80's Sci Fi/Action Movies Appreciation Thread

[Sam Fisher]

Yes

The movie is based on a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp titled Nothing Lasts Forever, itself a sequel to the book The Detective, which was previously made into a 1968 movie starring Frank Sinatra.

Nothing Lasts Forever is a sequel to Thorp's 1966 novel The Detective. It follows Detective Joe Leland, who is visiting the Klaxon Oil Corporation's headquarters in Los Angeles, where his daughter works. While he is visiting, a German terrorist team led by Anton "Tony" Gruber takes over the building. Leland remains undetected and fights off the terrorists one by one.

Nothing Lasts Forever was adapted in 1988 as the film Die Hard. Joe Leland's name is changed to John McClane and Tony Gruber's to Hans Gruber. McClane communicates to the terrorists via walkie-talkie and commits some of the same acts of sabotage that Leland does in the novel but there are many differences between the novel and the film. In the first place Leland is an older man and it is his daughter in place of his wife, that is held as one of the hostages. In the film the villains are post-modern terrorists who are really only interested in robbery. In the book they are idealists trying to make a political point. In the film they are mixed bunch but all men whereas in the original book they are all German and four of them are women. (The gang is loosely like Baader-Meinhof.) Overall the book is much darker and more political than the film being set in the 1970s with memories like Black September incident at the 1972 Munich Olympics still fresher in the mind.

 

[Golgo-13]

Yeah but he did have a kickass speech before biting it. "You Know god**** well I can't give that order"

That **** was badass!

 

[LexCorp]

You know this was cool

Old style launcher

 

[DocHoliday]

The coolest thing about Commando is when he throws the saw blades in the shed.

 

[ShaneHelms]

I was always partial to him chopping that guys arm off with the machete. t:

 

[Killgore]

I was always partial to his *****in car that could reconstruct itself after being wrecked.

 

[DocHoliday]

I was always partial to his *****in car that could reconstruct itself after being wrecked.

hhaha yeah....I also like during his fight with the Navy Seal where hetalks without his mouth moving.

 

[Space Moose]

Everyone knows MAd Max 2: The Road Warrior was the greatest action movie of the 80's. FACT.

 

[Redwoods Wolf]

Seconded.

 

[Space Moose]

Seconded.

Damn right!

 

[DorkyFresh]

aliens > mad max

 

[ShaneHelms]

aliens > mad max