With The Expendables bringing 80s action movies back, Duncan salutes the homoerotic classic moments of the genre...
For those of us out there that consider ourselves action movie fans, there is one decade that stands above all others: the eighties. I think it's fairly safe to assume, as well, that it's unlikely to ever be surpassed in terms of the stars it held up.
You know the list of names by now. Just cast an eye at The Expendables poster and then add the likes of Dudikoff, Seagal, Van Damme, Norris, Swayze and Steve James (may they both rest in peace), yet there are still more.
In retrospect, that decade also seems slightly innocent in the way it viewed the world. AIDS awareness was only just starting, homosexuality was still very much misunderstood and taboo, and as the Reagan era tried to swing Hollywood to the right, it very much...
For those of us out there that consider ourselves action movie fans, there is one decade that stands above all others: the eighties. I think it's fairly safe to assume, as well, that it's unlikely to ever be surpassed in terms of the stars it held up.
You know the list of names by now. Just cast an eye at The Expendables poster and then add the likes of Dudikoff, Seagal, Van Damme, Norris, Swayze and Steve James (may they both rest in peace), yet there are still more.
In retrospect, that decade also seems slightly innocent in the way it viewed the world. AIDS awareness was only just starting, homosexuality was still very much misunderstood and taboo, and as the Reagan era tried to swing Hollywood to the right, it very much...
- 8/10/2010
- Den of Geek
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