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Something about the fight scenes...

posted 13 years ago by SasquatchJim
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When I was watching this movie, I couldn't help but think that the hand-to-hand fights were somehow very different than the fights of the first two. Did anyone else feel the same way? I don't know whether it was how they were shot, how they were paced, etc., but to me, it just didn't feel the same as the fights in the first two.

Does anyone know what I'm referring to, and/or what exactly they did differently?

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[–] grantale 13 years ago

YEah totally agreed, can't put my finger on it but something was different that made them less memorable

[–] djee_dabbul_ie_pie 13 years ago

The third movie has a different director than the first two movies. This director is rather unexperienced and took really strange camera angles for filming the fights. Furthermore he fastforwarded and slowed down many parts in the fighting scene but in a very fuzzy way making them look less 'natural'.

[–] zwixxx 13 years ago

I'm with you all on the fight scenes, well the editing/filming of them, ruining the movie for me. Big big fan on No1+No2, but No3 is unwatchable. :(

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[–] akkimaramar 12 years ago

I thought the fight scenes were brilliant, i found it more memorable than the ones in 1 & 2 but they've all got great stunts and action.

[–] destroyerwod 12 years ago

Yeah same here as OP, i was disapointed in the fight scenes that where not on par with number 2. Personally Transporter 2 is definately my favorite, but i must admit the first one is a bit screwed by a bad dubbing... im quebecois, so i was movie in french, and overall our dubbing teams do great work, but for Transporter 1 they totally screwed it, Statham dosen't have his usual voice and its a bad one on top of that, thats why the movie lost some appeal to me.

Alice is the worst character of all time, she need to die in the last movie. Chris/Jill are RE !!!

[–] sbowesuk 11 years ago

The moment I saw the fight scenes I could see they'd been 'manipulated', i.e. sped up. It looked comically ridiculous. Whoever made that call needs to quit movie making.

[–] owenZpitt 10 years ago

The fight scenes in the 1st movie focused on Jason's extraordinary athleticism. He was 41 yrs old by T3 so he was probably facing some stunts that he simply could not do anymore.

[–] insanebasura 10 years ago

The editing is so fast and choppy you can't even tell if the choreography and stunts would otherwise have been ok.

[–] iamthehollow 10 years ago

It's Megaton..he's not a very capable director...evidence of this 'style' of editing and pacing is all over his films.

[–] TheBeardedWonder 10 years ago

He's just the worst, I agree. Anytime the studio wants to kill a franchise because they're tired of making them, they seem to hand it to him to destroy. He ruined this after 2 really solid entries, and he single handedly took down the taken series with his lack of skill. The shots are crap, the editing is crap, the pacing is crap, really he does nothing right.

All I ask out of an action movie is well done action - literally the entire rest of it can be mediocre and I won't mind. But then there's movies like this where even the action scenes are awful. Chopped to crap, poor choreography, too few of them, etc. Like I said, the first two transporter movies are really good examples of the 'fun action movie' genre. This however was awful in almost every way...

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[–] iamthehollow 10 years ago

See also the Taken series...promising little series till the Megaton dropped on it.

[–] keyvenx 9 years ago

I totally agree - Megaton SUCKS at fight scenes. Who's the idiot who thought he would be good for yet another "badass fighter" series. He single-handedly screwed up the Taken franchise and now he's doing it to Transporter.

So much shaky-cam it's just incredible anyone would still let him near an action film. He makes any film WORSE through making it virtually impossible for the audience who see who's punching what.