Babylon 5: TKO

[Deledrius]

Am I weird for not finding this boring? I get the impression that I am.

You might be! Well, at least unique, as I can't determine you're weird just from one data point.

Personally I find the boxing/wrestling/sport episode-as-metaphor trope exceptionally boring in all but very few exceptions. It always feels way too on-the-nose and often is a lazy way to resolve character conflicts by literally making them physical in the most consequence-free way possible.

[animalia]

Am I weird for not finding this boring? I get the impression that I am.

You might be! Well, at least unique, as I can't determine you're weird just from one data point.

Personally I find the boxing/wrestling/sport episode-as-metaphor trope exceptionally boring in all but very few exceptions. It always feels way too on-the-nose and often is a lazy way to resolve character conflicts by literally making them physical in the most consequence-free way possible.

Maybe I have read to many sports manga?

[CharlesPhipps]

I love how this is just the movie BLOODSPORT and somehow its boring as all get out.

part of the reason being that this is the kind of plot you need one of the main cast to be involved in.

Like, "Garibaldi has a hidden past as a cage fighter."

[animalia]

I love how this is just the movie BLOODSPORT and somehow its boring as all get out.

Never seen it.

[CharlesPhipps]

I love how this is just the movie BLOODSPORT and somehow its boring as all get out.

Never seen it.

Jean Claude Van Damme goes to an underground fighting palace and punches a shit ton of people to prove he's worthy of being called a karate master.

That's the movie.

[Frustration]

Like, "Garibaldi has a hidden past as a cage fighter."

Nah, that's kinda dull. Now, if he had a hidden past as a cage dancer, that would get my attention.

[McAvoy]

I love how this is just the movie BLOODSPORT and somehow its boring as all get out.

Never seen it.

Jean Claude Van Damme goes to an underground fighting palace and punches a shit ton of people to prove he's worthy of being called a karate master.

That's the movie.

Isn't there another movie he made that's basically that too?

It always makes me wonder how he managed to be in movies. He isn't a good actor and his accent is thicker than Schwarzenegger. And apparently difficult to work with.

[CrypticMirror]

He was cheaper than either Arnie or Dolph. And he could do the male splits.

[CharlesPhipps]

He was cheaper than either Arnie or Dolph. And he could do the male splits.

I mean, even his fans know he's trash, but he's hilarious. He may be the poor man's Arnold and Stallone but there's a level below him with Siegel.

Bloodsport is basically the apex of his career, though, because he doesn't need to act during it.

Well it and Street Fighter, because Street Fighter is a movie everyone loves even when they hate it.

[MightyDavidson]

He was cheaper than either Arnie or Dolph. And he could do the male splits.

I mean, even his fans know he's trash, but he's hilarious. He may be the poor man's Arnold and Stallone but there's a level below him with Siegel.

Bloodsport is basically the apex of his career, though, because he doesn't need to act during it.

Well it and Street Fighter, because Street Fighter is a movie everyone loves even when they hate it.

I'd actually put Hard Target as the apex of Van Damme's career as it still doesn't require him to do much acting and John Woo is directing, resulting in some really spectacular action scenes.