Well, Sudden Death and Legionnaire !!!

(exclamation marks mine, but they should have been in the title).

It wasn't about the amount of flesh shown. I mean, I've seen porn. This wasn't porn. Okay, it kinda was. The camera was pretty much fondling JC's ass. I even remember seeing his body fuzz backlit by a very sentimental sun.

It wasn't how much. It was how, and how lovingly. There was a chick in the scene too, I guess.

JC does celebrate his physicality in a way Seagal couldn't, but I do give him more credit, because his movies were often fun (Double Team anyone?). He also played effeminate a couple times, and not just for laughs.

Speaking of which, that reminds me of a Dacascos bargain basement flick, Boogie Boy, which has random homosexuality in it. Kinda weird, just there in passing.

I don't like Steven Seagal, he always seems so smug, which is bad enough but combined with his inablity to act it's horrible to watch. I haven't seen a lot of Jean Claude's movies (although the ones I can remember are Cyborg, Universal Solider) but I had a huge thing for Dolph Lundgren back in the day and watched a bunch of his movies. He can't act either but he was better eye candy (for me) than JC.

Mmm. Dolph. I much preferred his Punisher to the Thomas Jayne one. He could totally kick Tommy Boy's ass.

Plus he was married to Grace Jones! How eugenic is that?

CREEPY:

Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson intend to use performance-capture technology -- used to create the character of Gollum in the Lord of the Rings movies -- to turn Georges Remi's comic-book drawings in his Adventures of Tintin series into three features that will be shot back-to-back beginning next year, Daily Variety reported today (Tuesday). The trade publication said that the three films -- one will be directed by Spielberg, another by Jackson; there is no decision on who will direct the third -- will likely be released through DreamWorks Animation. It quoted Spielberg as saying that the drawings by Remi, who used the name Hergé, will have the look of a live-action film, "and yet Peter and I felt that shooting them in a traditional live-action format would simply not honor the distinctive look of the characters and world that Hergé created." Jackson said that the characters will "look photorealistic ... They look exactly like real people -- but real Hergé people."

I liked Dolph. I loved Red Scorpion back in the day (doubt it will hold up on rewatch).

I much preferred his Punisher

Oh yes! Of course! How could I not include that among Dolph's gems?

I just checked Dolph's IMDB page to see what he's up too -- still making movies. It says there he only lived with Grace Jones for 4 years but never married her.

And he seems to be wicked smart - he was offered a Fullbright Scholarship to MIT, which he turned down to go into acting and has a Masters degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney.

It says there he only lived with Grace Jones for 4 years but never married her.

4 years, huh? I wonder--is she batshit crazy in private too?

I always thought he seemed much more articulate in interviews than some of the characters he played.

After a while, I seem to recall his characters getting more articulate too. It's like there was a phase we (the movie-going populace in general) went through, where action heroes had to communicate through heavily accented grunts, or we weren't interested (thanks, Arnold).

Here's a couple of quotes from him:

"When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out. Then I got caught up taking my shirt off and strapping a machine gun on to shoot people. There wasn't really much acting - you couldn't have done too much with those roles no matter how good you were."

and

"Action films are an extension of Greek myths which have been around since Homer's The Iliad. Everybody's life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves. With an action film its just more apparent. That's why people will always love action movies."