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[–] Maiq@piefed.social 117 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Seagal's wikipedia page reads like he's in the running for biggest shitbag actor award.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 50 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Seagal’s wikipedia page reads like he’s in the running for biggest shitbag actor award.

Emphasis added for clarity.

[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 43 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Hey man, he sometimes stands up in his latest movies.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

SFX have gotten so good that you can barely hear the grunting.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wouldn't even have to use SFX to be convincing. Just dump a few hundred pounds of dog shit on a little trolley, put a stupid toupee on top, and wheel it around slowly on some rope. Nobody would tell the difference.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

I'm trying to imagine this, but my mind keeps showing me Steven Seagal...

[–] radix@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They really are good at painting out wire work in movies these days.

[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago

I hope that's not the case. One example in this video someone posted the other day, he's doing a sex scene sat down and fully clothed. He's basically a marionette at this point.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 weeks ago

VFX at its limits

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[–] EpeeGnome@feddit.online 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Seagal’s wikipedia page reads like he’s in the ~~running~~ [slow shuffling walk] for biggest shitbag actor award.

Corrected method of movement.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 10 points 2 weeks ago

Seagal’s wikipedia page reads like he’s in the slow shuffling walk for biggest shitbag "actor" award.

[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 37 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Have you seen him lately? He hasn’t run for anything in a long time. It’s actually funny if you watch his later movies, he’s mostly sitting down through the whole thing.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What the hell happened to him? Wasn't he like a martial arts guy for real in the 80s?

He was never as great a martial artist as he thought he was (just ask Gene LeBell), but he at least used to be... you know... mobile.

He got old. And soft. And round.

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[–] Hasherm0n@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Behind the bastards (podcast) had a good two part episode on him.

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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 70 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

How has this rancid bratwurst not ended up in the Trump administration by this point?

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And give up his position in Putin's administration? No way.

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[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe he doesn't like kids 🤷‍♀️

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

He's too busy attending Putin's parades, which is something he literally does

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[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

Hey I'm going you need you to be more respectful of bratwursts here.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 52 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Every time you think this timeline can't get any more nonsensical and inane, it throws a "Steven Seagal is a gun runner for Russia" curve ball at you.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So why isn't he in the Trump cabinet?

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago

His ego didn't fit through the door.

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[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My first aikido masters were former students of Sensei Fat. They refused to speak of it. He must have been a real piece of work, even then.

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[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Anyone got a link to that video where he's fighting and older, but all of his opponents are falling down with barely any effort? It wasn't a movie but a dojo setting from what I remember.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, the one I remember seeing he's all fat and bloated and stationary in a white gui. Opponents are running at him and he's barely doing anything, but the people running at him are obviously taking a fall. Maybe I imagined it all.

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Top comment lol:

Unfortunately, people don't voluntarily flip over on the real world.

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[–] joe_archer@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

What the hell is going on with his hair?

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

It's fake as fuck and he decided to go for the lupin the third look.

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 22 points 2 weeks ago

It's 3D printed

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[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why would Seagal need weapons?

[–] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago

To defend the VantaBlack he's spraying on his head

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[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago

The OG gravey seal.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 weeks ago

Imagine being such a shitty dictator that you have to hang out with the likes of 2020s Steve Seagal 😂

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Why can't we (as in civil society) drone bomb steven seagal?

[–] Zagam@piefed.social 20 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

This is hands down the best thing Seagal has ever been in.

https://youtu.be/3aCMTpJx2cs

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Well, I wasn't expecting to watch a man build a diorama today! That's amazing.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

The traitor and sack of shit should be on the frontlines.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do we know the status of Steven Seagal's nuclear program?

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

I've heard he's weeks away from having a nuclear bomb.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Fat vampire

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That has to be a wig... Right?

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[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s Ming the Merciless!

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[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Why would Putin care about this guy at all? Wouldn't it be worse for his image?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

The US has a long and storied history of producing high profile weirdos that get trapped in a moment of international policy, like a mosquito in amber, and just keep hanging out with a foreign government we re-designated as The Enemy decades ago.

Seagal has Putin. Dennis Rodman was tight with Kim Jung il. Johnny Depp is good friends with Mohammad bin Salman. Gal Gadot is a perennial Netanyahu gadfly. Rob Schneider campaigned for Victor Orban. Oliver Stone and Robert Redford still rep Fidel Castro.

If you go into the back pages of US History, you'll find moments when US officials attempted a thaw or brokered some kind of cooperative pact with a modern enemy nation. And typically, the State Department would send along an affable oaf or enthusiastic wanna-be celeb ambassador to make nice with the foreign head of state.

And then US policy changes, but the celebs don't get the memo.

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