Van Damme's Hard Target Is So Good Other Movies Shouldn't Bother Existing - Best Movie Ever
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- čas přidán 28. 09. 2023
- The Jean Claude Van Damme and John Woo masterpiece 'Hard Target' is such an incredible display of awesomeness, that it blows my mind that other movies even exist. What reason could anyone have for watching something where Van Damme doesn't standing straight up and shooting while riding a motorcycle? Or punching a snake for getting uppity? Yeah, I know, Yancy Butler's eyebrows are super weird but you also have Wilford Brimley as a drunken Robin Hood and if you're still reading this instead of watching the movie then consider yourself dead to me.
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i dont even need to read the comments with a recap like this 🤣🤣
Could you do a video about 'Road House' ? I think it would be right up your alley 👍🏼
Van Damme in Hell is his best movie in my opinion. The narration on this recap is superb.
Maestro SpaceIce, sir… I Thank you for bringing additional laughter to my life! I second fabianweber’s “Road House” suggestion. Now then, if I may be so bold, kind sir, as to humbly offer my own suggestion, should you deem it worthy: the lost treasure of “Split Second” featuring Rutger Hauer perhaps?
Why would we want them to be uncensored? I'd pay more for EXTRA censorship if I didn't have to hear any swearing.
I like the Seagal put down "he likes standing because he is a real action star" 😅
lol, didn't even piece that together. Good observation
@@kytholekyou're slow. Delete your comment
It's not a space ice video if he doesn't roast Seagal at least once 😂
I completely missed that, now i'm going to watch it again 👍
I'm pretty sure Space Ice is required by the laws of physics to include at least one dig at Segal
“But he is Van Damm. And she is a woman. So she is blushing out of pure biology”. Literally the definition of 80-s movies 😂 Love it!
Definition of real life lol
@@CGJUGO80Amen
Τ Was Van Damme but with Swift Love Romance Included
You missed my favorite part when he saved the girl in the opening, he pulled his coat back like a gunslinger to expose his kicking leg😂😂
He definitely mentioned that in one of his other Hard Target videos :)
Now im gonna have to watch all his videos till I find that
@@prospersikhwari5289
It's the seagal vs van damme video
“Now Imotep…” I was on the floor rolling 🤣🤣
😭😭😭💀💀💀
🤣🤣🤣🤣
It is impossible to hate a movie with Wilford Brimley as a wild backwoods Cajun who outruns an explosion on horseback.
Coulda put a period at the end of Brimley there partner.
I’m Wilford Brimley and I have diabeetus
He received the honorary and respectful title of Uncle Van Damme... something never before bestowed, 'beetus!
Facts are facts
@@MidwestRainstormshaha yep he went a little bat$hit in that one
Whoever decided to get John Woo to direct van Damme deserves an Oscar and a Nobel Peace prize
It was Van Damme
John Woo made great movies before he headed to the States - Hand of Death, Last Hurrah For Chivalry, A Better Tomorrow 1 & 2, The Killer, Just Heroes, Bullet In The Head and Hard Boiled. It's only really once he got to the States that he shit the bed tbh.
@@Grandmastergav86 Hard Boiled is one of my personal favorites of his. Its just an over all solid movie.
I haven't seen any of Woo's Asian films, but his American stuff is garbage. He almost single-handedly ruined the Mission Impossible series and Hard Target is good in spite of him, not because of him.@@Grandmastergav86
@@johnjameleface off was good too
7:04 "Her eyebrows are creating to much wind resistance so he makes her GTFO!" LMAO!!
“She blushes out of pure biology”… 😂😂😂😂
"it's like she's never seen a man fist fight a snake before" 😆
Real talk: the Lance Henrikson/Arnold Vosloo villain combo is one of the very best villain castings of all time.
Absolutely. Their arguing about "I can take him from the air!" - is still one of best pro moments for bad guys
@@johnjoobooks Randall, Randall, Randall 😎. Best villain duo agreed.
Me and my brother still quote lines from both of them in this film to this day.
