Episode 258: "Subway" to GalaxyCon's St. Louis's 1985 Action Movie Triple Threat with Nix Eclips
Like the "Great American Bash" in the late eighties, "I Dig Crazy Flicks's" 1985 Action Movie Triple-Threat Match: Stallone v. Arnie v. The Cannon Group (Dudikoff, Bronson, Norris) continues its tour. It had arrived at GalaxyCon St. Louis on October 12, 2025. CatBusRuss was joined by Nix Eclips of Cinema Shitshow to determine who was the TRUE action hero of the last year where an action film could be violent just for the sake of it.
Arnold "John Matrix" Schwarzenegger left GalaxyCon Des Moines winning his first "1985 Action Movie Triple-Threat Match". No one left ATL Comic Convention's Triple Threat with their hand raised, but it was determined that two of the Cannon Group's heroes fell to Sylvester Stallone and The Governator. (It was also determined that Chuck Norris left unscathed as per the rules of the Internet.)
Saint Louis was a fun environment. They had their own candidates of who was the baddest, the meanest, and the master. CatBus left the city that he has an unspoken rivalry with (Go Cubs Go!) knowing that perhaps "The Last Dragon" Taimak's Converse's should be kissed.
Russ will be heading back to Show-Me State for another edition of this cinematic brawl. To be prepared for the Missouri Comic Con in Springfield, he is looking for other action flicks from 1985 that he may have missed. This led him to continue filling his Letterboxd with Christopher Lambert movies.
"Subway" was sold as such. It was Luc Besson's sophomore feature effort. He would be the director of "Lucy", "The Fifth Element", and "The Professional", so that would lead one to believe that this would be action-packed cinema. What is certain, it fits his Cinema du Look aesthetic.