![]() It was all the buzz and it put Tom Cruise on the bedrrom walls of teenaged girls everywhere. One of the signature movies of the 1980’s was Tony Scott’s “Top Gun”. To add another layer of tragic mystique to the story, this was the second Chuck Norris movie that experienced a fatal helicopter crash in the Philipines. It’s said shots of the helicopter was used in the film. The crew was set to do some filming when eyewitnesses said the chopper veered left before crashing into a ravine. Sadly, the crew was only a few days away from wrapping up shooting. During filming in the Philipines there was a horrible helicopter crash that took the lives of four crew members and the pilot. “Delta Force 2” had some pretty good action scenes but overall it wasn’t a good movie. But as was the case with many films in the era, there just had to be a sequel. I liked the original “Delta Force” movie with Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin. But the sad reality of these 5 movie set tragedies is most certainly heartbreaking. Unfortunately there were several of these to pick from so I won’t say this is the definitive list. The five tragedies caught headlines and changed lives. Unfortunately there have been instances of real life tragedy that makes us wonder if it’s all worth it. So much time and effort are put into making the movies that we watch and talk about. This week I’m taking a more somber tone and looking at some of the saddest moments in filmmaking. ![]() ![]() Others have focused on actors, actresses, or different movie years. Also going against the film, is its profane and obscene language, and many acts of violence, which include shots of graphic carnage, knife guttings, death by gassing, rape, and an impaling.A lot of my Phenomenal 5 lists have been fun, playful, or downright silly. They’re the ones who fight only when necessary, who struggle for something beyond mere self-interest, and who dare to be scared. In reality, though, heroes aren’t necessarily the ones who outgun or outfight everyone and everything in sight. Too often movies assume that a hero is someone eager to express himself through gunplay and that an audience will be happy to watch violence on an ever-more-extravagant scale. All the exploding missiles and flying fists make for great entertainment, but not for appropriate hero role-modeling. The underlying premise (and fantasy) that gives DELTA FORCE 2 its charge is that an American special forces commando unit, given their heads, weaponry and special abilities, can lick the Medellin cartel in about two days. Since McCoy is the kind of guy who puts bringing drug dealers to justice ahead of personal revenge, the story resolves what to do with Coda by having him killed by accident. Taylor to airlift them out in an exciting finish. San Carlos’ duplicitous general joins the chase, but he, too, is blown out of the sky.Ĭoda escapes into the jungle, but is recaptured by McCoy, who radios Gen. However, so inhumanly ruthless are the atrocities committed by the hypnotically-evil Coda and his henchmen, that when it’s time for McCoy to give “Lesson #1…,” you’re actually routing for him.Īfter knocking off scores of armed thugs, McCoy gets his hands on the boss and escapes with him in a bullet-proof limo, while the Marines lay waste to the drug czar’s heavily guarded headquarters, mostly with missiles shot from a helicopter. Neck breaking seems to be a favorite among the many acts of violence. The photography, music and action scenes are good and create the sensation that you are there with McCoy, which may be not so good, considering that the payoff is a long sequence of destruction. He is soon joined by an elite handful of specially-trained Marines flown in under a lively General Taylor gleeful at the prospect of blasting coke fields out of existence. To penetrate Coda’s island fortress, McCoy climbs up a sheer mountain cliff. The American president okays an operation into Coda’s homeland, San Carlos (a thinly veiled Columbia), to free the hostages. Taking off after Coda, Paul meets his end in Coda’s gas chamber, while his fellow DEA agents are held hostage. Unfortunately, Coda gets out on $10 million bail and immediately takes revenge on Paul by murdering his family. In an exuberant parachute scene, McCoy and his partner Paul arrest Coda on an airplane and jump to a waiting Navy cruiser. Chuck Norris fans have all the action they could ask for when, as Colonel Scott McCoy, he and a dozen hand-picked marines fly into a South American drug country to destroy the cocaine production, rescue some DEA hostages and rub out the land’s untouchable drug czar, Ramon Coda, in a blaze of exploding missiles and flying fists.
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