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Izašla je knjiga jednog od najvećih net(a i uopšte)kritičara, a evo i rivjua sa chuda: http://chud.com/articles/articles/15081/1/BOOK-REVIEW-SEAGALOGY---A-STUDY-OF-THE-ASS-KICKING-FILMS-OF-STEVEN-SEAGAL/Page1.html

Momentalno leti u listu knjiga za kupit s Amazona.

Taped For Justice: Vern Announces The Winners Of The SEAGALOGY Youtube Contest!

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Vern's Got A Contest For You, Sponsored By Seagal's KILL SWITCH On DVD!

Hello fellow Seagalogists and others,

Steven Seagal's latest and most recent, KILL SWITCH, arrives on DVD October 7th.

Seagal plays a Memphis homicide detective chasing two unrelated serial killers while committing atrocities against dentistry and possibly juggling more than one family. Also he had a twin brother who was murdered during a birthday party - it's kind of a long story. Isaac Hayes is in it for a minute too. And there's a part about a dead clown.

I know in the talkbacks and stuff alot of you are always saying how you wish you could get a free KILL SWITCH STEVEN SEAGAL DVD LIBRARY including 11 important Steven Seagal titles. Well that's quite a coincidence because to celebrate this historic release (and also some movie called CYBORG SOLDIER that comes out the same day) some guy who contacted me would like to give away exactly that, a KILL SWITCH STEVEN SEAGAL DVD LIBRARY. For some reason they won't allow me to say the full lineup, but it's a pretty good one that includes what I consider his most badass picture as well as his recent returning-to-form duo, which I bet most of you don't own. Oh yeah, international readers, I assume these are probaly region 1 NTSC, not sure about that but be warned that's a likelihood.

For some reason the proprietors of this KILL SWITCH STEVEN SEAGAL DVD LIBRARY chose me to give away their prize. I should probaly come up with something "fun" or "creative" to do with it, but I still feel guilty that that one guy broke his hand driving a monster truck just to win a Playstation 3 in that SEAGALOGY contest I hosted. So this one is gonna be simple and safe.

In the talkback below, please tell me why you feel YOU should win this KILL SWITCH STEVEN SEAGAL DVD LIBRARY. Go ahead and be clever or whatever, but sincerity counts.

At the end of the day on Friday I will choose one KILL SWITCH STEVEN SEAGAL DVD LIBRARY WINNER and I will have to contact you through the talkback I guess so check back if you hope to win.

--Vern

Steven Seagal To Star In Cable Reality Show!!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/39219

Vern Vs. Seagal Vs. Vampires In AGAINST THE DARK!!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/39496

Ovo će biti prvi Seagalov film koji ću posle skoro deset godina da pogledam (a poslednje što sam gledao od njega je Fire Down Below, i to u bioskopu). Do sada sam se zadovoljavao Vernovim genijalnim kritikama, ali Seagal vs. Vampiri, to se naprosto mora videti!!

   

Uf, pročitah kritiku, nije baš pohvalna spram filma, ali mislim da ću mu ipak pružiti šansu...

Sigal protiv vampira, pa to ni teoretski ne može da ne valja!

A ja sam bas ovih dana reprizirao Ukletu Policijsku Stanicu.Ako mogu Kinezi,a sto ne bi mogo Seagal !

Quote from: "Shozo Hirono"A ja sam bas ovih dana reprizirao Ukletu Policijsku Stanicu.Ako mogu Kinezi,a sto ne bi mogo Seagal !

Heh, koliko se sećam to ima i nastavak, odavno sam gledao... Kako se beše ti filmovi zovu u originalu?

nešto kao HAUNTED CHINESE COP SHOP

evo, proverih:
Meng gui cha guan (1987)
aka "The Haunted Copshop"
aka "The Haunted Cop Shop of Horrors"
http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0093522/

ima i nastavak.
Meng gui xue tang (1988)
aka "The Haunted Cop Shop of Horrors 2"
aka "The Haunted Cop Shop II" - Hong Kong (English title)

Taj je,taj je....znamo......nego,uzede li tu onu kasetu iz Leskovac ?

Quote from: "Shozo Hirono"Taj je,taj je....znamo......nego,uzede li tu onu kasetu iz Leskovac

kaseta je ostala onome za koga je prikladnija, koga je više obradovala i čijim ukupnim interesima, (ne)ukusu i nivou je bliža.

