{"id":3503,"date":"2009-05-30T05:48:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T09:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2009-05-30T05:48:59","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T09:48:59","slug":"damien-walters-showreel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3503","title":{"rendered":"Damien Walters Showreel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5MeiwLLZjDo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5MeiwLLZjDo'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>My thoughts:<\/p>\n<p>That one trick at the 55 second mark? Pfft.  Big deal.  I took off my pants as recently as yesterday, and I did it without the trampoline thing. <\/p>\n<p>More seriously: I always laughed at those wall-run moves in Prince of Persia, but they aren&#8217;t all that different from what this guy is doing.  And he doesn&#8217;t have time-traveling cutlery to bail him out if he messes up.<\/p>\n<p>Jackie Chan is fifty-five years old.  As much as I love his work, he&#8217;s getting to the point where he probably shouldn&#8217;t be back-flipping out of an exploding helicopter into a burning car crusher owned by angry Shaolin monks.  I have always wondered who could possibly take his place as the world&#8217;s foremost comic kung-fu stunt actor. After seeing this, I nominate Damien Walters.  Someone hurry up and get that man into a helicopter made of dynamite and filled with ninjas.  <\/p>\n<p>Putting this guy on wires would be insane. The stuff he&#8217;s doing on the street already looks fake. (For example, watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IkawsBwJwpE\">this one<\/a> at the 45 second mark.)<\/p>\n<p>Also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BAGnM_07gs4&#038;feature=channel\">He&#8217;s good with kids<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It really is disgusting how much talent some people have.  The nerve. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) My thoughts: That one trick at the 55 second mark? Pfft. Big deal. I took off my pants as recently as yesterday, and I did it without the trampoline thing. More seriously: I always laughed at those wall-run moves in Prince of Persia, but they aren&#8217;t all that different from what this guy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}