Vilander Posted April 27, 2020 Posted April 27, 2020 I know the movie itself is very cookie cutter - extreme violence, yellow filter thirdworld country, white savior etc. But Randeep and Chris did a great job. Especially happy with Randeep he was not a quick talking nice guy or a suave evil rich guy or a sex starved imp etc.. he played a former special forces badass from India who is the only one Chris's character does no dominate in combat in the story. Surprised. https://www.tellychakkar.com/movie/movie-news/randeep-hooda-feels-great-break-stereotypical-barriers-200426 https://newsera.club/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/extraction-x675.jpg https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/indiatoday/images/story/202004/randeep-770x433.jpeg I remember Irfan Khan played a evil pharma henchman turns good guy in a mainstream movie thats about it.. cant remember any other Indian male actor ever playing a non stereotypical 'East Indian' in hollywood.
velu Posted April 27, 2020 Posted April 27, 2020 indian crime lord probably they shld have gone with tulu or tamil crime lords
coffee_rules Posted April 27, 2020 Posted April 27, 2020 Dhaka has a compromised military? Hoods plays the Rajni’s Muslim friend like char
Vilander Posted April 27, 2020 Author Posted April 27, 2020 Not just compromised also incompetent.. They can have hostile choppers in their territory..lulz
LordPrabhzy Posted April 27, 2020 Posted April 27, 2020 it was a bit odd to see those two fighting.. but it was funny how both of them literally killed 80% of Bangladesh police and special forces by themselves
coffee_rules Posted April 28, 2020 Posted April 28, 2020 Funny to see some Bangladesh gangsters watching a cricket match on TV and bongs listening to 90s Bollywood songs in Hindi
Gollum Posted April 28, 2020 Posted April 28, 2020 Bangladeshis are furious, wish I could embed a few tweets. Remember what happened to Gunday?
Vilander Posted April 28, 2020 Author Posted April 28, 2020 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Gollum said: Bangladeshis are furious, wish I could embed a few tweets. Remember what happened to Gunday? Please do i think the directors did not know bangladesh is a different country with a different language.. Hehe they just went for a dirtier more corrupt India hehe.. Edited April 28, 2020 by Vilander
Vilander Posted April 28, 2020 Author Posted April 28, 2020 1 hour ago, LordPrabhzy said: it was a bit odd to see those two fighting.. but it was funny how both of them literally killed 80% of Bangladesh police and special forces by themselves Story is chris character is ex Aussie SAS and Hooda is ex para.. So there goes and the police unit os local and swat so that bit is believable but they needed to have the theater somewhere not dhaka..lol how can a hostile hele reach dhaka and get out ? Bangladesh has mig 29s..if i am not wrong.
Vilander Posted April 28, 2020 Author Posted April 28, 2020 1 hour ago, LordPrabhzy said: was a bit odd to see those two fighting How big is Hooda man..the guy is huge may be camera angles but i thought he was a small guy.
ravishingravi Posted April 28, 2020 Posted April 28, 2020 Arnab Ray April 25 at 8:44 AM Years ago, in one of the greatest social media movements ever, enraged Bangladeshis downvoted "Gundein" on IMDB because it showed India liberating Bangladesh, which, I believe is not true, Bangladesh liberated itself, and I say this, because I do not want my books to be one-star-rated, as if "anti-fascist" Modi haters doing it was not enough. After watching Extraction, I think Bangladeshis may have some genuine cause to feel aggrieved. The country is given the "badlands of South America" meets "Slumdog Millionaire" look, unending squalor and filth with no defining character, with their citizens serving as mere props for mayhem. Their SWAT squads, who have "Elite" written on their helmets, lest we forget who they are, seem to have the AI of "Aliens: Colonial Marines" before they fixed the bug in code. They are decimated in the hundreds by two people---one Australian guy and one Indian guy, and I get suspension of disbelief, but this is frying it in stale oil. And that's not all. Bangladeshi characters, at least the major ones, are not played by Bangladeshis, there is a guy who looks like a dead-ringer for a younger version of the legendary Dipjol (one of his famous songs is the threatening "Poont koira dimu" whose lyrics can roughly translated to "I am going to fart so terrible you will be reduced to ashes") but that's about it, every brown guy is Indian, and this in this day and age, is a major "nyet nyet". As is every Bangladeshi household shown playing 90s Hindi movie songs in a movie set in the present, and the villain wears costumes discarded by Kabir Bedi in Octopussy. This is what Indians think Dhaka is, rather than what Dhaka actually is. But forgetting the casting, Extraction is a failure because it has no emotional core. There is just so much attention to Call of Duty like violence, that they forgot that it wasn't a Twitch session but a movie. One doesn't get the conflict of Randeep Hooda's character. The child actor is ordinary. Chris Helmsworth is given a backstory, one which is now a cliche of the genre, the badass who lost someone he loves, fallen on drink and depression, looking for redemption, bonding with a child, except you have seen this many times, and done much better----in Leon: The Professional, remade as Bicchoo (pro-tip: any action movie with Farida Jalal in it is unlikely to be a stellar entry) in Hindi, and Man on Fire, my favorite action movie of all time, remade in Hindi as "Ek Ajnaabi (pro-tip: any movie with Arjun Rampal in it is unlikely to be a stellar entry in any genre) Is Extraction a total loss? No. There is Chris Hemsworth saying Proman Dao, making him the hottest man in recent memory who has ever said a line in Bangla, breaking the tedium of ordinary Bengali men or as we say: "Thor bori khada, khada bori Thor". And there is something there that I never thought I would see in my lifetime--and I have now seen a global pandemic killing hundreds of thousands---the use of the phrase "khankir pola" in a Hollywood action film, usually reserved as an exclamation by Bangals in Kolkata when they spilled hot lyabra on their thighs during lunch. Other than that, this is as much fun as a tooth extraction.
rkt.india Posted April 28, 2020 Posted April 28, 2020 6 hours ago, Vilander said: How big is Hooda man..the guy is huge may be camera angles but i thought he was a small guy. He is tall but Google shows him 178 cm which is obviously an incorrect info.
