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RIP Carl Weathers (5 Viewers)
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This one stings TBH. Love the guy and was starting to really like him in Mandelorian. RIP big man. You were one of the good ones for sure.
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If there's any consolation, @saintmdterps, you're not the first to be confused by me. Another true story...
I've been playing the augmented reality game Ingress from the start (the predecessor to Pokemon Go) over 10 years ago. Early in my time with the game I went on a mission to take out some problem "portals" (basically, points of interest) in Morgan City. I get to the location and realize I'm not alone. Another player from the other team is there gathering gear. Not deterred, I approach my target when she spots me. She drives up to where I'm standing, rolls down her window...
Her: "Hey. What color are you?"
(Point of reference, teams are denoted by either the color of blue or green.)
I look at my hands, look up at her. I look at my hands again and look back at her...
Me: "I'm black..."
I've never seen a person as red with embarrassment in my life as I did that day. She drove off like a bat out of hell...
Needless to say, I completed my mission without any problems.
You, my friend, are not alone. I just have that effect on folks. Lol
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Even tougher when they keep showing his recent commercials with Gronk.
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So I watched Action Jackson this weekend for the first time since probably 1990
Didn't remember a thing about it
The opening was one of the most 80s things ever
There a ton of actors from Die Hard, Lethal Weapon and Predator in it. Biff from Back to the Future was in it
Craig T Nelson may have well have had "I'm the bad guy" tattooed on his forehead
Wasn't sure exactly what it was about - Nelson was a car manufacturer, and something with the Auto Union
I'll admit I forgot how hot Vanity was
Didn't remember a thing about it
The opening was one of the most 80s things ever
There a ton of actors from Die Hard, Lethal Weapon and Predator in it. Biff from Back to the Future was in it
Craig T Nelson may have well have had "I'm the bad guy" tattooed on his forehead
Wasn't sure exactly what it was about - Nelson was a car manufacturer, and something with the Auto Union
I'll admit I forgot how hot Vanity was
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During the February doldrums of 1988, the Lorimar production company dumped a movie called “Action Jackson” into theaters. It was just under a year after the release of “Lethal Weapon,” seven months after “Predator” and five months before “Die Hard.”
Like those epochal hits, “Action Jackson” was produced by Joel Silver, and featured many of the face-famous character actors that Silver tended to use in his Reagan-era shoot-'em-ups: Robert Davi, Bill Duke, Mary Ellen Trainor, Al Leong.
But the movie’s headliner was Carl Weathers — for once not a sideman, but the star.
Weathers, who died Thursday at 76, was briefly an Oakland Raider before becoming a fan-favorite actor, beloved as a foil to Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Adam Sandler and, decades later, Pedro Pascal.
But “Action Jackson,” a deeply weird but highly watchable attempt to launch Weathers as an action star in his own right, is a persuasive argument that the onetime Apollo Creed’s big-screen legacy — always the best man, never the groom — should have been greater.
It is the only movie that could be described as a Carl Weathers vehicle, or at the least the only one that got a proper late-’80s promotional rollout, with Weathers hosting “Saturday Night Live” and joshing with Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show.”
And yet he still didn’t get his due: The title “Action Jackson” flashes on screen in bold red all-caps before Weathers’s name does…..
“Action Jackson” was one of those indefatigable ’80s supercop movies, and probably the only one where someone actually says the word “indefatigable.”
Weathers’s Jericho “Action” Jackson is a former track star turned Detroit police officer who has a law degree from Harvard, although he hasn’t used it to challenge his department’s policy that “Jackson is so vicious we don’t even let him carry a gun,” as one uniformed flatfoot mentions in the tropey part of the movie in which a minor character makes sure we know what a world-beating titan our hero is before he makes his entrance. (Of course, Jackson uses his J.D. and his fast feet later in the film, citing case law and outrunning a taxicab.)
The plot has something to do with an evil automaker/martial arts expert played by Craig T. Nelson, who is having union officials murdered in needlessly elaborate ways. The plot is also very much not the point.
The purpose, rather, is to showcase Weathers’s all-rounder versatility, marshaling the charm and athleticism for which he was known already and the comedic gifts for which he’d be cherished later.
Weathers’s third act was as a primarily comedic actor, in the 1996 Adam Sandler vehicle “Happy Gilmore,” as the hard-times version of himself in “Arrested Development,” and as an interplanetary bail bondsman-turned-magistrate in “The Mandalorian.”……
Like those epochal hits, “Action Jackson” was produced by Joel Silver, and featured many of the face-famous character actors that Silver tended to use in his Reagan-era shoot-'em-ups: Robert Davi, Bill Duke, Mary Ellen Trainor, Al Leong.
But the movie’s headliner was Carl Weathers — for once not a sideman, but the star.
Weathers, who died Thursday at 76, was briefly an Oakland Raider before becoming a fan-favorite actor, beloved as a foil to Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Adam Sandler and, decades later, Pedro Pascal.
But “Action Jackson,” a deeply weird but highly watchable attempt to launch Weathers as an action star in his own right, is a persuasive argument that the onetime Apollo Creed’s big-screen legacy — always the best man, never the groom — should have been greater.
It is the only movie that could be described as a Carl Weathers vehicle, or at the least the only one that got a proper late-’80s promotional rollout, with Weathers hosting “Saturday Night Live” and joshing with Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show.”
And yet he still didn’t get his due: The title “Action Jackson” flashes on screen in bold red all-caps before Weathers’s name does…..
“Action Jackson” was one of those indefatigable ’80s supercop movies, and probably the only one where someone actually says the word “indefatigable.”
Weathers’s Jericho “Action” Jackson is a former track star turned Detroit police officer who has a law degree from Harvard, although he hasn’t used it to challenge his department’s policy that “Jackson is so vicious we don’t even let him carry a gun,” as one uniformed flatfoot mentions in the tropey part of the movie in which a minor character makes sure we know what a world-beating titan our hero is before he makes his entrance. (Of course, Jackson uses his J.D. and his fast feet later in the film, citing case law and outrunning a taxicab.)
The plot has something to do with an evil automaker/martial arts expert played by Craig T. Nelson, who is having union officials murdered in needlessly elaborate ways. The plot is also very much not the point.
The purpose, rather, is to showcase Weathers’s all-rounder versatility, marshaling the charm and athleticism for which he was known already and the comedic gifts for which he’d be cherished later.
Weathers’s third act was as a primarily comedic actor, in the 1996 Adam Sandler vehicle “Happy Gilmore,” as the hard-times version of himself in “Arrested Development,” and as an interplanetary bail bondsman-turned-magistrate in “The Mandalorian.”……
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