America in the 1950's - What a time! Look!

[WilliamSmith]

I remember Nicholas Cage got buff for at least one movie, Con Air, I think. He didn't have the action moves of Van Damme.

@MrMan
Don't forget "Kiss of Death" (1995), he was fairly beefed up for that one too (not much, but compared to how he looked before):

https://www.bitchute.com/video/S6YaPQDukpVI/

Action movies continued to get worse with 'cut scenes.' Those are so irritating to watch. I first noticed them in a 'Taken' movie with Liam Neeson. Maybe it's cheaper to do it that way, or maybe they just couldn't get Neeson or a stunt double who looked like him to do a decent fight scene, or maybe they actually thought those lame scenes looked good.

LOL, if I guessed right about what you were referring to by "cut scenes," I completely agree: All the up-close camera work and fast-flashing cut scenes with chopped up bits of footage instead of choreographing actual action scenes just got more and more lame as movies went down the drain. Even watching obviously unconvincing action scenes with Steven Seagal having stuntmen patiently waiting for him to move in and pretend to dominate fights with Aikido were way more fun than that "in your face" flashy affected film-editing BS that started getting worse in the mid-late 1990s and kept getting worse 2000+ when I stopped wasting my time watching the crappy new generations of action movies. Not even worth the time!

[MrMan]

I remember Nicholas Cage got buff for at least one movie, Con Air, I think. He didn't have the action moves of Van Damme.

@MrMan
Don't forget "Kiss of Death" (1995), he was fairly beefed up for that one too (not much, but compared to how he looked before):

https://www.bitchute.com/video/S6YaPQDukpVI/

Action movies continued to get worse with 'cut scenes.' Those are so irritating to watch. I first noticed them in a 'Taken' movie with Liam Neeson. Maybe it's cheaper to do it that way, or maybe they just couldn't get Neeson or a stunt double who looked like him to do a decent fight scene, or maybe they actually thought those lame scenes looked good.

LOL, if I guessed right about what you were referring to by "cut scenes," I completely agree: All the up-close camera work and fast-flashing cut scenes with chopped up bits of footage instead of choreographing actual action scenes just got more and more lame as movies went down the drain. Even watching obviously unconvincing action scenes with Steven Seagal having stuntmen patiently waiting for him to move in and pretend to dominate fights with Aikido were way more fun than that "in your face" flashy affected film-editing BS that started getting worse in the mid-late 1990s and kept getting worse 2000+ when I stopped wasting my time watching the crappy new generations of action movies. Not even worth the time!

He doesn't look that big in this one.

[WilliamSmith]

I remember Nicholas Cage got buff for at least one movie, Con Air, I think. He didn't have the action moves of Van Damme.

@MrMan
Don't forget "Kiss of Death" (1995), he was fairly beefed up for that one too (not much, but compared to how he looked before):

https://www.bitchute.com/video/S6YaPQDukpVI/

Action movies continued to get worse with 'cut scenes.' Those are so irritating to watch. I first noticed them in a 'Taken' movie with Liam Neeson. Maybe it's cheaper to do it that way, or maybe they just couldn't get Neeson or a stunt double who looked like him to do a decent fight scene, or maybe they actually thought those lame scenes looked good.

LOL, if I guessed right about what you were referring to by "cut scenes," I completely agree: All the up-close camera work and fast-flashing cut scenes with chopped up bits of footage instead of choreographing actual action scenes just got more and more lame as movies went down the drain. Even watching obviously unconvincing action scenes with Steven Seagal having stuntmen patiently waiting for him to move in and pretend to dominate fights with Aikido were way more fun than that "in your face" flashy affected film-editing BS that started getting worse in the mid-late 1990s and kept getting worse 2000+ when I stopped wasting my time watching the crappy new generations of action movies. Not even worth the time!

He doesn't look that big in this one.

*shrugs*
He wasn't that big in Con Air either, was he?

[MrMan]

I remember Nicholas Cage got buff for at least one movie, Con Air, I think. He didn't have the action moves of Van Damme.

@MrMan
Don't forget "Kiss of Death" (1995), he was fairly beefed up for that one too (not much, but compared to how he looked before):

https://www.bitchute.com/video/S6YaPQDukpVI/

Action movies continued to get worse with 'cut scenes.' Those are so irritating to watch. I first noticed them in a 'Taken' movie with Liam Neeson. Maybe it's cheaper to do it that way, or maybe they just couldn't get Neeson or a stunt double who looked like him to do a decent fight scene, or maybe they actually thought those lame scenes looked good.

LOL, if I guessed right about what you were referring to by "cut scenes," I completely agree: All the up-close camera work and fast-flashing cut scenes with chopped up bits of footage instead of choreographing actual action scenes just got more and more lame as movies went down the drain. Even watching obviously unconvincing action scenes with Steven Seagal having stuntmen patiently waiting for him to move in and pretend to dominate fights with Aikido were way more fun than that "in your face" flashy affected film-editing BS that started getting worse in the mid-late 1990s and kept getting worse 2000+ when I stopped wasting my time watching the crappy new generations of action movies. Not even worth the time!

He doesn't look that big in this one.

*shrugs*
He wasn't that big in Con Air either, was he?

I remembered him being more buff, but I wasn't paying that much attention. He looks pretty buff in this scene where his muscles are pumped up. https://youtu.be/De_YpBxvchI?t=307

[WilliamSmith]

I remembered him being more buff, but I wasn't paying that much attention. He looks pretty buff in this scene where his muscles are pumped up. https://youtu.be/De_YpBxvchI?t=307

@MrMan
Hey good post! I hadn't seen that movie since it was out on VHS (showing my age, LOL). I prefer more muscle for my own purposes, but that was pretty funny watching Cage pretend to beat Danny Trejo (yeah right! ), and then he bitch-slapped a homosexual, and then heroically rescued the stuffed bunny before it washed down the storm drain...

Come to think of it, I remember Trejo's role in that movie: He was playing a gross rapist who boasted about his victims and got tattooed for each victim, so I guess the character he was playing was enough of a loser to get beat by Cage... If I remember rightly though that actor Trejo was a real life former convict who ended up reforming and helping other inmates get off drugs later... but I have a hunch Trejo's probably actually the toughest IRL.
I think his first role I saw him in was in "Runaway Train" by Kurosawa where they filmed it in an actual prison and got him to play the role of a guy boxing Eric Roberts...
FYI to @Lucas88 just in case your most experienced martial artist around here finds this amusing.

[Winston]

Btw I don't get something about the 60s hippie movement. If the 1950s were wholesome and happy and economically prosperous as the media and movies and TV portray, then why would the youth of the 60s feel the need to rebel against oppression? That seems like a discrepancy doesn't it?

[gsjackson]

Btw I don't get something about the 60s hippie movement. If the 1950s were wholesome and happy and economically prosperous as the media and movies and TV portray, then why would the youth of the 60s feel the need to rebel against oppression? That seems like a discrepancy doesn't it?

Because the seeds of cultural rebellion were sewn in the '50s. The beatniks, Kerouac, Brando, James Dean, Catcher in the Rye, Elvis and rock-n-roll. Alienation from sterile corporate conformity, which described the lifestyle of many Americans at the time, was considered cool.