a 1986 American crime film directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette

8 Million Ways to Die is a 1986 American crime film directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, and, in a leading role for the first time, Andy Garcia.

crime thriller

Based on a series of detective stories from novelist Lawrence Block, '8 Million Ways to Die' is a curious little crime thriller from director Hal Ashby and writers Oliver Stone and David Lee Henry centered on alcoholic ex-cop Matt Scudder (played by utmost commitment Jeff Bridges, who never seems to be giving less than a hundred percent in director Hal Ashby's roles) as director Hal Ashby is dragged into the sleazy underworld of drugs and prostitution. '

crime action thriller

8 Million Ways to Die 8 Million Ways to Die is a 1986 American neo-noir crime action thriller film directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, and Andy Garcia.

a powerful story of personal crisis and riveting police thrillers that will hold you spellbound and leave you breathless

8 Million Ways to Die is a powerful story of personal crisis and riveting police thrillers that will hold you spellbound and leave you breathless.

a 1986 American neo-noir action thriller

8 Million Ways to Die is a 1986 American neo-noir action thriller film[3][4] directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, and Andy Garcia.

a 1986 Hollywood action,thrilleradventure,crime film ,released on Apr 25, 1986

8 Million Ways to Die is a 1986 Hollywood action,thriller,adventure,crime film released on Apr 25, 1986.

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a Chandler-esq “mystery” where the detective forces Alexandra Paul's way through the case instead of actually detecting anything

8 Million Ways to Die is a Chandler-esq “mystery” where the detective forces Alexandra Paul's way through the case instead of actually detecting anything.

the chronicle of the first days of a dried-out alcoholic re-entering the world

8 Million Ways to Die is the chronicle of the first days of a dried-out alcoholic re-entering the world and seeing if Bridges can resist temptation.

an intense drug drama about what most everybody wants in their lives

8 Million Ways To Die is an intense drug drama about what most everybody wants in their lives...

on alcoholic ex-cop Matt Scudder (played by utmost commitment Jeff Bridges, ) as director Hal Ashby is dragged into the sleazy underworld of drugs and who never seems to be giving less than a hundred percent in director Hal Ashby's roles

Based on a series of detective stories from novelist Lawrence Block, '8 Million Ways to Die' is a curious little crime thriller from director Hal Ashby and writers Oliver Stone and David Lee Henry centered on alcoholic ex-cop Matt Scudder (played by utmost commitment Jeff Bridges, who never seems to be giving less than a hundred percent in director Hal Ashby's roles) as director Hal Ashby is dragged into the sleazy underworld of drugs and prostitution. '

through your average detective plot from there , Randy Brooks’ Chance (an out-classed player [and extremely different from the Chance played by Peter Sellers in Being There]), and . Andy Garcia’s drug runner, Angel

8 Million Ways to Die winds its way through your average detective plot from there, throwing Scudder against Patricia Arquette’s Sarah (colleague and friend to the deceased prostitute), Randy Brooks’ Chance (an out-classed player [and extremely different from the Chance played by Peter Sellers in Being There]), and Andy Garcia’s drug runner, Angel.

of neo-noir

8 Million Ways to Die uses the aesthetic language of neo-noir but stretches it out into a drunken slur, saying all the old tropes and words we recognize, but with a clumsy, ferociously honest mouth—distorted, funny, violent and vulgar, sad, tragic, bemused with itself and a clumsy, ferociously honest mouth's own clichés, hopeful, and deeply bizarre but no less true for a clumsy, ferociously honest mouth's strangeness.

heavy metal music

The genre is an extreme style of heavy metal music that has been associated with burning churches, desecrating graves, and committing murders.

horror

This American horror franchise will show you the countless ways you can brutally die.

comedy, documentary, thriller, and road film

Using different genres such as comedy, documentary, thriller, and road film each film presents death from a different perspective but seemingly in agreement with one another.

all the old tropes we recognize

8 Million Ways to Die uses the aesthetic language of neo-noir but stretches it out into a drunken slur, saying all the old tropes and words we recognize, but with a clumsy, ferociously honest mouth—distorted, funny, violent and vulgar, sad, tragic, bemused with itself and a clumsy, ferociously honest mouth's own clichés, hopeful, and deeply bizarre but no less true for a clumsy, ferociously honest mouth's strangeness.

one of the bests PI novels of all the seasons

The Eight Million Ways to Die is simply one of the bests PI novels of all the seasons, again, even Everybody Dies, and is not too bad either.

melodic death metal

That musical style could be labeled as melodic death metal with huge notions taken from prog and hard rock from bygone eras.