The New Year holidays have died down and we are ready to start voting to identify the best representatives action films for 2017.
The voting stage, like last year, will be divided into three blocks. However this time three representatives will be able to cast their votes in each nomination!
Please remember that this voting is intended to find out which of the options in each category were most liked by the audience. This is not a competition between fans of this or that actor or film.
So, we present to you the first block of voting:
Historical, fantasy or wuxia film 2017
- The Sword of King Arthur (dir. Guy Ritchie) (18%, 16 Votes)
- The Legend of Kolovrat (dir. D. Fayziev, I. Shurkhovetsky (17%, 15 Votes)
- Blade of the Immortal (dir. Takashi Miike) (16%, 14 Votes)
- God of War (dir. Gordon Chan) (12%, 11 Votes)
- Master of the Sword (dir. Derek Yee) (8%, 7 Votes)
- Baahubali: Birth of a Legend (dir. S.S. Rajamouli) (8%, 7 Votes)
- Replacement Troops (dir. Jung Yun-chul) (7%, 6 Votes)
- Brotherhood of Blades 2 (dir. Lu Yang) (4%, 4 Votes)
- Fist and Faith (dir. Jian Zhuoyuan) (3%, 3 Votes)
- The Legend of the Naga Pearls (dir. Leon Yang) (3%, 3 Votes)
- Wukong (dir. Derek Kwok) (3%, 3 Votes)
Total voters: 63
Sports drama 2017
- The Real Rocky (dir. Philippe Falardeau) (32%, 22 Votes)
- Dangal (dir. Nitesh Tiwari) (20%, 14 Votes)
- Village (dir. Pavel Mednikov) (10%, 7 Votes)
- The Fencer (dir. Klaus Härö) (10%, 7 Votes)
- Jaw (dir. Thomas K. Napper) (10%, 7 Votes)
- My Name is Lenny (dir. Ron Scalpello) (7%, 5 Votes)
- Ares (dir. Jean-Patrick Benes) (6%, 4 Votes)
- Oh, the wildness (dir. Yoshiyuki Kishi) (4%, 3 Votes)
Total voters: 52
Independent martial arts film 2017
- Boone: Bounty Hungter (dir. Robert Querbuson) (19%, 14 Votes)
- Brawl in Block 99 (dir. S. Craig Zahler) (19%, 14 Votes)
- Killer Karate (dir. Kurando Mitsutake) (16%, 12 Votes)
- Final Judgment (dir. Martin Christopher Bode) (12%, 9 Votes)
- Lethal Combatant (dir. Toby Russell) (9%, 7 Votes)
- The Liberator (dir. Ben Letteri) (8%, 6 Votes)
- Kamikaze (dir. Marcus Shaksheff) (7%, 5 Votes)
- Without Hope of Redemption (dir. Bruce Fontaine) (4%, 3 Votes)
- Dangerous Element (dir. John Saors) (3%, 2 Votes)
- Love by reference (dir. Dmitry Shadrin) (3%, 2 Votes)
Total voters: 51
Martial Arts Short Film 2017
- Guardians of Martial Arts (GSD) (dir. Wen Zhang) (33%, 26 Votes)
- Major Grom (dir. Vladimir Besedin) (23%, 18 Votes)
- Supreme Art of War (dir. Andy Le) (13%, 10 Votes)
- John Wick Origins: Kirill (dir. Paul Drechsler-Martell) (9%, 7 Votes)
- Blindsided (dir. Clayton J. Barber) (8%, 6 Votes)
- The Witcher: Bridge of Demons (dir. Honz Lowcot) (6%, 5 Votes)
- Target (Cible) (dir. Danny Leisner) (5%, 4 Votes)
- Do Not Harm (dir. Rosanna Liang) (3%, 2 Votes)
- Raaz's Rage (dir. Vlad Rimburg) (3%, 2 Votes)
Total voters: 58
Action series 2017
- chastener (33%, 29 Votes)
- Game of thrones season 7 (16%, 14 Votes)
- In the desert of death season 2 (14%, 12 Votes)
- Street Fighter: Resurrection (10%, 9 Votes)
- Защитники (9%, 8 Votes)
- Iron fist (7%, 6 Votes)
- Arrow season 5 (6%, 5 Votes)
- Stronger than the whole world. The Jose Aldo Story (5%, 4 Votes)
Total voters: 66
“Do no harm” (literal translation: “Do no harm”)? By the way, I never found the full version. Therefore (unfortunately) I cannot vote for. But it looks like this could very well be a contender for the prize.
“Blindsided” should be noted anyway. I also want Thunder. What's the third thing? "Supreme Art of War" or "The Witcher"? I don’t want to vote for the “Keepers of Martial Arts” out of principle - so they will all be dumped in favor of some horseradish from the hill...
Ps In the same way, I won’t be able to vote for Shadrin.
Damn, that's a shame. Among the short films I want to give four or five votes, I choose three. I've only seen two of the independent films. I didn’t watch anything at all in the other nominations presented.
Wave,
This is just a great opportunity to get acquainted with films, yes :)
“Do No Harm” and Shadrin’s film, indeed, never appeared online, although the first was shown in cinemas as part of festival programs, and the second, it seems, was seen by many people at Dmitry’s screenings. So...
Danil Chupakhin, wuxia and sports dramas, to be honest, I don’t want to. Maybe among them there is something that I would be happy to see, but going through everything... By the way, I would be lying. I watched Arthur. I'm not delighted, although I don't spit. I just don’t see much connection with the theme of the site.
In principle, I hardly watch TV series. And so there’s not enough time for anything to binge on TV series.
From independents:
I didn’t find the “Liberator”. And even with a not very thorough search, I couldn’t find any information about him.
“Kamikaze” and “Without Hope...” according to the trailers and reviews here on the site do not make me want to watch them. Speaking of birds, Kinopoisk says that “Kamikaze” premiered in December 2016. I’ll assume that it became available in 2017. By the same logic, “Do Not Disturb” and “Love by Help” should have participated in the nomination for 2018+.
“Fight in Block 99” is of interest only because, they say, the cruelty and naturalism there are off the charts. But the trailer doesn't catch me.
“Boon” - a definite like!
“Killer Karate” - well, that’s it.
“Lethal Fighter” - I lied, I watched it. You can vote for Don Wilson and Cynthia Rothrock out of nostalgia.
"Dangerous Element" is another movie I couldn't find.
We have already talked about Shadrin. I wonder how many of those many people who saw it will come here and vote?
The “final verdict” is also dated everywhere to 2016. And yes, for the sake of Dacascos, Möller, Hughes, you need to watch. Although, perhaps, you can even vote in advance. "Boone", "Deadly Fighter" and "Final Judgment".
Wave,
The year a film was released and its availability to mass audiences are often not the same thing when it comes to niche films. “Do not disturb” and “Love by reference”, yes, should participate in the next summary, but people suggested them and we decided not to bother.
"Liberator" lies here -> http://7tmovies3.info/Download/The-Liberator-2017-720p-WEBRip-iExTV.1127532.aspx
"Dangerous Element" is mainly available in paid cinemas, like Amazon, but you can watch it here -> http://putlockers.fm/watch/LxRDeydO-the-danger-element.html
Unfortunately, I can’t check in because I haven’t watched any of the above, but I’ll definitely check in in the other categories. The resource is unique for the Runet, long life to it, and I will try to support it to the best of my ability