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[Duque de Bragança]

PS: as per '80s Actions rules, there is some mandatory [spoiler]homoeroticism.[/spoiler]

W.T.F.

http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/the-ruthless-guide-to-80s-action/

Check Out the RUTHLESS TIMELINE of 80s Action

Welcome to the wonderful, whitebread world of 80s Action. The brain trust here at Ruthless spent some time figuring out just what exactly made a shoot 'em up flick in the 80s so much better than the identical film shot in some other decade. That task took all of about five minutes. Firstly, action films from the 80's are all exceedingly homoerotic. It is an essential part of the given movie's aesthetic. Sure, Steve Reeves took his shirt off in The Thief of Baghdad, but he spent most of his time chasing after the princess, not touching other men. Of course all of the heroes in 80s Action flicks talk like tough guys, but there is rarely any hetero-sex and by the end of the movie they are typically locked in mortal, lascivious combat with another muscular, shirtless man.

Emphasis mine.

[CountDeMoney]

That is a silly premise, and precisely why film critics and reviewers are as universally despised as dentists and personal injury lawyers.

[HVC]

Haha Seedy's hero's are gay

[Eddie Teach]

At least they're not Canadian.

P.s. Dolph Lundgren in a bad movie? Say it ain't so.

[Duque de Bragança]

P.s. Dolph Lundgren in a bad movie? Say it ain't so.

Dolph Lundgren in a bad movie?
Easy, try Pentathlon. 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110805/

[citizen k]

This season of The Strain is a fun romp through a vampire nazi dystopia. Part Handmaid's Tale, part Schindler's List.

I just started watching that this week.  Season 1, Episode 1.  Fucking vampires.

The flashbacks to Europe in Roman, 19th c. and WWII eras are the best part of the first three seasons.

[Drakken]

Dolph Lundgren in a bad movie?
Easy, try Pentathlon. 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110805/

The mere presence of The Dolph makes any shitty movie awesome.

[Duque de Bragança]

Dolph Lundgren in a bad movie?
Easy, try Pentathlon. 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110805/

The mere presence of The Dolph makes any shitty movie awesome.

Not this one. The saving grace was David Soul's overacting of an East German.  Yes, David Soul of Starsky and Hutch fame.

[CountDeMoney]

June Foray passed.   

RIP, June Foray: The 'queen of animation' voiced 'Rocky and Bullwinkle' roles
Washington Post

THE 'QUEEN of animation" died Wednesday, just weeks short of her centennial. We mourn her life even as we smile because she gifted the world with seven decades of laughter through her voice acting.

Could anyone say a Russian-inflected "Dahlink" quite like June Foray, who not only voiced Natasha Fatale on Jay Ward's "Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" in the '60s, but also Rocky the flying squirrel, who always cheerfully hoped to give us something we'd really like?

Her roles numbered in the hundreds. She was Granny from a treasure-trove of Looney Tunes' Tweety and Sylvester cartoons and "Space Jam." She was Grandmother Fa in Disney's "Mulan." And she was Cindy Lou Who in the '60s Dr. Seuss classic "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"

Outside the recording booth, Foray was a force as well, helping to found the animation industry's Annie Awards and to push for the creation of the Oscars' animated feature category. She also was an original member of the animation organization ASIFA-Hollywood.

And fittingly, the Annie Awards created a June Foray Award to honor deserving contributions to animation; rightfully, she was its first recipient.

Foray was born in 1917 in Springfield, Mass., and began doing radio voice work during the Depression, at age 12, before going into vocal acting for the screen during World War II. Her work would remain uncredited for much of the next two decades, including on Disney's "Peter Pan," because she mainly did bit parts, though she did receive credit for voicing Lucifer the cat in the studio's "Cinderella" in 1950 — her first major role.

The '60s kicked off a boom time for her, including TV's "The Dudley Do-Right Show," "The Bugs Bunny Show" and "The Flintstones" (even though she was aced out of the Betty Rubble role after the pilot).

From Pogo to Garfield to Smurfs projects, Foray was in constant demand for the next three decades. In the early '80s alone, she could be heard on TV's animated "The Incredible Hulk," "Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends," "Heathcliff" and "Alvin & the Chipmunks." And by the end of the decade, she was doing "DuckTales" and had voiced Wheezy and Lena Hyena in Robert Zemeckis's 1988 hit "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."

All courtesy of a rich, resonant voice that emanated from a woman who stood just under 5 feet.

Foray received Emmys recognition in 2013, when she was honored with a Governors Award.

"I love everything I do with all of the parts that I do," Foray once said, "because there's a little bit of me in all of them."

Long live the queen.

This one kinda hurts. 

[Tonitrus]

It looks like a few months ago they finally put this series...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKtFXPgQJlxKnW5a_-5P7qTtkkpS6sNHI

...onto Youtube.  I stumbled on it at a very young age (either on PBS or some local college access channel), and it christened me into a being a history nerd. 

It's a good background-while-playing-games show. 

Memorable tidbit:

"(of the Saracens)...they even sacked Rome in 845, but that was becoming a tradition...everyone who was anyone had to sack Rome." 

[Maladict]

Memorable tidbit:

"(of the Saracens)...they even sacked Rome in 845, but that was becoming a tradition...everyone who was anyone had to sack Rome." 

I guess the Saracens weren't anyone then, as they never sacked the city.

[Valmy]

They sacked the suburbs right?

[Maladict]

They sacked the suburbs right?

Not much in the way of suburbs at the time. The walls themselves encompassed a much larger space than the built-up area of the city.
Iirc The only known places sacked were the three great Roman era basilicas outside the walls and the catacombs.

[11B4V]

Did anybody watch The Ozarks on Netflix? It's billed as the new Breaking Bad.

It's pretty good. Similar but different.

Finished it up. A-

[celedhring]

Finished Handmaid's Tale, fantastic stuff. My favorite show of this year so far.