Lionheart or Kickboxer?

[Ryan Fitzpatrick]

Which movie kicks more ass?

[Drachen]

I would say kickboxer. but it has been a great amount of time since seeing either one.

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Kickboxer by a mile. For starters it gets points for honesty. It's just like containers they sell salt in at the store. One word on the label: SALT (Ingredients: salt). You know what you're getting, they don't try to sugarcoat any of it. (Though you can bet your ass I would buy sugarcoated salt in a fucking heartbeat, likely my last one.) It puts the viewer in the right frame of mind coming into the movie in order to fully embrace and enjoy the asskickings that take place in the movie. Unlike Lionheart, where I spent the first 45 minutes waiting for him to develop a heart condition requiring a transplant only to have a mix up at the hospital result in him getting a donor organ from a lion and then start eating his opponents after he does the splits and ball punches them into submission. I eventually realized that wasn't going to happen, and I spent the rest of the movie howling in fury and cursing God himself for that. If it were just "Beating Up Dudes For a Rich White Lady" I probably would have loved it.

Kickboxer also lacked any pretense that Van Damme could actually act. In watching it not that long ago it seemed like the director figured any take where JCVD got his lines right and pronounced semi-coherently was good enough, and told the rest of the actors on the set to make sure they didn't upstage the star. Lionheart had that goofy shit with the kid and blah blah blah family. Kickboxer had a little of that bullshit but a whole lot less. Lionheart redid Over the Top with someone who is somehow less intelligible than Stallone.

As for the actual asskicking in the film, it's Kickboxer. It has to be. Lionheart leans too heavily on fights in gimmicky locations. They're surrounded by cars! They're fighting in a drained pool! They're fighting in a fucking racquetball court! If you're going to throw a bunch of unorthodox fight locations in the mix then you have to dive in 100% like Jackie Chan and essentially make the setting a third character in the fight. Lionheart feels more like their location scout waited until the last minute and they had to film entirely in places they had to sneak into. Kickboxer keeps it simple and just does it better. They fight in a ring! They fight in a bar! They fight in a slightly different, more dangerous looking ring! And did Lionheart even have a training montage? If they did it obviously wasn't very memorable. If it didn't then it is an affront to all living things.

I will say this much for Lionheart, that Attila dude had some sweet ass muttonchops. Blows what's his name's baldy ponytail look out of the water, that's for damn sure.

[I. Hustle]

http://www.animoller.com/images/jean_claude_got_moves.gif
http://gifs.gifbin.com/g6011619998.gif

[Ryan Fitzpatrick]

SFIE, I think you're underrating Lionheart a bit (of course it's cheesy), but I agree that Kickboxer is better. Tung-Po was a menacing villain for a pony-tailed douche. I'd rate kickboxer above Bloodsport (personal preference), but below Double Impact--his magnum opus

[Frank Dux]

Kickboxer is better IMO. Like SFIE says, it gets right to the action. In the first 10 minutes you get to see JVCD's brother who looks nothing like him and has an American accent get his back broken. JCVD is in his prime and he fights in the old style—with broken glass on his hands in a pit. The training is also sick with him kicking trees, fighting drunk Thai people and doing the splits with ropes.

Lionheart does have have some sick fights that capture that early 90's Street Fighter II feel. Kicking that dude through the racquet ball glass was a great moment in Van Damme's career.

Both great films. Kickboxer wins though.

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

I don't mean to make it sound like I'm hating on Lionheart. It's one of those movies that I find myself watching whenever I channel surf across it, much like the rest of Van Damme's works. For some crazy reason it's really easy to pick up the plot of these things even if you've missed the first 20-30 minutes. :lol

However by comparison I think Kickboxer is atop the list, narrowly edging out Bloodsport, while Lionheart probably wouldn't crack the top 5.

[CuckingFunt]

Double Impact--his magnum opus

Sudden Death disagrees.

Sure, it's got less Van Damme by half, but it's got Powers Boothe, a Zamboni, and a fight scene with a mascot.

