Is there nothing this idiot does that you'll call him on? This stupid fucking trade war is going nowhere good.

Y'all are the worst fucking fanboys.

I'd like to know where the accident occurred that left you brain damaged.

Is there nothing this idiot does that you'll call him on? This stupid fucking trade war is going nowhere good.

Y'all are the worst fucking fanboys.

Question about all of the leftwing hysterical liberal woman shrieking going on about tariffs.

Are any of you affected by them? Have they even had time to have an effect yet?

Are we doomed to starve because Chinese food is suick in ports and we will all have nothing to eat in a few weeks?

Will we all be naked because temu is grounded?

Nothing but chicken little sky screaming from "the price of eggs didn't go down in three days" crowd. 

They do not understand the art of negotiating from a position of strength. They prefer their leaders on their knees deep throating foreign interests. 

Sharky's Machine
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Burt Reynolds is an American legend. It's a shame he passed on so many iconic roles (Sonny and Michael Corleone - Godfather, Travis Bickle - Taxi Driver, Han Solo - Star Wars, James Bond - Her Majesty's Secret Service, John McClane - Die Hard, Randle McMurphy - Cuckoo's Nest, Edward Lewis - Pretty Woman, Garrett Breedlove - Terms of Endearment, and others - including supposedly Batman in the 1966 TV series).  Instead he made Smokey, Hooper, Gator, Stroker... Deliverance (great movie) and of course, Sharky's Machine.

Sharky is a blatant Dirty Harry ripoff. The same 'shoot first ask questions later' attitude that runs him afoul of the administration. The same renegade dogged pursuit of a crazy-eyed psycho. Burt was 41 when Sharky was filmed but he moved like a man twice his age. A lifetime of doing his own stunts maybe caught up to him.

Other than the gimpiness, this was vintage Burt right as his powers began to wane. You'll recognize many of his regular pals in it - Bernie Casey, Charles Durning, Brian Keith, Earl Holliman. Weird-looking Henry Silva is the big bad. It's also got Rachel Ward - at the absolute apex of her hotness (see Thorn Birds and Against All Odds for reference) which is a plus.

This is a protoypical 1980s "one good cop" movie that Burt directed himself. Almost every scene is an 80s cliche in one form or another. There are elements of every movie of its kind, whispers of the (then burgeoning) MTV "sexy girl" videos, a jazz score with plenty of saxophone.... like it distilled the entirety of the early 80s into one two-hour bloc. It has a whiff of Miami Vice - when Vice was only a small glimmer in the minds of Yerkovich and Mann. I'm honestly not sure if Vice exists without Sharky - his character is very much akin to what Sonny Crockett became.

The big thing that drew me to it when I was in my teens was that the film was shot entirely in Atlanta. It featured places I'd seen, buildings I recognized, streets and locales I'd visited. This movie really opened the door to Atlanta as a movie mecca and helped pave the way for the hundreds of films that have been shot there since. Without Sharky, there might not be a Georgia Marvel campus.

The movie's signature scene, a fall out a window of the Hyatt Regency's Radius Tower (which at the time was a dominant feature of Atlanta's skyline) set a record which still stands today. Longest stunt free fall in history at 220 feet.

Is it a great movie? Not in the slightest. Is it an interesting trip through an America that was on the verge of change (remember, Reagan had just been elected and the dirty grunge of the late 70s was about to give way to the pastel utopia of the 80s)?  Absolutely, 100%.  Is it worth watching?  For me, without question.  Not over and over, but maybe once every couple of years.  I bought it (when it was on sale for $4.99) for that reason. 

Burt is legendary. That's all there is to it.

Are we back?

Don't call it a comeback.