http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/gifs/letoffsomesteambennett.gif
― etc, Friday, 17 February 2012 12:07 (twelve years ago) link
if ive learned anything from this poll, its that i have to see 'commando' again. its been too long!
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Friday, 17 February 2012 12:09 (twelve years ago) link
oh, I've totally seen this shopping mall scene before! Love this stewardess girl.
― getting good with gulags (beachville), Friday, 17 February 2012 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
steel drums and saxophones. you can't beat this.
― getting good with gulags (beachville), Friday, 17 February 2012 12:13 (twelve years ago) link
rae daw chong is absolutely my favorite in this.
― getting good with gulags (beachville), Friday, 17 February 2012 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
Matrix: [Comes out from hidden place] Come on Bennett, throw away the chicken shit gun, you don't just want to pull the trigger, you want to put the knife in me, and look me in the eye, and see what's going on in there when you turn it, that's what you want to do, right?
Such a weird fight.
― woof, Friday, 17 February 2012 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
with a chicken shit gun, yeah i'd imagine.
― ledge, Friday, 17 February 2012 12:29 (twelve years ago) link
Hard Target features Van Damme punching out a rattlesnake. The "best" Van Damme is, of course, Time Cop, though Double Impact had the best tagline ("double the Van Damage!"). However, "Double Team" (Rodman! Rourke!) may be the most batshit insane ridiculous of the bunch, with Van Damme teaming up with Tsui Hark. Hark also directed "Knock Off," which is similarly surreal-nuts, but "Double Team" ... man.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 12:43 (twelve years ago) link
how do ppl here feel about 'jcvd'
"spasm of six-year-olds" is a great collective noun
― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Friday, 17 February 2012 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
<3 these dudes: http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/1413/commando/
― Jurgis Rudkus // Dick Butkus (Pillbox), Friday, 17 February 2012 12:48 (twelve years ago) link
wait, has a JCVD movie made the list yet?
if no JCVD movie does, then... I just don't know.
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Friday, 17 February 2012 12:50 (twelve years ago) link
chicken shit gun
manure cannon?
― White 'Poop' Jesus (snoball), Friday, 17 February 2012 12:53 (twelve years ago) link
xp Street Fighter for #1
― White 'Poop' Jesus (snoball), Friday, 17 February 2012 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Friday, February 17, 2012 7:45 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark
its really good
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 17 February 2012 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/9296/commandoarnieactionfigu.jpg
^ had this when I was a kid!
― Jurgis Rudkus // Dick Butkus (Pillbox), Friday, 17 February 2012 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
xp re jcvd: i've only seen that one clip that was making the youtube rounds for a while, it totally sounds like the kind of movie i'd be into but at the same time i've seen like ten minutes of all other van damme movies ever so the idea of watching it makes me feel sort of like a pseud
― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Friday, 17 February 2012 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
also, there's the curious fact that Die Hard was originally envisioned as a Commando sequel:
John McTiernan was originally going to make Commando 2, but Arnold Schwarzenegger turned the role offer down. Commando 2 was transformed into this film; Schwarzenegger was the first actor offered the title role, but he again declined. Eventually Bruce Willis would get the part after it had been offered to Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson and Richard Gere.
― Jurgis Rudkus // Dick Butkus (Pillbox), Friday, 17 February 2012 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
Predator and Commando man not making the top 10... I guess I just don't get you guys. Top 5 should be Pred, Commando, T1, T2 and Die Hard.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 17 February 2012 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
the thought of anybody in that list as McLane tells you why Willis is an all-time great tbh
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 February 2012 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Friday, February 17, 2012 8:02 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark
the more into you van damme the better it probably is, but i think as long as you know who he is you can prob appreciate it
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 17 February 2012 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
Die Hard will win and bollocks to any SF movie being top 5 unless Verhoeven directed it
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 February 2012 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
i think gibson probably could've been a good mclane
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 17 February 2012 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
cd've been dece yeah but too close to the Lethal Weapon persona?
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 February 2012 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i was just thinking that.
