesiset film in the world (tho Bruce Willis could smirk his way thru any cheese)

 

and its not like they are like Edward Burns in 27 Dresses - who is supposed to be so wonderful and have so much charisma that Katherine Heigl's character is so obsessed and in love with him - of course there is gonna be no spark when you kiss him Kat - he is a total plank!!

 

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He's an absolutely SH!T actor, with no talent at all... The bloke only has one emotion - "pissed-off Mockney geeeezaaaahhhhh", he only has on facial expression - "Constipated, Mockney geezahhhhhhhhhhh". Statham is, quite simply, the WORST actor to "grace" our screens since Steven Segal...

but i think you have missed the point - if Statham, Van Damme, Seagal, Lundgren were all brilliant actors - there would be nobody to appear in these cheesy (and mostly dtv) dumb action movies.

 

if he was a really good actor, wouldnt the criticism be that he was wasting his time and sqandering his talents in the transporter, crank, crank 2 and war (and i guess you would really want to go see Jet Li, Tony Jaa, Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar appearing in Macbeth or The Metropolitan Opera's production of La Fille Du Regiment as they are so good actors as well????)

 

The thing about Lundgren, Segal, Van Damme, etc, is that they know their limitations, they know full well that they cannot really act, so dont even try to move out of their comfort zones.. Statham on the other hand is actually under some sort of delusion that he's on a par with Michael Caine or Ray Winstone... Look at "The Bank Job", a pretty decent film actually, dragged down by his presence. In the 70s, you'd have a few 'tough nut' actors like Ian McShane, John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, or hell, even Lewis Collins to make far a more decent fist of the semi-decent script from Clemens and La Frenais, Statham just isn't in this league at all, but that doesn't seem to stop him trying does it...? "The Bank Job" would've been a better film had an actor of the calibre of these guys I mentioned been in the film, same goes for "Snatch"; but of course, with "Snatch" it's more of an ensemble cast, so Statham doesn't ruin that one purely by virtue of the fact that the other actors more than compensate for his incredible lack of talent.... Mind you, even Ray Liotta couldn't save the hopeless pile of sh!t that was "Revolver".....

 

Statham needs to stick to DTV rubbish like "The Transporter", it's his level, on NO account should this guy ever be given a decent film to fukk up, and with someone more able, "The Bank Job" would've been a lot better than it came off as being....

 

To be honest, I had no problems with "Lucky Number Slevin", true, the cast made that film better than it probably was, but that proves my point - a good cast will elevate slightly mediocre material, a bad piece of casting will drag down something that's actually better than it comes off as being..

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there's only one good thing about him:

 

He's DEAD SEXY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

there's only one good thing about him:

 

He's DEAD SEXY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

WOT???? :puke2: You think the ugly, square-jawed git is actually sexy????? :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

WOT???? :puke2: You think the ugly, square-jawed git is actually sexy????? :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

he is really manly and muscular and sexy... here's the proof.....

 

 

 

if this guy isn't sexy , then i don't know who is sexy !!!!!

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he may have a 25 inch cucumber, but doubt he has a 25 inch c**k. lol :P

not the worst actor. He fulfills certain roles in the action genre, but there are many with more depth and range than him. Don't think he is that hot personally, not a very nice face. But the strong jaw and baldy head with the gravelly voice and good body i imagine works for quite a few ppl! :lol:

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Statham needs to stick to DTV rubbish like "The Transporter",

 

well you be happy to learn that the transporter 3 is coming hot on the heels of taxi 4

 

it's his level, on NO account should this guy ever be given a decent film to fukk up, and with someone more able, "The Bank Job" would've been a lot better than it came off as being....

 

but then seeing its Clement and La Frenais who are famous for writing The Likely Lads, The Commitments, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen Pet - maybe it should have been so so much more better - even tho it was a slightly different type of adaptation its no commitments.

 

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Hollywood is turning to British actors for leading action roles because of a dearth of American macho men.

 

While the US film industry was once dominated by "men's men" such as Steve McQueen, today's homegrown stars have difficulty portraying tough guys.

 

As a result, directors are looking across the Atlantic and to brawny British actors including Gerard Butler, star of historical war epic 300, and Jason Statham, who has carved out a niche in high-octane action movies.

 

The star of the year's highest-grossing film, The Dark Knight, is Britain's Christian Bale as a brooding Batman who despatches his enemies with an array of martial arts skills.

 

In its latest edition, Variety asks plaintively: "Where did America's tough guys go?" It goes on: "Not so long ago, Hollywood's male stars were men's men.

 

"Think John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Humphrey Bogart and Steve McQueen...

 

"These days, studios are hard-pressed to find home-grown traditional male leads to carry their pictures. Their star rosters include countless boy-men who, even after they turn 40, are less than credible macho movie stars."

 

They include the "fey" Johnny Depp and the "goofy and boyish" Brendan Fraser, star of The Mummy franchise.

 

The only US actors capable of playing tough guys are now on the wrong side of 50, the magazine added, naming Bruce Willis, Harrison Ford and Samuel L Jackson.

 

Identifying the trend for using non-US actors, Variety notes: "Not atypically, the year's top-grossing film, The Dark Knight, stars Brits Christian Bale and Michael Caine alongside the late Heath Ledger, from Down Under.

"Two of the top rising stars right now are both from the UK - 300 star Gerard Butler and Jason Statham."

