RIP Tony Scott

This is awful awful news.  I'm glad I was already at the bar last night when I found this out.  We lost a really really cool dude yesterday, and one of my favorite action directors.  To say Tony Scott's visual style as a director was influential would be an understatement.  No other action director of the day shot the magic hour quite like Tony.

I was always a huge fan of "The Hunger."  Come for David Bowie as a vampire.  Then stay and come again for Sarandon Deneuve love scene.  "Beverly Hills Cop II" was an awesome sequel to the original, I love the Alphabet Crimes plot, the soundtrack, Brigitte Nielsen's tall ass villain, and Gerald Ford.  "The Last Boy Scout" is an incredibly underrated Bruce Willis flick, and Willis' Joe Hallenbeck is one of Bruce's best and funniest characters.  "I forgot to tell you, bom means fuck you in Polish!"  And "Top Gun" was a great part of my childhood and many others' childhoods.  I still love "Top Gun."

Then of course there's "True Romance," a masterpiece by any standard.  A film geek runs off with the woman he loves and gets caught up in drugs and Christopher Walken.  What's not to love?  The Walken/Hopper scene is one of the single greatest scenes in movie history.  I was also a fan of his remake of "Man on Fire" with Denzel.  In an age of watered down "teen friendly" action films, "Man on Fire" was the dose of hardcore brutal revenge that we had needed for a while.  Denzel shoeves C4 up a guy's ass, and also cuts a mans fingers off while a Spanish version of "Mickey" is playing.  I dug it a lot.  

Well, I'm going to go have myself a drink and watch some of Tony's movies.  This is all around tragic.  From all of us on the site, our hearts and sympathy go out to Tony's friends and family.