A good day to all of you (or maybe good evening, I couldn't tell since I'm on the other side of the world for the majority of this forum's users)!
Let me introduce myself in a proper way: my name is Lennert, I'm 21 years old and live in the small country of the Netherlands. At the moment I'm a student of philosophy at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and I've started working on my thesis 'on heroism' and will dedicate a special part to our (post-)modern (action) heroes like Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude van Damme, Chuck Norris, Wesley Snipes, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. I got this idea a few years ago when people confronted me daily with the fact that I watch, in their eyes, violent movies and accused me of being a xenophobe (which I'm not), aggressive (not more than most people) and being just stupid (no complaints). I'm a big movie lover (not only the action type, although my biggest interest lies in that area) and want to make some kind of 'action-apologetics', since I believe action movies aren't just about enjoying violence.
Apart from this I am bassplayer in the Dutch rockgroup Underscore in which I can express my love for music. The music is a little Pearl Jam/Live orientated, but my taste ranges from metal (heavy, power, prog/symphonic, thrash, speed) to folk, blues, classic rock and classical music. I also enjoy reading on the topics of religion, science, philosophy and concerning fiction I mostly read fantasy/science-fiction.
And now the reason why I'm here: Steven Seagal to me is the personification of justice in a postmodern age where the concept of 'justice' isn't particulary clear any more. (also I like his fighting, I'll be starting my own aikido lessons next week, but that's not the main point ) At the moment I rate Under Siege the highest of his movies, but there is a possibility that will change after tonight, I'll be watching Marked For Death! (that movie took me a while to get, it wasn't available in Holland for a long time and I hate downloading movies, I like having a normal collection). Apart from that there weren't a lot of movies I didn't like, but The Foreigner comes in mind as a very bad movie (I hated the camerawork and the slowmotion scenes).
Well, I guess that pretty much sums it up. If anybody has any questions I'll be more than happy to answer them!
Let me introduce myself in a proper way: my name is Lennert, I'm 21 years old and live in the small country of the Netherlands. At the moment I'm a student of philosophy at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and I've started working on my thesis 'on heroism' and will dedicate a special part to our (post-)modern (action) heroes like Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude van Damme, Chuck Norris, Wesley Snipes, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. I got this idea a few years ago when people confronted me daily with the fact that I watch, in their eyes, violent movies and accused me of being a xenophobe (which I'm not), aggressive (not more than most people) and being just stupid (no complaints). I'm a big movie lover (not only the action type, although my biggest interest lies in that area) and want to make some kind of 'action-apologetics', since I believe action movies aren't just about enjoying violence.
Apart from this I am bassplayer in the Dutch rockgroup Underscore in which I can express my love for music. The music is a little Pearl Jam/Live orientated, but my taste ranges from metal (heavy, power, prog/symphonic, thrash, speed) to folk, blues, classic rock and classical music. I also enjoy reading on the topics of religion, science, philosophy and concerning fiction I mostly read fantasy/science-fiction.
And now the reason why I'm here: Steven Seagal to me is the personification of justice in a postmodern age where the concept of 'justice' isn't particulary clear any more. (also I like his fighting, I'll be starting my own aikido lessons next week, but that's not the main point ) At the moment I rate Under Siege the highest of his movies, but there is a possibility that will change after tonight, I'll be watching Marked For Death! (that movie took me a while to get, it wasn't available in Holland for a long time and I hate downloading movies, I like having a normal collection). Apart from that there weren't a lot of movies I didn't like, but The Foreigner comes in mind as a very bad movie (I hated the camerawork and the slowmotion scenes).
Well, I guess that pretty much sums it up. If anybody has any questions I'll be more than happy to answer them!