Why didn't Walter Hill write?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Bullet to the Head
mercury4 — 11 years ago(July 26, 2014 12:25 PM)
With Walter Hill directing, I know what they were going for. They wanted an old fashioned action movie like 48 Hours or Red Heat with two unlikely guys teaming up. That's all well and good, but there's only one problem. Walter Hill didn't write the screenplay for Bullet to the Head. 48 Hours and Another 48 Hours and Red Heat were good movies, not just for the directing, but also for the great writing by Hill and the others that wrote the movies with him. If Walter Hill did the writing too, I guarantee this would've been 10 times better. The other problem was Sung Kang. Those other Hill movies had Eddie Murphy teamed up with Nick Nolte and Arnold teamed up with Jim Belushi. Bullet to the Head had Stallone teamed up with Sung Kang
. Why? Because some jerk thought it would be funny if Stallone's partner was Korean. Or as I've read, "a minority." Kang's character is very lame and very annoying. And not to mention an idiot. Due to the writing, getting Sung Kang, and the jerk who thought it would be a good idea to get him, the movie suffered for it. If not for Stallone, Jason Mamoa, and some good action scenes, this movie would've really been a dog. It could've been so much better. -
Electric-101 — 11 years ago(August 04, 2014 05:53 AM)
The movie starts strongly, but it quickly turns to s hit when Sly and Kang team up. There is no chemistry, no intensity or any believability about them or what there doing and how they are doing it, The action was well directed and Mamoa was a good casting choice but yeah the screenplay was just really really bad.
Say 'No' to rubber generic Robots as seen in RoboCop 2014 -
spookyrat1 — 10 years ago(April 26, 2015 05:46 AM)
There is no chemistry, no intensity or any believability about them or what there doing and how they are doing it
I actually think it was designed to be like that. They never really trusted one another throughout the course of the film. It wasn't your typical tough love, buddy partnership. For me it kind of worked, especially after Kwon shows interest in Lisa.
Mind you that's just me. No getting away from the fact that this movie tanked big time, so may be people expected to see more bromance and laughs. -
tenantennae — 11 years ago(August 04, 2014 09:42 PM)
Originally, Thomas Jane was supposed to play the cop. According to him, this is what happened:
"Well, Joel Silver came onboard the project and said that he has a quote-unquote formula for these quote-unquote buddy movies and it has to be a white guy and a quote-unquote ethnic guy. "
http://geektyrant.com/news/2011/6/28/thomas-jane-talks-about-being-fir ed-from-headshot-and-the-ly.html -
bohunkchicklet — 11 years ago(March 08, 2015 04:39 AM)
So right! You can even take it one step further; an ethic group could technically include more than one race. An ethnic group; a social group that shares a common religion. You can look it up people.
On a completely different note, I think instead of saying, "I ended up needing a new car so I went out and bought myself a special ride. Why not, you don't live forever." The last line should have been Sly yelling out, "Why not, YOLO!"