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Movie watch - what is it
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It's a Panerai Luminor, apparently modified a bit. Here's their site:
http://www.panerai.com/english/index.htm
Great action movie, right?!
http://www.panerai.com/english/index.htm
Great action movie, right?!
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She's terrible at acting though. Bad english too. We all know she's in there for the audience-drawing Oriental effect. Beh.
I was a little disappointed in the movie. It was put together( kinda) by the guy who made "The Professional", one of my very favorite movies, and "La Femme Nikita", which was also really good.
Jason Statham was pretty good, but underused. If you see him in something like "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels" he's a lot more personable. But he looked great in this one, and the action was amazing if a bit silly at times.
Seeing this movie, I wondered what it takes to put together *great* action/fighting scenes, not just technically amazing ones. It's not as easy as it sounds. Seagal had some great ones in his early movies, especially in "Above The Law", as did Chuck Norris in "The Octagon" and the one with Bill Wallace(the name escapes me) and especially in "Lone Wolf McQuade". The sword fight in the most recent Bond movie was probably not accurate, but it looked great.
Any scenes to point out along these lines?
Jason Statham was pretty good, but underused. If you see him in something like "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels" he's a lot more personable. But he looked great in this one, and the action was amazing if a bit silly at times.
Seeing this movie, I wondered what it takes to put together *great* action/fighting scenes, not just technically amazing ones. It's not as easy as it sounds. Seagal had some great ones in his early movies, especially in "Above The Law", as did Chuck Norris in "The Octagon" and the one with Bill Wallace(the name escapes me) and especially in "Lone Wolf McQuade". The sword fight in the most recent Bond movie was probably not accurate, but it looked great.
Any scenes to point out along these lines?
It's hard to ID watches and knives in some movies. Until I saw it in print I had no idea of what Tom Cruise was wearing in "Top Gun", for example, other than it was big and looked kinda sorta like a Heuer(this is pre-TAG days) I saw advertised as a remainder item in the 80s. (IIRC it's a Porsche Orfina chrono)
The giveaway here is the big crown guard, a real Panerai trademark. They're great looking watches, aren't they?
And even though I *know* there's some Mad Dog action in a Seagal movie I'm hard pressed to spot them without freeze-framing a tape.
If this is of interest to anyone, I'd put Jack Crain up as possibly the most-seen knifemaker in entertainment. Check this out for his visible resume:
http://www.crainknives.com/movies.htm
The giveaway here is the big crown guard, a real Panerai trademark. They're great looking watches, aren't they?
And even though I *know* there's some Mad Dog action in a Seagal movie I'm hard pressed to spot them without freeze-framing a tape.
If this is of interest to anyone, I'd put Jack Crain up as possibly the most-seen knifemaker in entertainment. Check this out for his visible resume:
http://www.crainknives.com/movies.htm
