
i just got John Woo Presents Stranglehold?
as i said i just got John Woo Presents Stranglehold for PC and waiting for it to install, all 15GB of it!! has anyone else played it and what’s it like. just would like to know what i’m in for befor it’s fully installed and i play!
Yeh I got the demo on PS3 ages ago it was ok the sliding up and down railings is cool and the slo-mo I hope you enjoy it?I have just had a go of a few demos yesterday,timesift is one of the good ones also Turok is really good very fast paced…
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Red Cliff International Version – Part I & Part II [Blu-ray] $18.99 Director John Woo’s Red Cliff boasts some mighty impressive numbers. It took four screenwriters to adapt the 800,000-word source material, a 14th-century Chinese novel called Romance of the Three Kingdoms. There are also three editors, two directors of photography, hundreds of horses, and a combined cast and crew numbering in the thousands, making it reportedly the most expensive movie ever made i… |
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71-Into the Fire [Blu-ray] $12.29 United Kingdom released, Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C : it WILL NOT play on regular DVD player. You need Blu-Ray DVD player to view this Blu-Ray DVD: LANGUAGES: Korean ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Korean ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), Korean ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Behind the scenes, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Commentary, Deleted Scenes, Documentary, Int… |
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Stranglehold $7.95 Experience the excitement of true next-gen action as you take on the role of Inspector Tequila from John Woo s influential action film Hard Boiled starring Chow Yun-Fat. Ensnared by a crime boss with a gripping secret Inspector Tequila is forced to cross the line from sworn duty to bloody revenge. Engage your enemies with intense cinematic gun battles and cause massive environmental damage in real… |
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Stranglehold $0.01 A stunning third person action adventure videogamefor the PCProduct InformationHonor his code. Vengeance is his mission. Bloodshed is his onlyoption. Experience the excitement of true next-gen action as you take on the role of Inspector Tequila from John Woo’s influential action filmHard Boiled starring Chow Yun-Fat. Ensnared by a crime boss with agripping secret Inspector … |
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Stranglehold $12.99 John Woo Presents: Strangehold continues the story of a classic piece of hard-boiled Hong Kong action — “Hard Boiled,” starring Chow Yun-Fat. Experience a world only previously seen in movies, as you control incredible gun battles and dramatic slow motion in Tequila Time. Stranglehold redefines the action gaming experience with its acrobatic gunplay, thrilling cinematography, frenetic combat and … |
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ZACK RYDER – ELITE 9 WWE TOY WRESTLING ACTION FIGURE $69.99 ZACK RYDER – ELITE 9 WWE TOY WRESTLING ACTION FIGURE… |
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Woodland Scenics HO 2 Tractors, 1929-38 WOOD211 $6.75 Ho Scale. Woodland Scenics Scenic Details are thoroughly researched and finely crafted HO Scale reproductions. Each kit contains highly detailed white metal castings and easy to follow instructions. Colorful dry transfer signs and accessories are included where necessary. Woodland Scenics Scenic Details are economical, easy to assemble, and fun to paint. Use Scenic Details to add color, interest,… |
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JOHN WOO PRESENTS STRANGLEHOLD (VIDEO GAME ACCESSORIES) $3.42 Level-by-level explanation of Inspector Tequila s crusade against Hong Kong s ruthless gangsDrop Tequila Bombs like a pro keeping the gangs of Hong Kong on their heelsSurvive gang bosses armed to the teeth with our expert fighting strategiesPull off the coolest moves to boost Tequila s style points and earn special movesDetailed tips on how to earn the achievements of StrangleholdContents:Hard Jus… |
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Appleseed Ex MacHina $34.98 The next installment in the Appleseed franchise, Appleseed: Ex Machina, available on DVD! Produced by John Woo and Directed by Shinji Aramaki, and featuring next generation CG technology, Appleseed: Ex Machina is back bigger and badder!Based on the manga from reknown creator Shirow Masamune, in this movie, Deunan and Briareos are both partners and lovers. As members of ESWAT, the elite forces serving Olympus, they are deployed everywhere trouble strikes. The two fighters find their partnership tested in a new way by the arrival of Tereus who uncannily resembles Briareos before the wartime injuries that led to his becoming a cyborg. At the same time, Olympus finds itself under a stealth attack. Cyborg terrorism, deadly nanotech zealots, and rioting citizens are just some of the threats that Deunan must contend with as she fights to save Olympus. |