[I. Hustle]

The thing about JCVD is all his stuff is always new and fresh for the time period. Like this upcoming flick http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BNzc2MTg1MDAxOV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTU4MjIyNw@@._ V1._SY317_CR5,0,214,317_.jpgAlso, if we are throwing in other movies I have to lean towards Universal Soldier as a cool film.

[Ryan Fitzpatrick]

Good call on Universal Soldier...:lolthe beginning of that movie when Dolph Lundgren has the "I'm all ears" moment is cinema gold.

[SA210]

Hard to choose with Van Damme movies, I grew up with all of them and love em all up to about Sudden Death and Maximum Risk. Love Nowhere to Run, Death Warrant and Cyborg too. Double Impact and Universal Soldier were both badass as well.

Bloodsport will always be #1 to me as a martial arts film. It was so grand and his first starring role, and with this role he really wowed people, so as much as I absolutely love Kickboxer.. Bloodsport will always win out for me.

Between Kickboxer and Lionheart I probably love them equally, if anything Lionheart might edge it out by a hair, that's just my opinion. I really loved the relationship between Lyon and Joshua. The talk/argument they both had before the last fight, Joshua betting against him and Lyon having an epic fight with Attila and then forgiving Joshua...that's what makes it edge out Kickboxer for me. Van Damme could act lol.

As far as Van Damme's best film and just bad assery kick ass "superstar" action, Timecop has to be it for me, and just behind it Sudden Death. Timecop is one of my favorite films ever. Not flawless, but Van Damme truly arrived with that film as a superstar, it was the most well received and critically acclaimed and most successful films to date for Van Damme, and I have to agree with that, fine ass Mia Sara was an added bonus. It has always confused me why he and Peter Hyams never reunited, they had two straight badass films together.

Here are the end fights just for the heck of it :tu


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZp3SPXBR7A


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q3stFYLVa4


But I'm sorry, NOTHING beats Bloodsport. He fought blind, and it's based on true events.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxiV9nLp7-A

[Frank Dux]

No Retreat No Surrender is a damn fine film in itself and pretty underrated. Although he doesn't have the starring role, it might be my favorite Van Damme movie.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lsc8OFbNtw

[symple19]

Fuck all of you in the ass with a rattlesnake eating a flaming 2 by 4

Hard Target!

John Woo plus Van Damme plus mullet equals glory


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLnrsZa4EqQ


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu2ArBfwZcA

[symple19]

That being said...There almost isn't such a thing as a bad Van Damme movie

[SA210]

Yes Hard Target :tu

[HI-FI]

Kickboxer by a mile. For starters it gets points for honesty. It's just like containers they sell salt in at the store. One word on the label: SALT (Ingredients: salt). You know what you're getting, they don't try to sugarcoat any of it. (Though you can bet your ass I would buy sugarcoated salt in a fucking heartbeat, likely my last one.) It puts the viewer in the right frame of mind coming into the movie in order to fully embrace and enjoy the asskickings that take place in the movie. Unlike Lionheart, where I spent the first 45 minutes waiting for him to develop a heart condition requiring a transplant only to have a mix up at the hospital result in him getting a donor organ from a lion and then start eating his opponents after he does the splits and ball punches them into submission. I eventually realized that wasn't going to happen, and I spent the rest of the movie howling in fury and cursing God himself for that. If it were just "Beating Up Dudes For a Rich White Lady" I probably would have loved it.

Kickboxer also lacked any pretense that Van Damme could actually act. In watching it not that long ago it seemed like the director figured any take where JCVD got his lines right and pronounced semi-coherently was good enough, and told the rest of the actors on the set to make sure they didn't upstage the star. Lionheart had that goofy shit with the kid and blah blah blah family. Kickboxer had a little of that bullshit but a whole lot less. Lionheart redid Over the Top with someone who is somehow less intelligible than Stallone.

As for the actual asskicking in the film, it's Kickboxer. It has to be. Lionheart leans too heavily on fights in gimmicky locations. They're surrounded by cars! They're fighting in a drained pool! They're fighting in a fucking racquetball court! If you're going to throw a bunch of unorthodox fight locations in the mix then you have to dive in 100% like Jackie Chan and essentially make the setting a third character in the fight. Lionheart feels more like their location scout waited until the last minute and they had to film entirely in places they had to sneak into. Kickboxer keeps it simple and just does it better. They fight in a ring! They fight in a bar! They fight in a slightly different, more dangerous looking ring! And did Lionheart even have a training montage? If they did it obviously wasn't very memorable. If it didn't then it is an affront to all living things.

I will say this much for Lionheart, that Attila dude had some sweet ass muttonchops. Blows what's his name's baldy ponytail look out of the water, that's for damn sure.

:lol i'm going with this, i can't dedicate that much thought to a Van Damme movie. I haven't seen Kickboxer in a long time, but i did see Lionheart recently and it's plot gets in the way unlike Kickboxer, so KB gets my vote.

favorite JCVD film (haven't seen them all) is Hard Target followed by Time Cop. Ron silver chewed scenery with hte best and I love his line in TimeCop

You see, I'm an ambitious Harvard-educated visionary who deserves to be the most powerful man in the world and you... you're a fucking idiot who never figured out that the only way to make anything of himself with all that fancy kicking was on Broadway. lol, rip Ron.

anyone ever see the director's cut of Hard Target? i downloaded a bootleg copy off of youtube, but i've never watched it all the way through. It's supposed to be far more bloody and badass.

[DMC]

I used to bang this Thai bitch who called me "nuk su kao".

[DMC]

For pure form, Bloodsport. It was edited right. He showed his form and it had Forrest Whittaker. Cannot go wrong with that combination.

"Who cares if Bruce Lee was his shidoshi?"

[DMC]

Kickboxer by a mile. For starters it gets points for honesty. It's just like containers they sell salt in at the store. One word on the label: SALT (Ingredients: salt). You know what you're getting, they don't try to sugarcoat any of it. (Though you can bet your ass I would buy sugarcoated salt in a fucking heartbeat, likely my last one.) It puts the viewer in the right frame of mind coming into the movie in order to fully embrace and enjoy the asskickings that take place in the movie. Unlike Lionheart, where I spent the first 45 minutes waiting for him to develop a heart condition requiring a transplant only to have a mix up at the hospital result in him getting a donor organ from a lion and then start eating his opponents after he does the splits and ball punches them into submission. I eventually realized that wasn't going to happen, and I spent the rest of the movie howling in fury and cursing God himself for that. If it were just "Beating Up Dudes For a Rich White Lady" I probably would have loved it.

Kickboxer also lacked any pretense that Van Damme could actually act. In watching it not that long ago it seemed like the director figured any take where JCVD got his lines right and pronounced semi-coherently was good enough, and told the rest of the actors on the set to make sure they didn't upstage the star. Lionheart had that goofy shit with the kid and blah blah blah family. Kickboxer had a little of that bullshit but a whole lot less. Lionheart redid Over the Top with someone who is somehow less intelligible than Stallone.

As for the actual asskicking in the film, it's Kickboxer. It has to be. Lionheart leans too heavily on fights in gimmicky locations. They're surrounded by cars! They're fighting in a drained pool! They're fighting in a fucking racquetball court! If you're going to throw a bunch of unorthodox fight locations in the mix then you have to dive in 100% like Jackie Chan and essentially make the setting a third character in the fight. Lionheart feels more like their location scout waited until the last minute and they had to film entirely in places they had to sneak into. Kickboxer keeps it simple and just does it better. They fight in a ring! They fight in a bar! They fight in a slightly different, more dangerous looking ring! And did Lionheart even have a training montage? If they did it obviously wasn't very memorable. If it didn't then it is an affront to all living things.

I will say this much for Lionheart, that Attila dude had some sweet ass muttonchops. Blows what's his name's baldy ponytail look out of the water, that's for damn sure.

