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The My Little Pony FIM thread made me think of this, with the question of what constitutes healthy, appropriate male entertainment. What could be more manly than a good action film? There are three things particularly distinctive about the great action movies of the 80s - big guns, rock music and hypermasculinity with homosexual undertones. A lot of those movies could get pretty gay at times, which makes me laugh now when I think of the most homophobic guys I knew as a teenager watching them religiously.

Anyway, what are some of the best examples? Could be scenes, images or characters. Try to limit yourself to one per post.

I'll start it off with the volleyball scene from Top Gun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwd5_AD7jw8&feature=related

And with a minor tweak to the soundtrack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvJOFGCNn4&feature=related

Not really an action film, but a pretty famous example would have to be Nightmare on Elm Street 2!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bwn7TgPkZ4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-M_s2Q9k0M

Easy enough...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0qVUn4797g

Super easy--Bennett from Commando: the biggest, baddest, and gayest bad guy ever in the history of cinema.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKnR2mBm-wg

First he gets Matrix in the back, then he threatens to shoot genitalia, and then "lets off some steam" through a big, stiff pipe.

But yes, I still love the movie.  :teddyr:

And even Vernon Wells knew he looked like Freddie Mercury on steroids in that role.

Why don't we just stick with TOP GUN?  :wink:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2eoBWZp64s

The woman wants the man so badly.  He's so attractive.  Okay, well every frustrated man needs a semen receptacle, even if it's not a fighter jet.

From Megaforce, the fabulous Ace Hunter.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PJLsloPvrtA/S6ujwlDNXOI/AAAAAAAAAHg/8y0s4q0LyrU/s1600/ACE+THE+QUEER.jpg)

 :bouncegiggle:

Ah, the 80's.

TOP GUN is just too easy.  A couple of locker room scenes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kEGJIj6S6c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfLL4f7nnLs

The "orgasm" scene in Point Break where Keanu Reeves can't bring himself to shoot Patrick Swayze and fires off his pistol into the air, screaming. Nick Frost parodied this scene well in Hot Fuzz.  :teddyr:

The whole movie PENITENTIARY (1979). The scene at the beginning when Leon Issac Kennedy is fighting the guy in his tightie whities is very gay.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INJDCGkamUk&feature=related

Lethal Weapon 2:

Riggs: [to Murtaugh] "You are a very beautiful man. Give us a kiss before they come."

I posted him in the pony thread as well, but he's worth repeating. The action movie character even gayer than Bennett - "Fifi."
(http://cdn.okcimg.com/php/load_okc_image.php/images/0x0/0x0/0/13740516334282582764.jpeg___1_500_1_500_cb94de6a_.png)
He's such a stereotype, I have to think there was some conscious irony there, an intent to imply something about the macho highway cops. I mean, I could accept that his whole "leather daddy" image is unplanned, but then they gave him birds and plants and called him Fifi, as if to remove all doubt.

Who else remembers the little B-gem SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX3R7fVVU-g

kCjTO84NL4U&feature=related

More from the Mad Max films. The Road Warrior gave us Lord Humongous and his gang.
(http://heavyarmor.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/humongous.jpg)
And Vernon Wells, in another manly role.
(http://www.cinemaisdope.com/news/films/roadwarrior/lordhumungus-wez.jpg)

Best handshake/piece of foreplay ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU_7uq51eZU


PLUS, pretty much the entire movie Tango and Cash, but especially the whole 'in prison' sequence which involves plenty of Stallone and Russell in the shower, commenting on each other's body, plus at one point Kurt Russell dresses in drag.  Bang. 

AND just to top it off, if that isn't enough, have a look at the high five at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiVrPsY8xIs