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Vincent Van Goatse posted:It's a 1980s action movie. Did you even click the link? Yes. Is the name of the move some existing thing/reference, or did they make it up? 'Coz I think it's a dumb name for aluminum falcons.
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Xakura posted:Yes. Is the name of the move some existing thing/reference, or did they make it up? 'Coz I think it's a dumb name for aluminum falcons. https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/3ohovh/what_the_hells_an_aluminum_falcon/
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Xakura posted:Yes. Is the name of the move some existing thing/reference, or did they make it up? 'Coz I think it's a dumb name for aluminum falcons. It's just a name that sounds cool and tough and actiony. There's no greater symbolism involved.
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Xakura posted:Is "Iron Eagle" some existing thing? "Iron" is a pretty bad name/metal for anything aircraft, and, well, it's not an eagle. Ironygle
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:It's just a name that sounds cool and tough and actiony. There's no greater symbolism involved. The symbolism is MURICA
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Mar 28, 2022 10:52
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Actually it sounds BADASS
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I can't decide if I should I have to remind myself that things like Iron Eagle predate a huge portion of internet users. Many of whom would have no reason to watch it since more than three channels exist and there are multitudes of ways to entertain yourself other than with B movies.
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Murgos posted:I have to remind myself that things like Iron Eagle predate a huge portion of internet users. Many of whom would have no reason to watch it since more than three channels exist and there are multitudes of ways to entertain yourself other than with B movies. Ukraine: Keep your PENAID in your Pantsir - We know Azov are nazis thx: ITT we find out how old everyone is!
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Mar 28, 2022 13:09
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The day I heard Nirvana on the classic rock station all the color left my hair, my back started hurting, and I became very interested in lawn care.
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Just wait until you find out about the use of lead in lighter than air craft. But is it even considered metal? I'd say more heavy folk
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The working title for the script was 'Titanium Turkey' but that didn't do well with the test audience
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Soul Dentist posted:Just wait until you find out about the use of lead in lighter than air craft. But is it even considered metal? I'd say more heavy folk And Depleted Uranium.
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I've only seen about the first and the last 20 minutes of Iron Eagle on two separate occasions and my God, that couldn't be a more 1980s movie if they tried. I seem to remember Iron Eagle II being as alright as it could be, complete with Kick-rear end theme song.
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CBJSprague24 posted:I've only seen about the first and the last 20 minutes of Iron Eagle on two separate occasions and my God, that couldn't be a more 1980s movie if they tried. 
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Mar 28, 2022 13:46
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Not displaying Commando or Invasion USA.
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Lee Van Cleef was the original American Ninja  
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CommieGIR posted:And Depleted Uranium. It's a Led Zeppelin joke, since we're feeling old
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https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-113-hollywood-and-anti-muslim-racism-part-i-action-and-adventure-schlock-74d3c7ec69a6 Cannon Group was a CIA funded propaganda mill, but I'm still not sure how Breakin' 2 fits into that operation.
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shame on an IGA posted:https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-113-hollywood-and-anti-muslim-racism-part-i-action-and-adventure-schlock-74d3c7ec69a6 Well it turned out to be better than red scorpion (A video label I’ve done some work with actually interviewed Jack Abramoff for their BD release. Honestly funding Cannon films be the best use of my tax dollars ever.
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CommieGIR posted:Lee Van Cleef was the original American Ninja I loved that show as a kid. I also had horrible taste as a child.
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In the 80s an 18 year old West German flew into Moscow and landed near Red Square and got the Soviet Minister of Defense fired https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust
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I’ve never watched Iron Eagle and I imagine it’s probably not something you can enjoy in your 30s unless you’re a simpleton.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:In the 80s an 18 year old West German flew into Moscow and landed near Red Square and got the Soviet Minister of Defense fired While doing his obligatory community service (Zivildienst) in a West German hospital in 1989, Rust stabbed a female co-worker who had rejected him. The victim barely survived. He was convicted of injuring her and sentenced to two and a half years in prison, but was released after 15 months.[15] Since then he has lived a fragmented life, describing himself as a "bit of an oddball".[16] After being released from court, he converted to Hinduism in 1996 to become engaged to a daughter of an Indian tea merchant.[17] In 2001, he was convicted of stealing a cashmere pullover and ordered to pay a fine of DM10,000, which was later reduced to DM600.[8][15] A further brush with the law came in 2005, when he was convicted of fraud and had to pay a €1,500 fine.[15] In 2009 Rust described himself as a professional poker player.[18] Most recently, in 2012, he described himself as an analyst at a Zurich-based investment bank.[16]
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Raged posted:I loved that show as a kid. I also had horrible taste as a child. The MST3k treatment was great. Its funny to think that Van Patten went one to be a phenomenal director (did multiple award winning Sopranos episodes, plus some work on Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire). Wonder if he still has the van and the hamster.
