The only “Relic” I know of takes place in the Field Museum.

Aside from the final fight in the game ending in a fist fight with an old man dying of syphilis, the ending of Assassins Creed 2 was pretty memorable.

The thing I remember most about The Doors is that when the caption ‘Paris’ appeared on screen, finally indicating we were coming near the end of the damn thing, one audience member came out with a very audible ‘Oh, thank fuck......’

Uncalled for. That description was written by the A.V. Club.

I’M GONNA SHEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWT

Gotta make it a story somehow.  But yes, all of those descriptions (except maybe “iconic” which requires time) were accurate from the start.

‘The public perception of 1981’s The Evil Dead has definitely shifted over time, first earning a reputation as a successful independent film, then becoming a cult classic, and now considered an iconic if schlocky B-movie, roughly hewn and dated as hell’

In my alternate reality, Goose dies and (young, hott, pre-plastic surgery) Meg Ryan hooks up with me.
And we fly away into the sun-on-steel horizon.
For sexual congress.

Goose isn’t just Maverick’s friend, he’s pretty much the only person in the world of the film who likes him, aside from Kelly McGillis’s character. So Goose dying isn’t just losing a friend, it’s losing his whole system of support in a hostile place, since the other pilots all hate him. It’s an old storytelling trick:…

Is your friend 9 years old?

That’s good food for thought. Best friends in action movies are a lot like best friends in romcoms. They are the ones you don’t want to be. The cautionary tales. So I’m inclined to lean towards ‘alpha’s thrive’ as the idea movies wanted to reinforce because *looks around at the rest of the 80s* . Yea...

Better the hero be motivated by his friend being killed than by his wife/daughter being raped and possibly murdered, which is the other go-to motivation in 80's action movies. 

Goose was too perfect. You knew he was toast. Hot Shots! even named the Goose character Dead Meat, and cast the devout Christian ballplayer from Bull Durham.

True, but the agreed-upon sweatiest movie of all time, Cool Hand Luke, came out in the 1960s.

My guesses:

Sounds about right.  Also (insert Simpsons gif of McBain shaking fists at the heavens) having a best friend die at the hands of bad guys gives an ambivalent tough guy an unqualified reason to do tough action things.

It should have been the Libyans just to piggy back off of Back to the Future.

Didya get that thing I sentcha?

Ya know that movie theater setup in A Boy and His Dog?

One time I was smoking a cigarette outside of my old work when a frail-looking woman with a bowl haircut and sunglasses walked past. The security guard I was talking to said to me “I should have gotten the door for her.” I said “why? She’s got fucking hands and seemed to do okay on her own.” She replied “that was Anna…