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Appleseed Ex MacHina $24.98 The next installment in the Appleseed franchise, Appleseed: Ex Machina, available on DVD! Produced by John Woo and Directed by Shinji Aramaki, and featuring next generation CG technology, Appleseed: Ex Machina is back bigger and badder!Based on the manga from reknown creator Shirow Masamune, in this movie, Deunan and Briareos are both partners and lovers. As members of ESWAT, the elite forces serving Olympus, they are deployed everywhere trouble strikes. The two fighters find their partnership tested in a new way by the arrival of Tereus who uncannily resembles Briareos before the wartime injuries that led to his becoming a cyborg. At the same time, Olympus finds itself under a stealth attack. Cyborg terrorism, deadly nanotech zealots, and rioting citizens are just some of the threats that Deunan must contend with as she fights to save Olympus. |
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Appleseed Ex MacHina (HD) $32.59 The next installment in the Appleseed franchise, Appleseed: Ex Machina, available on DVD! Produced by John Woo and Directed by Shinji Aramaki, and featuring next generation CG technology, Appleseed: Ex Machina is back bigger and badder!Based on the manga from reknown creator Shirow Masamune, in this movie, Deunan and Briareos are both partners and lovers. As members of ESWAT, the elite forces serving Olympus, they are deployed everywhere trouble strikes. The two fighters find their partnership tested in a new way by the arrival of Tereus who uncannily resembles Briareos before the wartime injuries that led to his becoming a cyborg. At the same time, Olympus finds itself under a stealth attack. Cyborg terrorism, deadly nanotech zealots, and rioting citizens are just some of the threats that Deunan must contend with as she fights to save Olympus. |
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At Full Speed $14.28 Breathtaking swordplay and nostalgic love, Peking opera and Chow Yun-fat’s cult followers — these are some of the elements of the vivid and diverse urban imagination that find form and expression in the thriving Hong Kong cinema. All receive their due in At Full Speed, a volume that captures the remarkable range and energy of a cinema that borrows, invents, and reinvents across the boundaries of time, culture, and conventions.At Full Speed gathers film scholars and critics from around the globe to convey the transnational, multilayered character that Hong Kong films acquire and impart as they circulate worldwide. These writers scrutinize the films they find captivating: from the lesser known works of Law Man and Yuen Woo Ping to such film festival notables as Stanley Kwan and Wong Kar-wai, and from the commercial action, romance, and comedy genres of Jackie Chan, Peter Chan, Steven Chiau, Tsui Hark, John Woo, and Derek Yee to the attempted departures of Evans Chan, Ann Hui, and Clara Law.In this cinema the contributors identify an aesthetics of action, gender-flexible melodramatic excesses, objects of nostalgia, and globally projected local history and identities, as well as an active critical film community. Their work, the most incisive account ever given of one of the world’s largest film industries, brings the pleasures and idiosyncrasies of Hong Kong cinema into clear close-up focus even as it enlarges on the relationships between art and the market, cultural theory and the movies. |
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At the Hong Kong Movies $1.01 In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hong Kong cinema reached new heights in productivity and technical expertise — though not necessarily attaining a corresponding pinnacle of quality in terms of script and content. After 1992, the film industry began a period of decline, victim of rising ticket prices, lack of new stars, proliferation of pirated VCDs, and strong competition from American blockbusters. Ironically, the decline coincided with Hollywood’s discovery of Hong Kong’s cinematic talent and a growing international awareness of the miracle of Hong Kong movies.Paul Fonoroff, one of Hong Kong’s leading movie critics, has compiled 600 of his highly personal reviews from the last golden age of Hong Kong cinema into this easy-to-use volume for scholars, movie buffs and Hong Kong film aficionados alike. At the Hong Kong Movies is the indispensable reference, giving you a unique, inside view of the films of Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat, John Woo, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh and hundreds of others and all from the pen of one of the few westerners to become an integral part of the Hong Kong movie world — on screen and off. |
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Between the Bullets $43.48 Through an examination of representative films from the director”s Hong Kong and American periods, Michael Bliss demonstrates that Woo should be regarded as a predominantly religious director, in whose films action is the vehicle by virtue of which a concern with spirituality is dramatized. Contains a chapter on Chinese opera tradition as relates to Woo”s films, an exclusive interview with John Woo, and a complete filmography. |
