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80's action films

Started by Aos, September 18, 2007, 11:59:53 AM

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beeber

#30
September 18, 2007, 10:19:21 PM
was total recall in the 80s?

escape from new york?
robocop

Aos

#31
September 18, 2007, 10:20:21 PM
Quote from: John MorrowHow about They Live!?
(OK, so I'm on a John Carpenter kick.)

Years ago, there was an article by the author of the short story that movie was based on in Writer's Digest called "The Science Fiction Attitude" where he talks about how he purposely wrote the protagonist to have no name and no background to show that a science fiction story doesn't really need complex characterization to work.


That could be said of most genres, probably- on the other hand,  there is a big diffrences between a story that "works" and a story that fucking nails it. Frex, my favorite SF novel, Stars My Destination, is completely dependent on complex characterization.
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Aos

#32
September 18, 2007, 10:38:15 PM
Quote from: beeberwas total recall in the 80s?

escape from new york?
robocop


Total Recall was released in 1990, but it is from the 80's in every way that matters.
As a matter of fact, I think 80's action is more of a state of mind than a decade.
And Robocop is a big yes.
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Ian Absentia

#33
September 18, 2007, 10:46:09 PM
Quote from: AosAs a matter of fact, I think 80's action is more of a state of mind than a decade.
Pretty much whatever anyone considers a decade is actually a recollection of the last year or two of one decade and the first two or three of the following.

The 60s?  1969-73.
The 70s?  1978-82.
The 80s?  Well, that was two decades.  The Reagan Years and then 1988-92.
The 90s?  1997-2001.

Go figure.

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Aos

#34
September 18, 2007, 10:53:06 PM
Quote from: Ian AbsentiaPretty much whatever anyone considers a decade is actually a recollection of the last year or two of one decade and the first two or three of the following.

The 60s?  1969-73.
The 70s?  1978-82.
The 80s?  Well, that was two decades.  The Reagan Years and then 1988-92.
The 90s?  1997-2001.

Go figure.

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Agreed, but in the context of this conversation it becomes even more confusing,  because some of the films clearly belonging to the 80's don't show up until the 90's- Total Recall, frex or the Die Hard sequels; hell, I could probably make a case that Face Off (1997) be included in the category. It's called 80's action because it started in the 80's, not because it was contained by them.




or something.... Yeah.
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John Morrow

#35
September 18, 2007, 10:53:17 PM
Quote from: Ian AbsentiaThe 70s?  1978-82.

The 70s start in at least 1976 or even 1975 with Disco.  Probably with the resignation of Nixon and the conquest of South Vietnam by the North.

Quote from: Ian AbsentiaThe 80s?  Well, that was two decades.  The Reagan Years and then 1988-92.

If you look at the music and other things, they were turning in 1979 (which may have something to do with why Carter was a one term President) and ended before 1992 (which may have something to do with why Bush 1 was a one term President).

Quote from: Ian Absentia1997-2001.

On what basis?  I think you're trying to force your theory here.
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John Morrow

#36
September 18, 2007, 10:58:05 PM
Quote from: AosAgreed, but in the context of this conversation it becomes even more confusing,  because some of the films clearly belonging to the 80's don't show up until the 90's- Total Recall, frex or the Die Hard sequels; hell, I could probably make a case that Face Off (1997) be included in the category. It's called 80's action because it started in the 80's, not because it was contained by them.

In that case, how about The Last Boy Scout?
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stu2000

#37
September 18, 2007, 11:23:38 PM
Ken Hite has a nice line f speculation about John Carpenter inventing the genre we're talking about. The theory stands up, though I could find precursors in other genres.

My favorite (well--aside from Big Trouble in Little China and Buckaroo Banzai) is Avenging Angel. "What?! Our best out-of-town heat was taken out by a rag-tag band of pissant vigilantes?!!"  Love it.
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Aos

#38
September 18, 2007, 11:31:30 PM
Quote from: John MorrowIn that case, how about The Last Boy Scout?

Without a doubt.
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walkerp

#39
September 19, 2007, 12:30:54 PM
I always had a soft spot in my heart for Shakedown:

"A legal attorney and renegade cop team up to stop a corrupt cop"

Peter Weller with his upturned collar and speckly blazer really captured the period for me.
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#40
September 19, 2007, 01:06:02 PM
Quote from: John MorrowI think you're trying to force your theory here.
Nonsense.  I've based my theory on the finest pseudoscience culled from the Internet possible.

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Danger

#41
September 19, 2007, 07:04:19 PM
Oh yeah, Walkerp has hit another nail on the head with the whole "opposites team up to fight evil," thing (ie. Tango and Cash, Lethal Weapon et al, and that Chuck Norris one where he teams up with a dog).

That shit is so 80s!  Or early 90s...whatever!


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walkerp

#42
September 19, 2007, 07:35:26 PM
We're getting into the tale end of the 80s now, but Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man was a real mess, but a guilty pleasure nonetheless.

Oh yeah, and Stone Cold (the same year, 91).  Lance Henriksen should have won an oscar for his performance as the sadistic hippy biker.  "We're going to get into each others' heads man."
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John Morrow

#43
September 19, 2007, 11:18:38 PM
Quote from: DangerOh yeah, Walkerp has hit another nail on the head with the whole "opposites team up to fight evil," thing (ie. Tango and Cash, Lethal Weapon et al, and that Chuck Norris one where he teams up with a dog).

Then I should add (from 1992) the near-future Science Fiction/Horror movie Split Second with Rutger Hauer.
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beeber

#44
September 19, 2007, 11:24:31 PM
red heat, with jim belushi as the wise-crackin' american cop and arnie as the soviet stoic detective or somesuch.  

"have you heard of miranda?"  
"no"  
*pow*
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