The Holtonian

I Like Dumb Action Movies

What can I say, I like them. I grew up in the Hay Day of dumb action movies with heroes such as Van Damme, Segal, Arnold, Stalone, Dolf Lundren, Mel Gibson to some extent, I mean the 80s and 90s had amazing awesome action movies.

Now adays its all about thought, and character development, and gay cowboys... I mean where are the Total Recall's, Timecop's, Demolition Men, and Under Sieges? When america needs a hero where do they turn???

Do you smell what the Rock is cooking? So much to the dismay of everyone I told I bought Walking Tall at Mckays for 4 bucks. I watched it tonight... and do you know what the Rock was cooking???? A knuckle sandwich with the bad guy's name on it. I've said it before, but the Rock could be the next Arnold if he wants to be.

The movie was good, I'm glad I bought it, though I might return it. Really I would have rented it if our Blockbuster had any decent movies... they only carry the quote un quote blockbusters.

SO now I've seen all three of Rock's action movies Walking Tall, Rundown, and Doom. I must say Walking Tall was the best one. I mean you got some good comic relief with the Johnny Knoxville, and then theres.... well the Rock... and then... well that's about it. OK so it wasn't the best movie ever, and pretty much John Cena's Marine looks to be about the same movie with a different WWF star.

I'm just so starved for good action movies that I gotta take what I can get. This whole indie phase that hollywood is in is just plain boring.

We need new action films like Lost In the Translator! Where Arnold plays a rogue Translator that goes to Japan and kills the people that killed his best friend's translator...

Or I'll Break Your Back Mountain about a rogue Mountain Climber who seeks out the greatest Mountain and climbs it... starring Sly Stalone.

Or Billion Dollar Grownup about a man who is a rogue boxer who goes to fight in the illegal world tournament of kick boxers to avenge his family who was killed by evil kick boxers... starring Jean Claude Van Damme..

Or Sideway's Kick about a rogue ninja forced to hunt down the killer robot samurai that killed his family starring Steven Segal.

Man, I should write for hollywood. Anyway, it was an entertaining dumb action movie, and I stand by that assesment.

I also bought meteos for the DS and though it is fun and kind of like tetris i'll probably return it due to its high price. Its also kind of too hard, I like puzzle games but I want time to figure it out, I mean I'm getting old here folks, the old thumbs don't move as fast as they used to.

Posted by holtonian at October 9, 2006 10:09 PM | TrackBack