Category: 80’s Action Hall of Fame
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: The Wine Bottle, Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: The Wine Bottle, Death Wish 4: The CrackdownBy 1987, Paul Kersey was a shell of his former self. Sure, he hadn’t lost a step in terms of his desire to kill, nor his near-legendary taste for much younger women, but he was getting lazy. Incredibly lazy. Would the Paul of yore have resorted to MacGyver methods when a gun barrel to the…
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40 Years of Death Wish 3: A Celebration
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Read more: 40 Years of Death Wish 3: A CelebrationThe Summer of 1985. While I was spending six weeks in Indiana with my maniacal grandmother, learning that yes, a 12-year-old can indeed conjure up vivid fantasies of mass murder, director Michael Winner, via MGM and Golan-Globus, was putting the final touches on the greatest motion picture ever released.
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: Toilet Man, Death Wish 3
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: Toilet Man, Death Wish 3There isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t think of him. He’s maybe 15-20 seconds of the total film, but he’s left me with 30+ years of memories. Dark thoughts. Often a nightmare or two. And then, a warmth washes over me
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The Unsung: Freak 1, Death Wish (1974)
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Read more: The Unsung: Freak 1, Death Wish (1974)He’s the one that started it all. Five films, a remake, and perhaps the entire ethos of 80’s Action. A single decision, on a crisp New York afternoon, unleashed the whirlwind.
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: Michael Jennings, On Deadly Ground
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: Michael Jennings, On Deadly GroundMichael Caine has won two Academy Awards. From Alfie to Hannah and Her Sisters, he has brought unparalleled charm, grace, and wit to innumerable roles, and hell, the man has even been knighted. But he’s also done Jaws: The Revenge.
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: The Pizza Scissors, Cobra
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: The Pizza Scissors, CobraPainful as it is to admit, these old, tired eyes have watched Cobra at least two dozen times.
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: Bennett, Commando
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: Bennett, CommandoBennett is more than iconic; he’s the most representative sample of the entire 80’s Action ethos in the history of the screen
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: Stomper, Death Wish II
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: Stomper, Death Wish II“You believe in Jesus?” By god he does. And how. A cross to tell the world that while he’s raping, robbing, and selling smack to the neighborhood
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The Top 10 Most Awesome 80s Action Deaths
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Read more: The Top 10 Most Awesome 80s Action DeathsImpaled, eviscerated, immolated, defenestrated, dismembered, decapitated, fustigated, detonated … injected with sperm. We’re like Gilbert and Sullivan over here.
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: Fraker, Death Wish 3
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: Fraker, Death Wish 3He is a leader of men. The pied piper of murderous psychopaths. A figure of near-legendary charisma and charm. He is Fraker. The only human being in the history of planet earth to unite the races in a common cause.