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Old 08-15-10, 09:24 PM
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For me, Rambo.
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Superman. I like sections of what Richard Donner did with the character, but for the most part I have yet to find any of the Man of Steel's cinematic outings particularly satisfying.
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Oceans 11,12,13
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Pirates of the Carribbean.
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Rambo
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A Nightmare on Elm Street, or to be honest, any long running horror series. The characters are usually great, but the movies are mostly garbage.
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twilight (I actually like Alice)
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Again with NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. I watched the bushel of them over the last week and was disappointed how terrible the majority of them were. I wound up fast forwarding most of the movies just to get to the Freddy scenes.
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Jason Statham's Frank Martin in the Transporter series. First movie was fine, the others...not so fine. He's great in the role and the character is fascinating, I just wish they'd come up with better scripts--or just keep it to action scenes. That whole romance-with-the-Russian chick subplot in the last one was just deadly.
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Friday the 13th- only Jason Voorhees is any good
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Jason Statham's Frank Martin in the Transporter series. First movie was fine, the others...not so fine. He's great in the role and the character is fascinating, I just wish they'd come up with better scripts--or just keep it to action scenes. That whole romance-with-the-Russian chick subplot in the last one was just deadly.
Totally agree. I LOVE the first one, but the 2 sequels were both lame.
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Transporter 2 was fun and knew exactly what it wanted to be. Transporter 3 was a turd.
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Kakihara in "Ichi the Killer" is a lot cooler than the movie, the animated film, the prequel and Ichi himself.

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