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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Feb 3, 2023 18:15:41 GMT -5
This should really be considered it’s own genre of film if it isn’t already. And I got to say a lot of them are pretty awesome!
Some may think this only started as trend with something like The Expendables or those 1990’s Harrison Ford movies when he first started getting long in the tooth. But these things have been around for about as long as film! Heck there’s DW Griffith shorts about aging heroes.
It probably started with an early 20th century film producer who had just entered old age (so about 30 back then). He thought he was too old to pick up chicks then had that lightbulb moment. If old farts can look heroic, brave, and sexy onscreen then that producer should look like a sex god!
Anyway, I just dove into a classic series of the genre. Death Wish. Charles Bronson was one badass dude until the day he died, but by the time Death Wish came out he was over 50. By the time Death Wish II came out 8 years later he was getting into old fart country. Then they made 3 more.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 3, 2023 18:33:38 GMT -5
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Feb 3, 2023 20:29:36 GMT -5
Liam Neeson has to be the poster boy for this.
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Post by schma on Feb 4, 2023 0:50:01 GMT -5
An aging Charles Bronson stars in Death Wish 9 "I wish I was dead oy". (too lazy to find the actual clip)
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Feb 4, 2023 1:55:34 GMT -5
An aging Charles Bronson stars in Death Wish 9 "I wish I was dead oy". (too lazy to find the actual clip) |
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Post by bibboid on Feb 4, 2023 2:01:35 GMT -5
In 2010 there was a great movie called RED about a CIA agent (Bruce Willis) who joins up with some old timers (Retired Extremely Dangerous) to solve a mystery. Helen Mirren with a sniper rifle. John Malkovitch overacts like a madman. Morgan Freeman and Brian Cox and so much more. It is ridiculous and absurd and just a whole lot of fun.
And three years later they made a sequel which is just as much fun.
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Post by agent817 on Feb 4, 2023 10:53:57 GMT -5
I remembered thinking that "The Last Stand" with Arnold Schwarzenegger was one of the better examples from the post-Expendables trend that happened early in the last decade. I didn't mind "Bullet to the Head" but it's been so long since I've watched it.
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Post by Savage Gambino on Feb 4, 2023 13:22:10 GMT -5
Of all the forms of wish fulfillment fantasy the industry has to offer, the old man action movie has to be the most egregious (well, after isekai, but that's a whole different animal). Yeah, the guy who will spend the next week on his ass if he forgets to lift with his knees could totally solo an entire mid-level street gang. Sure, pal.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Feb 7, 2023 10:03:46 GMT -5
Watched a great entry in this genre the other day
The Evil that Men Do with Charles Bronson.
Not a Cannon film I was surprised. But Charles is reitred,to a private island he owns,assassin for hire. He learns that a buddy is South America is being harassed by a group of Nazis that also have ties to the KKK.
Insane Bronson early 80s action. That just got a nice uncut release from Shout. You get the TV cut,which has a few short bits in no other cut,the theatrical cut. Then the unrated cut.
Later on I will ask my father for more good entries in this genre. He watchs piles of them off Netflix/Tubi/Amazon Prime.
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Post by schizo on Feb 7, 2023 10:14:04 GMT -5
Up?
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Feb 7, 2023 10:17:37 GMT -5
Gerard Butler has definitely crossed into this genre now. I watched Plane last night, and he looks every bit his his 53 years. His co-star in that movie, Mike Colter, is 46, but looks and moves like a guy ten years younger. Butler, not so much.
