Well, part of the reason we didn't pick it up was because we knew that we already had a Chuck flick waiting for us. We walked back to the car (after grabbing some Pepsi) and I glanced at the VHS tape under the dash that would soon be delivering Chuck entertainment at home. That's right! Matt was diligent enough to notice that AMC was running a Chuck movie the other day, and he taped it. Sure, it one-ups our last viewing as the poorest possible method of Chuck Norris delivery (taped off of TV on a VHS cassette) but it's Chuck, and we don't turn down Chuck around here. All the way from 1980, it's Chuck Norris in The Octagon!
Through my Chuck Norris-watching experiences, I've noticed that Chuck really has two distinctive looks. The first, which I'll dub his "70's style", delivers a Chuck with blond helmet-hair and a corresponding mustache. Undergoing a metamorphosis after 1980, Chuck's "80's style" gives viewers a new, hip Chuck Norris, who is brown-haired, bearded, and (most importantly) mulletted. As you can see from the picture on the left, Chuck is firmly in his 70's style. This must have been one of his last movies with that look, but I can't say for certain. That sounds like another project on its own, which I'll have to undertake: discovering where exactly (and why?) that change occurred.So: The Octagon. Chuck's in too deep in this one-- he gets involved with ninjas! Chuck goes on a mission, beating the answers out of people, as to why ninjas are terrorizing this woman he meets. The movie delivers on a good car chase, and great good hand-to-hand Chuck combat. And apparently Lee Van Cleef is in it somewhere! Don't ask me where, I didn't notice him!
It turns out that in this one, Chuck was raised by a Japanese man, Beverly Hills Ninja style. Flashbacks depict a young Chuck training with his "brother." Predictably, it ends up being this very same brother who is the leader of these ninja that Chuck is going against. The film culminates in a fight scene between the two, which according to IMDb, was ranked as #13 on Fighting Stars Magazine's top 25 greatest fight scenes of all time. I would love to get a hold of that issue, to verify that all of those fights are from Chuck Norris movies.
So yeah, The Octagon comes through with some solid Chuck action, and lots of jokes to be made. Number 12 on our list to see all of Chuck's movies, I would recommend this one if you can find a copy of it. Hell, AMC might be showing it right now for all we know!
In non-Chuck news, I'm listening to Sam Roberts' new album as I write this. 2006's Chemical City is one of my favorite albums of all time, so I have high hopes for his follow-up. So far, I can say it is good. I will have to give it a few more listens to come to a definitive rating, but so far, the outlook is good.
What else? I'm taking a stats course a few nights a week, but that's not interesting. E3 is coming up, which is the big electronics convention where video game companies unveil what they have in store for the coming year. I have high hopes that Nintendo will show the next Zelda game, but I'm not sure if it will happen or not. Apparently they have a big announcement in store, but there is heavy speculation that it is going to be a new Kid Icarus game. There is also talk of a new Punch-Out!! game for the Wii, which could be cool too. Who knows! I guess I will just have to wait.
Oh, speaking of boxing video games-- did you hear that Mike Tyson is making his video game comeback in Fight Night Round 4? All these years after Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, can you believe it? Let's hope some of this makes it into the game:
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