Posted by moviegeek916 on June 26, 2014 · Leave a Comment
White House Down (2013) – I am a man who makes no secret of my likes. (A fact which you might be able to infer from this website… where I talk a lot about shit I like…) So let me talk about some of those likes now. I like Die Hard. It is unquestionably one … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on August 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Total Recall (2012) – I like to imagine that the following scenario happened: a screenwriter had this idea, “okay, so a guy wants to get a fantasy vacation implanted and he describes his fantasy to the implanters and they discover that he already did those things!” Then someone tells him, “yeah, they already made that … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on February 25, 2012 · 1 Comment
Air Force One (1997) – Right after watching As Good as it Gets on cable I saw there was another movie from 1997 starting up… one that while perhaps not as critically acclaimed kicked a substantially higher volume of ass. Wolfgang Petersen’s Air Force One is the kind of action movie I grew up on. … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Predator (1987) — Just before going on to direct the gold standard of all action movies (Die Hard) John McTiernan gave us this rumble in the jungle. This film starts out as a “men on a mission” story and then gradually transitions to the alien horror subgenre. Arnold Schwarzenegger does what he does best in … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 