Steven Seagal

smiaras

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In all fairness to Segale he is the ony foreigner to own and run a successful martial arts school in Japan or China. I've noticed that in in his last few films hes put on an awful lot of weight so instead of having him fight someone he just shoots them. I must watch Under Siege tonight, never saw it before.Saw Under Siege 2 there a while back. It was big dumb fun or so the ten year old brother thought.

lodgepole

Chuck Norris is an incredible martial artist... It may not be that obvious anymore, but check out his earlier work.

Seagal made great crap action movies and I for one am glad he exists.

Along with Arnie, Stallone, Van Damme and Lundgren, he made the 80s and early 90s worthwhile.

smiaras

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Giblet

He was Kelly le Brocks bodyguard, and that got him into movies, he is also married to her.

He does Bushido aswell, and he was well known for being good at it.

lodgepole

Nico, Hard to Kill, Marked for Death, Out For Jutice, Under Siege, On Deadly Ground, Under Siege 2. All brilliant action films.

After that he went down hill... In saying that, Exit Wounds, The Foreigner and Out For a Kill weren't that bad...

As for Lundgren... All I need say is Red Scorpion.

Capt'n Midnight

Originally posted by Giblet
He was Kelly le Brocks bodyguard, and that got him into movies, he is also married to her.

He does Bushido aswell, and he was well known for being good at it.

Surely you means Yendo - the way of the money

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Speaking of Steven Seagal, is it true that he got his black belt by marrying his sensei's daughter, then divorced her as soon as he was promoted? I've heard that tossed around before but wasn't sure wether it was accurate or not.

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http://www.journaled.com/MA/Aikido/SSeagal/main.htm

Seagal Sensei studied under Koichi Tohei (another for Orange County, California) in the summer of 1974 before traveling to Japan shortly thereafter. Seagal separated from Tohei's organization and assumed direction of the Aikikai-Hombu-affailiated Tenshin Aikido Dojo in Osaka which was owned by his Japanese wife's parents. He was rapidly promoted to 5th dan in consideration of his position as chief instructor of the dojo

DaithiSurfer

I loved him and chuck

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15 years ago.
Now i cringe when i see him.

Anyone see executive decision. He was fantastic in it
It was his best part by far.

Sarky

Could anyone explain to me how he got into starring roles

Check the credits of his films. They really are "his" films...

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Sarky

Under Siege 2 was a milestone in Seagal's films. He actually got hit by a gun in that one!

dazberry

Originally posted by Giblet
He was Kelly le Brocks bodyguard, and that got him into movies, he is also married to her.

Don't know what it was called but I saw a film with the pair of them in it. Second worst film I ever saw - he's in a coma for ten years, then mediates for an hour and he's back to normal - ffs.

The worst film (don't know what it was called either) was another Seagal film where he was an archaeologist and was ~set up~. Managed about an hour ('cos it was from the video library so I did try) and turned it off.

But what really p1sses me off is that he'll go around in a pseudo spirtual vain, talking all quietly and serenely and its so fake.

Ok, so I'm not a fan, but the most damning report I'd ever heard about him was in relation to some personal trainer. This guy didn't pull any punches metaphorically speaking, and a number of actors that he trained got a lashing (some didn't), but his beef with Seagal was that the guy was completely out of shape, terribly unfit, yet he was going around with an ego that he was wonderful because the way he was 20 years ago.

D.

Capt'n Midnight

Originally posted by DaithiSurfer
Anyone see executive decision. He was fantastic in it
It was his best part by far.

YESSSSSS !

bus77

Heard a buddist priest decided he was the recarnation of some sort of lama god:D

slave1

a) He presented us with that lovely exploding cake, beautiful piece of cinema

b) He married Kelly Le Brock, nice one

he can't be that bad, I'd do a Wife Swap for 10 days

Capt'n Midnight

Originally posted by bus77
Heard a buddist priest decided he was the recarnation of some sort of lama god:D

It's actually spelt with two LL's
( As in facial expressions )

SheroN

hard to kill is the movie you're thinking about dazberry, and it's not like he recovered after one meditation session, there was a whole recovery/training montage.

