Category: 80s Action
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Cobra (Seven Things I Love About….)
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Read more: Cobra (Seven Things I Love About….)If 80’s Action taught us anything, it’s that our men like it gay – very gay – and the women, well, if they’re not blissfully naked or dead, they’re firm, unalterable lesbians.
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Death Wish 3 (Seven Things I Love About….)
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Read more: Death Wish 3 (Seven Things I Love About….)When it comes to 80’s Action, nothing grates quite like a neutered police force. You know the type: cowardly, effete, more beta cuck than alpha warrior.
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The 6th Day (2000): From the Ruthless Archives
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Read more: The 6th Day (2000): From the Ruthless ArchivesIn the future, cloning is a big issue. “They” tried to clone a human and the results were bad in someway which is never discussed.
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How Action Movie Fans Use Random Video Chat for Cinema Talk
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Read more: How Action Movie Fans Use Random Video Chat for Cinema TalkThe action-movie audience that grew up on Predator, Commando, Die Hard, and the Schwarzenegger and Stallone catalogue has its own quiet relationship with random video chat platforms. The audience is older than most outsiders assume, mostly male, mostly comfortable with a webcam, and used to spending long evening hours in front of a screen. The…
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Near Dark (1987)
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Read more: Near Dark (1987)This movie rolled onto my screen after Dark Angel. A vampire movie that I decided to give a watch, and boy am I glad…
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If Classic Action Movie Stars Were Card Games, What Would They Be?
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Read more: If Classic Action Movie Stars Were Card Games, What Would They Be?Oiled muscle-men firing off one-liners while mowing armies of bad guys with a machine gun in one hand. There is something deeply reassuring in the action movies of old. They played by the rules that everybody understood. The hero stands alone. The odds are absurd. The outcome is never in doubt. In some respects, classic…
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The Park Is Mine (1985)
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Read more: The Park Is Mine (1985)Budget Rambo digs a hole. Cops fall in.
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Eight Wince-Inducing Moments in Movies*
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Read more: Eight Wince-Inducing Moments in Movies*I was about fourteen when I first caught First Blood on home video, the perfect age to vicariously revel in such macho histrionics. Immediately afterwards, I ran outside, knocked the first motorcyclist I saw to the ground, and headed off for the woods
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A Decade Of Chucking Up
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Read more: A Decade Of Chucking UpChuck’s methodical conquest of Hollywood began in earnest with 1977’s oddity, Breaker! Breaker!, a knockabout flick designed to cash in on the CB radio craze.
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Code of Silence (1985)
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Read more: Code of Silence (1985)In honor of the passing of His Hairiest of Chestinesses, I was asked to review this long-forgotten masterpiece, and this, of course, can only be done in the classic 80s Action format.