Went out last night with a few friends and had a couple of drinks to celebrate the end of summer. While I was driving home, around 2am, my brother texted me that he was having some drinks in his garage and that I should pop by, so I did. He was having some drinks with his baseball team and by 3am most of them had left. My brother and I decided to have one more beer before I left, and he turned on the tv to see if anything was on. First channel he turned to we saw Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin on screen, so we decided to keep on watching, as is the natural reaction to Lee Marvin or Chuck Norris being on your screen, let alone BOTH appearing together.
It was Delta Force, and it was awful, but so awful that it was fecking hilarious. The last half hour or so is that greatest act I've ever seen in a movie, Oscar worthy stuff. People talk about the ending of the Sixth Sense, the Usual Suspects, and even Saving Private Ryan, but the greatest is watching Chuck Norris fecking shit up on his motorcycle. (Spoiler alert) The scene with Chuck riding up on those two jeeps on the runway trying to stop the airliner from lifting off, I feel like it must have defined a generation of movie going experiences. The scene was perfect, with Chuck machine gunning the two rear gunners and then pulling a wheelie and dispatching both jeeps simultaneously with two heat seeking missiles from the rear of his inspector gadget motorcycle; thus rendering the first two kills irrelevant yet no less satisfying. I felt at the end that my life was now complete but felt somewhat hollow that it had taken so long for me to see this masterpiece.
If any of you have made the same mistake as I (that being not knowing that the movie existed), do yourself a favour and watch Delta Force.