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 17 February 2012 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
also not bald enough
also wd have punched his wife in the face at the end of the film
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 February 2012 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
the thought of richard gere as john mcclaine is blowing my mind here
― pandemic, Friday, 17 February 2012 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
Recall, the idea of Bruce Willis as John McClaine was nuts at the time, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
Wait, how can Die Hard have been conceived as a sequel to Commando when it's based on a book?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 13:58 (twelve years ago) link
Funny, the book Die Hard is based on is a sequel itself!
In 1975, author Roderick Thorp saw the film The Towering Inferno. After seeing the film, Thorp had a dream of seeing a man being chased through a building by men with guns. He woke up and took that idea and turned it into the The Detective sequel, Nothing Lasts Forever.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
You can pretty much add "chased by men with guns" to any movie description to make it awesome. Except Inception, which made it boring. Go figure.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
xp Bit of retconning, bish bosh, job's a good 'un. Cf. Pirates of the Caribbean: on Stranger Tides. I guess.
― ledge, Friday, 17 February 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
"a dream of seeing a man being chased through a building by men with guns"!!!!
― CANDY aka JUNK (some dude), Friday, 17 February 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
xxp Hey, the character from the novel was originally played by Frank Sinatra in The Detective, so.
Amusingly, Die Hard 2 is ALSO based on a novel written by an entirely different person and having nothing to do with Die Hard OR Roderick Thorp's book. Hollywood is amazing.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Friday, 17 February 2012 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
"dream of seeing a man chased around an airport by men with guns"
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
BTW if you haven't read Nothing Lasts Forever, do so. Except for the bad guys having a more 70s motivation, and the central relationship being estranged father/daughter rather than estranged husband/wife, pretty much every plot point and action sequence is right there on the page.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Friday, 17 February 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
Ah, here we go:
The screenplay was written by Steven E. de Souza and Doug Richardson, adapted from the novel 58 Minutes by Walter Wager. The novel has the same premise but differs slightly: A cop must stop terrorists who take an airport hostage while his wife's plane circles overhead. He has 58 minutes to do so before the plane crashes. Roderick Thorp, who wrote the novel Nothing Lasts Forever, upon which the first Die Hard film was based, receives credit for creating "certain original characters", although his name is misspelled onscreen as "Roderick Thorpe."
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Friday, 17 February 2012 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone read the Bourne books? How much of them get ported over directly?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
very little, it was discussed briefly upthread?
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 February 2012 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
BTW, it does bear further emphasis that Bruce Willis' casting in Die Hard was one of Hollywood's all-time huge WTF moves. Hard to believe, in retrospect. He was just an affable romantic lead TV actor, as far as anyone was concerned.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
Yeh, along with Woody Harrelson going from "Cheers" to "Natural Born Killers"
― Mark G, Friday, 17 February 2012 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
iirc die hard with a vengeance was supposed to be a lethal weapon movie
― max, Friday, 17 February 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
Somehow I'd managed to avoid Akira all these years, despite being well aware of it since its release. Well, honestly, it wasn't that hard to avoid. Anyway, watched it last night. Pretty cool, I guess, pretty much exactly what I expected. I guess I'm just not a fan of anime style, though as a kid I do recall sitting rapt watching "StarBlazers."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
The most I was ever enveloped in Anime was the Voltron cartoon series that came on in the mid 80s, which may actually be a different type of animation than proper "anime" (I dunno).
Die Hard was Bruce's second film role, right? He did some date movie first and then WHAMMO he became the biggest action star in the world for a couple years.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 17 February 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
Blind Date? With Basinger? Was that pre Die Hard?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
wanna see the alternate-universe die hard with burt reynolds
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 17 February 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I guess that was Blind Date, the year before, which flopped hard with a vengeance.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
xp or with Sinatra as a sequel to The Detective
― Brad C., Friday, 17 February 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
TS: Die Hard with Burt Reynolds vs. Raiders with Tom Selleck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSyHSgEbNng&feature=player_embedded#!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 14:45 (twelve years ago) link