I was hoping that before the end of the year, we would get the third and final installment of screenwriter Dean Lorey's great (thus far) series of articles about working on Major Payne. The movie was originally called The Private War of Major Benson, and was developed to star someone like Clint Eastwood. Read the first part, where Lorey meets Damon Wayans, and follow that immediately with the second installment, which digs into his camaraderie with a guy I consider one of the most underrated major comedians of the 1990's.
Electric Shadow
A Bygone Breed
I introduced my wife to The Last Boy Scout last night, since she enjoyed her first look at the Lethal Weapon series so much. We blew through that two-years-delayed Blu-ray collection a few weeks ago. I grew up on action movies (both the excellent ones like Boy Scout and the direct to video diaspora). As much as I remember the best ones fondly, I find that I haven't rewatched many of my favorites in years and years. Things like that run through my head when I'm in front of the $5/$6/$7/$8 Blu-ray rack/bin/table at the store. I wish there were some sort of extras at all for this movie and others like it (commentary, featurette, whatever), but alas, the new concept of an "extra feature" is a second movie like Last Man Standing. HOnestly, if the "extra is an underappreciated Walter Hill movie I've only seen on cable...maybe that just as good, if not better.