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  • TimT Away
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    #19304

    Must say that I am proud to have inspired a three day argument over just how great a movie Commando was.

    Lets see more Fred-Flinstoning in action movies.

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    Maybe this is the start of an Arnie-palooza, discussion about all of his best films.....

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    @canefan said in Movie review thread...:

    Maybe this is the start of an Arnie-palooza, discussion about all of his best films.....

    I never noticed before, but is that actually real footage from the movie?

    Mac is one tough sumbitch, and he's screaming as he's firing. Arnie looks like he's just chilling

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  • MN5M Offline
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    @canefan said in Movie review thread...:

    @canefan said in Movie review thread...:

    Maybe this is the start of an Arnie-palooza, discussion about all of his best films.....

    I never noticed before, but is that actually real footage from the movie?

    Mac is one tough sumbitch, and he's screaming as he's firing. Arnie looks like he's just chilling

    …….and good old Billy in the background.

    He’s worth a google and how he was on the set of Predator. Sounds like a lunatic.

    Throw in Jesse the body Ventura and Carl Weathers……wow, what a cast of units !!!

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  • mariner4lifeM Offline
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    #19308

    Commando its THE quintessential (and greatest) 80s action movie. Over the top hero. Over the top villains. One liners all over the shop. A plot that barely survives any in-depth thinking (and if you are doing that you are doing it wrong anyway), and a body count that would make the Black Plague proud. Some fucking great deaths too.

    Excellent in every way.

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    @canefan said in Movie review thread...:

    discussion about all of his best films

    bro, an almost unmatched set of credits. ranking them is almost impossible.

    Commando
    Predator
    Conan the Barbarian
    True Lies
    T2
    T1
    Red Heat
    Raw Deal
    fuck, Total Recall!
    The Running Man

    Twins and Junior and Kindergarten Cop...

    No two rankings are going to be the same

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  • MN5M Offline
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    #19310

    To further add to the Arnie circle jerk…..

    I can’t believe people mention Sly as a serious rival.

    Arnie has an X factor SS could only dream of

    It’s not even close.

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  • MN5M Offline
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    @mariner4life said in Movie review thread...:

    @canefan said in Movie review thread...:

    discussion about all of his best films

    bro, an almost unmatched set of credits. ranking them is almost impossible.

    Commando
    Predator
    Conan the Barbarian
    True Lies
    T2
    T1
    Red Heat
    Raw Deal
    fuck, Total Recall!
    The Running Man

    Twins and Junior and Kindergarten Cop...

    No two rankings are going to be the same

    Would add Conan the Destroyer and take out Junior.

    Last Action Hero is fun but probably doesn’t make the shortlist .

    Very hard to actually rank them though

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  • canefanC Offline
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    @MN5 said in Movie review thread...:

    To further add to the Arnie circle jerk…..

    I can’t believe people mention Sly as a serious rival.

    Arnie has an X factor SS could only dream of

    It’s not even close.

    Not to mention Jean Claude, or Dolph. And don't even get me started with the new breed like Vin Diesel, who aren't fit to lace Arnie's combat boots

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  • BovidaeB Offline
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    #19313

    I've always liked Eraser.

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  • nostrildamusN Offline
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    #19314

    The original Conan is a classic, all that moody steroid-enhanced existential brooding. And the face behind Darth Vader's voice. And a snake to make lair of the white worm look like a common garden adder.

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  • MiketheSnowM Offline
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    @MN5 said in Movie review thread...:

    To further add to the Arnie circle jerk…..

    I can’t believe people mention Sly as a serious rival.

    Arnie has an X factor SS could only dream of

    It’s not even close.

    Sly has been in some tremendous movies and deserves his place on the Mt Rushmore of Action

    Rocky I, II. III, IV
    Paradise Alley
    First Blood
    Tango & Cash
    Cliffhanger
    Judge Dredd
    Cop Land
    Get Carter
    Creed
    Tulsa King

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  • NepiaN Offline
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    @MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:

    @MN5 said in Movie review thread...:

    To further add to the Arnie circle jerk…..

    I can’t believe people mention Sly as a serious rival.

    Arnie has an X factor SS could only dream of

    It’s not even close.

