Tag: 80s action films

The Transformative Power of Girl on Top: Death, Sex, and Agency in The Terminator

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Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese have an intimate conversation in the Tiki Motel

|Chelli Riddiough| The Terminator isn’t a very horny film, unless you’re into feathered mullets and homicidal Austrians. But inside this ‘80s action thriller lives a love story, and not one, but two, very weird sex scenes. That’s enough to catapult it into a genre I call “cyberspunk.” When The Terminator begins, our protagonist… Continue reading

The Cult and Culture of VHS and the 1980s Action Flick

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|Dan McCabe| If I asked someone to name ten action movies, I wouldn’t be surprised if many of the named films were released in the 1980s. The Terminator (1984), First Blood (1982), Die Hard (1988), Top Gun (1986), Aliens (1986), Red Dawn (1984), Predator (1987), Lethal Weapon (1987)… Continue reading