Good take.

"He was kicking the pillar with his fucking leg, and de plaster was falling down!"

[DMC]

What is that latest he made (I think it's the latest) where he's an assassin and he lives in this run down shithole that has a secret penthouse style flat hidden inside? I thought he was good in that, shitty writing but his acting is improving with age. Without the invincible after training with Muk Do script, he could be a decent actor.

[SA210]

For pure form, Bloodsport. It was edited right. He showed his form and it had Forrest Whittaker. Cannot go wrong with that combination.

"Who cares if Bruce Lee was his shidoshi?"

Springsteen, moron

[Creepn]

http://www.animoller.com/images/jean_claude_got_moves.gif
http://gifs.gifbin.com/g6011619998.gif

Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever clap while you are dancing. EVER!

This post alone helped a million white guys get pussy at the clubs. You're welcome!

[dirk4mvp]

The real and correct answer is Bloodsport.

[The Gemini Method]

You bleed like My Lee...My Lee good f#$k

[Ryan Fitzpatrick]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q3stFYLVa4

The double-punch to the chest/gut at 3:40 is so fucking badass:lol

[SA210]

The double-punch to the chest/gut at 3:40 is so fucking badass:lol


oh hell yea, that was one of the best Van Damme power moves in history. Just sick :hat

[leemajors]

Sudden Death disagrees.

Sure, it's got less Van Damme by half, but it's got Powers Boothe, a Zamboni, and a fight scene with a mascot.

http://gifs.gifbin.com/240720059.gif

[Ryan Fitzpatrick]

Also, who sings that deliciously badass "Never Surrender" song at the end of Kickboxer? That's going on the iPod, IMO

[SA210]

Also, who sings that deliciously badass "Never Surrender" song at the end of Kickboxer? That's going on the iPod, IMO

Stan Bush

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vms4loDZcvQ

Stan Bush also sang "Fight to Survive" from Bloodsport


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCYgQR5PEzA

As well as "On my Own, Alone"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDieau6lYQo

Some classic stuff there lol

[SA210]

Let's not forget "No mercy" by Bill Wray


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FYDp4It2S0

[SA210]

I know this wasn't new, but it was perfect for the ending of Hard Target


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5FDiB-53mU

[Avante]

The 50 pounds ago Seagall would kick his ass.

[CuckingFunt]

http://gifs.gifbin.com/240720059.gif

A mulletted JCVD knocking out (or finishing off?) a giant, writhing phallic symbol is miles better in terms of textual analysis, granted. But in terms of giddy enjoyment I'm sticking with the Penguins mascot's death by industrial dishwasher.

[benefactor]

So much win in this thread.

That said...Bloodsport is where I cut my teeth as far as karate movies go. I think I was 12 or so the first time I watched it and I immediately went out in the yard and karated everything I could find that would break when I punched it or kicked it.

[Stringer_Bell]

I'm more emotionally attached to Lionheart because of the story, but Kickboxer has Tong-Po and that awesome dance/fight scene. Anything Van Damme did pre-1997 could probably make someone's Top 10 list, and I'm kind of shocked there isn't more love for Cyborg or Death Warrant in this thread. I think once they started treating his various drug addictions, his art, like that of many great artists, began to suffer.

But yea, Timecop is the critic's pick, Bloodspot is usually the fan pick, but there's something good in all those old ones. The new stuff, like JCVD onward, isn't total crap so you might end up checking them out on like a Tuesday/Wednesday night for the hell of it.

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[CuckingFunt]

udBAYuS5jgw

Buckets of win.

[SA210]

The 50 pounds ago Seagall would kick his ass.


Sylvester Stallone disagrees..

