Yeah. He was a great actor. I'm sure he was in a lot of those made for TV (Hallmark) movies, like courtroom dramas and stuff like that. But I think they need to put ripping off 80's films to rest now, and come up with fresh ideas, if they can. They've even recently announced that an Indian actor will play Rambo in a Bollywood reboot, and even Stallone just sarcastically brushed off the idea that a new film without him may not be good. It was his role, after all.

I mean, I know the 80's was an incredible era for action films, but that was 30 something years ago. Now all they seem to do in Hollywood is milk everything from that decade. It's either sequels, prequels, reboots, or remakes. As much as I like Indiana Jones for example, Harrison Ford is way too old now and it's getting to be quite silly for all these 'blast from the past' type actors. All the hype for these films lies in their names, so old or not, they do have their fans that will want another one, no matter what. It's like if they say a new Star Wars flick is coming out next year, they fall for it each time. That's why these "enablers" allow these hacks to carry on tarnishing everything, because what sequel ever outshines the original?

Anyway, they also recently announced the return of Ivan Drago for the sequel to Creed, which makes a lot of sense, since Adonis is the son of Apollo Creed and his father (whom he never met) was killed by Drago in Rocky IV. I'm not sure if you've seen it, but Ivan Drago is basically this huge Russian guy who took steroids and clobbered Apollo Creed to death in Las Vegas, during a so-called exhibition bout. This prompted Rocky, his friend, to fly over to the Soviet Union for a revenge match, and you got the cheesy montage style clips with the 80's sounding rock songs. Although Rocky won the match, the brain damage he suffered forced him to retire, at least until they came up with the stupid plot tweaking stuff in Rocky Balboa.

I'm going to watch Shaft later. The original one. I know the 2000 film is actually a sequel, because Richard Roundtree is playing the uncle of Samuel L. Jackson's character. And there's going to be another one soon with Jackson's son. Man, this is so getting out of hand here, Hollywood.