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roscoegino
10-13-2005, 10:38 PM
Anyone?
billythrilly7
10-13-2005, 10:52 PM
Nighthawks or Cobra(have to watch them both again)

Honorable Mention:
Tango & Cash
Cliffhanger
Over the Top
Optimus
10-13-2005, 11:49 PM
I second the vote for Over the Top.

Any movie (from the 80s) with a Kenny Loggins soundtrack automatically rocks.
whitenavel
10-14-2005, 12:08 AM
Victory

and

Copland



Honorable Mention:
Cobra
Nighthawks
Tango & Cash
Lock Up
Pencey
10-14-2005, 12:27 AM
Copland all the way. Some of his best work as an actor. A subtle but very strong performance.

Cliffhanger is a distant second, but I have to say I love the opening for that movie. One of the best I've ever seen in an action film.
Pen Dragon
10-14-2005, 01:32 AM
Nighthawks and Victory. He was also good in FIST, and I enjoyed Paradise Alley even though it had so many anachronistic flaws to be taken too seriously. It was a story with some heart, something stallone forgot all about after First Blood

everything post '82 has been disposable crap. except maybe copland, i've never seen it.
roscoegino
10-14-2005, 01:39 AM
Yeah, Nighthawks makes the cut.

Shane Black had to be thinking of it when he wrote Lethal Weapon.
Had to.
Evil Elf
10-14-2005, 02:09 AM
Fist
Bad Liver
10-14-2005, 02:31 AM
Cobra.
le kilt
10-14-2005, 05:02 AM
COPLAND, but then I think I've only seen three of his movies, and two are disqualified, so that kinda narrows down my options. But I liked it a lot anyhow.
randesq
10-14-2005, 05:38 AM
deathrace 2000
PNChheda
10-14-2005, 07:57 AM
Oscar
The Specialist
Lock Up
whistlelock
10-14-2005, 08:01 AM
Copland made me want to shoot myself in the head. In the theater. with children watching.
BeefMissile
10-14-2005, 08:24 AM
I like Copland but think the script had some major plot holes and problems with logic. The acting was great.

Nighthawks is a great film. I could watch that on TV when it's on. Rutger Hauer does his best bad guy work and Sly doesn't try to act like a super-hero.

Tango & Cash is a good action film. Sly is at the top of his game in that film. Tango and Cash will always remind me of the early 1990s. Teri Hatcher is hot too!

Bad films: Demolition Man, Judge Dredd(they are almost the same plots/films)!
le kilt
10-14-2005, 08:34 AM
Copland made me want to shoot myself in the head. In the theater. with children watching.

lol. in that case, maybe don't watch mangold's debut, heavy. or at least, not with kids around.


edited to add: i'm not knocking *heavy*, i liked it. in fact, it got me excited about seeing *copland*. just that it's even more idiosyncratic imo.
Landis26
10-14-2005, 08:49 AM
Yeah, Nighthawks makes the cut.

Shane Black had to be thinking of it when he wrote Lethal Weapon.
Had to.

No, Shane Black was probably thinking of "Freeby and the Bean".
Hairy Lime
10-14-2005, 09:22 AM
I agree with whitenavel, though I'd reverse the order.

COPLAND

&

VICTORY
Salazkin
10-14-2005, 10:29 AM
deathrace 2000 :rolling: Love it! This inspires me to start a new thread on "Over the Top" films.
ViningWolff
10-14-2005, 11:29 AM
Nighthawks - #1

Tango & Cash and Copland #2
pooks
10-14-2005, 11:46 AM
VICTORY!
Twofingeredtypist
10-14-2005, 12:43 PM
NIGHTHAWKS for me too.
insanegenius
10-14-2005, 01:54 PM
I would say Cliffhanger but Nighthawks was pretty damn good too.
Writer1
10-14-2005, 02:01 PM
Copland...he actually made me forget, temporarily, that he's a bad actor.
vmf
10-14-2005, 02:54 PM
I saw Nighthawks recently on TV and it stood up pretty well, and is head and shoulders above the usual Stallone crap.
dclary
10-14-2005, 03:53 PM
I liked Cobra a lot, even though CNN listed it and Highlander as the two worst movies of the year back in the day.

However, it really hasn't aged well.


I'd have to give it to either Lock Up (GREAT cinematography), Tango and Cash (mostly for Russell's performance), or Victory.
roscoegino
10-14-2005, 04:15 PM
I agree with Beef. I think Nighthawks worked because Sly wasn't trying to be a hero per se. He never tried to upstage Rutger -- just like he didn't try to upstage the Apollo Creed character. The producers were bummed out by the low gross. It was released right after the Reagan assasination attempt and during all that IRA stuff going on in Ireland at the time.

Sheer 80's synthesizer soundtrack by Keith Emerson (Emerson Lake & Palmer) wasn't bad either.
RavinDave
10-15-2005, 01:09 AM
"Demolition Man" ("Let's go blow those guys ... away!)
"Nighthawks"
"Lockup"
Doug Raine
10-15-2005, 11:36 AM
Nighthawks
Copland
Frankclone
10-15-2005, 11:41 AM
Aaron Copland .... wait, this isn't a vote on america's greatest composer???
vanpet
10-16-2005, 05:46 AM
Copland without a doubt

but i like demolition man too :) sandra bullock is hot