A couple of days ago I was hanging out with friends and for some reason The Protector was on TV.  My friend had TiVo so he rewinded it as far as he could and we watched a fight scene that took place in a parking garage.  The fight scene was really cool, so we watched more of the movie.
Turns out the movie is a piece of shit but the fights are really great.  So we just skipped the movie and only watched the fights.

The movie is terrible but the fight scenes are really cool.
I could've done without the second last fight scene, though, where the main character fought against what seemed like 50 bodyguards and broke bones in every single on of them.  Then he took elephant bones and cut all the tendons in some muscle man's body.
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Note how it's all one take.

One take?! That's fucking amazing.

Quote from: Poisonberryclock;1378206One take?! That's fucking amazing.

It wasn't done in one take, it took 5 takes, but as you can see it's one continuous shot.

Children of Men had like a 8 minute "continuous" shot through a battlefield.

But it needed to take two takes since blood got on the camera.

I really like the camera in this. It kinda just goes with the flow and doesn't constantly stay with the lead character. It also obviously doesn't change shot which is nice and it kinda catches up with the guy after he does a cool trick and throws some guy of many many floors up.

haha the balcony break on 00:33 looked super fake.  Anyway kudos to the camera director for this cool scene.

Oh, yeah, I saw this movie on Spike. The Camera reminds me of something from a video game, like a rail shooter.

Quote from: GearBox;1378453Oh, yeah, I saw this movie on Spike. The Camera reminds me of something from a video game, like a rail shooter.

The camera gave me that feeling as well, but I couldn't quite put my finger on what it felt like, so thank you.
I'm now expecting someone to edit that video to have an HUD and to have on-screen prompts appear like "WATCH OUT" with the bullets hitting the guys when they fall down.

Quote from: Eric Foreman;1378454The camera gave me that feeling as well, but I couldn't quite put my finger on what it felt like, so thank you.
I'm now expecting someone to edit that video to have an HUD and to have on-screen prompts appear like "WATCH OUT" with the bullets hitting the guys when they fall down.

That would be quite awesome indeed.

ha i saw this movie when it came out on DVD. I saw the special features, turns out the camera man had to physically prepare himself for months before shooting and it took 4 or 5 takes before they got the perfect shot. Its awesome how he keeps it so steady.

Also, the actor did all of his own stunts, without any strings or wires. The movie was terrible, but the amount of effort amazes me.

Quote from: Eric Foreman;1378454The camera gave me that feeling as well, but I couldn't quite put my finger on what it felt like, so thank you.
I'm now expecting someone to edit that video to have an HUD and to have on-screen prompts appear like "WATCH OUT" with the bullets hitting the guys when they fall down.

I felt like I was some kind of useless sidekick, maybe as the generic movie hacker that needs to be bodyguarded around the whole scene.

Quote from: TurtleSoup;1378466I felt like I was some kind of useless sidekick, maybe as the generic movie hacker that needs to be bodyguarded around the whole scene.

That was one helluva fight.

Quote from: TequilaClock;1378452haha the balcony break on 00:33 looked super fake.

Really?  I looked at the guy bouncing off the floor and was like "Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit".
Then again, he did bounce off the floor.

and then suddenly
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I read on the internet that during one take, Tona Jaa stopped fighting to go perform CPR on one of the stuntmen he threw over the ledge; he was injured due to a prop malfunction.
Tony Jaa owns.

Slurpee, your posts have been making my day all week.

I do what I can.

Quote from: Slurpee;1378714and then suddenly
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Lmao, that's great!
I'd edit a rails-shooter one myself if I could, but oh well.

QuoteI read on the internet that during one take, Tona Jaa stopped fighting to go perform CPR on one of the stuntmen he threw over the ledge; he was injured due to a prop malfunction.
Tony Jaa owns.

I also read that on one of the takes Tony Jaa stopped himself from throwing a stuntman over the ledge because he noticed the mats weren't in place yet, and saved the man's life.
Might be two conflicting stories about the same take, but either way it's more interesting than the story of the movie was (which is a shame because the fight scenes were pretty damn awesome).