Van Damme, Seagal nearly came to blows in the 90s: Stallone
Washington | February 07, 2008 9:28:42 AM IST

Action heroes Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal nearly came to fist-fighting once in the late Nineties to prove who was more tough, says fellow star Sylvester Stallone.
The 'Rocky Balboa' star has even revealed that he hosted a party in 1997 to settle the row over who was stronger between Van Damme and Seagal.
"At a party in my home in Miami in 1997, Van Damme was tired of Seagal claiming he could kick his ass so he offered Seagal outside into my back yard," Contactmusic quoted him as saying.

"Seagal made his excuses and left. But Van Damme, who was berserk, tracked him down at a nightclub and offered him out again," he added. Though the fight did not ensue the altercation between the two stars, Stallone is sure that Seagal would fall deficient had the brawl taken place.
"Van Damme was too strong. Seagal wanted none of it," Stallone said. (ANI)

http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/Entertainment/20080207/884226.html


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THsEWTClnjc

[SA210]

I'm kind of shocked there isn't more love for Cyborg or Death Warrant in this thread.

I'm on record with love for both of those movies. I love em to death. Cyborg and his blade from his boot, being crucified and kicking his way out of it, the badass battles in the post-apocalyptic world, shit man all of Van Damme's films back then always had badass soundtracks.

Death Warrant was a film I always wished he made a sequel to. Like going undercover in an even bigger badder prison somewhere else, bigger budget would have been badass. Shit I would watch a sequel to that right now, but he needs to get back to getting with better Directors again. I wish he got back to work with Peter Hyams instead of Peter Hyams son.

I love almost all Van Damme films the same, and I agree Lionheart is dear to my heart, story-wise.

And again, I also like Nowhere to Run, not many people talk about that one. That Triumph motorcycle, going back to help that family, then turning himself in. :tu Showing more of his acting skills in that one, but he only does that with good directors.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2q9URY4XaM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v7DWs4U47E

[benefactor]

Sylvester Stallone disagrees..

Van Damme, Seagal nearly came to blows in the 90s: Stallone
Washington | February 07, 2008 9:28:42 AM IST

Action heroes Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal nearly came to fist-fighting once in the late Nineties to prove who was more tough, says fellow star Sylvester Stallone.
The 'Rocky Balboa' star has even revealed that he hosted a party in 1997 to settle the row over who was stronger between Van Damme and Seagal.
"At a party in my home in Miami in 1997, Van Damme was tired of Seagal claiming he could kick his ass so he offered Seagal outside into my back yard," Contactmusic quoted him as saying.

"Seagal made his excuses and left. But Van Damme, who was berserk, tracked him down at a nightclub and offered him out again," he added. Though the fight did not ensue the altercation between the two stars, Stallone is sure that Seagal would fall deficient had the brawl taken place.
"Van Damme was too strong. Seagal wanted none of it," Stallone said. (ANI)

http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/Entertainment/20080207/884226.html


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THsEWTClnjc
As much as I despise Avante...he's right on this one. Seagal was an aikido instructor in Japan. Van Damme had nothing more than some low level kickboxing success. My money would be on Seagal if both met up in their respective primes.

It's not really surprising that Seagal didn't want to fight him. Most pure martial arts disciplines teach that in real life situations(not tournaments or demonstrations) their skills are only used for defense and not for just beating up someone to prove a point. I'm sure this was most of his motivation to walk away.

Van Damme can get butthurt about Seagal being disrespectful if he wants to...because the fact is that Seagal is about a hundred times more skilled than Van Damme will ever be. Van Damme is nowhere close to his level and he doesn't have to fight him to prove it.

[SA210]

As much as I despise Avante...he's right on this one. Seagal was an aikido instructor in Japan. Van Damme had nothing more than some low level kickboxing success. My money would be on Seagal if both met up in their respective primes.

It's not really surprising that Seagal didn't want to fight him. Most pure martial arts disciplines teach that in real life situations(not tournaments or demonstrations) their skills are only used for defense and not for just beating up someone to prove a point. I'm sure this was most of his motivation to walk away.

Van Damme can get butthurt about Seagal being disrespectful if he wants to...because the fact is that Seagal is about a hundred times more skilled than Van Damme will ever be. Van Damme is nowhere close to his level and he doesn't have to fight him to prove it.