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Bodycount $16.95 Kevin Eastman”s last major work on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, he teamed up with Simon Bisley to spin a John Woo inspired story featuring Raphael and Casey Jones. Casey and Raphael find themselves caught up in the middle of an international family murder revenge assassination plot, complete with gangsters, thugs, agents, warriors and more…… |
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Broken Arrow (Blu-ray) $16.99 Two military pilots (John Travolta, Christian Slater) engage in a no-holds-barred battle against time and each other in a race to recover two stolen nuclear warheads. A supersonic hit from renowned action director John Woo, Broken Arrow is a breathless non-stop joyride. (Dennis Cunningham, WCBS-TV). |
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Danger After Dark $29.99 Loaded with blood and mayhem, the first collection from Danger After Dark is a trio of action-packed cult-favorites from Japan. In Suicide Club, a wave of unexplained suicides sweeps across Tokyo after 54 smiling girls join hands and throw themselves in front of an oncoming train. Meanwhile, Japanese pop sensations Gackt and HYDE star in Moon Child, a wildly entertaining hybrid of futuristic sci-fi, John Woo-style gunplay and gothic vampire horror. The triumvirate is completed with 2LDK, a vicious comedy about two roommates whose petty catfight turns into a duel to the death. System Requirements:Running Time 288 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE |
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Detours and Lost Highways $20 Detours and Lost Highways begins with the Orson Welles film, Touch of Evil (1958), which featured Welles both behind and in front of the camera. That movie is often cited as the end of the line, noir”s rococo tombstone…the film after which noir could no longer be made, or at least could no longer be made in the same way… It is my belief, Hirsch writes, that neo-noir does exist and that noir is entitled to full generic status. Over the past forty years, since noir”s often-claimed expiration, it has flourished under various labels. Among the movies he discusses as evidence: Chinatown (1974), Body Heat (1981), John Woo”s Hong Kong blood-ballets (e.g., The Killer, 1989) and the pulpy oeuvre of Quentin Tarantino. -Washington Post Book World |
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Face/Off $14.99 FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) knows how to stop elusive terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage). He’ll become him. Archer undergoes a futuristic surgery and has Troy’s face mapped onto his, then infiltrates the terrorist’s world to discover his deadly secrets. But as much as Archer looks and acts like Troy, he doesn’t really know him. He never figures Troy will retaliate and force doctors to transform him into Archer. Now the agent faces a shattering nightmare: his archrival is living with his family.The Travolta/Cage star-power comes on strong and so does the excitement in this roaring thrill machine of a movie directed by John Woo (Broken Arrow). So buckle up. It’s going to be a furious fight. |
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Face/Off(Blu-ray) $20.99 FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) knows how to stop elusive terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage). He’ll become him. Archer undergoes a futuristic surgery and has Troy’s face mapped onto his, then infiltrates the terrorist’s world to discover his deadly secrets. But as much as Archer looks and acts like Troy, he doesn’t really know him. He never figures Troy will retaliate and force doctors to transform him into Archer. Now the agent faces a shattering nightmare: his archrival is living with his family.The Travolta/Cage star-power comes on strong and so does the excitement in this roaring thrill machine of a movie directed by John Woo (Broken Arrow). So buckle up. It’s going to be a furious fight. |
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Far Side Mating Rituals (2006 Mini Wall Calendar) $118.99 Birds do it, bees do it, even cocktail-swilling sheep do it. . . everybody’s doing it in this year’s The Far Side Mating Rituals 2006 Mini-Wall Calendar. Or attempting to do it, anyway. In the land of The Far Side, the mating game is more often a comedy of errors. A lovesick duck tries to woo a decoy. . .a jilted buck receives a John Deer letter. . . a tongue-tied Tarzan blows his pick-up line. In this conveniently sized monthly calendar, each full-color cartoon serves as a sort of surrealist dispatch from the front lines of love’s battlefield. The consensus report? If all courtship went the way it does in The Far Side, we’d have ourselves one big, fat, empty planet. The Far Side. is a registered trademark of FarWorks, Inc. |
