Welcome to the club!RedRiver wrote:have somehow avoided falling down the alcoholic well of loneliness
Glad to hear it, as I continue to struggle with a devastating chocolate chip habit!

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Welcome to the club!RedRiver wrote:have somehow avoided falling down the alcoholic well of loneliness
Glad to hear it, as I continue to struggle with a devastating chocolate chip habit!
Maybe my grandparents' generation had the right idea. Both my parents went away to boarding school as soon as puberty struck and came back home only periodically--though this was in the '20s & '30s when children really were seen and not heard. Good luck getting through the teenage years, Alison. My hat's off to anyone who makes it with their kids and their sanity intact.charliechaplinfan wrote:I always thought Jim Morrison was an idol for girls but I can see why young boys would like him, not a good influence, he didn't die at 27 for no reason. What goes around comes around, I'm glad your brother and nephew are back on track, your brother doubtlessly appreciates now where his parents were coming from. And I might have it all coming to me one day.
Bogie wrote:Been a little busy but I made room to watch a double bill of cheesy action flicks from the '80s
Next up was Carl Weathers in an '80s tough cop flix starring as the main character....
Action Jackson (1988)
This gets a bit of a low rating on IMDB but I find it to be a guilty pleasure flick as Carl Weathers tries to be a bad ass in the mold of Shaft or Dirty Harry. It doesn't quite work as Craig T. Nelson as the major bad guy doesn't quite work for me. It's pretty comical seeing Nelson doing martial arts moves in his fight with Weathers at the end of the movie. \
The comedic relief in the film was quite good with the hoodlum kid who gets scared out of his wits when two patrolmen tell him how bad Action Jackson is and the kid literally faints a couple times. He ends up running into Jackson throughout the movie. The patrolmen also appear throughout and while their language is rather rough there was a "realness" to it that you don't often get in these kind of movies.
Sharon Stone is also involved in this but doesn't really have much to do. The movie is undermined by the putrid acting of Vanity whom Weathers has to protect throughout the film but her interaction with him is also "real" in nature.
It's definitely a flawed film but I enjoyed it.
2 out of 4 stars.
Don't worry my next double bill will be a couple westerns
Well I'm not just a classic movie junkie. I watch anything from the classics to the er well sleazy (not very often) though I won't mention any of those movies. I just love movies in general and my girlfriend is a movie buff so i've gone to the theatres more this year than I have in the last 5 years. So needless to say i've seen my love for all things celluloid rekindled.kingme wrote:
I enjoyed it too. Its got some memorable supporting characters ... like Action Jackson's Boss for example that made it somewhat worthwhile to watch. One, thing that this movie definately wasted the talent of Sharon Stone and I expected more from her. It's been eons ago of the last time I watched it and I was surprised to see this movie gets mentioned here in Silver Screen Oasis. It is basically at Carl Weathers and Craig T. Nelson movie.