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LTTP: JCVD (Van-Damme!)

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Finished the Blu-ray last night with my wife (who isn't even a Van-Damme fan) and we were both pleasantly suprised but just how good this film really is!

Van-Damme obviously plays a slightly altered (he has a son, not a daughter) version of himself who gets caught up in a heist in his home of Brussels where he's still considered a icon.
It's cute, funny, moving and consistantly grin inducing film over the course of 90 or so minutes with hightlights being a request from a fan requesting Van-Damme show off one of his signature kicks, Van-Damme mocking the status he's in career wise (as well as Steven Segal), and a genuinely respectful tone throughtout the film.
His 6-minute, one take monologue caught me off guard at first but by half-way through it, I really sympathized with the guy, even though it was a pretty strange way to deliver that kind of disclosure about himself

I highly suggest you guys check it out!
 
JCVD was a very pleasant surprise to say the least. This and Slumdog were my favorite movies of 08. I loved the monologue too.
 
kinosama said:
JCVD was a very pleasant surprise to say the least. This and Slumdog were my favorite movies of 08. I loved the monologue too.
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The monologue was the worst part. Just completely broke away from the movie. Felt uneasy watching it.
 
Like you said the film was more 'cute' than outrageously funny, I was surprised that it didn't push some of the more obvious comedic moments at times. Still the constant Steven Segal in-jokes did crack me up :lol
 
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The monologue was the worst part. Just completely broke away from the movie. Felt uneasy watching it.
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thats the whole part, it is meant to make you feel uneasy. he is talkiung from the heart and was the scene in the movie
 
Kowak said:
thats the whole part, it is meant to make you feel uneasy. he is talking from the heart and was the scene in the movie
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Well I don't want Stallone to just stop in the middle of a Rambo movie & do a monologue on how he had testicular cancer or something. With action stars you want to keep the fantasy alive & not the soul breaking facts of reality.
 
FTWer said:
Well I don't want Stallone to just stop in the middle of a Rambo movie & do a monologue on how he had testicular cancer or something. With action stars you want to keep the fantasy alive & not the soul breaking facts of reality.
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The entire movie was about Jean Claude. He's playing himself in a story that's (for the most part) about his life. The monologue was about himself. It took place in his head.
 
master15 said:
Like you said the film was more 'cute' than outrageously funny, I was surprised that it didn't push some of the more obvious comedic moments at times. Still the constant Steven Segal in-jokes did crack me up :lol
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Yeah I liked that it was cute and charming ...not exploitative.
 
OMG thank you for making this thread :D i just looked on netflix and its there to play instantly FUCK YES.....drunkin Van Dam ride here i come

is it in english or french/ something?
 
TOM f'N CRUISE said:
OMG thank you for making this thread :D i just looked on netflix and its there to play instantly FUCK YES.....drunkin Van Dam ride here i come

is it in english or french/ something?
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It's in french and english ...also, don't get drunk if that's what you mean, it's actually a great movie
 
TOM f'N CRUISE said:
OMG thank you for making this thread :D i just looked on netflix and its there to play instantly FUCK YES.....drunkin Van Dam ride here i come

is it in english or french/ something?
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It's (badly) dubbed in English, apart from the English speaking scenes Van Damme did in the original.
BTW I don't get at the end how he was
sent to jail WTF! He was a hostage or Christ sake
 
FTWer said:
It's (badly) dubbed in English, apart from the English speaking scenes Van Damme did in the original.
BTW I don't get at the end how he was
sent to jail WTF! He was a hostage or Christ sake
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my view was that he went to prison because he extorted money to pay his lawyer. It doesn't make that much sense but oh well. Since he did it while he had a gun pointed at his head, and all that.
 
Solideliquid said:
my view was that he went to prison because he extorted money to pay his lawyer. It doesn't make that much sense but oh well. Since he did it while he had a gun pointed at his head, and all that.
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it was pretty dumb but i didnt really care, seemed like it had a
happy ending.

why would they even cave into the demands anyway?
 
Saw it last night, didn't really like the ending
with the extortion thing
, but I loved the rest of it.

+The intro was fucking hilarious (right down to him completely missing the guy he's kicking :lol)

+ Him talking with Arthur and demonstrating his kick.

+ Monologue completely surprised me in a very good way.

+ End Hostage scene played out real and imagined.

Great movie. Check it out.
 
Sorry to bump this:

But i have seen JCVD and really loved it, i was a Van Damme fan back when i was younger, and this took me by surprise.

But now im wondering how well or bad the movie did? Is he getting any good roles we should look forward too?

I hope to be seeing more of a serious Van Damme instead of a rambo/seagal/arnold rollercoaster.
 
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