Showing posts with label John Mctiernan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Mctiernan. Show all posts

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Predator


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Predator! You sonofa BITCH...The lineup in this movie is the perfect mix of brains and brawn for a John McTiernan 100 page script that was most likely cut down to 20 pages of actual dialogue. When Arnie isn't struggling through multiple sentences as the C/O, he's rattling off catch phrases and kicking far more ass than that new no-women Dr. Pepper commercial. Apollo Creed is actually Carl Weathers since this is before Rocky and he's more raw, less ego-maniacal. What better way to measure masculinity than this? So complex, so diabolically clever and yet so simple: arm wrestle while shaking hands in that pseudo black guy handshake grip. If you're ever in a one on one strength competition and you find yourself winning here's your catchphrase: What's the matter, (name of loser)? The (name of the place that loser works) got you pushing too many pencils?

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Die Hard


Chain smoking blue collar hero who gives Schwarzenegger a run for the one-liner title? Elegantly foreign, charismatic-in-all-languages bad guy? Carl Winslow in the role of his life? No. When we think of Die Hard, we think of one man: Hart Bochner.

 

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