An actual fact, Hard Target was John Woo's first U.S. film and was also the first major Hollywood film made by a Chinese director. Universal Pictures was nervous about having Woo direct a feature and sent in director Sam Raimi to look over the film's production and to take Woo's place as director if he were to fail. Woo went through several scripts finding mostly martial arts films with which he was not interested. After deciding on Pfarrer's script for Hard Target, Woo wanted to have actor Kurt Russell in the lead role, but found Russell too busy with other projects. Woo then went with Universal's initial choice of having Van Damme star. *_Woo got along with Van Damme during filming and raised the amount of action in the film as he knew that Van Damme was up for it._*
Also, because they were able to save so much on pyrotechnics and permits by simply shooting scenes of van Damme on his weekly bayou horse ride, the movie came in under budget by 12 million dollars
I remember watching John Woo’s ‘A better tomorrow’ in one scene, Woo stalwart Chow-Yun Fat got punched in the nose & in slow-mo a jet of blood shot out of his nose. Absolutely memorable.
wait, there is a script used in this movie?
@@bravosierra2447 After seeing Hard Target, I was working at a video store, saw Killer and Hard Boiled back to back. JFC.
@@JnEricsonx Hard Boiled is fantastic film. Even James Cameron was influenced by it when directing Aliens.
"Blushes out of pure biology" is so fantastic.
"He was probably afraid of your eyebrows" caught me completely off guard. I haven't laughed that hard in a while. Thanks buddy.
Same.
Her cold sores around the mouth were more distracting.
I almost spit my cherrios out when he called her a crested owl.
Reading this same time the clip played 😂😂😂😂😂
LMFAO
"A much more fundamental force of the universe" is gold!!😂
The evolution of your Thai-Bar-Dance gag has been brilliant
“After sending some warning shots in to the driver”
These get better every time 😂
"But her eyebrows are creating too much wind resistance"- I'm choking right now😂
I almost died ! 🤣
crested owl. 😂
Choking on his meat . Nun he says is funny
Yall don't know the struggle >.
McDonalds eyebrows
Imotep, insulin pump, and diabeetus?! Sir, my wife is trying to sleep 😂😂😂
I was extremely sad and depressed and accidentally clicked on one of your videos. You, alone saved me. Thank you. Anytime I feel down, I’d remember that there is always your channel.
Yo hope you're doing alright dude. Just keep it moving.
@@xxvenom that’s nice of you. Yeah. I’m good now. Thanks
"Van Damme just likes standing like a real action star."
Was that a dig at Steven Segal?
Yes. Yes it was😂😂
I love that we don't even need to hear the name, we just know
@@mickmccasker6401it's almost like he built his channel off bullying Steven.
@damienkun8786 Awww poor Steven 😢
How is it possible that these reviews get funnier every time?
Simple. You're losing Brain Cells after each one.
@@damienkun8786 And that is sacrifice we are willing to take.
Practice makes perfect
@@damienkun8786yep, that and watching Steven Seagal movies causes a long term xyz disorders that'll he unlikely recover from
The snake who was punched, also won several Oscars for his performance: "I'd like to thank my family and friends, for all the sssssssuppport" 🐍
"After ditching the slow horse" 😁🤣
There are Van Damme movies and there are Van Damme movies that don’t need hyperbole to sell themselves, Hard Target is one of those movies. It’s a kick to the face that doesn’t stop, the only emotions it ask you to feel are love and adoration as you watch JCVD spin kick his way to victory and into your heart. If you don’t know joy after watching Hard Target you are truly dead inside.
Well. I guess I’m in the afterlife now… wait.. why is everything’s still the same???
There are Van Damme movies and there are Van God-Damme movies
@@bobxyzp I’m stealing this one.
10-4
So it's worth a watch? 😅
The first time I saw this movie (nearly 30 years ago!), I almost peed my pants in excitement when he stopped the flaming board bare handed. It was at a sleepover party with my other 10 year old friends and we were all jumping around shouting. Thank you Space Ice for the trip down memory lane.
Doubt it
wholesome af. I hope you were out of your mind on MSG and Mt. Dew.
The moment when Van Damme pulls aside his coat from his kick leg… makes my top 10 cinema moments of all time.
That might be your best inclusion of the Kickboxer dance scene yet!
I didn't even see it coming! 🤣
This is one of the greatest action movies of all time unironically. Anyone who disagrees is a Steven Seagal Defender and you shall be “Marked For Death”
Steven Seagal can low diff Van Damme.
It's super fun, but not really well made. I own the DVD and love it but it's not a good movie lol.
Can I laugh in your face?
