#Action Jackson

[eightiesgalaxy]

Carl Weathers

1948-2024

RIP

[theactioneer]

Action Jackson (Craig R. Baxley, 1988)

[madamshogunassassin]

Action Jackson (1988)

[omercifulheaves]

R.I.P. Greatest of All Time Carl Weathers. If there was any justice in the world, this movie would have gotten about 5 or 6 sequels.

[jasvvy]

BRUH HOLY SHIT

[periodically80s]

[can-ya-dig-it-777]

[pygartheangel]

[ghost-2501]

Rest in Power, you son of a bitch. 🥷🙏

[greensparty]

Remembering Carl Weathers 1948-2024

Sad news today that actor, director and former NFL player Carl Weathers has died at 76. His most famous role was as Apollo Creed in the legendary underdog sports epic Rocky! The opponent of Rocky later became a close friend and he returned in Rocky II, Rocky III, and Rocky IV. He was such a great character! Weathers even appeared in the documentary John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs about the Rocky director (I included the doc in my Best Documentaries of the 2010s list).

Sly Stallone and Weathers in Rocky

In the 80s he co-starred in Predator. After co-stars Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger became governors, many asked Weathers if he'd go into politics. Unfortunately it never happened, but he did appear in an SNL sketch where he did a fake election ad!

Weathers and the future Governator in Predator

Other notable films he appeared in included Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the 80s action movie Action Jackson ("now I'm pissed off!"), as the golf mentor to Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore, and the voice of Combat Carls in Toy Story 4 (which I included on my Best Movies of 2019 list).

Weathers and Grogu on The Mandalorian

But his biggest role in recent years was a Greef Karga on the Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian. Earlier this week I named it my #3 TV Show of 2023. As the ally to Din Dijarin he stole many scenes and was nominated for an Emmy for his performance. He even directed two great episodes of the show in 2020 and 2023. It also needs to be said that he directed a lot of other TV shows too!

The link above is the obit from Hollywood Reporter.

[takunwilliams]

dam Carl Withers RIP

Apollo Creed forever

[theactioneer]

Vanity, Action Jackson (1988)

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[myevilmouse]

Ships and Stuff Meme

Thanks for the tag @kaleidoscope1967eyes​!  This was a very fun thing to do over my tea this morning 🤗😘💛

Three Ships: 

Luke x Mara (of course)

Jane x Lisbon (choice no doubt influenced by “what I’m watching” answer)

Mulder x Scully

First Ship:

Last Song: (an answer I know my tagger will enjoy!):

Last Movie: Omg for real I watched this last night and then found one of the bad guys has a website and I sent him fanmail. 

Currently Reading: I swear to god someday I will finish Fairy Tale by Stephen King but I’m going to say MY book because I found two typos in the published copy dammit and now I have to reread the whole thing to make sure there aren’t more so the layout people can fix them.  Sigh.

Currently Watching:

The Mentalist.  This is a rewatch (I’ve seen it all before) and this show is 300% a guilty pleasure.  My husband is always around (but not watching exactly) when I’m binging it and he’s experiencing it by proximity osmosis.  He also ships Lisbon and Jane so he’s in for a treat 🥰

Thank you again for the tag @kaleidoscope1967eyes​!  A nice start to my Sunday! 🤗🥰

[jewishpopculture]

Carl Weathers and Denise “Vanity” Matthews on the set of the film ‘Action Jackson’ (1988).

Rest in peace to Weathers and Matthews 🕊️

Weathers was not Jewish, but Matthews was born to a Jewish mother.

[animejunki5]

I'm so sorry to hear of Carl Weather's passing. My heart goes out to his family, friends and fellow fans 💐 Rest in Power, good Sir 👑