I've been recently watching his movies. They pretty much all fall into that "So bad it's good" camp. Timecop was legitimately a pretty decent movie, and bloodsport is just so over the top that it's awesome especially as a fan of MMA. Also, hard target, just hilariously bad and super fun movie with some ridiculous scenes. Also he does a split in like every movie and it's great

  • Bruja [she/her, love/loves]
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    2 years ago

    Double Impact has twice the Damme content.
    Jean-Claude wrote the script himself with inspiration from Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novella The Corsican Brothers.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    In The Expendables, when he played the villain, he didn't just stab his victim with a knife. He kicked a knife into his victim. :chefs-kiss:

    • D61 [any]
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      2 years ago

      Damn... there's an emote we're missin'.

  • Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I used to fucking worship the muscles from Brussels as a kid. My goddamn handle for a time was "Jean Claude slam and bamme" The gates have well rusted over at this point, but there was one year mid highschool I practically dedicated my life to being able to perform a perfect bloodsport style spinning split kick and by God in early college it was worth it as a party trick. Even funnier considering I was super heavy at the time so when I told people I could do it they were convinced my body couldn't possibly be aerodynamic enough.

    So yeah: thank you Jean Claude van Damme for being awesome.

  • D61 [any]
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    2 years ago

    He's no Nic Cage, but back in the 90's he was a pretty solid pick for action martial arts movies when I was a kid.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    never seen it but i did like the guy in sense8 who loved him so im kinda an expert