Have you seen Machete with Danny Trejo and Steven Seagal? That is an excellent action film. Also some of his earlier movies like Exit wounds with DMX are fairly decent. I agree though that most of his new stuff is pretty bad.
I think the greatest action film ever is under siege 2
*where he showed the world*
This guy kills it with this line everytime 😂😂😂
I say it with him every single time
Pay for the honor of Van Damme Killing me
😅😂😂😂
Firing pistols (upside down) with unlimited ammo, Doing superfluous split kicks, Shotgunning goons into fireballs, and Punching snakes. Hallmarks of an awesome JCVD movie. Mad respect for the co-stars, the doves and JCVD’s mullet.
Never the movies will be a half percent closer to the movies of the 80-90s.
And Yancy Butler's eyebrows.
This is John Woo's first US film. Van Damme was the perfect lead to help introduce the Heroic Bloodshed style to Hollywood.
John Woo= ACTIONGOD 😊
Uncle Van Damme riding on the horse shouting some incoherent nonsesnse really got me!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love this movie!
In the infamous "cycle-surfing" scene, there is, over the tree-line, a building...a hospital to be exact.
9yrs after "Hard Target"released...and now, 28yrs later...
I work at that hospital. In fact, I drive that overpass, over those train tracks, each workday.
Makes "Hard Target" the movie i think about the most.
Not gonna lie, this movie holds a special place in my heart. And I was in love with Yancy Butler as a kid lol.
She is kind of bad, ngl 😏
Weren't we all...
The crested owl?
@@joshuasuggs2379 The working title of the movie was "JCVD & the Crested Owl."
Here's your one chance Yancy don't let me down.
That is the face of someone who knows he is going to die but is also in ecstatic at meeting Van Damme.😂
"Winslow's fucking everywhere!"😅
"And diabetiss saves the day again" 🤣🤣🤣
"jean Claude Van Dancing" is the best thing i've heard all year.
There are only two kinds of people; those who appreciate Hard Target, and those who haven't seen it...
"He sends some warning shots through the driver" 😂😂
"Van Damme likes standing because he's a real action star" is the best low key Segal burn yet.
You almost murdered me with that joke at about 1:30 where you said the reason Van Dam is even pissed is because that guy was stealing his look, lol
that mullet deserves a movie of its own. i can see it co starring don frye's moustache in "Business in the front, party in the back."
2 Business 2 Party
Businesser In The Front Partier In The Backer
Business In The Front P4rty In The B4ck
BITFPITB5
"Now we get what we're all here for.. Van Damme having a sass off with Kid Coolout"😂😂😂
I died. The fact that he knows Kid from Kid n Play original name is jus great 😂😂
Love it. JCVD knows that movie goons can survive a clip full of 9mm into centre mass if the plot needs it to happen, so he makes sure they're not ever gonna get up by finishing them with one of his patented JCVD spin kick fatalities.
I saw this in the theater and I was pumped that John Woo was bringing his inimitable style and action choreography to the U.S. I love JCVD and Lance Henriksen. And, how much fun was Wilford Brimley having playing the arrow-shooting, moonshine-guzzling Bayou Uncle?
Van Damme is such a badass he wears a mullet and mom jeans at the same time and makes them look cool!
God I loved this movie when I was a kid. Turns out I still do.
I unapologetically love this movie. Woo and his stylized action meshed perfectly with the cast.
7:30 as a kid, this was the coolest thing I had ever seen in a movie until much later.
Wilford Brimley being saved by his rampant alcoholism is TIGHT!
Wonder how difficult it was?
@@disposablehero4911 Actually it was super easy. Barely an inconvenience!
@@SurSpiryeah yeah yeah!
when cinemasins & pitch meeting meet in spaceice’s space
I’m gonna need you to get all the way off my back
I saw this movie as a kid and always found the beginning really sad. That Vietnam veteran survived the Southeast Asian jungle only to be homeless and treated like crap and eventually murdered for sport by psychopaths because he was desperate for some money to improve his life. 😢
Vietnam veteran survives the Southeast Asian jungle only to be homeless and treated like crap...where have I seen that before lol. (Born on the 4th of July with Tom Cruise) and I'm sure many other movies
@@Alex_Gordon
Sylvester Stallone's 'First Blood' for example.
:)
Same
Don't worry, JCVD will set things right with unlimited spin kicks, explosive upside down gunplay, and greasy mullet action!