Vern Has Seen The New Seagal, DRIVEN TO KILL!

DRIVEN TO KILL

First of all, let's be honest: no Steven Seagal character really has to be "driven" into killing. He's never gonna play a peaceful guy living an uneventful life as a librarian or a computer consultant who one day is forced by circumstances to tap into a savage side of himself he never knew existed. That's just not a Seagal character type. True, in MARKED FOR DEATH he states an explicit isolationist philosophy to Keith David and only starts killing a few minutes later when his sister's house gets shot up by gangsters. But even in that one he's already done a whole bunch of killing earlier in life without necessarily being driven into it. He's never just an ordinary non-violent guy at the beginning of a movie.

And especially in this one, because although he is a very successful crime writer under the name Jim Vincent, everybody knows he's actually Ruslan (no last name, like Prince, McG or Vern), former Russian gangster. In a rare visual change to the iconic persona, Seagal sports MARK OF CAIN style tattoos on his forearms. There's a nice badass moment when some young guys are pushing him around, he breaks a glass on one guy's head and then pulls up his sleeves. The other guy just about shits his pants before he starts apologizing.

(Come to think of it I'm surprised there hasn't been a Seagal movie where a guy got so scared he shit his pants.)

Seagal does try for a Russian accent throughout the movie (unlike in HALF PAST DEAD where he was also supposed to be Russian but only had a Kevin Costner level of dedication to the accent). I'm one of the bigger Seagal fans you will find but I have to admit that accents are more one of his hobbies than one of his talents. Still, he's been trying since movie #3, OUT FOR JUSTICE, so it would be a little late to start complaining now.

Following up AGAINST THE DA RK, my all time least favorite Seagal movie (because he's barely in it) and the disappointing KILL SWITCH by this same director, DRIVEN TO KILL is kind of a relief. It's not great but it's somewhere around the upper range of his DTV work. The photography's less ugly than usual, the fights are very violent, the story isn't too convoluted, and he seems like he's putting some effort into it. I mean everybody knows Seagal is a Buddhist, right? But in this movie he wears a crucifix, because that's what the character would wear. It's not exactly Viggo Mortensen going to Siberia and travelling around as his character from EASTERN PROMISES, but it's better than AGAINST THE DARK where his only character trait was "has sword."

I'm also starting to wonder if a new sub-section of the DTV Era is developing. Starting with the great URBAN JUSTICE Seagal has been mostly playing self-loathing fathers. In that one he lived above a liquor store trying to get revenge for the murder of his dead son, in PISTOL WHIPPED he was an alcoholic trying to repair his relationship with his daughter, in AGAINST THE DARK they didn't say jack shit about his character so I will just pretend that he was also an alcoholic trying to repair his relationship with his daughter but in a world overrun by vampires, and in this one he's an estranged father trying to begin a relationship with his future son-in-law and try to make sure the guy does right by his daughter.

We know Ruslan's not exactly fond of himself because of the opening scene where he shows off to his now-customary way-younger-than-him-girlfriend by playing a game where he crushes paper cups not knowing which one has a metal spike under it. She asks what the trick is and he says it's to "not give a fuck." He's a writer who will risk the use of his hand because his girlfriend wants him to show her a trick.

Oh yeah, the plot: right before his daughter's wedding, some thugs come in, kill Ruslan's ex-wife, put his daughter in a coma, steal some stuff. It's obviously a set up and there are a number of suspects: the sleazy lawyer new-husband of the ex-wife, the rival Russian gangster father of the groom (played by Igor Jijikine, the scariest looking Russian in KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULLS), I guess maybe the groom himself, and the one-armed man or somebody. So of course Ruslan has to figure out who did it and kill the god damn shit out of them, plus other people along the way.

There are a bunch of themes going on here, and the main one is revenge. Of course, he's out for revenge (or justice) in a bunch of his movies, but in this one the characters keep talking about it. First, the lawyer-husband tells him he would like revenge, but is not as good at it as Ruslan, and would like Ruslan to get the revenge. (I would chop the wood, but you're so much better at it than me, maybe I'll just stay here and drink lemonade while you do it.) Then Ruslan goes to Stephan, the groom, and demands that he come with him to help get the revenge. Co-revenge. Then Stephan's father reveals to his thugs that he actually (SPOILER) set up the whole thing because he wanted his son to get revenge, to make a man out of him. Rite of passage. Like sending him to camp.