 

Butler, a 38-year-old Glaswegian, played King Leonidas in box office hit 300 and recently signed up to play a police officer who takes on Al Capone in Brian de Palma's prequel to The Untouchables.

 

Statham, 35, is a former Olympic diver who performs many of his own stunts. He made his debut in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and has since appeared in a string of action films including The Transporter series and Death Race.

 

Robert Relyea, a veteran producer who worked with McQueen on Bullitt, The Great Escape and The Magnificent Seven, said: "My directors always tried to seek out people who had 'it', which does not exist today.

 

"You've got copycats trying to be McQueen. They don't get it.

 

"These guys had a masculinity and toughness that came across. McQueen didn't give a damn who his make-up man was. It's not fashionable for actors to be all-American men now. They have to be strange and different."

 

Source: Sunday Telegraph

Do you agree there are no young American male film action hero's anymore?

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Do you agree there are no young American male film action hero's anymore?

 

It's weird innit...? They even had to get James McAvoy to play the kinda nerdy "action" hero in "Wanted"..... :lol: :lol:

 

It could also have summat to do with many Hollywood actors pricing themselves out of a lot of roles, demanding too much money or acting too much like divas.... :rolleyes:

 

To be honest, I'd say that Angelina Jolie is more 'butch' and tough than a lot of the prissy, Hollywood girlymen out there..... :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

I'd say the the closest thing they have to a genuine Old-Skool Hollywood "man's man" is probably the likes of Keifer Sutherland (a great action star as "24" proves, he should be given a lot more film 'tough-guy' roles) or George Clooney (more in the Cary Grant/Paul Newman/Robert Redford mould, but still, a total Gent, wasn't his fault "Batman and Robin" was cr@p, it was the director's fault....).

I f***ing loved this film because of Tyrese <3.

 

'Llow Statham man totally agree with what Scott wrote.

His face still is quite nice though lol.

I watched Death Race on Monday at the cinema AMAZING flim! i thought he was a pretty good actor!
I watched Death Race on Monday at the cinema AMAZING flim! i thought he was a pretty good actor!

 

He was his usual self really... But at least in this no-brainer film, his usual duff acting actually worked for him... Ian McShane and Joan Allen were great.... I liked Allen's whole Sarah Palin/Thatcher mixed with a total fukkin' psychotic portrayal of the Warden... Was it just me, or was she actually kinda hot in a weird sort of way.....? Do I need help for thinking this.....? :rolleyes:

 

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He was his usual self really... But at least in this no-brainer film, his usual duff acting actually worked for him... Ian McShane and Joan Allen were great.... I liked Allen's whole Sarah Palin/Thatcher mixed with a total fukkin' psychotic portrayal of the Warden... Was it just me, or was she actually kinda hot in a weird sort of way.....? Do I need help for thinking this.....? :rolleyes:

 

perhaps, perhaps, perhaps :lol:

 

i thought that Joan Allen's face was just weird...slightly been over more times than the actual cars...but yeah needed that kind of character in the film (tho maybe she could have been even a bit more overbarring going much more towards Meryl Streep's Miranda Priestly in devil wears prada or even Wilhelmina Slater in ugly betty)

 

but yeah both me and brother enjoyed this..(brother also pointing out loudly that "It's Love-Joy" when Ian McShane came in the film...maybe i could have told him to shut the f*** up in an 'Al Sweareyman' mode - tho it wouldn't be too much of a diversion to the plot and that pun would only work if you're really really dyslexic :lol:)

 

even tho the plot is just really a big screen remake of the best of top gear yeah kept me intersted to near the end - tho should have ended on that shot of McShane rather than pointless felt tacked on ending

 

i think it would work much better on dvd as one of those films you put on coming back from a few beers..tho also would have like to see it if Robert Rodriguez had made it rather than grindhouse with a script by Quentin Tarantino...as bizarrely i was thinking about From Dusk till Dawn after coming out of the cinema and what would have happened if it had been made in the 1990s as the follow up to that film in a fish call wanda/Fierce Creatures way :lol: with George Clooney as Jason Statham as Jensen Ames, with Fred Williamson as machine gun joe (well Tyrese Gibson was not really that menicing), Tom Savini in Sex Machine mode as Grimm, Danny Trejo as Pachenko, and Tarantino as the stuttering team gimp :lol: :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

i think it would work much better on dvd as one of those films you put on coming back from a few beers..tho also would have like to see it if Robert Rodriguez had made it rather than grindhouse with a script by Quentin Tarantino...as bizarrely i was thinking about From Dusk till Dawn after coming out of the cinema and what would have happened if it had been made in the 1990s as the follow up to that film in a fish call wanda/Fierce Creatures way :lol: with George Clooney as Jason Statham as Jensen Ames, with Fred Williamson as machine gun joe (well Tyrese Gibson was not really that menicing), Tom Savini in Sex Machine mode as Grimm, Danny Trejo as Pachenko, and Tarantino as the stuttering team gimp :lol: :lol:

 

That actually would be a better film.... :lol:

 

Although, I'd perhaps replace Tarantino with Steve Buscemi for the "Team Gimp" role..... :P Clooney would've made a great Jenson Ames....

 

Has anyone seen the original Death Race? Its called Death Race 2000 and has Sly Stallone in....... tis proper $h!te!!

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