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Film $97.3 Film: An Introduction covers the movies students know and the films their instructors want them to know — including the silent classics of D.W. Griffith and Sergei Eisenstein, the Hong Kong cinema of John Woo, the documentaries of Errol Morris and Michael Moore, and the contemporary films of Quentin Tarantino and Peter Jackson. Through meticulous coverage, an unmatched art program with over 500 frame enlargements, accessible language, and unique study tools, Film helps beginning students develop the critical skills they need to analyze films and understand the medium in all its variety. |
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Hard Boiled $14.95 A landmark in film history, John Woo’s Hard Boiled is nirvana for seekers of action (Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle). Chow Yun-Fat (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) stars as Tequila, a cop hell-bent on bringing down the gun smugglers responsible for his partner’s death. He teams up with an undercover cop (Tony Leung, Internal Affairs) whose secret identity as a Triad hitman hangs by a thread. The film raises gunfights to an art form, with some of the most celebrated action sequences ever, including a close-quarters teahouse shootout and a monumental firefight through the halls of a packed hospital. Simply put, Hard Boiled is one of the best action films of all time (James Rocchi, Netflix). |
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Hero of City $14.95 Danny Lee (John Woo’s The Killer) takes on a group of fierce robbers in this taut police action thriller. When a botched jewelry shop robbery leads to the thugs taking the store hostage, Officer Lee must rescue the hostages and capture the thieves before they realize that one of the robbers is actually an undercover cop. |
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Hong Kong Action Cinema $65.68 This book tells you everything you ever wanted to know about the high-octane world of Far Eastern film-making: from the balletic to the ballistic, from the grace of Bruce Lee to the bullet-ridden bloodletting of John Woo, from the comedy stunts of Jackie Chan to the action choreography of Ching Siu Tung, from versatile leading man Chow Yun Fat to fighting females Michelle Khan and Cynthia Rothrock, from prolific action director Samo Hung to Tsui Hark, dubbed the ‘Steven Spielberg of Hong Kong’. It is also a comprehensive guide to the history of Hong Kong cinema, tracing the background to this exciting film genre from filmed Chinese opera, through the work of the Shaw Brothers and Lau Kar Leung, to the mixture of fantasy and fast-moving action that typifies the present day style. |
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Joe Vs. the Volcano (Warner Bros Hits) $6.26 Laughs erupt when Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan fall in love–and fall in lava–in Joe Versus The Volcano, a colorful, stylish laughquake written and directed by Moonstruck Academy Award winner John Patrick Shanley. This first teaming of the peerless stars of Sleepless In Seattle and You’ve Got Mail follows the outrageous fortunes of a stressed-out guy (Hanks) in a dead-end job who is told he has a terminal condition called a brain cloud. A zany jillionaire (Lloyd Bridges) then makes him an offer that gives him a fleeting taste of the good life. In exchange, he must journey to the Pacific island of Waponi Woo and leap into a volcano. Is Joe doomed to be the last of the red-hot lovers? Not if the forces of imagination, romantic comedy and the charm of Ryan in three roles as the women in Joe’s life have their way. Bring your best luggage, stock up on orange soda and sign up for one of the zaniest comedy trips of all time. |
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John Woo $25.5 Film director John Woo achieved international recognition with such boldly crafted, symbolically textured action films as The Killer (1989) and Hard-Boiled (1992). With the recent American hits Broken Arrow (1996) and Face/Off (1997), Woo has become even more noted for his excitingly choreographed, highly kinetic action films. But the directors body of work transcends the action. Neither a superficial action director nor a tiresome moralizer, Woo has fashioned a surprisingly complex and articulated style, one that integrates his emphasis on ethical concerns and religious symbolism. This book analyzes the films and career of the director from his early days in Hong Kong to his current work in Hollywood. Individual chapters are devoted to his works. The book examines Woo as a cross-cultural film artist who draws upon both Asian and Western influences. His status as an action director, his influence on other filmmakers and his use of symbolic material are discussed. The author uses material from numerous and extensive interviews with Woo, and with past and present colleagues. |
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John Woo Presents Stranglehold $33.61 Stranglehold, will bring John Woo famous use of hyperkinetic, choreographed action and freeze framed sequences to the video game arena on PlayStation 3 and will also feature the likeness and voice talent of international action film star, Chow Yun-Fat, (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hard Boiled, Bulletproof Monk) in his video game debut. |