This is also not the first Seagal movie where he still talks to his ex-wife and is better than her new husband. He hates himself but knows the new guy is a scumbag and hits on the ex in Russian right in front of the guy. These are not problems the slim, high kicking action stars of the '80s and '90s usually thought about.

Ruslan was obviously not a great father, because he hasn't seen his daughter in years, but now I believe he's kind of spoiling her. You see, his daug hter is hard to kill. In other words, she's in a coma but they told everybody she was dead to protect her from assassins, exactly like Mason Storm in HARD TO KILL. But Mason Storm didn't have his dad to get revenge for him, he had to wake up 7 years later, re-train himself, then find who is responsible and personally take them to the blood bank. Ruslan has worked hard for his daughter to have a more comfortable life than him, so he's getting the revenge for her, saying "Those who did this to you will cry tears of blood. This I promise you."

Stephan's a square, but his gangster father wants him to follow in the family trade. Ruslan at first seems to think Stephan is a sissy, and pushes him into a situation where he kills somebody for the first time. But ultimately I think he's trying to give Stephan kind of a SCARED STRAIGHT demonstration so that he won't be like his father and will be a good husband.

The action is above average DTV. Lots of shootouts and rough early Seagal style hand-to-hand, some of the trademark Seagal knife fighting. No swords. (I guess Russian gangsters do martial arts, they just don't get into the samurai shit.) Like in KILL SWITCH the fights are almost uncomfortably brutal - there's enough gore in here to match some horror movies. There's a couple of impalements with guys still gasping for air as the blood squirts out of them. The best kill (SPOILER) is the last one, when Ruslan uses a gun as a blunt weapon, impaling his opponent's eyeball.

The best news: none of that Michael Bay on speed editing like in KILL SWITCH. That was literally the worst editing I've ever seen in a movie, and thank God they didn't do that to this one. The only similar part is a weird series of jump cuts as a guy just stands there with his ear bleeding.

DRIVEN TO KILL is Seagal's first movie under a new distribution deal with Fox instead of Sony. So the fact that it doesn't suck as bad as the last two might be a sign that they're letting him do what he wants or that he cares more now or something. Also the Photoshopping on the cover isn't as bad as usual - that might even be his real body! It's actually kind of a cool looking cover. "They took his daughter. So he's taking them down." It is misleading, though, because he does not actually burn down or blow up Russia. (SPOILER.)

I do think they should've stuck with the original title RUSLAN. Less generic and kind of a nod to NICO, the overseas title for ABOVE THE LAW. For some reason DRIVEN TO KILL keeps making me think it's about deadly ex-CIA race car drivers.

That's in for my preliminary findings.

--Vern

Ovaj Vern je.. suvi genije... i dalje.

A film deluje kao da bi mogo da se pogleda u odabranom društvu. Skinuće se.

"It began production this week on `Machete,' the film that Robert Rodriguez is co-directing with protege Ethan Maniquis. Danny Trejo is playing the title character and Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Steven Seagal, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, Don Johnson and Jeff Fahey play supporting roles."

http://weblogs.variety.com/bfdealmemo/2009/08/an-overnight-success-.html

http://outlawvern.com/2009/08/25/steven-seagal-lawman-trailer/#comments

OMG OMG

a ovo:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/1/20090825/ten-legal-row-over-seagal-reality-show-c60bd6d.html

QuoteOne of the ideas pitched to the TV bosses was a show featuring Seagal, Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme all living together.

Verovatno bi univerzum implodirao ako bi se njih trojica našli na istom mestu, ali bilo bi to zanimljivo videti...

U međuvremenu, ovaj Lawman obećava dobru zabavu, bar na osnovu trejlera, a pod uslovom da ne postane jednolično posle prvih par epizoda. U svakom slučaju, ima tu potencijala, odnosno kao što reče jedan tip u komentarima:

"Can you even imagine being some white trash asshole who just got drunk and beat his wife and fucking Steven Fucking Seagal shows up at your door with that scowl on his face and his forehead all crinkly? My wrists and balls hurt just thinking about it."