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Casimir Radon posted:I’ve never watched Iron Eagle and I imagine it’s probably not something you can enjoy in your 30s unless you’re a simpleton. As a piece of 80s Americana it is absolutely worth studying at an over-analytical grad-class level 
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Not displaying Commando or Invasion USA. Commando is timeless. Invasion USA, ehhh, it's Chuck Norris, and I couldn't even take him seriously in the 90s. Does he still sell that exercise machine or did he get wheeled off to a texan nursing home already? There are 4 Iron Eagle movies. There are 5 American Ninjas. Then there were a bunch of ninja movies throughout the 90s aimed at kids. Also we're all forgetting Red Dawn so we all deserve to be invaded by cuban rebels in the Rockies.
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shame on an IGA posted:https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-113-hollywood-and-anti-muslim-racism-part-i-action-and-adventure-schlock-74d3c7ec69a6 They weren't CIA funded and your link doesn't even claim they were. Cannon didn't have to be CIA funded to portray Arabs in a bad light since its bosses were both Israeli.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Commando is timeless. Invasion USA, ehhh, it's Chuck Norris, and I couldn't even take him seriously in the 90s. Does he still sell that exercise machine or did he get wheeled off to a texan nursing home already? I will say this invasion USA and Delta Force have a special place in my heart. When I got the chickenpox and my dad did too (his mom had told my mom that he had already had it years ago and he thought he had but either as a really mild case or something else) he let me watch those two movies on loop basically and he was not a fan of either. I even have the novelization of invasion USA I picked up for two bucks. It was written by some guy I think also did some long rear end pop series called the survivalist. Invasion USA has a lot to recommend even beyond Chuck Norris. First off Richard Lynch is insane. He shoots Billy Drago in the dick multiple times… Being able to blow up all those real house is because they were already been by to expand a airport near Atlanta and were being destroyed anyway. Let’s not forget the amazing final battle too. Seriously I could go on this for probably longer than the movie itself. Oh it also has one of the three elementals from Big Trouble in Little China as one of the bad guys. Also a good score by Jay Chattaway (composer of varied titles like Maniac and ST:TNG. Yep…I’m a dork.
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Casimir Radon posted:I’ve never watched Iron Eagle and I imagine it’s probably not something you can enjoy in your 30s unless you’re a simpleton. It was 1980s military schlock. Not a great movie, but it was fun at the time. Teenaged son of a pilot wants to get revenge on his father's capture and arranges an attack on I think Libya. Steals an F16 and tricks the military into giving him midair refueling and ordinance.
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Cimber posted:It was 1980s military schlock. Not a great movie, but it was fun at the time. Teenaged son of a pilot wants to get revenge on his father's capture and arranges an attack on I think Libya. Steals an F16 and tricks the military into giving him midair refueling and ordinance. Midair ordinance sounds pretty dicey.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:They weren't CIA funded and your link doesn't even claim they were. Cannon didn't have to be CIA funded to portray Arabs in a bad light since its bosses were both Israeli. Who funded the Israelis? Just asking questions maaaaaan.
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It is incredibly telling that the war is going so bad for Russia that this is what we're discussing in the Ukraine invasion thread.
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VictualSquid posted:Later life: This guy and the nuclear boy scout both did pretty cool things as kids but then turned out to be kind of pieces of poo poo as adults.
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Arcella posted:This guy and the nuclear boy scout both did pretty cool things as kids but then turned out to be kind of pieces of poo poo as adults. I mean, neither making a homemade nuclear reactor nor flying a plane into Red Square indicate good risk-assessment patterns.
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Joke Miriam posted:making a homemade nuclear reactor, flying a plane into Red Square Time to combine the two projects?
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shame on an IGA posted:https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-113-hollywood-and-anti-muslim-racism-part-i-action-and-adventure-schlock-74d3c7ec69a6 Oh yeah I listened to that episode a while back, one of the big ones that stood out was True Lies. Arnold and James Cameron at their peak, spectacular actions scenes especially with the harriers, but the villain and his organization of "Crimson Jihad" hasn't aged well. Combined with how Eliza Dushku was being abused on set haven't felt the need to go back and rewatch anytime soon. CRUSTY MINGE posted:Also we're all forgetting Red Dawn so we all deserve to be invaded by cuban rebels in the Rockies. It took me far too long to realize the guy who played the major in Red Dawn was the evil cowboy in Tombstone and also Gorilla Grodd.
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Soul Dentist posted:Time to combine the two projects? Alright, back to the 1950's with you, Time-Displaced SAC Officer
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Oh yeah I listened to that episode a while back, one of the big ones that stood out was True Lies. Arnold and James Cameron at their peak, spectacular actions scenes especially with the harriers, but the villain and his organization of "Crimson Jihad" hasn't aged well. Combined with how Eliza Dushku was being abused on set haven't felt the need to go back and rewatch anytime soon. Let’s not forget Superfly played the Cuban military officer. Actually it’s a really well made, and we’ll casted film. It’s just the kids are annoying and I don’t care about them. I prefer Invasion USA, despite my love of John Milius stuff.
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