Working within the framework of the lengthy Baggpod (I have to admit, I haven’t yet attentively listened to the entire thing) and the posting of the lists, I’d like to offer a few comments / observations. Can you reasonably extricate sci-fi from action? I would say it’s not possible (or more pertinent to our discussion, […]
ITB Choice Cuts: 90s Action Movies
It all started with a Friday email chain that ramped up with such ferocity that a challenge was proffered to name your Top 5 90s Action Movies. After lengthy debates JKrengel, AlainP, JimmyTV, and Baggs have come up with their lists. So come celebrate the days of yore when Bruce Willis still had hair, Keanu […]
The Baggpod SE 5/15/2012: Defining Action Movies
Baggs, JimmyTV, AlainP, and JKrengel hash out some criteria for what should be called an action movie and what makes a good action movie. This is all leading up to each contributor’s list of Top 5 ’90s Action Movies, which will be posted on Wednesday, May 17th.
Drive (2011) Rereview
After my first viewing in the theater these were my initial reactions: A really solid action movie, better and very different from most of the action genre, had a lot of 80s flair, pacing (both story and editing) was off, pretty intense. Drive is a movie that tries too hard. It tries too hard to […]