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The 1980s were the era of high-concept action. The decade was dominated by muscle-bound idols like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone on the big screen, but before these guys hit their stride towards the middle of the decade, the genre was a little more open, with the films of the first half of the decade perhaps having more in common with ones that came out towards the end of the seventies, when heroes were very much in the everyman mold. One of the best early eighties action movies is 1983’s Blue Thunder. So let's talk about it!
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The 1980s were the era of high-concept action. The decade was dominated by muscle-bound idols like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone on the big screen, but before these guys hit their stride towards the middle of the decade, the genre was a little more open, with the films of the first half of the decade perhaps having more in common with ones that came out towards the end of the seventies, when heroes were very much in the everyman mold. One of the best early eighties action movies is 1983’s Blue Thunder. So let's talk about it!
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