Twilight Of The Action Movie Gods

The "Last Supper" for the Action Movie Gods

Warning: this post may contain too much testosterone for you to handle. Discretion is advised.

Our Movie Action Heroes™are rapidly aging: 

Clint Eastwood, 82

Chuck Norris, 72

Sylvester Stallone, 66

Bruce Willis, 57

The type of America they represented is changing. The nation -- and the world -- is evolving. Evolution necessitates new heroes appropriate to the time.

But, to borrow a phrase from one of their own tribe, you'll have to pry the guns -- and the cultural hegemony -- out of the Movie Action Heroes' cold, dead hands:

"I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we -- we own this country."
--Clint Eastwood to the Republican convention

"We’re at a tipping point and, quite possibly, our country as we know it may be lost forever if we don’t change the course in which our country is headed."
--Chuck Norris, "Dire Warning For America" Election 2012 video

A pertinent question for Eastwood & Norris is: who is this "we?"

"WE own this country."

"OUR country as WE know it may be lost forever..."

When they say "we," who are they really talking about?

Are they really talking about you, dear reader?

Norris: not a fan of, in his words, "Pro-Gay Obama"

Further -- in a current state of affairs where there is a mass shooting virtually every week, is all this gun-worshipping, jingoistic bravado juxtaposed with issues of "patriotism" and flag-waving and xenophobia and "us vs. them" really a good idea? When we have people talking of armed insurrection and "civil war" if Obama is reelected? Is having Dirty Harry say his famous catchphrase under a gigantic picture of him holding guns at the RNC a good fucking idea, given the present climate?

News Flash: "Fox News Obsessed Man Threatened To Murder Girlfriend For Being A 'Liberal'":

The deputy who arrested Kappheim said the man told him "he was very conservative, and his girlfriend was liberal and he felt he was going to have kill her."...The same deputy reported that documents found inside the woman's apartment that belonged to Kappheim led him to suspect he was "obsessed" with Fox News and the GOP, and posed a threat to others.

David A. Kappheim, who felt that his girlfriend had to die for being a "liberal."

Over the weekend we just had a case where a serial cyberbully/stalker went on a rampage sending "gang-rape" messages to virtually every prominent female in the comic book industry with a Twitter account. Mixed in with threats of sexual assault was talk of those darn "liberals," as well as a perceived bias against conservatives, men, Christians, and whites. While this man had apparently cyberstalked some of his targets for up to two years or more, something made him recently snap and decide to "unload" his hate in a massive way.

This next passage is from a video rant by "Hero Of The People" Alex Jones, which I've taken the liberty of adding some images to. With a prominent website and YouTube channel, Jones' stated mission is to "is to re-ignite the spirit of 1776":

"It is absolute total war. Economic, psychological, physical, spiritual...toe-to-toe with the Social Engineers. We can beat 'em if we get out of their mind-trick, recognize who they are, read their own white-papers and books where they call us degenerate, dumb scum that they're going to dumb down further, set up a control grid, and kill. Well not me and not my family...not without one hell of a fight. You asked for it, you're going to get one...

"...It starts with a war growl, it starts with gettin' fired up, staring at yourself in the mirror and showing some teeth and saying  I'm a human being and I have dignity, I'm gonna resist, I'm gonna start recognizing the propaganda, I'm gonna break free from it...

"...we're gonna organize, humanity is gonna come together....YAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!! WE KNOW WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!!! WE KNOW IT!!!! WE'RE BREAKING THE CONDITIONING!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! GRRRRRRR!!!! WE'RE COMING FOR YOU, GLOBALISTS! (beats chest) GRRRRRRRR!!! COMIN' FOR YA! COMIN' FOR YA! WE KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING!

"(calms down, wipes brow) I'm sorry...I JUST GET FIRED UP WHEN I THINK ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE DOING TO US AND HOW MUCH I WANT TO RESIST THEM...and how easy they are to defeat. (gasps for air) Excuse me. I think my testosterone is going up...this happens every time I start working out a lot again. I swam two miles this morning pretty hard...and ate a pretty big steak last night that's full of hormones and testosterone in its own right."

Steak: a traditional American meal, full of testosterone

So if you're wondering why it seems that recently every nutcase is coming out of the woodwork, deluging your Twitter feed with hate, equating Obama with Hitler or Satan, shooting up theaters and places of worship, stocking up on firearms, talking to empty chairs, getting arrested on conspiracy to take over the government and assassinate our President...

The Action Movie Gods are waning, and are holding desperately to their throne -- manipulating the masses as gods are wont to do. It's a virtual Ragnarok, an event which "Thor" star Chris Hemsworth -- who is also in "Expendables 2" and the upcoming "Red Dawn" -- would only know too well.

Actual EW caption: "Chris Hemsworth and his fellow high schoolers battle commies in Red Dawn"

Will Hemsworth successfully become a new Action God, part of a retro Eighties redux that will bring back Rambo, Rocky, Red Dawn, red-white-and-blue patriotism, a fear of "Commies," and a fatherly Republican in the White House?

And will steak -- a manly, high-protein, all-American food item -- become popular again, defying the agenda of the social engineer liberal communist eco-obsessed foreign-funded pro-gay yoga-practicing egghead interloper traitorous feminazi atheist folk who want to force-feed us soy and enslave us? According to this article regarding the upcoming food crisis -- probably not.