Try to match the following movie lines to the titles of the clips below.
“This is my round!”
“Help me…Help me!”
“I have seen things…”
“I eat Green Berets for breakfast, and right now I’m very hungry.”
“There can be only one.”
If you were able to match the lines above to the video titles below, then you are most likely a male who spent his adolescent years in the 1980’s renting video cassettes from the video store at the corner. You know the place. The one that kept all the porno tapes in the smaller second room with saloon doors.
I posted these videos not only a response to Valentine’s Day, but because these movies, the dialogue and action within, played an important role in my formative years. Which makes me quite worried, in fact.
5.Robocop
I personally believe this scene launched Paul McCrane‘s career and helped him land the dramatic role as Robert Romano in the acclaimed television series ER. Still gives me the shivers watching it.
4.Highlander
A friend and I could act this scene out from memory. Once we used kitchen knives and ended up at the Thornhill Walk-in clinic with sliced thumb. His, not mine. You have to love the cartoon effects at the end. Very much a la Heavy Metal.
3.Commando
Who has time to talk like this in a fight? You have to love Arnold for inspiring such long-winded trash-talk prevalent in much of the 80’s and early 90’s action films. It really brings me back, though. I can still hear my mother’s complaint: “It’s nothing but glorified violence!”
2.Rocky III
If real boxing was like this, heck, if the UFC was really like this, I would do very little else in my free time but watch it. Furthermore, if any fight, physical or verbal, had such musical accompaniment, life would be a lot more interesting.
1.Bladerunner
To be honest, I didn’t see this movie until college. However, I decided to put this in the number one slot because of the great acting done by young Rutger Hauer, one of the most underrated action stars of the 1980’s. And as well for Harrison Ford, who plays the Hardboiled detective in this sci-fi film noir. For those who haven’t seen the movie, Hauer is a rogue cyborg back on Earth to find a way to lengthen his lifespan beyond six years. Ford has been sent to hunt him and his cohorts down. I have to say, the scene is quite touching. Though we could do without the dove.