Susan Wrote:Kenji or anyone else living in Japan or Asia...
Is Steven Seagal big in Asia? He keeps making movies, but they go straight to video here.
This weekend John and I saw a movie he made in 2004 called Into the Sun. About 70% of it was in Japanese and it had no English subtitles! LOL
It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen. Obviously it was made for the Japanese market. So I'm curious, is he popular in Japan?
Susan
The Mad American Wrote:I can't speak for now but when I lived in Japan in 1999-2000 he wasn't popular there.
So in the movie you saw was he still doing the old "wear a really baggy shirt and no one will figure out I am fat and out of shape" thing?
He cracks me up, one day he is an Eastern philosophy follower, the next a Good old boy with a heart of gold looking out for the unfortunate hillbillies, then a tree hugger gone mad fighting evil corporations, or a Wise Guy turned good fighting the good fight....If he didn't try to convince you he was all these things in real life it wouldn't be so bad but he seems to let whatever movie he is doing dictate what type of person he is...or maybe its the other way around.
Susan Wrote:His latest movies are most amusing. He wears long coats and baggy shirts and there's always a guy working in a bonzai garden that bites the dust at some point and of course there's a Buddhist monk, because he's SO spiritual. Plus there are a lot of younger martial artists doing most of the fight scenes. But, I have to admit, when he does fight, Seagal still does a good job. He's a great martial artist. I have to hand him that.
Susan
The Mad American Wrote:I agree with his martial arts ability. He is a practical martial artists, what he does is stuff that would be effective in real life unlike the person Jimbow pointed out (JCVD) that pretty crap he does is well....too pretty. I am sure there would be times in a real life situation though were doing the splits would save you...yeah, sure I do.Yeah, JCVD sucks ass! It reminds me of a story with JCVD and Mickey Rourke. Apparently JCVD was talking shit and got in a fight with someone. The guy started beating the crap out of JCVD until Rourke came along and wiped the floor with him.
jimbow8 Wrote:Yeah, JCVD sucks ass! It reminds me of a story with JCVD and Mickey Rourke. Apparently JCVD was talking shit and got in a fight with someone. The guy started beating the crap out of JCVD until Rourke came along and wiped the floor with him.
Like you said, Seagal is more practical. He could kick your ass but it won't look as "pretty" on the big screen.
The Mad American Wrote:....doing the splits would save you...yeah, sure I do.
Susan Wrote:Kenji or anyone else living in Japan or Asia...
Is Steven Seagal big in Asia? He keeps making movies, but they go straight to video here.
This weekend John and I saw a movie he made in 2004 called Into the Sun. About 70% of it was in Japanese and it had no English subtitles! LOL
It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen. Obviously it was made for the Japanese market. So I'm curious, is he popular in Japan?
Susan
Gerald Rice Wrote:I heard JCVD got his @$$ handed to him by Chuck Zito. I'm pretty sure that's =NOT= the guy Mickey Rourke beat up. Former Hell's Angel, black belt in about 400 types of karate, hugely muscled guy (he was on Oz). And Zito's the type of guy who'll punch your light's out and then have a drink with you to talk the situation through. That's like when my mother would spank me and hug me after. You wanna yell and tell her to leave you alone, but that would get you more of the same.