What a simple, satisfying film! An seasoned sniper and some young hotshot overcome their differences and complete the mission. Action scenes are great, solid acting from Zane and Berenger, great set pieces. Even if all the reviewers didn't like it, it was exciting enough for a bored 14 year old boy.
Now that I'm reaching 30, I'm curious how it holds up now. As I was looking into it, I found out there are a lot of sequels.
The first Sniper movie wasn't well-rated, so I have no idea how they got the funding to keep making these movies. Part of me wants to check them out, part of me knows they will be worse and worse the further I go. After looking into the plots, it's very obvious these movies will have no depth or real story to them, but maybe the action will still be good? Maybe Berenger's character will keep the films exciting?
Surely someone else on this sub has seen these movies?
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Sniper
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Sniper 2
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Sniper 3
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Sniper: Reloaded
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Sniper: Legacy
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Sniper: Ghost Shooter
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Sniper: Ultimate Kill
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Sniper: Assassin's End
Dragonmount is named this way for a reason. People know how Lews Therin died. Now that we've got that out of the way...
The prologue of book 1, Winter Dragon, is the passion play of this world. Let the Zane play a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude.
Poor guy, just wanted to take his fiancée on a fancy cruise to New York…got first class accommodations, the works. Then they get on the ship and she’s all bored and moody, and when he just tries to be a gentleman and order her lamb with mint sauce she’s all, ugghhh. Then, to make matters worse, she ends up cuckolding him with greasy, body-hair free Leo DiCaprio just because he’s a looker and can draw and likes Irish jigs. He doesn’t even have money! This fuckin’ guy, man, moving in like God himself couldn’t sink him—I don’t blame Zane for wanting to shoot the little bastard.
Then, it gets even better, the ship sinks, there’s probably no refunds of course—and then Kate Winslet just nopes out of there leaving Billy Zane to wonder if she perished in the North Atlantic or what. Then he loses all his money in the market crash, becomes despondent and turns a pistol on himself, what the fuck James Cameron?
We all know that Billy Zane is the first name that comes to mind when you think of WoT. The new show should of course pay homage to his award winning performance in Winter Dragon with a cameo at the least. So who do you think Billy Zane should play?
It’s rare you find a film performance where the actor is simultaneously having the time of his life and still scaring the shit out of you. Fortunately, Billy Zane’s got you covered. The rest of the movie is awesome too, but he’s definitely the best part. And if you disagree, you’re just a fuckin’ hodunk podunk well then there MOTHERFUCKER!
Just got to Season 6 now and I was pleasantly surprised to see Billy Zane! For me, the highlight of that episode centered around his short appearance, followed by the satirical product placement and the Dean's level 7 susceptibility.
Did you ever hear the tragedy of Billy the Zane? I thought not. It's not a story that a film producer would tell you. It's a Hollywood legend. Billy the Zane was a Meme Actor, so powerful and so bald he could use his dank facial expressions to influence the plebs to create...memes. He had such a knowledge of the dankness that he could even appear in the biggest film of all time. The meme side of the acting is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so dank... the only thing he was afraid of was people knowing he wore a hairpiece, which eventually, of course, they did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice, Leonardo DiCaprio, everything he knew, then his apprentice usurped him and Billy the Zane appeared only in VOD garbage again. Ironic, he could meme others into popularity, but not himself.
Who's seen that half-assed attempt at a movie they put out about 15 years ago just to keep their licensing options open? Is it really that bad, and where do I find it?
I'm trying to find an obscure older movie that has Billy Zane in it, where he plays the friend of the leads but in the end, he ends up being the killer and wants to cut open the main female lead even though he's in love with her. I looked up all of Billy Zane's movies and I can't seem to find it but I'm 90% sure that he's in it. I think he wears a black trench coat or a black leather coat and likes to play with knives.
Listen, I love Billy Zane's Ansem. This is NOT a rib on Richard Epcar I think he did a wonderful job but I grew up on Billy Zane's performance so Billy Zane will always be THE Ansem SOD for me. As a fan of both KH1 and COD:Re I cant be the only one who wants to hear Ansem's final words, mostly to Riku, in KHIII performed by THE Billy Zane. Problem is, his cost on Cameo is $350 and I think he might just reject the request anyway. But man that'd be a treat for us Billy Zane fans.
I'm dying to know why BZ never reprieved the role but I've learned voice acting in video games is a lot more boring than our imaginations. That said I'd love to hear his delivery on Ansem's lines in KH3.
That whole segment where they talk about that one change to “Gravity” that Billy Zane would make got me thinking what other films could use a slight tweak like that to drastically change the tone/structure of the movie?
A famous one is if they edited “Passengers” to open with Jennifer Lawrence waking up and finding out slowly whether Chris Pratt was the one responsible for breaking her pod open. The uneasiness and tension really alters the tone of the movie.
