Why is Tango and Cash not getting more love?
This was actually a box office bounce back for Sly after Rambo III had started a bit of a decline due to outlay vs profit issues on the film, then Rocky V underperformed and then he had his disasterous foray into comedy with the double whammy of Oscar and Stop or My Mom Will Shoot!, even though I thought the former was decent. The box office success of Cliffhanger got Sly a lucrative multi film deal with Warner Brothers but ufnortunately those 3 movies and of course Judge Dredd didn't hit nearly as big, the biggest of them surprisingly being The Specialist, I guess naked Sharon Stone was a still drawing money in 1994.8. Cliffhanger: I know, I know... This film has it's fans. And I'm one of them. This is probably the best of the films Sly started doing in the years starting his decline as a box office power house. I actually have to give it up to Harlin and Sly in the way the film begins and it's not that it's especially bad either. As I stated it's the best of his films during his decline years. It's just... I think that Lithgow as great as he is as a scene chewer in the film is almost from another film. He's not riding the line between cool and cartoonish that Rickman did in Die Hard and as a matchup, I mean... Who are you gonna pick in a fight between Sly and John? That said, the film delivers on some really great spectacle and the stunts are pretty great. Though I must say this is the movie which started the cliche' of Sly running from a fireball that he road for about four more movies. Not terrible as a movie but I will always look at it as the film that when I think of how Sly lost his magic this was the one that starts that long slow process.
I hate comparing the two as they were such a huge part of my childhood movie loving experience, along with Harrison Ford, Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson these guys made me an action film fan who then became a film fan in general. I think the thing Arnie did well was he got alligned with better directors, and part of that might have been a control thing, as Sly often had writing credits on his movies where as Arnie was content just being the star and letting someone else guide the film.Trying to put together list for Sly and Arnie, and I realized that Arnie has a way better filmography.
AFAIC, I think Sly is a better actor than Arnold even if Arnold was/is the bigger star.
AFAIC, I think Sly is a better actor than Arnold even if Arnold was/is the bigger star.
What's the one with Sharon Stone and Eric Roberts?
Can't even remember if it's good or bad, been so long. Kinda vaguely remember it being an okay action-thriller deal.
Why is Tango and Cash not getting more love?
I did not watch it.I don't get it, either.
Slow down, don't make it, not today.Quick someone do a Top 10 of Kurt's and throw it in there....
Can't believe I forgot to mention Daylight, great film. Used to be on TV all the time back in the late 90s.
The moment any review or someone throws around the word "cheesy" to describe a movie without using it to call a film cheap? Like it's actual definition?
It's a turn off. It's turns me off of the review, and I can't take it seriously. Case in point, sentences or dialogue like this...
"Cobra is a cheesy 80's movie."
Nope. Done with that critic, like I am done with dinner. Cobra is an awesome movie filled to the brim with that signature 80's charm. There. I fixed it. The 80s and 90s were lightning in a bottle on film.
Stop using the word Cheesy in film reviews. Unless you are using it in a derogatory way. Cheesy is not meant to be used in an endearing way or in positive reviews. Unless you are trying to say the film you like is cheap, unpleasant and unauthentic then don't use it in this particular context. One of my biggest pet peeves. Stop using Cheesy to endearingly describe a movie. It's very definition is to say something is cheap or inauthentic.
Rant over. If you want a truly ****ty Stallone film see Escape Plan 2 which is my worst film of 2018 next to The Predator, i liked the first EP as a timewaster.