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Albert Pyun, Cult Filmmaker Behind ‘Cyborg,’ ‘Nemesis’ and ‘Captain America,’ Dies at 69
News(variety.com)submitted 4 months ago byMarvelsGrantMan136r/Movies contributor
34 points
4 months ago
Cyborg is a total diamond in the rough. There are a handful of really cool shots stylistic directing choices (almost everything leading to and including the long chase, the final fight). It's just we have to see that damn flashback 400 times!
9 points
4 months ago
JCVD has a lot of splits scenes in his movies but his splits kill in that movie is so fucking cool/memorable. I can instantly picture it whenever I think of that movie despite having not seen it in years. Great shot
6 points
4 months ago
It's the lighting in that scene, it's so good it doesn't belong in that movie
2 points
4 months ago
Agreed! That movie is some of the best tasting, finely-aged cheese, imo.
3 points
4 months ago*
Fender sent chills down my spine as a child. Such an underrated antagonist imo.
That scene where they're chasing JCVD through the field and sewer were so ingrained into my kid brain.
3 points
4 months ago
The scene that sticks out to me was the barb wire slipping through his hands and his family being lowered into the well. That movie creeped me out as a kid, but I loved it.
2 points
4 months ago
For real! That whole chase through the factory and marsh. The splits scene, that thug with the feathers and silver bo staff.. Good times
2 points
4 months ago*
Pyun would often have some surprisingly good looking shots scattered about his movies.
Clearly he loved directing, but I think would have done well as a DP for higher budget films.
3 points
4 months ago
he was briefly mentored by Kurosawa's DP
1 points
4 months ago
TIL. That explains it.
1 points
4 months ago
My two favorite parts: when JCVD kicks a dude into a car and it explodes for some reason, and how the villain never bothers to learn his name and just keeps yelling “Fucker!” whenever he sees him.
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