A painfully realistic and quite common story... or used to be since most V vets that were in the dumps are long gone by now
Uncle Van Damn Is the glue that holds this world together. When he dies, it's "The End".
Hard Target is an action classic. Also has great character moments, imo, Voosloo’s character sensing that Chance could be their demise is a great touch.
I also thought the whole homeless and poverty theme was great. All in all one of those films that has more going on under the hood than it seems at first.
True
they found your father... 's body 😂
One of my favorite over-the-top 90s action movies thanks to the insane direction of John Woo and some great casting. I say this without any irony at all: that stunt of JCVD riding at the truck, hitting it, flipping over it and shooting the hell out of it is one of the coolest ever captured on film. Let's see the CGI jockeys create something half that cool now.
"blushes out of pure biology" That tickled me.
Thank you Space Ice. This should definitely put all other movies that are not Hard Target on notice.
''Crested owl' and 'Imhotep' had me laughing so loudly. XD Stellar content sir.
2:31 "while she basks is the JCVD afterglow we all know so well" had me rolling! 🤣
Ive seen this move 20 times, and it still surprises me when the guy opens up the door to the JCVD dance-off.
Wait... That's not a cut from some other movie??? Where did his mullet go in that dance???
But it's responsible for most of the film's 74 hour runtime
@@thecompanioncube4211 I was kidding. It is from Kickboxer, but Space Ice includes it in every JCVD video.
That scene is from kickboxer you poser
Lol. That dancing scene was from “The Kickboxer”
I actually saw this in the theater.
I remember thinking that the part of the movie where they hunt down the older black Vietnam veteran is actually the more compelling movie they should've made. I wanted to see THAT guy survive to the end.
Mr Space Ice forgets to mention that Van Damme's first kick in the movie is preceded by him acting like he's going to unholster a gun, but it's actually just his kicking leg
Didn't get to see the awesome snapping the thugs arm the wrong way bit either, just don't see that done in movies these days!
"he was probly scared of your eyebrows". "But her eyebrows were creating too much wind resistance" Crested Owl!? Lmao
Then the great dance scene timing. This channel is a national treasure. 😂😂😂😂
And "Bert's sister"
a national treasure that must be protected at all costs.
Nothing in this world is as pure and wholesome as the Ice Man's simpness for JCVD
Finally got this on blu ray. Absolutely one of my favourite action films. Hail John Woo
The Crested Owl comment was perfect.
The cast in this movie is actually pretty impressive. I'm surprised I've never heard of it until now.
It’s on Tubi.
You’re lucky.
Don’t expect anything interesting outside of the fight scenes but it’s an innocent thrill ride
@@CursedWheelieBin It's actually a great action movie, not a damn drama.
I saw it in the theatre
Oh, dude. It’s a must-see
The reason Winslow is everywhere is because he is still time traveling while looking for Judy like you explained in your glorious first video.
🤣 The finishing kicks after 234823 bullets to the chest and "Imhotep asks Vandamme to go easy on him'
“And then we get Bert’s sister…” Lol, set the tone early on those eyebrows 😂
The movie that introduced me to director John Woo.
If you're not familiar with this legendary Hong Kong director, check out ''Better Tomorrow 1 & 2'', ''The Killer'' and ''Hard Boiled''.
Some of the greatest action movies ever made.
Oh and of course, John Woo also directed the mega-blockbuster- hit movie, ''Face/Off'' Starring Nicholas Cage!
that "action scene" in hard boiled is quite well done, wonder how many times they had to train for it, not like you can just reset the stage
APOLOGIZE TO THE RICE! 🤣
And Mission Impossible 2!!!
blech...
and if Space Ice ever reviews Hard Boiled, there's no way I can imagine the sheer amount of Steven Seagal slander he's been booby trapping into with how this movie has one of the highest kill count in an action movie
John Woo is a legend and hard boiled is what inspired the max payne games.
Damn you Space Ice! I'm laughing so hard, I'm crying! The "diabetis" killed me!
"Middle of the night riffle respects 😅 & JCVD Afterglow" ...wow you're a genius. Love your content. 👏 👏
I washed it a number of times as a kid, but just picked it up on 4K from Kino Lorber and wow what an excellent movie
I can't think of a better pair of villains for Van Damme than the one-two punch of Lance Hendrickson and Arnold Vosloo.
