[quote=“Ordell Rodriguez”]
Damn our safety standards. I’d bet that there are plenty of actors and stuntmen still willing to risk life and limb for movies. If only there was a director as indifferent to getting into trouble, action movies might get somewhere.
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Any director working in the studio system doesn’t have much of a choice really. The only place you’d find directors whose hands aren’t tied when it comes to safety is in the independent film scene. The problem is that most of them aren’t making studio films because they don’t want to make genre pictures, or they don’t have the money so they get creative (like in the case of Reservoir Dogs where virtually all of the heist scene is excised), or they use CG/aftereffects to solve their problems.
One of the biggest issues that Woo faced when he came to the US was the restrictions for an R rating. He had to cut down the amount of shots fired in a scene and the amount of times each person was shot, which in an old Woo film is a lot on both of those counts.
Beneath Hill 60 8/10
Pretty decent Australian war film about a bunch of engineers and miners tasked with tunneling under German lines in World War 1 and detonating explosives. Based on a true story.
Freddy Got Fingered 6/10
Wut? I just don’t even…