Bayley needs to get her mic work down. She's got limitless potential - I was at NXT Atlanta and there were children fucking crying when she came out. She can take all the time she wants and let shit percolate.

The TV edit I saw as a kid, they refer to Peck as "Wally Wick over here" and then "It's true, this man is a weasel." (or some kind of rodent.)

Essos.

You could make a REALLY strong case for Jurassic Park depending on if Terminator 2 makes it for 1991. JP isn't a conventional action film, no, but it was the watershed moment for "no, we're doing it with CGI now."

Outside line on 1991: Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky. 1991 is probably Terminator 2 which was basically CGI's coming-out party.

'87 has to be RoboCop, because of how outrageously precient its dystopia was. Ads for prescription drugs? Private jails? How ludicrous!

Eh. Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow were invoked by name in the article. I mean, you aren't wrong - the ninja stuff in GIJoe was foundational to many a young pop-culture dork back in the day (to the point where it eventually took over the goddamn book to the detriment of everything).

Fundamentally disagree. Top Gun established the long and lucrative partnership between the military and Hollywood that continues to this day. There was some statistic to the effect of naval recruitment went up 2000% or something insane like that after Top Gun came out. Much of Michael Bay's career has been built…

> In both this and Beverly Hills Cop, there seem to be visible gaps left for him to ad-lib and all he ever does is quickly imply someone else is a gay racist.

1982: 48 Hrs - the first modern "buddy cop" action movie. Rambo doesn't really become "Rambo" until First Blood Part II

Massive portions of Invasion U.S.A. were shot around my part of Atlanta. The "terrorists attack a bread line" sequence was shot in what is now a ridiculously hip part of town. I think the "grocery store" is now the club where I saw The Mountain Goats for the first time….

> people will still think that ninjas are like the ones you see in both films: slow, calculative yet tactful and quiet.

Yeah. It's hard to do that "white hero goes to exotic foreign land and gets into a scrape" narrative after the end of the Vietnam war, tbh.

Road Warrior also essentially formalized what "after the apocalypse" looks like for the next 30+ years of pop culture. Raiders is spectacular at looking back, but Road Warrior (and to an extent Escape) looks forward in ways that still pays dividends.

"Along with Eric Van Lustbader’s novel The Ninja and the miniseries Shogun, both of which also came out in 1980, this was the first time the idea of the ninja, the shadowy mystical assassin figure, really permeated Western pop-culture consciousness."

Late here, but Sarah gets to discover that she has like, a dozen sisters and S is technically also her sister too sort of.

Ah. So "Score. Monopoly. Surf. 2x4. Chess. Skate. Wooden."

Yep to all of that. I met him briefly after a Cinematic Titanic and had some praise for his work, although he was weirded out that I was such a fan of Untamed Youth, which, in his words "we all had to get drunk to make it through."

the worst thing about fred durst is how much i looked like him in college despite not particularly liking him or his music. fuck you i'm not shaving off my goatee, he should fuckin' shave his.

hot take, 1998.