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19 hours ago | 
screenrant.com | Padraig Cotter
Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your ScreenRant account Ghosts of Mars is still the closest Jason Statham has come to fronting a Western - which is something he needs to fix. Ghosts of Mars was Statham's first action role, with the sci-fi chiller casting him as a Martian cop in the year 2176.
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2 days ago | 
screenrant.com | Padraig Cotter
Sylvester Stallone may have given his greatest ever performance in Cop Land, but bizarrely, it ended up hurting his career. Sylvester Stallone's action movies became his bread and butter during the 1980s and 1990s, so when misguided attempts at moving into comedy bombed (Rhinestone, Oscar, etc), he could always rely on a Rocky or Rambo sequel to save the day.
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2 days ago | 
screenrant.com | Padraig Cotter
Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your ScreenRant account Twins wasn't exactly showered with critical praise, but it earned Arnold Schwarzenegger his biggest paycheck by far. Arnold Schwarzenegger's action movies like The Terminator or Red Heat had come to dominate the box office during the late 1980s, but he knew that to evolve his career, he couldn't just do action films forever.
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4 days ago | 
screenrant.com | Padraig Cotter
In 2000, Jet Li's Romeo Must Die offered an action-packed reinvention of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. The late 1990s saw Hollywood embrace Hong Kong filmmakers and stars, as American action movies began to grow stale. The Matrix is the most prominent example of a blockbuster being infused with this Hong Kong style, but there was also Rush Hour and The Replacement Killers.
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5 days ago | 
screenrant.com | Padraig Cotter
Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your ScreenRant account Predator 2saw the "City Hunter" swap the actual jungle for the concrete jungle of Los Angeles, which was every bit a war zone itself. It's strange to think that after this 1990 sequel, the Predator movie franchise lay dormant for 14 years.
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1 week ago | 
screenrant.com | Padraig Cotter
Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your ScreenRant account Sylvester Stallone has no shortage of great performances in his filmography, but his work in Cop Land might just be his best. Sylvester Stallone's action movie run is one of the greatest of all time, but when he first broke through with Rocky, he was being touted as the next Marlon Brando.
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1 week ago | 
screenrant.com | Padraig Cotter
Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your ScreenRant account Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Here is a simplified version of the story contents: Timothy Olyphant might be best known for playing more heroic parts, but his villain turn in Live Free or Die Hard saw him play against type in a big way. Olyphant has had a delightfully varied CV, starting out with villainous roles in the likes of Scream 2 and Go before Deadwood changed his career. Both this classic HBO series and...
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1 week ago | 
screenrant.com | Padraig Cotter
Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your ScreenRant account Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Here is a simplified version of the story contents: I have real affection for John Carpenter's take on Christine, so I'm somewhat relieved the planned remake of the Stephen King novel appears to have stalled. Despite being the best John Carpenter movie, The Thing was a critical and commercial dud upon its arrival in 1982. Its violence and nihilism repulsed audiences and critics...
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1 week ago | 
screenrant.com | Padraig Cotter
Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your ScreenRant account Will Smith has revealed why he passed on a $839m Christopher Nolan blockbuster - and why he regrets it to this day. Will Smith conquered Hollywood during the late 1990s with a mixture of talent, charisma and smarts.
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1 week ago | 
screenrant.com | Padraig Cotter
Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your ScreenRant account Arnold Schwarzenegger has made a few duds throughout his career, but there's one scene in his debut Hercules in New York that he no doubt wishes he could scrub from his CV.
