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Shitting on Steven Segull movies will never not be funny.

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I never really watched many action movies growing up, so I had never seen any Steven Seagal films, but I did know of him and mentally put him at the level of like Van Damme. In the last few years I've become aware that he's pretty much a complete joke, and basically always has been. But I don't think he was recognized as such at his peak popularity, was he? Did people always think he was cringe or were his films and performances actually received with earnest appreciation and applause? Despite how awful, full of exaggerated machismo and lazy they are.

[–] MothmanDelorian 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Van Damme is a much better actor and was extremely fuckable in his heyday which cannot be said for Segal

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My first exposure to him was a movie where it seems like he was parodying himself and played with the concept of being past his prime

It was really well done, his acting was fantastic and I enjoyed it, despite probably missing a lot of context

[–] MothmanDelorian 2 points 3 weeks ago

He did a show called Van Damme Van Johnson whose premise was he was a secret agent and all the action films were cover for his work. It was great but like everything on Prime in the early days nobody watched it.