Decks wrote:Not mutually exclusive! Or if it is, then Predator is a scifi film. Straight from the "A History of Violence" link: "Now, The French Connection is a very important action movie. Gene Hackman’s Popeye Doyle is the model for any number of desperate, overdriven movie cops in the years that followed. The movie’s harrowing car/subway train chase was maybe the best chase ever filmed for a while, and it helped show what you could do with that sort of scene. And the movie won the Best Picture Oscar; to this day, it’s one of the few action movies ever to get serious Oscar consideration." [emphasis added] |
What's the best action film ever made? • Page 3
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Decks wrote:
Who made that outrageous claim?!
Enter the Dragon is not shit.
Edit: brokenkey did
Wrong.
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dmj 1,081 posts
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Registered 17 years ago@GarlVinland A superhero list'll be interesting. The articles led me to hunt down (well, search Netflix for) the most recent Universal Soldier movies, which I'd dismissed as total crap. Turns out they're both solid B-movies. -
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Proof below.
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Registered 12 years agosmoothpete wrote:
After years of seeing interminable, incomprehensible super-spinny epileptic camera CGI-laser-beam Marvel action sequences I found the opening action scene from Captain Philips (where the pirates approach the boat) to have more tension and peril than any I had seen in years. It's not even an action film and the scene is basically a boat approaching another boat fairly slowly. It was gripping.
brokenkey wrote:
Absolutely yes
Are we to conclude that live action/non CGI films make the best action movies?
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smoothpete 37,743 posts
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Registered 17 years agoDo we consider Leon to be an action movie?
Leon. -
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Registered 6 years agoUncleLou wrote:
I would say calling it an action film does it a bit of a disservice.
Decks wrote:
Not mutually exclusive! Or if it is, then Predator is a scifi film.
I would go with "Crime Thriller"
Straight from the "A History of Violence" link:
"Now, The French Connection is a very important action movie. Gene Hackman’s Popeye Doyle is the model for any number of desperate, overdriven movie cops in the years that followed. The movie’s harrowing car/subway train chase was maybe the best chase ever filmed for a while, and it helped show what you could do with that sort of scene. And the movie won the Best Picture Oscar; to this day, it’s one of the few action movies ever to get serious Oscar consideration."
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Registered 20 years agoUncleLou wrote:
Decks wrote:
Who made that outrageous claim?!
Enter the Dragon is not shit.
Edit: brokenkey did
Wrong.
Your memory is false.
Or this bit, which is Russian Terminator remade
https://youtu.be/zBsP8ch_-Tg?t=1m7s
Or this bit where he throws his bottles away like that soldier falling over in Batman:
https://media.giphy.com/media/xUOwGhQFCSR94PgjrW/giphy.gif
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Registered 6 years agoOk but you need put it into context of when it was made and what other martial arts film were like at the time. Plus watching Bruce Lee fight will never stop being amazing. -
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Registered 14 years agoTough one, do films like The Fifth Element, Kill Bill or The Matrix count?
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Registered 17 years agoThe Matrix definitely counts and should be on the list -
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Registered 15 years agoDecks wrote:
It was actually amazing in 3D as well.
Dredd is probably the best recent action film for me. -
RoboCop.
The answer works for anything. Best comedy, best action, best drama.
It's always RoboCop. -
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Registered 17 years agoDenzel's Equaliser for me. Wasn't expecting much but was action filth.
Honourable mention of San Andreas. I haven't laughed at the absurdity of action scenes crammed together in a good while. Was just missing sharks in the water at the end (why else would he cut his leg and bleed in to the water?) . -
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Registered 10 years agoThe best one in the last few years is probably 'The Raid 2'.
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Registered 18 years agoDie Hard
Aliens
Either T1 or 2. Probably 2 as a pure action film, although I prefer 1.
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Predator or Terminator 2. -
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Registered 13 years agoQotSAfan wrote:
Commando is great. Village People baddie and great one liners 'let off some steam Bennett', 'please do not disturb my friend, he's dead tired'.
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Registered 15 years agoI'd say Terminator 2, but since everyone else seems to think so as well, I'll say True Lies just to be different. -
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SF could never be the best because the Mortal Kombat movie would kick its ass. Christopher Lambert as the god of thunder, stroke of genius. -
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Registered 13 years agoDredd was indeed great as recent films go, as is Enter the Dragon is for 70's flicks- brokenkey is obviously a deluded noob!
I can't believe all this Terminator 2 love though, the original is a thing of awesomeness and ropey 80's effects. Which *clearly* makes it MORE awesome.
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T2 is like the vehicular equivalent of a Jackie Chan movie, the scale of some of the stunts is insane. I'm thinking flying a helicopter under an overpass. -
T1 is super awesome and may be the second on my list, but T2 knows no match -
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Registered 5 years agoIt's got to be Predator absolutely brilliant film. Honourable mentions to newer films are Dredd and thought Equaliser with Denzel was superb. -
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Registered 20 years agoT2 is just a series of CGI and stunts loosely linked together, especially the way I watch it these days. I'll always have a lot of love for the way T1 did it with the effects of the day, but then I've always loved the creature features.
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Best western? I suppose he is kind of like a sheriff though...
The answer works for anything. Best comedy, best action, best drama.
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Best chick-flick?
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