Category: 80s Action
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Top Gun
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Read more: Top GunSweaty young studs fly planes, shower together.
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Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
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Read more: Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)Hobo with a Shotgun was hardly an 80’s Action Movie since it was produced in 2011, but there was no reason that the 80’s format could not be used on this totally over the top bloodbath. If you don’t approve, take it up with Rutger Hauer. Yeah, that’s what I thought. Hobo with a Shotgun…
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Death Wish 3
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Read more: Death Wish 3Only when blood flows in the streets will the violence stop.
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The Expendables
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Read more: The ExpendablesChose Your Weapon.
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The Top 10 Most Awesome 80s Action Deaths
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Read more: The Top 10 Most Awesome 80s Action DeathsImpaled, eviscerated, immolated, defenestrated, dismembered, decapitated, fustigated, detonated … injected with sperm. We’re like Gilbert and Sullivan over here.
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Dollman (1991)
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Read more: Dollman (1991)I’ve been meaning to review this movie forever. Dollman was released in 1991, but if any movie begs to be reviewed in the 80’s action format, it is the totally ruthless and bad-assed Tim Thomerson as Brick Bardo in Dollman. I have this movie on Amazon and even have a VHS tape copy of this…
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Striking Distance
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Read more: Striking DistanceTagline: They shouldn’t have put him in the water, if they didn’t want him to make waves. Entire Story in Fewer Words Than Are in This Sentence: All Cops Are Bastards, Except Willis. Homoeroticism: Much like “Dirty” Harry Callahan before him, and unlike the homoerotic heroes we know and love from classics like Commando or…
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Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
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Read more: Universal Soldier: Day of ReckoningVan Damme looks suitably tormented and wearied by age, but, really, can a serious science fiction plot coexist in a movie promising bone crunchings galore and Lundgrenades of ridiculousness?
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
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Read more: Indiana Jones and the Temple of DoomBack in the 1980’s, Google didn’t exist; therefore, nobody knew the truth about anything.
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80’s Action Is No Laughing Matter: Part 2
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Read more: 80’s Action Is No Laughing Matter: Part 2Chuck Norris in Firewalker Loathed by the critics, Chuck’s first shot at comedy in 1986 was a box-office dud that helped finish off his benefactor Cannon Films. Good work, son. Plusses: I couldn’t really follow the premise, but we end up with two adventurers and a pretty bird trying to find buried treasure in Central…