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The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Action Heroes

The Art of Manliness

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Commando: The Best Action Movies of All Time

I get kind of annoyed with a lot of movies do this today, but particularly action movies, modern ones, they're too self aware about themselves. And those movies in the 80s and 90s, they didn't do that. They just were going to kill this guy in a weird, ridiculous way. Maybe a one-liner. That's it. So if there were, I'd say three movies from this period that you think every man should watch, what would they be? This is like an impossible question. It was hard to pin down even three per person, but I'm going to have a go. If anyone hasn't seen it, you've got to watch Command A

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