*Henriksen
😅
(Sorry)
Arnold Voosloo: Randal I come back here I cut me a steak! That line is done to perfection by Arnold!
It takes me forever to watch these because I have to keep pausing it until I stop laughing my ass off😂😂. Keep ‘em coming
Ice you are a treasure and need to be protected forever , this is perfect
This review may have had the highest ratio of JPM (Jokes Per Minute) of any other video. All gold.
Bringing in the Thailand dance bit on every video never stops being amazingly funny 😂😂😂
Dance bit? That’s no bit my good sir, that is what’s called greatness. We should all be thankful that the great JCVD decides to grace us with its performance that only so few have ever witnessed
@@lilmoeszyslak4810 My apologies kind sir. You have enlightened me 😂🙏
The 90's really were the best time for an abandoned warehouse final shoot-out fight scene.
Filipino action movies are still doing it. a warehouse which is bigger than Cleveland. they can play hide and seek in them, and they wont find each other for months.
“Why didn’t he ask for my help?”
“He was probably afraid of your eyebrows”
ROTFL, I lost it at that point.
JCVD dancing in the Thai bar had me rolling.
Lance henrikson is awesome in everything he’s in always elevates everything he’s in especially when he plays a psycho 😂😂
or a robot
@@denisl2760yip bishop is way better than David 😂
Yep. Chains in stonecold
fun fact: he wasn't supposed to catch on fire but kept acting through the scene. Everyone stood around in shock.
@@hell0philip lol the guys a legend
Every time he says, "...mega blockbuster hit movie" something always explodes in the back ground😭😭🤣🤣
Van Damme with the mullet awesomeness of a god, drunk Wilford Brimley with a bow and arrow, and action director legend John Woo. The perfect combination. Would love to see you do Hard Boiled with Chow Yun-Fat. Thank you Space Ice. Another depressed free day.
The cut to Van Damme dancing wrecked me lol
14:31 "And diabeetus saves the day again" THERE it is! Was waiting for the obligatory Brimley-diabetes joke!
If he was more Mexican, it would have been "Diabito"
Unlike the Gravy Seal Seagull, the bad guys in JCVD movies usually ARE a threat. They are treated with a minimum respect and make you believe that at least, things aren't going to end that well for the good guys. Imhotep and Lance Henriksen are fucking BADASS here.
THE CALCULATIONS! HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAA
Also Van Damme always make sure he gets beat up a little unlike Steven “I’m invincible” Seagal
@@theitfactorjameswheezer2852 That stab Henriksen puts on the old man and the way Imhotep casually blows off a guy with a shotgun on a car are great ways to show the audience the guys are menacing enough to face the lead character.
Seagal movies are all exactly the same and all people is doomed and useless from the start.
"He was probably afraid of your f'kn eyebrows" 🤣🤣 you always go nuclear on female characters but the lines are so hilarious i say keep it up.
The lines about the French judge and diabetes saving the day are spot on. Thanks for the laugh - this was the first movie I ever had on VHS (it was a gift!).
Gawd this movie is so good. Like every character is perfectly cast. Especially Pike.
This film had awesome characters. The old Uncle, Lance Hendrickson & the South African henchman who played the Mummy. The gorgeous girl & the god that is JCVD. 90's gold 👍
And the eyebrows
*Henriksen
😅
@@demizson576 Who cares? Lol
"He was stabbed in the insulin pump, and diabetes saves the day again"
Lol. Im dying! Haha 😄 😅😂
I must say, fitting in that dance scene in every review, and giving some random reason why.... priceless ❤
Uncle van damme never dies.
11:20 the single greatest shot in motion picture history.
(Lady, clearly upset) "Why didn't he ask for my help???"
Space Ice: "He was probably afraid of your f-ing eyebrows"
OMFG LOL
"Burt's sister" her eyebrows causing wind resistsnce on the dirt bike, and calling her a "crested owl" are some of the funniest lines ive heard in a review in a while.
‘He likes to stand because he is a real action star’ - a subtle attack on Seagal lol
This is the greatest motion picture of our lifetimes and all of cinema it's even the greatest within all of our interdimensional realities. Put this movie up against every single movie created in every possible multiversal timeline and every movie that will be created for the next 1000's of milenia and this movie will still be number 1.
I don't know why youtube recommended this, but you're amazing. Keep making these forever.