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Title: Steven Segal commercial
Post by: MacGuffin on April 10, 2004, 11:41:00 PM
http://www.kontraband.com/?p=tvads.asp?ID=1235
Title: Steven Segal commercial
Post by: El Duderino on April 10, 2004, 11:55:36 PM
i feel like less of a person for watching that.
Title: Steven Segal commercial
Post by: picolas on April 11, 2004, 03:30:22 AM
Quote from: El Duderinoi feel like less of a person for watching that.
Explain.
Title: Steven Segal commercial
Post by: Pubrick on April 11, 2004, 04:42:57 AM
the directing was good.
Title: Steven Segal commercial
Post by: mogwai on April 11, 2004, 07:00:47 AM
this is very funny:

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fw1.422.telia.com%2F%7Eu42243560%2Fsegal.jpg&hash=f575b60564ac61ea781a23e5caa77958cfe407a9)
Title: Steven Segal commercial
Post by: El Duderino on April 11, 2004, 01:28:10 PM
Quote from: picolas
Quote from: El Duderinoi feel like less of a person for watching that.
Explain.

i just hate Steven Segal.

Quote from: Pubrickthe directing was good

:lol:  :lol:
Title: Steven Segal commercial
Post by: molly on April 11, 2004, 03:37:13 PM
so, who directed?
Title: Steven Segal commercial
Post by: Pas on April 11, 2004, 04:35:36 PM
Quote from: El Duderino
Quote from: picolas
Quote from: El Duderinoi feel like less of a person for watching that.
Explain.

i just hate Steven Segal.

Quote from: Pubrickthe directing was good

:lol:  :lol:

I tought it was a very funny ad, especially the "Yeah I can't believe it's me either" line. I don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Title: Steven Segal commercial
Post by: Gold Trumpet on April 12, 2004, 12:17:19 AM
Under Seige 2: Dark Territory is a personal fave. Dialogue doesn't get better than:

"Chance favors the prepared mind."

"Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups."

I've seen all the early Segal films and loved them. I've only seen half of his later ones. There's something about a man I consider a BAMF (Bad Ass Mother Fucker) having a very large gut that just doesn't work.
Title: Steven Segal commercial
Post by: Weak2ndAct on April 12, 2004, 05:03:08 AM
I'm surprised that after all the bad movies, and a career colder than the stool of an iditerod huskie (sorry, channeling 'Triumph' there for a moment), that people still seek out Seagal's films.  I see it every day at work.  Just plain baffling.
Title: Steven Segal commercial
Post by: mogwai on April 12, 2004, 05:27:30 AM
when is that honorary award coming up?
Title: Steven Segal commercial
Post by: El Duderino on May 18, 2004, 06:09:47 PM
STEVEN SEAGAL IS... OUT FOR LAUGHS??
Source: Variety


Steven Seagal has signed a deal with Fox Searchlight and producers David Zucker and Gil Netter to develop a comedy starring vehicle directed by Zucker, who helmed "Scary Movie 3."
The deal is a result of Seagal's promising performance in a supporting role in "The Onion Movie," the Searchlight/Regency comedy Zucker and Netter produced, named for the satirical newspaper.

The pic, opening in November, is a series of sketches in the vein of "Kentucky Fried Movie," which Zucker wrote with his brother Jerry and Jim Abrahams. Seagal parodies his tough guy image and becomes an interconnecting character in the sketches.

Seagal, recently featured in a Mountain Dew commercial that lampooned his macho martial artist image, is serious about a second career in comedy.

Zucker said Seagal reminded him of Leslie Nielsen, who had a long career in straight drama before his deadpan comic potential was put on display in the Zucker-directed "Airplane!"

"For a transformation like this, the fewer comedy credentials the better. Steven has zero comedy credibility, which makes him perfect for us-- Seagal has shown the prerequisite willingness to check his vanity at the door" Zucker said. "Steven gets the joke, he knows he is making fun of himself."

"For this to work, you've got to put yourself on the line and risk diving into an empty swimming pool. Leslie trusted that the jokes would work, and Steven has shown he can do the same thing. He doesn't have to be funny. He just has to be himself in a funny setting."
Title: Steven Segal commercial
Post by: coffeebeetle on May 18, 2004, 07:55:04 PM
As hard as I try, I just can't imagine Seagal beating Leslie at comedy.
Title: Steven Segal commercial
Post by: pete on June 08, 2004, 12:54:15 PM
you've never seen under siege 2?
Title: Steven Segal commercial
Post by: Sigur Rós on June 08, 2004, 02:14:43 PM
Haha, Steven looks good.
Title: Steven Segal commercial
Post by: Ravi on June 08, 2004, 03:29:00 PM
Sorry, Steven, we've been making fun of your weight gain for years.  It's too late to make fun of your "tough guy" image now.
Title: Steven Segal commercial
Post by: pete on June 08, 2004, 03:50:45 PM
I never understood why steven seagal needed martial arts--he's like 6'6" and fat as shit, he can just walk into people and they'll die.  And he's always using that shit on the easiest targest too--old dudes and teenagers.  not fair.  I've never seen him going against anyone his size or age or anyone else who knew martial arts in his films.
but for some reason, I always wanted to check out his new films, just to see if maybe he's learned something.
Title: Steven Segal commercial
Post by: A World Apart on June 08, 2004, 07:21:05 PM
Quote from: peteI never understood why steven seagal needed martial arts--he's like 6'6" and fat as shit, he can just walk into people and they'll die.
HAHAHAHAHA. Nice.
Quote from: peteAnd he's always using that shit on the easiest targest too--old dudes and teenagers.  not fair.  I've never seen him going against anyone his size or age or anyone else who knew martial arts in his films.

He uses his "amazing" martial arts on foes that are definitely not his match for a reason. Have you ever seen him kick his leg higher than his knee, or ankle for that matter? His leg's range of mobility is rather limited I'd say, but he can sure punch all the live long day, can't he. If he actually went against anyone who had any martial art talent whatsoever...he would be destroyed, and he knows this and so perhaps not going against people like that in movies makes it more..umm...realistic?. I'd like to see him actually in a movie where he moves faster than a sloth for once.
Title: Steven Segal commercial
Post by: MacGuffin on June 09, 2005, 12:06:40 AM
Prod'n company sues actor Seagal

Actor Steven Seagal has been sued for $14 million for allegedly delaying production on two movies. Seagal allegedly showed up late and left early while shooting "Today You Die" and "Mercenary," routinely rewrote and changed scripts on the set, and brought an entourage that interfered with film crews, according to the Superior Court suit filed Monday. The lawsuit was filed by production company Kill Master Productions and its sales agent, Nu Image.