Anyone see a Chuck Norris film where he took on the devil or something. It ended with him throwing a solid gold septer across a room and breaking it. It was on C5 years ago. I remember it as the worst film I ever saw.

dazberry

Originally posted by SheroN
hard to kill is the movie you're thinking about dazberry, and it's not like he recovered after one meditation session, there was a whole recovery/training montage.

Ok, I stand corrected .

Creature

I used to watch Walker:Texas Ranger(yes i feel the shame too) a while ago when they started showing it on TV3 at about midnight. Oh dear god what the hell happened to Chuck?! I know he used to be one of the best martial artists going, back in the day, but for gawd's sake what happened? It's like he just plain forgot all his techniques! He does the same feckin high kick and roundhouse over and bloody over again in that series. And then the odd time you get this rival martial artist who just happens to be Walker's arch nemesis and a big mean drug dealer, and when it comes to the confrontation the bad guy gets floored by...you guessed it the roundhouse!

Bah!

Ressurect Bruce Lee I say. As for Steven Segal:

I hate all his films except for On Deadly Ground where the mercs fall into the conveniently placed spike pit. And for showing us Michael Caine fall into oil.

Yes that bad guy in Under Siege 2 freaked me out too! Far to unconventional for me, I'll stick with Nicholai and Mikhail the angry Russian terrorists thank you very much!

Panda

Originally posted by smiaras
as opposed to the other two..well Lundgren was ok.

hahahhahaaa,
i rubbish that statement.
you go to a video rental joint and see if you can find a film called "showdown in little tokyo"

poor bruce lee would be spin kicking in his grave if he saw his son brandon do and say the things he said and did in this piece of ****.

Grom

Lmfao quality thread and actually segal does aikedo or however you spell it, form of martial arts were you protect yourself pretty cool my mate does it and he is well regarded as the best at it outside of japan however not now as he is a fat ****

He is by far the worst actor ever.he is forbidden to say more than 2 sentences in a row in case he bored the audience to ****ing death.His films were ****ing awful kk arnie is not much better but you can put arnie in a roll like terminator were he acts like him self to portray a robot it suited him as for stylone you could stick him in rocky that suited him were the **** can you stick stephan? On Mars ?


As for norris he was 6 times world champion I do believe and it is also roumered that he beat bruce lee behind closed doors however dont know about this fact or fabrication/ and he owned in delta force

Basically they all did something norris arnie sly in there day segal is a fat **** end of

User45701

I loved Under siege 2 , i ddint like any of the scenes with him i just loved the personalitys of Travis dain and Mr.Penn

plastic membrane

Executive Decision is one of the best movies of all time. Not for Kurt Russel, or Halle Berry, but because Steve "My ponytail has more talent" Seagal buys it half way through.

Ivan

Its more like 5 minutes into the movie.

And you spend the rest of the movie going, wow, I cant believe he starred in a movie where they killed him off...

You almost dont notice that its a pretty awful film anyway.

Instead of a crappy, fat action hero, we get the stupid, bad hair, nerdy hero.

....its just REALLY bad.

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The Beer Baron

he also cooks, apparently

Capt'n Midnight

yeah - that's his day job

yeah - that's his day job

What does he do on his on days? Act or somthing.

D!ve^Bomb!

Originally posted by dazberry
Don't know what it was called but I saw a film with the pair of them in it. Second worst film I ever saw - he's in a coma for ten years, then mediates for an hour and he's back to normal - ffs.

i actually thought this was one of his best films:) cant remember the name tho(it was THAT good)

Pink Bunny

Sadly enough, I used to like his movies, now when I watch them I wonder "WTF??? was I thinking.
The funniest thing about his movies is that in every single one I have watched he makes sure that right before the audience is introduced to him , we are clued in to what a tough bad a** he is.........Fellow cops "Oh no one messes with Hatch, he's one bad mother******" "He's an ex Navy seal, trained in blah blah blah"....just so there is no mistaking the fact the he is not too be messed with.
This way we aren't surprised that he can take on a whole army of bad guys by himself. (And yet they always show his tender side to....with a love interest or a puppy etc....."
Makes me laugh!

vibe666

rumour has it that 'The Bodyguard' was loosly based on him and Kelly LeBrock (except from them changing the ending).

Pink Bunny

I saw an interview with him a while back and he said a friend of his asked him to keep an eye on Kelly when she was on a movie shoot in another country (I think), so that's how they met.
I think they divorced a couple years ago though.