Netflix has Broken Arrow on instaview, and I’m remembering how much I love it.

• You have Travolta after his career picked up, but before he tipped over and went bugfuck nuts. *Right* before, actually. His performance is stylized, but I (just) still buy that he’s playing a character, not just some louder version of himself.
• You have Christian Slater after he grew past his baby face, was still young enough to be sexy, but before he turned into a clone of Jack Nicholson.
• His chemistry with Samantha Mathis is almost as good as it was in Pump Up The Volume.
• “What does a suspicious truck look like?” Oh, the innocence of the time, when reporting suspicious activity was only something wackaloons did.
• They’re worried about leaks coming from the hobbyist press. No internet, no bloggers, no ability to arrest folks on the grounds of national security. Seems like such a simple time.
• Also, humvees were only something you saw in the military.
• And Hale’s from Trenton, which always makes me smile.
• The soundtrack really kicks ass. It was my default for long distance driving in college, and my first intro to Hans Zimmer. (King of the bombast though he may be sometimes.)
• The cell phones are so big!
• Endangered dirt!
• Shooting at nukes is bad. :)
• Out thinking the bad guy is good, but you should really wait until *after* you’ve pulled your save before telling him, y’know?
• It’s an action movie, yeah, but the real plot is a cat and mouse / move and countermove game between Deakins and Hale. The rest is just nifty set dressing.
• Though if you view the movie though slash goggles, it’s one very big, messy break up fight.
• No, really. The soundtrack is just that damn good.
• Hale really does like smashing bad guy’s faces into things.
• And the end credits. Yup, one hell of a fun, macho movie.