    Sly has been in some tremendous movies and deserves his place on the Mt Rushmore of Action

    Rocky I, II. III, IV
    Paradise Alley
    First Blood
    Tango & Cash
    Cliffhanger
    Judge Dredd
    Cop Land
    Get Carter
    Creed
    Tulsa King

    Yep, no need to throw shade at Sly to raise Arnie up.

    You didn't eveh include Escape to Victory where he held his own acting with pro soccer players. 😉

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  • MN5M Offline
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    @Nepia said in Movie review thread...:

    @MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:

    @MN5 said in Movie review thread...:

    To further add to the Arnie circle jerk…..

    I can’t believe people mention Sly as a serious rival.

    Arnie has an X factor SS could only dream of

    It’s not even close.

    Sly has been in some tremendous movies and deserves his place on the Mt Rushmore of Action

    Rocky I, II. III, IV
    Paradise Alley
    First Blood
    Tango & Cash
    Cliffhanger
    Judge Dredd
    Cop Land
    Get Carter
    Creed
    Tulsa King

    Yep, no need to throw shade at Sly to raise Arnie up.

    You didn't eveh include Escape to Victory where he held his own acting with pro soccer players. 😉

    His best flick was Demolition Man.

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  • NepiaN Offline
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    @MN5 said in Movie review thread...:

    @Nepia said in Movie review thread...:

    @MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:

    @MN5 said in Movie review thread...:

    To further add to the Arnie circle jerk…..

    I can’t believe people mention Sly as a serious rival.

    Arnie has an X factor SS could only dream of

    It’s not even close.

    Sly has been in some tremendous movies and deserves his place on the Mt Rushmore of Action

    Rocky I, II. III, IV
    Paradise Alley
    First Blood
    Tango & Cash
    Cliffhanger
    Judge Dredd
    Cop Land
    Get Carter
    Creed
    Tulsa King

    Yep, no need to throw shade at Sly to raise Arnie up.

    You didn't eveh include Escape to Victory where he held his own acting with pro soccer players. 😉

    His best flick was Demolition Man.

    Yeah, thats a good one,.

    I think he had a better mid career than Arnie in that some of his 90s films were decent and some fun and he made a classic, and was great in it, in Copland.

    I also loved Cobra and Over the Top as a kid.

    But then again JCVD movies were great in the 80s early 90s too. Fuck even Seagal's early stuff was great action for the time.

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  • No QuarterN Offline
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    #19319

    Seagal movies were great, watching Under Siege with Erika Eleniak is a memory that stands out from when I was young.

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  • mariner4lifeM Offline
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    wrote on last edited by
    #19320

    Seagal, the master of the double death.

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  • MiketheSnowM Offline
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    @MN5 said in Movie review thread...:

    @Nepia said in Movie review thread...:

    @MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:

    @MN5 said in Movie review thread...:

    To further add to the Arnie circle jerk…..

    I can’t believe people mention Sly as a serious rival.

    Arnie has an X factor SS could only dream of

    It’s not even close.

    Sly has been in some tremendous movies and deserves his place on the Mt Rushmore of Action

    Rocky I, II. III, IV
    Paradise Alley
    First Blood
    Tango & Cash
    Cliffhanger
    Judge Dredd
    Cop Land
    Get Carter
    Creed
    Tulsa King

    Yep, no need to throw shade at Sly to raise Arnie up.

    You didn't eveh include Escape to Victory where he held his own acting with pro soccer players. 😉

    His best flick was Demolition Man.

    Not in his Top 5 IMHO

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  • CatograndeC Offline
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    @mariner4life said in Movie review thread...:

    @canefan said in Movie review thread...:

    discussion about all of his best films

    bro, an almost unmatched set of credits. ranking them is almost impossible.

    Commando
    Predator
    Conan the Barbarian
    True Lies
    T2
    T1
    Red Heat
    Raw Deal
    fuck, Total Recall!
    The Running Man

    Twins and Junior and Kindergarten Cop...

    No two rankings are going to be the same

    Apart from those...

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  • canefanC Offline
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    @No-Quarter said in Movie review thread...:

    Seagal movies were great, watching Under Siege with Erika Eleniak is a memory that stands out from when I was young.

    Not sure that's because of Steven's acting... 👁️👁️

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