Steven Seagal is The Keeper

http://outlawvern.com/2009/11/18/steven-seagal-is-the-keeper/#more-6224

Vern je napisao novu knjigu!

http://www.amazon.com/Yipee-Ki-Yay-Moviegoer-Writings-Important/dp/184856371X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258986868&sr=1-3

Universal Soldier : Regeneration - official trailer

Ovo uopšte ne izgleda tako loše, možda i zato što je Peter Hyams radio fotografiju, mada šteta što nije ujedno i režirao nego je to prepustio sinu.

Sad ti je žao, a nije ti bilo žao kad si ga obeshrabrivao kao reditelja na Popboksu

Heh, ali pomenuo sam upravo filmove sa Van Damom u relativno pozitivnom kontekstu, tako da se iz toga može zaključiti da bi za Hyamsa bilo najbolje da batali dalje posrtanje u A produkciji i da se lepo okrene B akcijašima; uostalom, ne bi me čudilo da ponešto i jeste režirao u ovom novom Univerzalnom vojniku...

Dve opservacije. Trejler preterano liči na GI Joe trejler. Mislim, da li je došlo vreme da svi akcijaši izgledaju isto??? Drugo, Van Dam je toliko oteko da liči na Stivena Sigala. To je najveći kompliment koji sam mogo da mu dam. Nemam preterano dobar osećaj u vezi ovog filma uglavnom zato što Van Dam praktično nikad nije ni igrao u dobrom filmu...

Kako nije? A JCVD?

Quote from: Meho Krljic on 26-11-2009, 10:37:09
Dve opservacije. Trejler preterano liči na GI Joe trejler. Mislim, da li je došlo vreme da svi akcijaši izgledaju isto??? Drugo, Van Dam je toliko oteko da liči na Stivena Sigala. To je najveći kompliment koji sam mogo da mu dam. Nemam preterano dobar osećaj u vezi ovog filma uglavnom zato što Van Dam praktično nikad nije ni igrao u dobrom filmu...

Nemoj tako, mogu da nabrojim nekoliko dobrih filmova sa JCVDom...

Drugo, u B-produkciji je jedan od legitimnih ciljeva uvek i bio da se nudi jeftinija verzija blockbuster hitova za one sa plićim džepom...

Quote from: crippled_avenger on 26-11-2009, 18:35:36Nemoj tako, mogu da nabrojim nekoliko dobrih filmova sa JCVDom...

Meni prvi pada na pamet Hard Target. Onda tu su i solidni Sudden Death i Timecop. Universal Soldier nisam reprizirao od tinejdžerskih dana, ali tada mi se svideo. Nowhere to Run mi je ostao u sećanju kao ok film, to je režirao Robert (The Hitcher) Harmon. Oni raniji, kikbokserski, su me slabo zanimali, pa ih i nisam sve gledao, a i onih što jesam se ne sećam. Nakon bizarnog Double Teama koji mi se nije svideo nisam gledao ništa od njega sve do se nije pojavio JCVD.

Ja ne volim HARD TARGET ali kao dobre izdvajam LONHEART, DEATH WARRANT, KNOCK OFF, REPLICANT, IN HELL.

Inače, malo je tužno da ultimate fighter Andrej Arlovski dobija top-billing...

Steven Seagal Lawman
(Series -- A&E, Wed. Dec. 2, 10 p.m.)
By BRIAN LOWRY

'Steven Seagal Lawman'

Produced by Steamroller Prods. and ITV Studios. Executive producers, Steven Seagal, Phillip B. Goldfine, John X. Kim; co-executive producer, Lucas Platt; producers, Anna Geddes, Joe Halpin, Binh Dang.

With: Steven Seagal.

"For 20 years, I've also been a cop," Steven Seagal says, explaining that while earning a handsome living in movies, he's been moonlighting as a sheriff in Louisiana's Jefferson Parish. There's probably a cheeky, clever reality show to be constructed around that double life, but A&E and Seagal treat the situation with complete sincerity, yielding just another "Cops" knockoff with a celebrity hook. When he isn't chasing suspected perps, Seagal instructs colleagues in the martial arts and demonstrates his marksmanship, but the net takeaway is all about vanity and tough-guy banter better suited to parody than policing.

