The Batman movies have had an interesting relationship to music from Adam West dancing the Batusi, to the original Tim Burton movie’s soundtrack being done completely by Prince to, the coup de grace, Seal’s “Kiss from a Rose” from Batman Forever.  Then there’s also the amazing scores by Danny Elfman and Hans Zimmer.  Check out all these and more below.

“Partyman” by Prince

“Batdance” by Prince

Batman (60′s) dances the Batusi

“Batman Theme” by Danny Elfman

Batman (60′s) Theme Song

“Kiss from a Rose” by Seal

“The Dark Knight Theme” by Hans Zimmer

This week the trio of Zach, Brian and Joe talk about Marvel Motion Comics, the most amazingly bad Nicolas Cage performance of all time, pitch ideas for Real Steel and Expendables 2 and talk about one of the most beloved movies of all time, Top Gun, in honor of it’s 25th anniversary.

• Show and Tell: Joe watched Hereafter and most of the Marvel motion comics on Netflix, Brian watched the Community season finale and The Kids Are All Right and Zach watched Priest, Deadfall, Zapped!, In the Line of Fire and Piranha 3D.
• News: Trailers for Real Steel and Fright Night, Expendables 2 plot details, Barry Sonnenfeld and Grant Morrison making Dinosaurs vs. Aliens and “Safety Not Guaranteed” meme becoming an indie comedy.  Also, there’s finally some good stuff coming out on DVD and Blu Ray this week in the New Release Round Up.
• Top Gun: It’s the 25th anniversary of Top Gun this week so the guys talk about some of their favorite scenes, the amazing soundtrack, the imitators and more.

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It’s the 25th Anniversary of Top Gun today and to celebrate we’re kicking off a new feature here at Everything Action where we’ll highlight the best of movie music, music videos based on movies, movie scores, etc.  Top Gun is beloved by everyone for many reasons, but one of the big ones is it’s fantastic soundtrack.  I’m sure you’ve heard the Top Gun Anthem, Highway to the Danger Zone and Take My Breath Away, but have you seen the actual music videos for them?  Two of them are just bizarre and one is perhaps one of the greatest music videos of all time.  I’ll let you decide which is which.

Highway to the Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins

Take My Breath Away by Berlin

Top Gun Anthem by Harold Faltermayer and Steve Stevens

Bonus: There’s no music video for it but you can’t talk Top Gun music without “You’ve Lost that Loving Feeling”

Name: Vincent Hanna

Occupation: Lieutenant in Robbery/Violent Crimes division of LAPD

Family: Justine Hanna (wife), Lauren Gustafson (Step Daughter)

Allies: Sgt. Drucker, Det. Cassals, Det. Bosko

Enemies: Neal McCauley, Chris Shiherlis, Michael Cheritto, Donald Breedan, Trejo

Weapon(s) of Choice: Colt M1991, FN FNC-80

Body Count: 2

Memorable Quote:  ”You know, we are sitting here, you and I, like a couple of regular fellas. You do what you do, and I do what I gotta do. And now that we’ve been face to face, if I’m there and I gotta put you away, I won’t like it. But I tell you, if it’s between you and some poor bastard whose wife you’re gonna turn into a widow, brother, you are going down. ”

See Vincent in Action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r9dEio3abk

Making life saving inventions out of household materials, MacGruber! One of the only saving graces of recent SNL (besides the Lonely Island boys) has been Will Forte’s MacGyver parody, MacGruber.  Each sketch sees MacGruber and friends in some sort of control room with 30 seconds left before an explosion.  MacGruber then usually gets sidetracked or freaks out and the explosion goes off.  Apparently this is enough for a feature film, as announced by The Hollywood Reporter today.  Jorma Taccone, who wrote most of the sketches, is going to direct and Lorne Michaels will, of course, produce.  Will Forte will play the title character and fellow SNLer Kristin Wiig will co-star.  Also in talks to come on board are Ryan Phillippe and Val Kilmer.  The plot would revolve around the Army recruiting a retired MacGruber to come back and battle one of his archenemies.  Phillippe would play an Army colonel who is teamed up with MacGruber and Kilmer would play the villain, Cunth, who killed MacGruber’s wife.  The sketches are great but I’m a little worried because A) they work perfectly in the 30 second time frame and B) Wayne’s World is the only good movie to be based on an SNL sketch.  In case you haven’t seen the sketches (and consequently been confused this whole article) then take a look below: