Spoiler warning: First Rate One-liners of the Heroic Homicide is a weekly column devoted to examining the character of the archetypal action hero. The one-liner jokes quoted in this article reveal pertinent information to the plot of the movie from which they’re taken. Crime is a disease. Meet the cure. Remember this tagline for Cobra [...]
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Spoiler warning: First Rate One-liners of the Heroic Homicide is a weekly column devoted to examining the character of the archetypal action hero. The one-liner jokes quoted in this article reveal pertinent information to the plot of the movie from which they’re taken. What a surname. Matrix. Commando (1985) is proof that Arnold Schwarzenegger had [...]
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As a nine-year-old staunch realist, I found myself utterly offended by the archetypal heroes of eighties action films. Granted, the action genre was being successfully spoofed by 1965 with TV’s Get Smart using a pretty simple method, according to Mel Brooks: “Do what they did except just stretch it a half an inch.” “They,” meaning [...]
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