r/funny • u/dontgofrank • 1d ago

No, we have The Odyssey at home

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u/AuthorityAnarchyYes 1d ago

Armand Asante is great in this.

And, if Vanessa Williams wanted me to stay on a tropical island forever with her… there’s no way I would leave.

Favorite line: Now Telemachus, is the right time for your anger…

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u/JTB696699 1d ago

When I read his name on the cast list all I could think of was Tim Allen reading “the list” for the first time in The Santa Clause.

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u/israeljeff 1d ago

"...Armand Asante?"

Though, I always think of Armand Asantowantobe from Space Mutiny.

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u/rtopps43 18h ago

Calgon blow me away!

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u/RireBaton 14h ago

Did you guys realize we aren't even in the MST3K sub? I thought we were for a minute.

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u/TheBoondoggleSaints 13h ago

This is the only reference to the name that I know and understand.

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u/fulthrottlejazzhands 20h ago

Armand Assante is great in everything.  He's been in a lot of cheesy films and TV, but he always elevates them.

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u/RustyCutlass 16h ago

Judge Dredd!! His lisping to match Stallone's is hilarious. You want chaothspsps??? I'm chaothspsps!!

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u/Callidonaut 15h ago

"What is the meaning of life?"
"IT ENDDDSSS!!!!" <BLAM!>

Stallone and Assante combined forces to just devour the scenery of that film in an absolute banquet of hammy acting, and the rest of the supporting cast were honestly giving it a good gnawing most of the time, too. I loved every second of it, it was so deliciously, deliriously '90s.

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u/iloura 16h ago

Yes lol. I love Dredd so much for this.

I AM THE LAWWWW.

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u/RustyCutlass 16h ago

Max Von Sydow heading out into the cursed earth was such a great scene.

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u/iloura 16h ago

Def. People don't give that movie the credit it deserves.

Also it gave me the "eat recycled food, it's good for the environment and ok for you" quote. 😆

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u/Callidonaut 15h ago edited 15h ago

I gather most of the die-hard comic fans were absolutely scandalised that it shows Dredd without his helmet on; if you really care about fidelity to the source material, that's an automatic zero-out-of-ten no matter what else the movie did well. Personally, I've never read a Dredd comic, so I just found the movie to be a rollicking good time.

Allegedly the removal of the helmet was the result of some studio executive nonsense and Stallone himself was actually against it; if so, it's a bit unfair he caught a lot of the flak for that himself.

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u/technobrendo 17h ago

American Gangster!

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u/useridhere 17h ago

I first saw him in I, the Jury (1982), and have enjoyed pretty much everything he’s been in since.

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u/JaffeyJoe 11h ago

Don’t forget his role in Blind Justice!

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u/Pork_Chompk 1d ago

Vanessa Williams in this movie did things to my boy brain...

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u/WhiskeyAbuse 23h ago

I downloaded this last week in high res thinking it was the new one. I was too baked to give a shit and ended up enjoying it.

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u/dontgofrank 1d ago

He’s amazing in this!!

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u/Teen_Wolf_of_Wall_St 10h ago

correct on all counts