#Jack Slater

[thecaptainoutoftime]

"Gentlemen. Since you are about to die anyway, I may as well tell you the entire plot. Think of villains Jack. You want Dracula? Dra-cool-la? Hang on [takes out the ticket] I'll fetch him. Dracula? Huh. I can get King Kong! We'll have a nightmare with Freddy Krueger, have a surprise party for Adolf Hitler, Hannibal Lecter can do the catering, and then we'll have christening for Rosemary's Baby! All I have to do is snap my fingers and they'll be here. They're lining up to get here, and do you know why Jack? Should I tell you why? Hmm? Because here, in this world, the bad guys can win!"

Happy 30th Anniversary to Last Action Hero

June 18th 1993-June 18th 2023

[babyblue-mind]

what’s that old movie about the boy who doesn’t really have any friends and he’s always missing or late to his classes, and is obsessed with fictional media, and then one day a mysterious, weird old man gives him a suspicious magical object that makes him involved in a story, and he forms a close bond with one of the main characters, and eventually the story starts to affect the real world too?

[vertigoartgore]

1993's Last Action Hero publicity stills with a mid-forties Arnold Schwarzenegger as Jack Slater.

A box-office flop at the time (before he later gained cult status), released just after Jurassic Park and between two successful James Cameron movies (1991's Terminator 2/T2 and 1994's True Lies).

[jjspina]

Books Read and Reviewed in September 2024!

Here it is already the end of another month. Where does the time go? I have been busy as usual reading some wonderful books for the month of September of 2024. Here are the 7 books I read and reviewed for September. I might have read even more if I didn’t have a few WIP. But I always seemed to have a WIP! That fact never stops me! I hope you enjoy reading these reviews. I love sharing my…

[schlock-luster-video]

On October 7, 1993, Last Action Hero debuted in Italy and Germany.

[hsmagazine254]

In The Dark (Blake Larsen Book 1) by Jack Slater: A Riveting Thriller

In The Dark (Blake Larsen Book 1) Kindle Edition by Jack Slater The body count is rising in Northern Pines, and the shadows of tragedy have cast their ominous veil over Blake Larsen’s life. Orphaned by the violent demise of her parents, her only solace was her Green Beret brother, Caleb. He stood by her side on her high school graduation day and was the first person she dialled when she became a…

[arotheosis]

It’s all Whirred Up (NSBU Swap AU concept)

Essentially I started thinking about what it might be like if the action heroes were the ones in the real world, and the video world characters were the action heroes. I tried my best to switch things up so it feels different enough, although I’m still a little unsure about some character roles.

Will I ever actually sit down and write this properly? Who knows

In an old strip mall in Lake Elsinore sits one of the last remaining video rental stores in the country: Slater’s Video Superstore.

With the rise of streaming and digital media, however, the store is on its last legs. Its last week in fact, and its employees prepare to close down and find a new road to take in life.

Steven “King” Skin is a Princeton student with a bright future in politics. He’s nearing the end of his gap year, and wondering whether he really wants to go back to school after all. He works on the finances of the video store.

As he almost mindlessly balances the the store’s financial spreadsheets, he watches on one of the video store screens: Liv Skyler, master thief. Her name is whispered amongst criminal circles like a legend, because she can steal without even leaving a single trace behind.

Victor Ethanol is a young man with a dream of pursuing Formula 1 racing, but working several odd jobs to provide for his family. He does occasional maintanance/ plumbing work for the businesses in the strip mall, including the video store, which he visits frequently.

Trying to get him to take a break from working so hard, his brother Shaun asks if he wants to watch a movie. The movie’s protagonist? One Wendell Morris, former biker gang member who has become an informant for several underground organizations. He’s the black sheep of the Morris family, and their falling out is shrouded in mystery.

G13 is a young hacker who got caught attempting to access classified files, and was sentenced to community service. He’s supposed to be cleaning trash around the strip mall, but he mostly stays inside the video store using the crusty old public computer they have, since he’s no longer allowed to use any at home.