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John Woo Presents Stranglehold $11.7 Stranglehold, will bring John Woo famous use of hyperkinetic, choreographed action and freeze framed sequences to the video game arena on Xbox 360 and will also feature the likeness and voice talent of international action film star, Chow Yun-Fat, (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hard Boiled, Bulletproof Monk) in his video game debut. |
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John Woo Presents Stranglehold $19.99 Stranglehold, will bring John Woo famous use of hyperkinetic, choreographed action and freeze framed sequences to the video game arena and will also feature the likeness and voice talent of international action film star, Chow Yun-Fat, (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hard Boiled, Bulletproof Monk) in his video game debut. |
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John Woo Presents Stranglehold (Collector’s Edition) (Includes BONUS Hard Boiled Blu-ray Movie) $61.15 Acclaimed action director John Woo presents Stranglehold, a stunning 3rd-person action adventure videogame and spiritual sequel to Woo’s action masterpiece Hard Boiled. Stranglehold redefines the action gaming experience with its acrobatic gunplay, thrilling cinematography, frenetic combat and incredible Massive Destructibility (Massive D). Chow Yun-Fat reprises his signature role as Inspector Tequila, pitting gamers as a take no-prisoners cop waging a personal war with Hong Kong crime lords. Tequila’s loyalties to the force are tested when his ex-wife is kidnapped by the Russian mob in Chicago. Tequila struggles to balance his duty to uphold the law with doing what it takes to save his family. |
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John Woo’s 7 Brothers Volume 1 $15.82 The first graphic novel from filmmaker John Woo. Six hundred years ago, mighty Chinese treasure fleets set sail to reach every continent. These voyages left behind an evil plot by a powerful Chinese sorcerer to dominate the world. Now in modern-day Los Angeles. an ancient Chinese prophecy must be fulfilled. Older teens. |
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John Woo’s a Better Tomorrow $14.95 John Woo’s a Better Tomorrow |
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John Woo’s the Killer $14.12 John Woo’s the Killer |
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John Woo: Interviews $22 This is the first authoritative English-language collection of interviews with the respected filmmaker who reinvented the modern action movie and helped open the door for fellow Asian filmmakers to the Western world. |
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Le Samourai $29.95 In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays blue-eyed Jef Costello, a fedora- and trench-coat-wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nightclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef’s shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the smooth criminal. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture–with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology–maverick director Jean-Pierre Melville’s masterpiece defines cool. Criterion’s DVD will also include new video interviews with two Melville historians, a collection of excerpts from archival interviews with Melville, Delon, and others, the trailer, a reprinted tribute by filmmaker John Woo, and more. |
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Medallion / Art of Action $23.95 This DVD 2-Pack includes the high-flying Martial Arts movies, THE MEDALLION and THE ART OF ACTION.THE MEDALLION: Action superstar Jackie Chan (Rush Hour 2, Shanghai Knights) combines his high-flying style with state-of-the-art special effects as he unleashes the power of The Medallion, the film Roger Ebert gives a big Thumbs up! Chan plays Hong Kong detective Eddie Yang, who works with the beautiful Interpol agent Nicole (Claire Forlani from Meet Joe Black and The Rock) and the bumbling agent Watson (Lee Evans of Mouse Hunt) to try to rescue a boy from the clutches of the villainous Snakehead (Warlock’s Julian Sands). But when a fatal accident ends his life, Eddie is brought back to this world with the help of The Medallion and is supercharged! Now empowered with superhuman strength, Eddie sets out to thwart Snakehead’s plan for world domination. Filmed on location in Hong Kong, Thailand, and Ireland. Jackie Chan has got the power–and kicks The Medallion into high gear!THE ART OF ACTION: Go Behind-the-Scenes of a Worldwide Phenomenon! The Best Moments from The Greatest Martial Arts Movies Of All Time! Take a trip through martial arts history, from its beginnings in bloody rebellion to the high-flying action movies of today. Join host Samuel L. Jackson for the most action-packed moments from over 100 movies, including rarely-seen vintage films and modern-day favorites! Highlights From These Hit Movies: Charlie’s Angels, Rush Hour 2, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon…and dozens more! Interviews And Footage Of Your Favorite Stars And Directors: Ang Lee, Sammo Hung, John Woo and many others! |
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Mission Impossible 2 $12.99 How do you prevent terrorists from unleashing mayhem on the entire world? This is a job for IMF agent Ethan Hunt. The world’s greatest spy returns in the movie event of the year, M:I-2. Top action director John Woo brings his own brand of excitement to the mission that finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) partnering up with the beautiful Nyah Hall (Thandie Newton) to stop renegade agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) from releasing a new kind of terror on an unsuspecting world. But before the mission is complete, they’ll traverse the globe and have to choose between everything they love and everything they believe in. |
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Mission Impossible 2 $9.26 Tom Cruise and John Woo, two of the most compelling figures in the world of film, have teamed up for M:I-2, a romantic action thriller that plunges special agent Ethan Hunt into an international crisis of terrifying magnitude. With computer genius Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) at his side and a beautiful thief (Thandie Newton) on his mind, Hunt races across Australia and Spain on what seems like an impossible mission to stop a villain before he can fulfill his own destructive mission. |
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Mission Impossible 2 (Blu Ray) $20.99 The world’s greatest spy returns in the movie event of the year, M:I-2. Top action director John Woo brings his own brand of excitement to the mission that finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) partnering up with the beautiful Nyah Hall (Thandie Newton) to stop renegade agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) from releasing a new kind of terror on an unsuspecting world. But before the mission is complete, they’ll traverse the globe and have to choose between everything they love and everything they believe in. |
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Navajo Weapon $8.11 Read the True Story that inspired Windtalkers, a major summer 2002 release that honors the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II, directed by John Woo (Mission Impossible II) and starring Nicholas Cage and Adam Beach. Based on first-person accounts and Marine Corps documents, this newly revised edition of Navajo Weapon: The Navajo Code Talkers describes how the U.S. Marine Corps recruited young Navajo warriors to create a secret code, using their native language that many of them had once been forbidden to speak.The Navajo Code Talkers played decisive roles in the Pacific Theater and helped turned the tide in the bloody battles for Bougainville, Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Saipan, Guam, Peleliu, and Iwo Jima. Their unbreakable code helped save countless American lives and earned the Navajo Code Talkers the undying respect of their comrades in arms. |
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One Hundred Violent Films That Changed Cinema $139.12 Here are 100 of the most violent films in cinema history, the ones that viscerally affected moviegoers and stayed fixed in their minds forever. Understand how and why these films work through an illuminating analysis of their influence and iconography in such classics as Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch, and John Woo’s The Killer, See how directors kept pushing back the boundaries of acceptable violence, from the slicing of an eyeball in Un Chien Andalou to the chopping of an ear in Reservoir Dogs, from the creepy voyeurism of Peeping Tom to the shocking shower scene in Psycho, Amorality, anti-heroism, censorship, controversy, and the continuing popularity of the violent image to kickstart a movie and provide thrills all receive an enlightening discussion. Plus : an endpiece written in the light of September 11th . |
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Paycheck (Blu-ray) $20.28 From director John Woo (M:I-2 and Face/Off) comes this futuristic thriller that combines spectacular action sequences with a spellbinding mystery that will keep you guessing from beginning to breathtaking end.Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is a brilliant computer engineer hired for top-secret projects. After each job, Jennings’ short-term memory is erased so he cannot recount any project information. Emerging from his latest assignment, a three-year contract with an eight-figure paycheck given to him by his longtime friend (Aaron Eckhart), Jennings is jolted when he is told that during the end of his assignment, he agreed to forfeit all payment.Jennings has no recourse — until he receives a mysterious envelope containing clues to his forgotten past. With the help of a beautiful scientist (Uma Thurman) he once loved but now cannot remember, Jennings races to solve the puzzle of his past…while a terrifying discovery waits in his future. |
