Dexter22
Member
I check here as much as possible, I guess its become a habit. I believe it was around 2006 when I decided to give Seagal movies a chance. I started with the bad ones and worked my way to the good ones, basically what ever movie I saw, I grabbed it. I am sad to say that I watched Shadow man and Flight of Fury without even noticing doubles or dubbing, later as I watched more and read more online, I realized I was duped. I thought it was odd that he dubbed and used doubles and felt a bit cheated. I don't know why but this intrigued me more.
Over the next few months/years, I became a huge fan and could tell you anything about Seagal and I took crap from so many for being a fan. I don't know why I felt I had to defend him. Long story short, I have every one of his films and continue to buy them. I will spend my money on his movies even if I know the quality is poor. Why? That is what I am really starting to ask myself. Honestly, I will probably always watch his stuff, I can't help it, I think he is incredibly interesting and odd. I am to the point now though where I feel that people like me, the ones here, or people who still think he is a huge star, are the reason why he can continue to make things he puts zero effort into.
I am sorry, however, unlike many people here I can stop to point out that not everything the guy does is perfect, and I won't defend him like I used to. I know you can't deny it, he is ripping us off. It sucks because I had such respect for this guy, I slowly stopped defending because people may make up a story but tons of people in the industry don't just for the hell of it. Steven, regardless of who he is in real life, is not a good guy. Let me state that I'm not attacking his character, his life, anything he has done outside the movies...that's a different discussion. I am talking about what he is presenting to his fans.
Since around 2002, Steven has released maybe 3 actual quality pieces of work. We as fans have set the bar lower and when I find A dangerous man to be such a good step up and quality action film, there is an issue. We call some of these films good when in essence if any other star made them they would be called trash. Steven works 3 hours a day on a film, he rarely loops or does ADR, he tampers with scripts, he doesn't take his appearance seriously, etc.. He does all of these things and continues to get paid decent money to not really do much but use his face and name. We are the reason for this. The quality went down and we still paid because we are fans. The sad thing to me is that he could care less, because if he cared then we wouldn't have to have the same discussion on here each year about his new film and what was wrong with it this time. I don't know what I am trying to present here other than the fact that its sick and sad that we give money, support, defense, attention, work, fame, etc..to someone who doesn't care. Think about the time you give to being and fan and what you get back. Think about it..
Over the next few months/years, I became a huge fan and could tell you anything about Seagal and I took crap from so many for being a fan. I don't know why I felt I had to defend him. Long story short, I have every one of his films and continue to buy them. I will spend my money on his movies even if I know the quality is poor. Why? That is what I am really starting to ask myself. Honestly, I will probably always watch his stuff, I can't help it, I think he is incredibly interesting and odd. I am to the point now though where I feel that people like me, the ones here, or people who still think he is a huge star, are the reason why he can continue to make things he puts zero effort into.
I am sorry, however, unlike many people here I can stop to point out that not everything the guy does is perfect, and I won't defend him like I used to. I know you can't deny it, he is ripping us off. It sucks because I had such respect for this guy, I slowly stopped defending because people may make up a story but tons of people in the industry don't just for the hell of it. Steven, regardless of who he is in real life, is not a good guy. Let me state that I'm not attacking his character, his life, anything he has done outside the movies...that's a different discussion. I am talking about what he is presenting to his fans.
Since around 2002, Steven has released maybe 3 actual quality pieces of work. We as fans have set the bar lower and when I find A dangerous man to be such a good step up and quality action film, there is an issue. We call some of these films good when in essence if any other star made them they would be called trash. Steven works 3 hours a day on a film, he rarely loops or does ADR, he tampers with scripts, he doesn't take his appearance seriously, etc.. He does all of these things and continues to get paid decent money to not really do much but use his face and name. We are the reason for this. The quality went down and we still paid because we are fans. The sad thing to me is that he could care less, because if he cared then we wouldn't have to have the same discussion on here each year about his new film and what was wrong with it this time. I don't know what I am trying to present here other than the fact that its sick and sad that we give money, support, defense, attention, work, fame, etc..to someone who doesn't care. Think about the time you give to being and fan and what you get back. Think about it..