The awesome exploitation and general movie madness of Aaron, the owner of The Death Rattle, tagged me with coming up with a meme theme. I decided to go with various 'Men On A Mission' images. Not all of these are caps from films, though. I thought I'd mix it up a bit with some artwork, or images from magazines and DVD covers. Some of those capture the theme better than a screen cap, I think. Below the images are five bloggers tagged for a covert mission to find a meme, capture it and expose them for everyone to see.
I've left out some obvious choices, but figured I'd throw in titles some people might not have heard of. Whether they're attempting to get inside an impregnable fortress, retrieve a stash of stolen gold, rescuing a captive, or capturing a brutal warlord, all these guys have one thing in common--they're expendable! In order of year of production, these are....
Above and below--THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1960) Directed by John Sturges
Above and below--THE DIRTY DOZEN (1967) Directed by Robert Aldrich
KILL THEM ALL & COME BACK ALONE (1968) Directed by Enzo G. Castellari
THE WILD BUNCH (1969) Directed by Sam Peckinpah
A BULLET FOR SANDOVAL (1969) Directed by Julio Buchs
Above and below--THE HEROIC ONES (1970) Directed by Chang Cheh
Above and below--EL CONDOR (1970) Directed by John Guillermin
Above and below--THE LOSERS (1970) Directed by Jack Starrett
THE DEADLY DUO (1971) Directed by Chang Cheh
A REASON TO LIVE, A REASON TO DIE (1972) Directed by Tonino Valerii
THE WATER MARGIN (1972) Directed by Chang Cheh
THE FOUR RIDERS (1972) Directed by Chang Cheh
THREE THE HARD WAY (1973) Directed by Gordon Parks Jr.
SEVEN MAN ARMY (1976) Directed by Chang Cheh
Above and two pics below--BOXER REBELLION (1976) Directed by Chang Cheh
THE INGLORIOUS BASTARDS (1977) Directed by Enzo G. Castellari
FIVE VENOMS (1978) Directed by Chang Cheh
BATTLE FORCE (1978) Directed by Umberto Lenzi
THE WARRIORS (1979) Directed by Walter Hill
Above and below--THE DELTA FORCE (1986) Directed by Menahem Golan
THE EXPENDABLES (2010) Directed by Sylvester StalloneThese five blogs I've tagged below should have some interesting ideas, no doubt....
MONDO BIZARRO
MOVIES TO DIE BEFORE SEEING
FROM MIDNIGHT, WITH LOVE
THE CELLULOID HIGHWAY
DEATH TO CGI
9 comments:
Interesting, been posting about one those in my blog. It's written in Portuguese, but here's the link:
http://por-um-punhado-de-euros.blogspot.com/
Nice one, Pedro. A shame I can't read it!
Im still trying to grasp the idea of the MEME thing...what does the word itself stand for? But I guess its all about posting pics on some theme from films...which is an interesting idea.
I need to do one, Neil over at the Agitation of the Mind tagged me with the task...so I guess Ill be posting one tomorrow!
Nice one you got here, I saw The Deadly Duo, excellent kung fu movie.
I wasn't real sure what it was either, Francisco. I gathered as much from looking at other peoples meme's when I got tagged with one.
DEADLY DUO is pretty damn good. Not one of Cheh's best, imo, but lots of action and gore. I recently bought the Blu Ray for it.
Meh. I could totally take any and all these guys with one hand tied behind my back.
;)
Dude, then you are the epitome of bad assedness! Wow, what a damn good popcorn movie that would be!
Astro as the Iowa Terminator cutting a swath through the likes of Charles Bronson, McQueen, The Venoms, Jim Brown, Van Cleef, Chuck Norris and Stallone's stable of mercenaries!! In 3D!!!
...AND in IMAX!!! Extreeeeeme!!!
Always happy to see some Warriors action in there! I thought we might get a little bit of that Full Metal Jacket awesomeness but great picks nontheless V!
Honestly, I didn't even think about FULL METAL JACKET, Carl. I probably wouldn't have used it, anyway. I mainly wanted to feature some stuff that doesn't get a lot of mention outside of the spaghetti western and kung fu crowd.
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