"Steven Seagal Lawman" (doesn't anybody appreciate punctuation anymore?) has cameras tail the actor as he patrols Jefferson Parish's mean streets, where the African-American skew of the local population, unfortunately, creates an almost uniform profile for the young, occasionally shirtless men that keep running afoul of the law in the first two installments.

Although Seagal narrates the action, he doesn't see that much himself, despite the pounding music that accompanies every act break. In the first back-to-back half-hours, the cops arrest suspicious types, nab a carjacker and break up a couple of fights.

There's one fleeting moment of levity when some of the local folks recognize Seagal on a call, but other than that, the whole affair is played with the deadly earnestness of the actor's movie roles -- augmented by lots of talk about Zen breathing and how to bend a guy's wrist until he whimpers like a schoolgirl.

Seagal presented an interesting action figure when he broke onto the scene in movie vehicles like "Above the Law" and "Hard to Kill," but the puffier version displayed here seems to be desperately hanging onto that image. Whereas many celebs have sought to reinvent themselves in the unscripted TV realm, A&E (which showcased Patrick Swayze in "The Beast") apparently aspires to little more than casting Seagal as another crime-fighting hero -- only on the cheap.

Frankly, given the muted level of excitement in the episodes that launch the series, Seagal fans would be better served watching one of his old movies on cable -- or full-time cops on "Cops."

Camera, Charlie Gruet; editor, Eric Wotzak; music, Paul Brill. Running time: 30 MIN.

STEVEN SEAGAL: LAWMAN

http://outlawvern.com/2009/12/05/steven-seagal-lawman-episodes-1-and-2/#more-6301

VERN vs. NINJA: http://outlawvern.com/2009/12/26/ninj/#more-6407

A Dangerous Man 2010 DVDRip XviD-WOW



Plot: After serving 15 years for a crime he didn't commit, Shane Daniels is released from jail with an apology from the State of Arizona. Within hours of his freedom, he unluckily bears witness to an illegal diamond deal gone wrong. Members of both the Mexican mafia and State Troopers are killed leaving a terrified girl and a bag of money. In this action packed thrill ride, Shane must fight his way through a corrupt town and take the girl to safety.

Ja sam inače skinuo prvih sedam epizoda (do sada prikazanih) Steven Seagal Lawman i nameravam da ih gledam tijekom praznika.

Iznenadjujuce su NEurnebesne...ja gledao 4 i smorio se pa prestao. Sigal je neuporedivo odmereniji i manje pompezan nego shto sam ochekivao. Bljesne tu i tamo koji sekund chiste Sigalovshtine, ali slabo je sve to overall.

Vern's Yippee Ki Yay, Moviegoer contest winners!!

Womb to Tomb

RESCUE.mov

Instability

Keep the Change

Trailer for "Hardball 2: Deadly Strike Zone"

Top DRAGUN

STIVEN SIGAL U BEOGRADU:
Kada vidite zbog koga je došao, shvatićete da "opasni momak" ima "meko" srce!


Sigal je u poseti Beogradu kao ambasador Fondacije ''Umetnost, sloboda, snaga''

Kako je navedeno, Sigala je dočekala gradska sekretarka za socijalnu zaštitu Nataša Stanisavljević koja je navela da je deci pružena prilika da se druže sa svetski poznatim glumcem, što će njima ostati kao veoma lepa uspomena.


– Zbog toga smo veoma zahvalni fondaciji, ali i svim društveno odgovornim ljudima koji provode vreme sa decom i pomažu im kad god mogu – rekla je Stanisavljević.

Gradska sekretarka je još jednom podsetila da svi zajedno željno očekujemo preseljenje dece u trajni stambeni prostor, čime će se znatno popraviti uslovi boravka najmlađih.

Rukovodilac Prihvatilišta za decu Danijela Stajković istakla je da deci ovakva druženja veoma znače i još jednom ukazala da su svi ljudi dobre volje dobrodošli u tu ustanovu.

Kako je navedeno, voće, povrće, odeća i obuća u ovim zimskim danima najpotrebniji su najmlađima.

Sigal je u poseti Beogradu kao ambasador Fondacije "Umetnost, sloboda, snaga" koja godinama sarađuje i pomaže prihvatilištu.

http://www.telegraf.rs/vesti/beograd/1881856-stiven-sigal-u-beogradu-kada-vidite-zbog-koga-je-dosao-shvaticete-da-opasni-momak-ima-meko-srce