It was Seagal that was doing the trash talking that he could whoop Van Damme..so why trash talk to begin with then if he's so peaceful and above all that? He walked away and even Stallone says Seagal was basically scared.

Btw Seagal had been talking that trash about Van Damme for at least 7 years before that altercation, year after year, and Van Damme ignored the trash talk for that whole time until this incident. Van Damme even spoke very good of Seagal through all of that, biting his own tongue.

Van Damme also finally asked him to fight him in a real ring with referees and Seagal has ignored this, yet STILL talking that same trash. If Seagal likes to trash Van Damme so much and then not back it up, then he just needs to shut up already. I disagree, I think Van Damme would whoop his ass, then and now. Again, Van Damme was peaceful about it for years. It's obviously Seagal who is really butthurt.

[Ryan Fitzpatrick]

Seagal is the more skilled fighter, but if one of Van Damme's punches connected that nigga'd be deadddddddd.


I remember debating this same topic almost 20 years ago:lol

[SA210]

Seagal is the more skilled fighter, but if one of Van Damme's punches connected that nigga'd be deadddddddd.


I remember debating this same topic almost 20 years ago:lol

I understand the whole "I don't believe in fighting" thing, which Van Damme has always said himself as well. But I think it's very telling for someone to be so butthurt to basically cry every chance he can in media, talk shows, reality tv shows, etc for over 20 years now that he can beat up Van Damme, but then he runs away when he had the chance to prove it, then go and still talk trash even after that.

[benefactor]

Seagal is the more skilled fighter, but if one of Van Damme's punches connected that nigga'd be deadddddddd.


I remember debating this same topic almost 20 years ago:lol
Yup...it's one of those endless ones like boxers from different eras.

As far as the trash talk goes...it's only been a couple of incidents from what I know. He something on Arsenio years about him not being a champion of anything and he said something about him recently on that cop show he did. That's really the only ones I remember.

[ohmwrecker]

Gymkata, tbh.

[SA210]

Cyborg was the shit. I swear I wore out the VHS tape on this when I was a kid lol


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko-apxrVSJo


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWurdvvllPk

[SA210]

:lol More win. Just a random helicopter kick in the prison cafeteria haha


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65pqBZCkJgM

[SA210]

Oh shit! Van Damme is reuniting with Director Peter Hyams!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2395199/


Forest ranger and Ex-Navy SEAL Henry is forced by the drug cartel to help retrieve a major shipment of drugs which went missing on the US-Canadian border. While in the woods, he runs into a man who has a vendetta against him, but both men must struggle to escape the forest and defeat the cartel, while at odds and at knife's edge with each other.

Van Damme reteams with the director of ‘Time Cop’ for ‘Enemies Closer’

Jean-Claude Van Damme is on something of a roll lately. While we await the release of The Expendables 2, heralding Van Damme’s return to the big screen, the man has been hard at work on a couple of new action flicks. Six Bullets has been getting the most attention, which makes sense since it has DVD release date of of August 21st, 2012 from Sony.

But perhaps even more exciting is the prospect of Van Damme re-teaming with his former Time Cop and Sudden Death director Peter Hyams for a new project.
That film is Enemies Closer and it’s slated for a release sometime in 2013. The movie is described as more of an action-thriller than a martial arts flick. IMDB lists the plot as thus:
Deep within a forest on the US-Canadian border, two sworn enemies must work together to escape a ruthless drug cartel hell-bent on retrieving a drug shipment which went missing there.
Tom Everett Scott and Orlando Jones co-star alongside Van Damme.

