Ah man Remo is classic too, I picked up both Action Jackson and Remo Williams on Blu Ray recently.I loved this movie, I wish it became a franchise, same for Remo Williams. Both are 80's action movies I like to fire up every few years.
The Last Dragon is another classic I watch every few years, that needed a sequel too. Vanity was HAF in both films.
Same here, it's a once every 2 years movie for me
Same with me. I hadn't seen it since the 80s and it was way better than I thought it would be. Crom bless
I don't remember it getting a cinema release here in the UK, I only watched it once it came to VHS.
Yeah man Vanity is soooooo good, she barely fits into the lilac dress she wears in this movie, I had a long think about after watching the movie last night!
Irl she was banging Nikki Sixx then married a football player who ended up a murderer. She knew how to pick em. Crack n Heroion are a hell of a drug
She was with Prince for a while too, he wanted her stage name to be Vagina instead of Vanity. I think she died not long before he did
My wife forced me to eat pizza last night, so we had to watch a movie obviously.
My choice, I went with one of my favorite 80’s action flicks, Action Jackson (one of my dogs was even named after him)!!
This has everything you’d expect from an 80’s action movie, and then some.
It’s slick throughout, directed by former stuntman Craig R Baxley (he’s the dude doing a hand stand in the lake on Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here cover) who went on to direct other classic action fare like Dark Angel and Stone Cold before moving on to low brow TV movies (he was also second unit director on Predator).
Carl Weathers owns this movie, he's big, he's bad, he's trying to do the right thing when all around him are losing theirs and framing him for murder while the bad guy wins Man of the year awards and kills off his opposition.
The movie is full of over the top set pieces with some really nice explosions, fight scenes & biiiiig gun play, and has some great Arnie level quips (“how do you like your ribs?” “he had a spare” “mellow out” “now you pissed me off”), and the sound effects are truly awesome.
But the best thing is the cast, basically this movie is made up from the supporting casts of Lethal Weapon, Predator & Die Hard (all Joel Silver movies, who is also producer here).
Add to these stellar actors the one and only Brandscombe Richmond, Nicholas Worth, Sharon Stone, Craig T Nelson AND Biff Tannen from Back To The Future!
But most importantly we have Vanity (lead singer of Prince’s Vanity 6, singer of Nasty Girl from Beverly Hills Cop) who looks hot as fuck even as a junkie. Should be noted both Sharon Stone and Vanity go topless in this movie.
In addition we have music by Herbie Hancock and Michael Kamen and choreography by Paula Abdul, making this one of THE great unsung action movies of the 80’s.
Extra extra:
The Carl Weathers/Billy Dee Williams actioner from 1990, Dangerous Passion, was renamed Action Jackson 2 in many countries.
Not to be confused with the Hindi Action Jackson movie series.
Pointer Sisters sang the theme song.
Carl Weathers was a pro footballer in the NFL and Canada for 5 years (dude played for the Raiders).
Carl Weathers is built like a mother fucker in this movie!
TLDR: GO TAKE YOUR RITALIN YOU ADHD ASS MOTHERFUCKERS
My wife forced me to eat pizza last night, so we had to watch a movie obviously.
My choice, I went with one of my favorite 80’s action flicks, Action Jackson (one of my dogs was even named after him)!!
This has everything you’d expect from an 80’s action movie, and then some.
It’s slick throughout, directed by former stuntman Craig R Baxley (he’s the dude doing a hand stand in the lake on Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here cover) who went on to direct other classic action fare like Dark Angel and Stone Cold before moving on to low brow TV movies (he was also second unit director on Predator).
Carl Weathers owns this movie, he's big, he's bad, he's trying to do the right thing when all around him are losing theirs and framing him for murder while the bad guy wins Man of the year awards and kills off his opposition.
The movie is full of over the top set pieces with some really nice explosions, fight scenes & biiiiig gun play, and has some great Arnie level quips (“how do you like your ribs?” “he had a spare” “mellow out” “now you pissed me off”), and the sound effects are truly awesome.
But the best thing is the cast, basically this movie is made up from the supporting casts of Lethal Weapon, Predator & Die Hard (all Joel Silver movies, who is also producer here).
Add to these stellar actors the one and only Brandscombe Richmond, Nicholas Worth, Sharon Stone, Craig T Nelson AND Biff Tannen from Back To The Future!
But most importantly we have Vanity (lead singer of Prince’s Vanity 6, singer of Nasty Girl from Beverly Hills Cop) who looks hot as fuck even as a junkie. Should be noted both Sharon Stone and Vanity go topless in this movie.
In addition we have music by Herbie Hancock and Michael Kamen and choreography by Paula Abdul, making this one of THE great unsung action movies of the 80’s.
Extra extra:
The Carl Weathers/Billy Dee Williams actioner from 1990, Dangerous Passion, was renamed Action Jackson 2 in many countries.
Not to be confused with the Hindi Action Jackson movie series.
Pointer Sisters sang the theme song.
Carl Weathers was a pro footballer in the NFL and Canada for 5 years (dude played for the Raiders).
Carl Weathers is built like a mother fucker in this movie!
TLDR: GO TAKE YOUR RITALIN YOU ADHD ASS MOTHERFUCKERS