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Post by Big BosskMan on Feb 7, 2023 11:47:40 GMT -5
As someone who recently turned 50, I don't know if I want to go see a movie about old men action heroes. Harrison Ford is a personal favorite, going back to when I was a kid, but seeing the previews for Indiana Jones 5 filled me with some sadness and dread, as it's a reminder of what Indy once was. It also reminds me of my own mortality in a way.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Feb 7, 2023 12:18:54 GMT -5
As someone who recently turned 50, I don't know if I want to go see a movie about old men action heroes. Harrison Ford is a personal favorite, going back to when I was a kid, but seeing the previews for Indiana Jones 5 filled me with some sadness and dread, as it's a reminder of what Indy once was. It also reminds me of my own mortality in a way. I get you on that last bit, seeing your heros age. James Dean is an eternal teenage icon, Brando turned into an old, fat weirdo. |
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Post by Big BosskMan on Feb 7, 2023 12:30:01 GMT -5
As someone who recently turned 50, I don't know if I want to go see a movie about old men action heroes. Harrison Ford is a personal favorite, going back to when I was a kid, but seeing the previews for Indiana Jones 5 filled me with some sadness and dread, as it's a reminder of what Indy once was. It also reminds me of my own mortality in a way. I get you on that last bit, seeing your heros age. James Dean is an eternal teenage icon, Brando turned into an old, fat weirdo. Odd thing is, seeing Mark Hamill in The Last Jedi isn't nearly as jarring as Ford. Hamill is 71 and Ford is 80(!). I know that's 9 years but that really isn't that much. And I wonder if part of that visual jarring is Hamill got into voicing animation and stayed active in film that way, while Ford kept an on-screen presence of sorts. |
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Feb 7, 2023 12:38:17 GMT -5
I get you on that last bit, seeing your heros age. James Dean is an eternal teenage icon, Brando turned into an old, fat weirdo. Odd thing is, seeing Mark Hamill in The Last Jedi isn't nearly as jarring as Ford. Hamill is 71 and Ford is 80(!). I know that's 9 years but that really isn't that much. And I wonder if part of that visual jarring is Hamill got into voicing animation and stayed active in film that way, while Ford kept an on-screen presence of sorts. I think it's also personality to an extent, Harrison Ford was a grumpy old man when he was young, whereas Mark still has that twinkle in his eye, you can see him enjoying his life. |
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Feb 7, 2023 13:30:31 GMT -5
I think it's also personality to an extent, Harrison Ford was a grumpy old man when he was young, whereas Mark still has that twinkle in his eye, you can see him enjoying his life. As ever, George Carlin said it best: Harrison Ford's been an old man his entire adult life. Mark Hamill is now just an old f***, and proud of it. |
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Post by Savage Gambino on Feb 7, 2023 15:12:41 GMT -5
I think it's also personality to an extent, Harrison Ford was a grumpy old man when he was young, whereas Mark still has that twinkle in his eye, you can see him enjoying his life. As ever, George Carlin said it best: Harrison Ford's been an old man his entire adult life. Mark Hamill is now just an old f***, and proud of it. See also, Samuel L Jackson, who is very much 70 and looks and moves like it, but who brings an energy to his roles that almost defies his age. |
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Feb 7, 2023 15:58:38 GMT -5
See also, Samuel L Jackson, who is very much 70 and looks and moves like it, but who brings an energy to his roles that almost defies his age. SLJ has the energy of a man 50 years his junior, it really is astounding. |
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Post by mystermystery on Feb 7, 2023 17:08:27 GMT -5
An aging Charles Bronson stars in Death Wish 9 "I wish I was dead oy". (too lazy to find the actual clip) This reminded me that Charles Bronson stars in a Jaws knockoff called WHITE BUFFALO where he plays Wild Bill Hickok, who is haunted by nightmares of a giant white buffalo that is rampaging around and goes to kill it. Bronson was in his late fifties playing the role while Wild Bill Hickok didn't live past 39. I'd like to add to the actual conversation by saying Lou Ferrigno even has an 'old man' action revenge film called INSTANT DEATH where he plays an ex-whatever that takes out the [Insert Bad Guy Group] after they kill [Family Member X]. The trailer is an overviolent collection of nonsense and tropes, right down to his grand daughter declaring she believes in God now because he came back into their lives leading to him having to identify her body at the morgue. |
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Post by peaches1 on Feb 7, 2023 17:48:56 GMT -5
"Never Say Never Again" is my favorite Bond film because in part it recognizes Sean Connery was probably too old to be doing 00 shit.
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