The Class of ’80s Action Heroes all went in different directions.
Arnold Schwarzenegger gave up acting for a chance to run a rather large, and financially wobbly, state.
Jean Claude Van-Damme stayed in the game for a while before debunking his image in the smart indie “JCVD.”
Sylvester Stallone fell back on his iconic character cache to stay relevant.
As for Steven Seagal, he simply never stopped kicking &%$ and taking names.
The actor, now 58, is back in the new DVD thriller “Driven to Kill” (out May 19)
So how does Seagal do it?
Well, for starters, he likes to shoot movies with three word titles – “Driven to Kill,” “Hard to Kill,” “Marked for Death,” “Half Past Dead” and “Fire Down Below” are just a few flicks on his resume.
Adding the word “death” to a movie title is another key element here, as is his willingness to climb aboard the straight-to-DVD express.
And he prefers not to dwell on the passage of time. He’s still got the same ‘do and surly attitude when things don’t go his away.
Seagal might have a fraction of his former box office clout, but just try stopping him from making his next B-grade action pic.
(Photo: Venerable ’80s action star Steven Seagal keeps making movies as if that decade never ended.)
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I’m sorry we never got to see the political crossover movie of the century. Stallone vs Seagal. A violent right winger going up against a violent left winger.
It would have been better than Aliens vs Predator.
That headline you put up sounds like a potentially great title for a horror movie (in every sense of the word)!
For about fifteen years now he’s do’ed it with sloppy editing combined with an increase in camera speed.
I could kick his butt. Sad. He made some terrific films for about 7 years there that are still fun to watch on DVD.
Howard Stern once joked that Seagal can’t even lift his leg up anymore to deliver those nasty kicks …
That said, there’s something oddly comforting about his action career continuing unabated, even if it’s only on DVD.
My judo instructor actually recommended some of Seagal’s early stuff for pure training purposes, at least the early scenes where he stands off with two or three guys and uses technique to thrash everyone about and bend a couple arms the wrong way.
I’d recommend Seagal’s latest if you wanna learn how to edit around an action hero who can’t move too well anymore.
I could have used that in my judo class as well.