Action Movies: They Don’t Make ‘em Like They Used To
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007So as anyone who spends too much time scouring through the deepest bowels of the internets can attest, the web is just chockful of cool info jus waiting to be chanced upon. And I jus happened to stumble into couple of videos that reminded me of how awesome movies used to be..
As the following scene from Bloodsport proves, you don’t need death-defying Parkour and killer orchestral scores to put together a rivetting scene. All it took was Van Dammage running around like a sissy, and the smooth melody of Michael Bishop’s Steal The Night, to create this sublime onfoot chase sequence…(nope never heard of the Bishop dude before i saw this either):
And remember how over-the-top action scenes simply meant slicing off part a dude’s head, and also chopping off the arm of another but not before delivering a painful strike to someone else’s crotch with an axe?
To many, the 80s marked the pinnacle of inspirational movies that told the classic tale of good triumphing over evil at insurmountable odds. The same movies taught us never to tremble in fear in the presence of any adversary. Instead, you freakin’ grab his hand if he tries to strike you and make him squeal like a pig by breakin every bone in his fist!! In fact, if the person you’re up against has a name like Shonuff the Shogun of Harlem, you gotta unleash that hypnotical, flashback-driven, series of attacks for the ultimate death sequence!
Of course, it doesn’t hurt to make your body glow a lil bit as well. Who’s the master now bitch!?! Anyway, not all movies ended up being masterpieces of their time obviously. Shameful ripoffs are aplenty and of which some just makes you go “wtf???”
And then there are those whose mere existence serves as a fine mockery of everything else that precedes it
