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."

I thought he did pretty good as that crazy bionic preacher in Johnny Mnemonic.

If anything about Johnny Mnemonic could be called good, that is.

I was never a Dolph fan. For my Teutonic hunks, I prefer Rutger Hauer.

Ha! Askye, I was just coming to post that last quote.

Lord help me, I think I love him a little for his *mind*.

I feel kind of ooky about that.

Action films are an extension of Greek myths which have been around since Homer's The Iliad.

I think I'm in love. I do worry that McClain or Rambo might be the Odysseus or the Robin Hood of our times, but still. I do agree with the core of this. It isn't specifically Greek--just myths.