Great Era of 80s Action Heroes

ASAP · 12-04-2014, 02:54 PM

Does anyone feel like movies aren't made the same way anymore and the action heroes just aren't the same?

Oscar winning performances such as Arnold's Commando seem to be long gone.

What are some of your favorite movies / actors of the time?

954Stealth · 12-04-2014, 03:01 PM

I liked Arnold in the movie Predator and JCVD in Bloodsport

ASAP · 12-04-2014, 03:05 PM

Perhaps I should have said 80s and 90s but there were many corny movie greats-

Arnold
Sly
Wesley Snipes
Chuck Norris
Jackie Chan
Jean Claude
Steven Seagal
Dolph Lundren
Charles Bronson

kevinbahnz · 12-04-2014, 03:10 PM

Jean Claude and Arnold, even Steven Seagal.

fecurtis · 12-04-2014, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by ASAP

Does anyone feel like movies aren't made the same way anymore and the action heroes just aren't the same?

Oscar winning performances such as Arnold's Commando seem to be long gone.

What are some of your favorite movies / actors of the time?

Commando is one of my favorite movies. Watching him and that chick crash that little speeding roadster into that telephone pole without wearing seat belts and defying the laws of physics in the process never gets old.

Nor does the top notch steel drum and saxophone heavy soundtrack.

ASAP · 12-04-2014, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by ASAP

Does anyone feel like movies aren't made the same way anymore and the action heroes just aren't the same?

Oscar winning performances such as Arnold's Commando seem to be long gone.

What are some of your favorite movies / actors of the time?

Commando is one of my favorite movies. Watching him and that chick crash that little speeding roadster into that telephone pole without wearing seat belts and defying the laws of physics in the process never gets old.

Nor does the top notch steel drum and saxophone heavy soundtrack.

You mean where they crash at like 80 mph straight into a pole and walk right out of the car lmfao... or when arnold jumps out of a plane that is taking off. But its really the one liners and comebacks that make that movie... to me, it was passed over for an oscar.

kevinbahnz · 12-04-2014, 03:19 PM

Arnold as Conan, no comment.

ASAP · 12-04-2014, 03:21 PM

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Arnold as Conan, no comment.

One of his first roles... note the number of speaking parts in that one.

kevinbahnz · 12-04-2014, 03:22 PM

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One of his first roles... note the number of speaking parts in that one.

thats why it was good. Barbarians need not talk

grimlock · 12-04-2014, 03:29 PM

Y'all know I have a thing for John Rambo.. misunderstood/persecuted PTSD complex

ASAP · 12-04-2014, 03:35 PM

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Y'all know I have a thing for John Rambo.. misunderstood/persecuted PTSD complex

U see Rambo 4 where apparently Mexicans are used as the Burmese army and Rambo uses a Tank Gattling Gun to annhiliate like a 1000 of them.

grimlock · 12-04-2014, 03:43 PM

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U see Rambo 4 where apparently Mexicans are used as the Burmese army and Rambo uses a Tank Gattling Gun to annhiliate like a 1000 of them.

I didn't know there was a rambo 4 .. gotta watch it!
You guys see the pic of him shirtless with his 3 daughters.. god damnit how do you look like that when you're over 60?

kevinbahnz · 12-04-2014, 03:45 PM

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I didn't know there was a rambo 4 .. gotta watch it!
You guys see the pic of him shirtless with his 3 daughters.. god damnit how do you look like that when you're over 60?

HGH

grimlock · 12-04-2014, 03:47 PM

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HGH

lol wtf.. i need that

vs.

he grew

UncleWede · 12-04-2014, 03:55 PM

CONAN!!!! "Crom!"

That is the only movie where I waited in line hours outside the theater. I was second into the theater only because my "buddy" tripped me

squishy · 12-04-2014, 04:02 PM

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HGH

Maybe a bit of nuclear horse piss mixed in there as well

Dude is looking kinda pudgy and soft

TIME TO UP THE TREN!!

ASAP · 12-04-2014, 04:09 PM

Oh and btw, Jean Claude in the late 80s started experimenting with a lot of coke and grew that outstanding mullet. Turned out later on that he was bipolar.

ASAP · 12-04-2014, 04:10 PM

Perfect!

NickyC · 12-04-2014, 04:11 PM

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U see Rambo 4 where apparently Mexicans are used as the Burmese army and Rambo uses a Tank Gattling Gun to annhiliate like a 1000 of them.

Rambo 4 is amazing, I thought I would hate it and I absolutely loved it. Here's my inner gun nerd talking, but it wasn't a "tank gattling gun" (lol) which Rambo used at the end. It was a modified Browning M2 aircraft machine gun.

Great scene though! haha

squishy · 12-04-2014, 04:13 PM

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It was a modified Browning M2 aircraft machine gun.

BRUH!

Be careful with that language around here

MYovichZ4 · 12-04-2014, 04:38 PM

Vote cast for Bruce Willis, Die Hard

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John McClane: No fucking shit, lady. Does it sound like I'm ordering a pizza?

V1.47fan · 12-04-2014, 04:46 PM

Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Steve Buschemi...

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