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Cinema: "Now that's a campfire"
Sat, 11 Mar 2006

A penny for you if you can recall the movie featuring that line ;)

I was chatting with a fellow today and, just as it so often does, the topic of classic good-bad movies came up. (Yet another form of retro that we're all addicted to, of course.) He was asking "Where are the Die Hards, the Delta Forces, the Conans and the Dirty Harry's?" Now I suppose in this environment of post-9/11 and the US war in Iraq it is unfashionable to feature a little of the old ultra-violence, but then again.. we do have The Matrix and the influx of Asian inspired wire-fu action films (thank Crom!) -- have the action heroes simply swung from steroid-pumped uber-Americans towards the CGI-pumped under-Americans? (Toby Maguire as Spiderman -- a very fine set of films by the way.) Or maybe they're just considered homo-erotic.

We can thank the DVD gods for the deluge of retro preservation, as I do see in several online retailers that Romancing the Stone (there, no penny for you!) is still available. While not an action film, I'm incredibly impressed that Hudson Hawk is around -- a film that is utterly brilliant .. or is in my memory anyway. (I will never forget the one night where I forced my poor friends to rent and watch Clash of the Titans, as I remembered it being _so_ good, when in fact it is unfit for observation by sock-monkeys.)

With hand on the most holy book (If Chins Could Kill, naturally) I solemnly swear to watch a good old fashioned steroid film. I wonder if there are any Oscar winners in the lot, to help complete my quest to watch 10 past Oscar winning films this year. Spartacus counts? Or must I stick to the true greats - Escape from New York or Commando? Oh, oh, maybe Big Trouble in Little China.. does that count? Certainly Leonard Part 6 is out..

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