Citations:geriaction

English citations of geriaction

Noun: "a genre of action films starring aging actors and actresses, especially ones who were action stars earlier in their careers"

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• 2010, Karen Brooks, "New age laughter lines not very hip ", The Courier-Mail, 3 November 2010:

  Whatever it was, the geriaction flick looks like it might become a permanent fixture as our favourite actors grow old alongside us and compete with the younger heroes for celluloid space.

• 2013, Jeff Jensen, "The movie action hero after Sandy Hook: Is it time for a 'Bullet To The Head'?", Entertainment Weekly, 2 February 2013:

  Perhaps they’ll do better together in September when they team up for a prison break opus entitled Tomb… although I’m already giggling at the headlines that the title might inspire should these aging Geriaction giants take another fall.

• 2013, Matthew Crowe, "Song for Marion: calendar girls with choirs", Spark* (University of Reading), Volume 62, Issue 4, 1 March 2013, page 15:

  There have many movies with much older casts of late; Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Quartet and Amour, along with the “geriaction” movies Bullet to the Head, The Last Stand and A Good Day to Die Hard.

• 2013, Charlie Lyne, "Geriaction heroes and the age of aged movie stars", The Guardian, 30 March 2013:

  Ever since The Expendables grossed $274m worldwide - a figure almost as high as its cast's combined ages - the geriaction subgenre has exploded, making born-again stars out of 1980s icons such as Sylvester Stallone and Mickey Rourke, long thought to have hung up their assault rifles.

• 2013, Feet Banks, "Geriaction takes over the big screen", Pique Newsmagazine (Whistler, British Columbia), 17 October 2013:

  Opening Friday at the Whistler Village 8, Escape Plan is the latest in the "geriaction" genre that's surged lately with flicks like The Last Stand, Bullet to the Head and The Expendables.

• 2013, Mark Kermode, "Escape Plan – review", The Guardian, 20 October 2013:

  It's nuts and bolts geriaction tropes ahoy as the screen's leading muscular oldies team up to break out of the world's most unbreakoutofable prison.