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Professional / Replacement Killers-2pk $19.99 Enjoy the two action-packed thrillers, THE PROFESSIONAL and THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS, together in this DVD 2-pack.THE PROFESSIONAL: Gary Oldman, Jean Reno, Natalie Portman and Danny Aiello star in The Professional, a go-for-broke thriller about a professional assassin whose work becomes dangerously personal. Calling himself a cleaner, the mysterious Leon is New York’s top hit man. When his next-door neighbors are murdered, Leon becomes the unwilling guardian of the family’s sole survivor–12-year-old Matthilda. But Matthilda doesn’t want protection; she wants revenge. Training her in the deadly tricks of this trade, Leon helps her track the psychotic agent who murdered her family. From the electrifying opening to the fatal finale, The Professional is a non-stop crescendo of action, suspense, and surprises.THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS: International superstar Chow Yun-Fat (John Woo’s Hard-Boiled) makes his Hollywood debut with Oscar winner Mira Sorvino (1995 Best Supporting Actress, Mighty Aphrodite) in The Replacement Killers, a fierce and explosive action thriller from director Antoine Fuqua (Coolio’s Gangsta Paradise video). After he betrays Mr. Wei, the ruthless crime boss who hired him to avenge his son’s death, professional killer John Lee (Chow) goes on the run. Enlisting the aid of beautiful document forger Meg Coburn (Sorvino), Lee attempts to return to his family in China before they are victimized by his betrayal. But Wei’s army of replacement killers is hot on his trail, and now both he and Meg are targets of their impressive firepower. With both sides fully armed and determined to fight them to the death, an ultra-violent shoot-out breaks out when they finally face off against each other. It’s a seamless fusion of Hong Kong action-adventure style and cool (The New York Times) that will blow everyone away–including you! |
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Tpr-Paycheck $9.99 From director John Woo (M:I-2 and Face/Off) comes this futuristic thriller that combines spectacular action sequences with a spellbinding mystery that will keep you guessing from beginning to breathtaking end.Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is a brilliant computer engineer hired for top-secret projects. After each job, Jennings’ short-term memory is erased so he cannot recount any project information. Emerging from his latest assignment, a three-year contract with an eight-figure paycheck given to him by his longtime friend (Aaron Eckhart), Jennings is jolted when he is told that during the end of his assignment, he agreed to forfeit all payment.Jennings has no recourse — until he receives a mysterious envelope containing clues to his forgotten past. With the help of a beautiful scientist (Uma Thurman) he once loved but now cannot remember, Jennings races to solve the puzzle of his past…while a terrifying discovery waits in his future. |
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Video Hound’s Dragon: Asian Action & Cult Flicks $15.1 Brian Thomas, the sensai of Asian cinema, pens the worthy successor to last year’s VideoHound’s Cult Flicks & Trash Pics. With 600 pages and more than 100 photos, VideoHound’s Dragon explores the hottest film genre that has had loyal fans drooling for years–and, lately, has Hollywood (John) Woo-Hooing. |
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Windtalkers $14.98 In this epic world war II adventure from john woo, nicolas cage stars as a battle-weary marine who guards and ultimately befriends a young navajo trained in the one wartime code never broken by the enemy, the navajo code. |
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Windtalkers $5.28 In the brutal World War II Battle of Saipan, Sergeant Joe Enders (Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage) guards–and ultimately befriends–Ben Yahzee (Adam Beech), a young Navajo trained in the one wartime code never broken by the enemy, the Navajo Code. But if Yahzee should fall into Japanese hands, how far will Enders go to save the military’s most powerful secret? John Woo directs this exciting (Premiere) against all odds battle adventure (The Toronto Star) written by John Rice and Joe Batteer and inspired by the true story of the Navajo soldiers whose courage and sacrifices helped win the war in the Pacific. |
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Windtalkers $19.98 In the brutal World War II Battle of Saipan, Sergeant Joe Enders (Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage) guards–and ultimately befriends–Ben Yahzee (Adam Beech), a young Navajo trained in the one wartime code never broken by the enemy, the Navajo Code. But if Yahzee should fall into Japanese hands, how far will Enders go to save the military’s most powerful secret? John Woo directs this exciting (Premiere) against all odds battle adventure (The Toronto Star) written by John Rice and Joe Batteer and inspired by the true story of the Navajo soldiers whose courage and sacrifices helped win the war in the Pacific. |