After Dark’s website lists Enemies Closer as being in pre-production (http://www.imglobalfilm.com/octane/enemies-closer). That said, the poster (http://www.cityonfire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/548082_390818207643982_821629353_n.jpg) for the film premiered at Comic Con (also check out a fan-made poster (http://www.cityonfire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/enemiescloser2.jpeg)). Stay tuned to Cityonfire.com for the latest updates as they’re made available. The prospect of Van Damme reuniting with his Time Cop director is exciting, to say the least.

http://www.cityonfire.com/van-damme-reteams-with-the-director-of-time-cop-for-enemies-closer/


(http://www.cityonfire.com/van-damme-reteams-with-the-director-of-time-cop-for-enemies-closer/)

[leemajors]

A mulletted JCVD knocking out (or finishing off?) a giant, writhing phallic symbol is miles better in terms of textual analysis, granted. But in terms of giddy enjoyment I'm sticking with the Penguins mascot's death by industrial dishwasher.

Don't forget this:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rLIFOjB0MaQ/TyEP6McdS_I/AAAAAAAAABA/155UIAtvWJc/s1600/brimley.jpg

[SA210]

Oh shit! Van Damme is reuniting with Director Peter Hyams!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2395199/



Van Damme reteams with the director of ‘Time Cop’ for ‘Enemies Closer’

Jean-Claude Van Damme is on something of a roll lately. While we await the release of The Expendables 2, heralding Van Damme’s return to the big screen, the man has been hard at work on a couple of new action flicks. Six Bullets has been getting the most attention, which makes sense since it has DVD release date of of August 21st, 2012 from Sony.

But perhaps even more exciting is the prospect of Van Damme re-teaming with his former Time Cop and Sudden Death director Peter Hyams for a new project.
That film is Enemies Closer and it’s slated for a release sometime in 2013. The movie is described as more of an action-thriller than a martial arts flick. IMDB lists the plot as thus:
Deep within a forest on the US-Canadian border, two sworn enemies must work together to escape a ruthless drug cartel hell-bent on retrieving a drug shipment which went missing there.
Tom Everett Scott and Orlando Jones co-star alongside Van Damme.

After Dark’s website lists Enemies Closer as being in pre-production (http://www.imglobalfilm.com/octane/enemies-closer). That said, the poster (http://www.cityonfire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/548082_390818207643982_821629353_n.jpg) for the film premiered at Comic Con (also check out a fan-made poster (http://www.cityonfire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/enemiescloser2.jpeg)). Stay tuned to Cityonfire.com for the latest updates as they’re made available. The prospect of Van Damme reuniting with his Time Cop director is exciting, to say the least.

http://www.cityonfire.com/van-damme-reteams-with-the-director-of-time-cop-for-enemies-closer/


(http://www.cityonfire.com/van-damme-reteams-with-the-director-of-time-cop-for-enemies-closer/)



This is good news for JCVD, hopefully they both produce another gem together.

Such as these two..


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EdZya05pmA



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6M6NZD8MpM

[HI-FI]

Seagal is the more skilled fighter, but if one of Van Damme's punches connected that nigga'd be deadddddddd.


I remember debating this same topic almost 20 years ago:lol
Seagal does seem to talk a lot of shit, guess it didn't help against Gene Lebell. Funny thing is as badass as seeing Van Damme roundhouse Seagal, if it happened there would be no evidence back then. Nowadays, every fucker at that party would have their phone ready, as they should.



Oh shit! Van Damme is reuniting with Director Peter Hyams!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2395199/

JCVD must be cool with Hyams, IIRC Hyams' son directed Van Damme in the recent Universal Soldier sequel. Hyams is an interesting director since he is his own Director of Photography as well.

[Ryan Fitzpatrick]

Don't forget this:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rLIFOjB0MaQ/TyEP6McdS_I/AAAAAAAAABA/155UIAtvWJc/s1600/brimley.jpg

Is that Wilford Brimley?

[Wilford Brimley]

You better recognize, bitch!

[leemajors]

Is that Wilford Brimley?

Yes, and he shoots his bow from horseback in the movie too.

[Ryan Fitzpatrick]

His agent must kick ass, tbh

[CuckingFunt]

Is that Wilford Brimley?

He's outrunning the scourge of diebeetus.

[SA210]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emuocz2NWgY