You'll just have to believe me when I tell you that Friendly Fire is on the up and up when we say these are randomized movie selections

Two sci-fi movies in a row really? A affirmative. Did I protest these films being added to the list as not being war movies by any definition?

Roger that, was I ignored by my co-hosts as they flooded the initial list with every movie they could think of from the 80s and 90s

where the main character wore a sweat drenched and shredded tank top and half their

dialogue was quips. Yes again. Let's go back to this period in the late 80s, when I was in college.

Adam was running around the fountain of some mall food court somewhere yelling,

Catch me, catch me!

And Ben's parents were in Berkeley marching in favor of the Sandinistas

and debating whether having children was good for the environment.

Hollywood was under four feet of savings and loan cocaine and action films had gotten really

really big. The United Arab Emirates built an airline just on the proceeds from

the gasoline they sold Stallone for that scene in Rambo II where the helicopter

drops a 50-gallon drum on a waterfall and triggers a 10 minute long cascading series of

Napalm Fireballs that made young Adam spill his fresca all down the front of his jams.

Enter James Cameron.

At the first of several heights of his creative powers, a man so unbearable that he wrote aliens and the Terminator and Rambo too at the same time.

It's a period of creative output that is positively Herzogian.

Except, you know, good.

Well, not good good, but corny action good.

Which, as we've established, my cohorts think

is the same as good, but which isn't.

In 1979, the first movie, Alien, came out of nowhere, and in the new style of the time when the

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