I have begun to think that maybe all these actors are actually one guy:

 

 

 

Speaking of which, I recently saw this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116253/ "Executive Decision" & I thought it was going to be a standard Steven Segal (Oh great pissed off one) flick, and (spoiler here) he gets dusted after the first 30 minutes.  It got me to thinking that Stevie must've been pissed off with the director or something, because he bought it right at the beginning.  It's not like him to die in a movie.  I mean . . . he kills guys with one deft karate chop to the throat.  He's not as prolific as Schwarzenagger was in 1985's Commando, but he usually is able to get a pretty good body count going without as much as a scratch.    

BTW, I thought Executive Decision was above average for its genre.

Comments?

Thanks to 'Die Hard', the 'Action-Central-Local-Specific-Genre' has thrown up a lot of rotten potatoes (yeah, I spell it with an 'E'). Here are my generalizations off the top of my head:

'Die Hard' on a Boat (I) - 'Under Siege' (Average)

'Die Hard' on a Bus - 'Speed' (Very Cool)

'Die Hard' on a Plane (I) - 'Passenger 57 (Average)

'Die Hard' on a Train - 'Under Siege' 2 (Average - but only because it's so stupid)

'Die Hard' on a Boat (II) - 'Speed 2' (Terrible)

'Die Hard' in a Tunnel - 'Daylight' (also Terrible)

'Die Hard' on a Semi - 'Black Dog' (again, Terrible)

'Die Hard' on a Plane (II) - 'Con Air' (Average)

'Die Hard' in a Prison - 'The Rock' (Above Average)

'Die Hard' on a Bus (II) - The last 25 minutes of 'The Gauntlet' (Above Average)

'Die Hard II and III' (Average)

'Die Hard on a Plane (III) - 'Executive Decision' (Above Average)


Az - you hit the nail and pushed it flush into the oak with Seagal. It's not bad, I like the subtext of animosity between Russell and Seagal, and I LOVED the fact Seagal bit the bullet early in the film. I remember in the theater, everyone looking around at each other, as if to say "Wait... did, THAT just happen?"

I think that is an interesting selection of movies.  I agree that Daylight sucked hugely. 

I thought Executive Decision was above average for a number of reasons.  It wasn't nearly as predictable as most of the movies in this genre.  The first point of course was Stevie boy getting wasted right at the beginning.  I can imagine the gasp that came out of the audience at the cineplex or wherever you saw it " . . . . uh . . . . wha'???"  I couldn't really believe it myself.  In the back of my mind during the remainder of the movie I kept thinking . . . Segal's gonna come back . . . don't know how . . . but he's gonna come back into this movie somehow.  He'll have had on a parachute, and somehow survived dropping thirty thousand feet from a jet . .  . But alas, he did not.

In the first 20 minutes of the movie I thought that the rivalry between the Kurt Russel character & the Steven Seagal character would be what powered the remainder of the movie, but it wasn't. 

It had a lot of plot twists, and suspense.  The team strategize a great deal and in many ways it's almost like they're making chess moves.  I liked the way this built up the suspense.  I enjoyed the way the John Leguizamo character interacted with the Russel character as well.  I suppose that while it is completely un-realistic (like every other action movie of its ilk) it had just enough reality in it to allow for suspension of reality (i.e. it wasn't cartoonish). 

David Suchet was very effective as well.  Better on-screen terrorist characterization than either Art Malik in True Lies or Gary Oldman in Airforce One.  Suchet was truly evil as terrorist Nagi Hassan. 

Speaking of Airforce One, there's another one to add to your list Marc Daniel:  "Airforce One" Die Hard in the Sky (average). 

Balls! I KNEW I forgot a big one, 'Air Force One' Those movies in the mid-90s, did Gary Oldman NOT turn down a script? He was in everything?

(And nuts to everyone that hasn't seen 'Executive Decision' - it came out in '96!) When my buddy got it on DVD he was so pleased when Seagal died, he would repeatedly zoom in and slo-mo the scene - which I admit, gave me much delight as well.

I am gonna try and find another person to see 'The Constant Gardener', it looks like the ONLY good thing coming out for weeks - dammit.

Seagal's in executive decision just because he needed quick cash to finance his divorce that's why his part his so small.

Segal is actually coming out with a new energy drink... it seems he fancies himself a master with the herbs. AZ why the heck would you put Jeff Bridges up there bud, pat and kurt maybe but Mr. Bridges is in a different league all together...

"O god what's that don't tell me"

Turk, either they are all one guy or they are actually a family.  Can't you see the resemblance? 

Not like this bunch of posers!  Baldwin family . . . yeah right!!  They're just pretending to be related.

Or, maybe it's just a conspiracy.  One guy who takes on different roles:

I love John Kerry, I'm immigrating to France if Bush gets elected. 

No wait, I'm a pro-Bush born-again Christian.  Praise Jesus. 

Oh yeah, well, I'm gonna make an action movie with an incredibly hot model chick and show you all that I'm neither a lib-leftie or Bible thumping do-gooder.