Tango & Cash
April 28th 2008 00:34
Ah, yes.
Last night I had the opportunity to watch the late 80's classic buddy movie Tango & Cash (not to be confused with the dog-buddy flick Turner & Hooch
). I say classic very loosely...What a great concept. Get two of the biggest action stars of the day. Sly Stallone and Kurt Russel (Kurt's part was originally cast for Patrick Swayze, but he left to finish making...Roadhouse) and put them in a big budget Lethal Weapon-ish action/one-liner comedy.
Gold.
Well, not actually.
Sly took control of many aspects of the film, including the firing of the cinematographer - because he didn't like the lighting he was being captured in...
The actual director even left for unknown reasons (looking at you Sly!), it was toward the end of filming, and I assume the last acion sequence was done by the second director, because it is baaad.
The movie was actually doing fairly well for its type up to this point.
Then they acquired some-kind of super-SUV military mobile. I can take that to a certain degree. The were in the force and they went down to the special weapons factory where their mate was making some crazy ass weapons - hey, it was the 80's.
Yes, we are talking pick-up's with roof mounted rocket-launchers, cars with rail guns, and monster-trucks!
This was such a bizarre scene to me. Obviously back in the 80's I wouldn't have even noticed it, because that kind of crazy stuff always happened.
But seriously, it was in L.A. and explosions were going off everywhere. Even after the fighting had finished, all these random explosions were going off in the background.
However, it did have a few good scenes.
Like the boys escaping from jail, and sliding down the power lines in the rain.
The young and beautiful Teri Hatcher (Tango's sister) massaging Cash on the couch while Tango listened in and thought something else was going on...
I won't even mention Teri Hatcher's dance scene (LOL), but Kurt Russel in full drag...
and two of the most famous 'baddies' of the time.
First the guy with the ponytail and the terrible British-accent, and the classic jail thug with the HUGE jaw and chin.
Yep, it was a real Lethal Weapon rip (even including an industrial electrocution torture), but it was some good buddy action...for a while.
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