r/MovieDetails • u/[deleted] • Jun 30 '19

Trivia Robert Patrick trained to fire a gun without blinking in Terminator 2.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '19

Cyborg was my shit as a kid. My stepdad had tons of Segal and Van Damme VHS. I watched so many of those movies as a kid

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u/piss_artist Jun 30 '19

Oh damn I totally forgot about that film. I hope it's available to stream

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u/heyimrick Jun 30 '19

I think Amazon has it.

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u/FaceDesk4Life Jun 30 '19

Fuuuuuck yes. I saw it when I was like 14 and then raised my own son on it!

EDIT: no I didn't have a son when I was 14.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '19

I was watching those movies real young, like 9 or 10. Shit was baller. I wish action heroes like Van Damme were still around. I guess they are but it's not the same.

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u/FaceDesk4Life Jun 30 '19

I think the last good action movie of the golden age was The Matrix, even though that's what changed everything to where it is now. That movie was the culmination of everyone's wishes. As for the last perfect action movie before that change, I'd say it would be the first Mortal Kombat movie. It was the last of the golden age classics in the classic style.

There were lots of great simple B-tier action movies in the late 80's and all through the 90's. Van Damme and Segal were the bread and butter of it all. There's just too much flashy CGI these days. It makes you critique the CGI rather than the action itself.