While attempting to bypass the many blocks on that ancient desktop computer, he sees a trailer for an old movie. It depicts Usha Rao, more commonly known by both her allies and enemies as Grandmother. She’s the head of a widespread criminal organization, and despite her sweet seeming appearance is someone to be feared. She’s been alive longer than anyone knows, she’s seen everything and knows everything, so if you mess with her family you cannot escape her wrath.

Working over by the more adult section of the store, is Jack Manhattan. After suffering through a grueling divorce with his wife and losing custody of his two children, his life is essentially at a standstill. He is very vocal about how much he prefers not being tied down, and talks about having many partners, but it’s clear that in reality he is not dealing with the separation well and is very lonely.

Unable to even look at the more unsavory content in front of him without thinking about the love he lost, he switches the channel only to see a movie starring crime investigator Paula Donvalson. While many overlook her based on her wild and sporadic personality, the crazy deductions she makes are more often than not entirely on the money, and the FBI begrudgingly hires her for many of their cases.

Jennifer Drips is a woman who does not stay in one place for far too long. Drifting quickly from town to town, she never sets up roots, but leaves a trail of lovers behind her. She is currently staying in a crappy apartment near Lake Elsinore, and working at the video store for some extra cash before she moves on.

On a screen behind her as she’s packing up the store’s inventory, plays a movie led by Russel Feelds, a mechanic developing gadgets for every organization under the sun. A self described lone wolf, he has no loyalty to any side, as long as you can pay his prices.

Greg Stocks is a wealthy man who owns nearly every storefront in the strip mall, except for the video store. He heads in every day attempting to make an offer that Slater will accept, but even as the store is close to shutting down, the video store owner remains stubborn.

Walking by the front of the store he sees, on one of the display TVs, a film about a man known only as Dang. Dang is the world’s deadliest assassin, and his methods are all just as strange as the man himself. After every kill he leaves behind his calling card, the word “rashab”. No one has deciphered its meaning yet.

[sapphicsukeve]

EastEnders | Suki Panesar, Eve Unwin, Stacey Slater, Jack Branning, Davinder Gulati (22/12)

[ivorysfilms]

my taste in men…

[novafaery]

There is one thing in this world that would keep me sane.

Men.

..... We're done here, get out.

[the-patchwork-girl-of-oz]

In the book “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” there's a scene where the tin man steps on a bug, feels guilty, and cries. There's a deleted scene in the 1939 movie where the witch makes bees come out of his nose and he kills one and ALSO cries because he feels guilty. I kinda want the wicked movie to include them because that would make “for once I'm glad I'm heartless I’ll be heartless killing her” a lot funnier.

I know baby. I know. You're very scary.

I just know Fiyero was behind him in that scene like “girl you can't even kill an insect without crying.🤦🏾‍♀️”

I’m honestly voting for the honeybee scene because it would be cool to see Elphaba do that with her powers.

[90smovies]

[spilladabalia]

Larry and the Blue Notes-"Night of the Sadist".

[Larry]Roquemore (sax & vocals) explains that several urban legends inspired the tune, including "the escaped mental patient with a hook on his right hand who used to terrorize parkers in Lover's Lane; a guy dressed in a gorilla suit who used to tap on car windows of couples parking late at night at my old school, Northside High; and tales of a Goat Man who was scaring the crap out of parkers at Lake Worth".

[bumpzandtrunkz]

Done in by Jack Bouvier on the Vegas Strip

[augustusaugustus]

13.113 Different Strokes

Nick’s finished his undercover course and his colleagues respond with a combination of gentle ribbing and doubt about their own career paths. He and Steve snark at each other a bit, but it’s Steve who’s calm in a crisis when Nick’s life is in danger.

Bob’s very Uncle Bob here, for the first time in ages and Karl Collins does a great job in his last pre-Danny Glaze guest appearance.

[jackbatchelor3]

Stacey be like, 'I'm worried about you, Denise".