Ranvir Posted April 28, 2020 Posted April 28, 2020 Bollywood on the other hand still does stereotypes very badly. Don't expect too much different from others if you are doing the same thing.
Vilander Posted April 28, 2020 Author Posted April 28, 2020 4 hours ago, ravishingravi said: This is what Indians think Dhaka is, rather than what Dhaka actually is Why the director is not Indian though.
Sandeep99 Posted April 28, 2020 Posted April 28, 2020 8 hours ago, ravishingravi said: Arnab Ray April 25 at 8:44 AM Years ago, in one of the greatest social media movements ever, enraged Bangladeshis downvoted "Gundein" on IMDB because it showed India liberating Bangladesh, which, I believe is not true, Bangladesh liberated itself, and I say this, because I do not want my books to be one-star-rated, as if "anti-fascist" Modi haters doing it was not enough. After watching Extraction, I think Bangladeshis may have some genuine cause to feel aggrieved. The country is given the "badlands of South America" meets "Slumdog Millionaire" look, unending squalor and filth with no defining character, with their citizens serving as mere props for mayhem. Their SWAT squads, who have "Elite" written on their helmets, lest we forget who they are, seem to have the AI of "Aliens: Colonial Marines" before they fixed the bug in code. They are decimated in the hundreds by two people---one Australian guy and one Indian guy, and I get suspension of disbelief, but this is frying it in stale oil. And that's not all. Bangladeshi characters, at least the major ones, are not played by Bangladeshis, there is a guy who looks like a dead-ringer for a younger version of the legendary Dipjol (one of his famous songs is the threatening "Poont koira dimu" whose lyrics can roughly translated to "I am going to fart so terrible you will be reduced to ashes") but that's about it, every brown guy is Indian, and this in this day and age, is a major "nyet nyet". As is every Bangladeshi household shown playing 90s Hindi movie songs in a movie set in the present, and the villain wears costumes discarded by Kabir Bedi in Octopussy. This is what Indians think Dhaka is, rather than what Dhaka actually is. But forgetting the casting, Extraction is a failure because it has no emotional core. There is just so much attention to Call of Duty like violence, that they forgot that it wasn't a Twitch session but a movie. One doesn't get the conflict of Randeep Hooda's character. The child actor is ordinary. Chris Helmsworth is given a backstory, one which is now a cliche of the genre, the badass who lost someone he loves, fallen on drink and depression, looking for redemption, bonding with a child, except you have seen this many times, and done much better----in Leon: The Professional, remade as Bicchoo (pro-tip: any action movie with Farida Jalal in it is unlikely to be a stellar entry) in Hindi, and Man on Fire, my favorite action movie of all time, remade in Hindi as "Ek Ajnaabi (pro-tip: any movie with Arjun Rampal in it is unlikely to be a stellar entry in any genre) Is Extraction a total loss? No. There is Chris Hemsworth saying Proman Dao, making him the hottest man in recent memory who has ever said a line in Bangla, breaking the tedium of ordinary Bengali men or as we say: "Thor bori khada, khada bori Thor". And there is something there that I never thought I would see in my lifetime--and I have now seen a global pandemic killing hundreds of thousands---the use of the phrase "khankir pola" in a Hollywood action film, usually reserved as an exclamation by Bangals in Kolkata when they spilled hot lyabra on their thighs during lunch. Other than that, this is as much fun as a tooth extraction. Looks like Banglols are seething badly
Vilander Posted April 28, 2020 Author Posted April 28, 2020 2 hours ago, Sandeep99 said: Looks like Banglols are seething badly Chris just became the next Bruce Willis he will have a loyal following now in India lol
coffee_rules Posted April 28, 2020 Posted April 28, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, Sandeep99 said: Looks like Banglols are seething badly Even greatbong is pissed, his heart beats for his eastern cousins , none of the bongs look shorter darker is his gripe and the bong spcl force commandos look like burly western neighbor imports Edited April 28, 2020 by coffee_rules
Clarke Posted April 28, 2020 Posted April 28, 2020 What a crap movie. Can't believe it has the same rating as Highwaymen, even triple frontier was ok types among these action oriented Netflix originals.
mishra Posted April 28, 2020 Posted April 28, 2020 Some sequences were really cool. Perfect for Corona season. one time watch
Vilander Posted April 28, 2020 Author Posted April 28, 2020 3 hours ago, Clarke said: What a crap movie. Can't believe it has the same rating as Highwaymen, even triple frontier was ok types among these action oriented Netflix originals. i think they needed to make it some neo noir type movie. The director is a stunt coordinator and the movie had some really long and well choreographed stunts, they should have just made it about that.
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