Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
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It was definitely up there along with Robocop, Predator, and Aliens. I guess unlike those other films, Iron Eagle was just a fun movie and meant for kids. You can probably toss The Last Starfighter in that group or at least being somewhat similar to Iron eagle.
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On Deadly Ground, which he also directed.
He was supposedly refusing to do it since his character died early and his ego wouldn't allow it, but On Deadly Ground went way over budget so they made him do it anyways to make up the difference
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Top Gun had early and affordable Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer. You're not competing with that
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Chukzombi
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Ok. Both films came out in the same year and both sucked. The second Under siege was also really bad. Stephen Segal films were one of the movies my dad and I would meet up to see together. They got so bad that my dad said "no more!" after under siege 2. Little did I know that he was still watching them on cable and he would casually mention, "oh Charles, I caught some of The Glimmer Man on cinemax and it was pretty good," I would say, that's nice dad. Still haven't watched his films after US2
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You and I remember Iron Eagle very differently. I remember it being a poor man's Top Gun. Fun movies for sure but don't think it was for kids. Also keep in mind it's been decades upon decades since I've seen those movies. Maybe it's time for a revisit. The Last Star fighter was great and you mentioning that made me think of another movie...Flight of the Navigator.
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Last starfighter was a poor man's battle beyond the stars. Sybil Danning's tits and goodnight Johnboy were better than the death blossom.
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I liked Iron Eagle but it doesn't really stand up. The one plane drops like 40 bombs and shoots down like 14 planes, and the landing at the airport in a fighter (alone) to pick up his dad is just lol-worthy. The hades bomb? Bullets would go through the flames, last I checked...
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Haven't seen that one but yeah I'm glad she finally did something semi-political.
The whole Latin-x thing is such bullshit because the entire Spanish language is based on gendered terrminology. That's not even getting into the effects of how religious those cultures tend to be. Yeah, I said cultures, not culture, because "brown people" aren't one monolithic group, and half of 'em dislike each other. If any of the weirdoes who use "latinx" were to leave their gated communities and try being friends with a few actual latinos they would know all of this. They'd also know that nobody dislikes illegal migrants more than legal migrants, and would stop lumping all of them together into one group and then wondering how Trump was the first R ever to get the majority of latinos.
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Rajaah
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Agree with you on this. I stay away from the ultra-bitter rant channels on YT, or the hyperpartisan far-right channels (things like Steve Turley that get recommended to me constantly). I think most of the problem with current American discourse is that way too many people are filtered into far-left or far-right "news" (read: commentary) channels that give them 50% of the story (or more like 20% probably). So then you end up with two people basically having alternate-universe perspectives of what's going on in the world.
Like with the Floyd riots, everyone's got the perspective of either A) They were burning cities down, or B) They were peaceful protests for a righteous cause. Neither of these things were true. They were useful idiots being manipulated to cause chaos in memory of a fentanyl dealer who died from eating his own supply while a cop lightly leaned on him using the approved method that department trained him to do, but also, no cities actually got burned down. Maybe a few city blocks if you're talking Minneapolis. So while I think the Floyd Riots were abhorrent and a real "mask off" moment for the far-left, I also think it's a good example of how people are herded into these polar-opposite, hyperbolic perspectives.
So in short, I stay away from things that are too polarized because that's how you get one fraction of the actual story and exist in a perpetual state of being angry. As a former long-time democrat, I look for news that's neutral or neutral-right (because even slight left bias causes me to nope out at this point, I'm just tired of listening to it when they've gotten SO MUCH wrong).
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huh I was today years old when I learned there was a movie called Iron Eagle. Looked it up, came out the year I got my drivers license. One thing I wasn't doing was going to see movies. I was partying my ass off.
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Remember when one of the late night TV show hosts used to do celebrity birthdays. Was it David Letterman or Johnny Carson? I just remember my birthday's the same as Ed whatever his name is that was on Johnny Carson, and he did all the publisher's clearing House award lottery stuff.
Just always thought it was funny as a kid.
Ed McMahon?
Chukzombi
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Isn't that one of those Mandela effect things? Ed McMahon never had anything to do with Publishers Clearing house.
I never saw Iron Eagle in the theater. I never heard of it until it popped on HBO or Cinemax. That's where everyone saw it. There was a very limited amount of movies in the 80s that had Heavy Metal music in the soundtrack.
Iron Eagle: Queen and Twisted Sister
Creepers: Iron Maiden
Trick or Treat: various bands
Highlander: Queen
The Wraith: Ozzy
Vamp: Motley Crue?
Money Pit: White Lion
Demons:?
Shock em dead: WASP?
Return of the living dead 1& 2: various
River's Edge: various
Heavy Metal: various.
Shit, I think that's the whole decade.
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Chukzombi
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Nothing wrong with what he said. He might not have had cable during that time. Iron Eagle sounds more like a kung fu movie than a movie about an air force brat taking million dollar fighter jets out on joy rides