The Iron Eagle movie series was great, low budget fun! It was basically 80's TV-movie quality Top Gun, made using tons of B-roll footage. :P But by far my favorite movie of his was Enemy Mine,...
The Iron Eagle movie series was great, low budget fun! It was basically 80's TV-movie quality Top Gun, made using tons of B-roll footage. :P But by far my favorite movie of his was Enemy Mine, which is a genuinely great scifi film that still holds up to this day, IMO.
I just watched Iron Eagle for the first time and I wish I had read this before I started. wtf did I just watch?! (rhetorical -- I never want to think about this film again)
It was basically 80's TV-movie quality Top Gun
I just watched Iron Eagle for the first time and I wish I had read this before I started. wtf did I just watch?! (rhetorical -- I never want to think about this film again)
LOL, yeah it's one of those "so dumb and bad it's still pretty bad but also sorta great", "I can't believe this got made, released in theaters, and turned a profit" kind of movies. So if you go...
LOL, yeah it's one of those "so dumb and bad it's still pretty bad but also sorta great", "I can't believe this got made, released in theaters, and turned a profit" kind of movies. So if you go into it expecting something actually good, you're gonna have a bad time. But if you go into it expecting pure B-movie grade action schlock, 80s nostalgia, and awesome music, you might be able to appreciate it though. :P
it sounds insane now, but I saw someone say that it was what Top Gun should have been... which made it sound amazing. I'm so glad Top Gun was not Iron Eagle. Iron Eagle has a killer soundtrack,...
it sounds insane now, but I saw someone say that it was what Top Gun should have been... which made it sound amazing. I'm so glad Top Gun was not Iron Eagle.
ROFL! Everyone I've seen say that has done it pretty obviously tongue-in-cheek as an inside joke for everyone else that's seen it... or as a way of baiting people into watching it with high...
ROFL! Everyone I've seen say that has done it pretty obviously tongue-in-cheek as an inside joke for everyone else that's seen it... or as a way of baiting people into watching it with high expectations to get an even bigger WTF reaction from those people when they finally see it. So methinks you got got. ;)
He's best known for Roots but also made great films
The Iron Eagle movie series was great, low budget fun! It was basically 80's TV-movie quality Top Gun, made using tons of B-roll footage. :P But by far my favorite movie of his was Enemy Mine, which is a genuinely great scifi film that still holds up to this day, IMO.
Iron Eagle was my shit. I used to emulate the main character by throwing on headphones to "get into the zone" for video games lol
I just watched Iron Eagle for the first time and I wish I had read this before I started. wtf did I just watch?! (rhetorical -- I never want to think about this film again)
LOL, yeah it's one of those "so dumb and bad it's still pretty bad but also sorta great", "I can't believe this got made, released in theaters, and turned a profit" kind of movies. So if you go into it expecting something actually good, you're gonna have a bad time. But if you go into it expecting pure B-movie grade action schlock, 80s nostalgia, and awesome music, you might be able to appreciate it though. :P
it sounds insane now, but I saw someone say that it was what Top Gun should have been... which made it sound amazing. I'm so glad Top Gun was not Iron Eagle.
Iron Eagle has a killer soundtrack, though.
ROFL! Everyone I've seen say that has done it pretty obviously tongue-in-cheek as an inside joke for everyone else that's seen it... or as a way of baiting people into watching it with high expectations to get an even bigger WTF reaction from those people when they finally see it. So methinks you got got. ;)
like Trekkers and Imzadi... haha