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Fun Stuff => ENJOY => Topic started by: Speeing on 18 Apr 2006, 13:32
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I'm a huge fan of good action movies. And I thought the rest of the forums could help contribute to a list of well-made, or "must-see" action movies.
I'll just start off with a few...
Equilibrium (just finished watching this movie, damn fine flick)
Boondock Saints
Shaft (Mainly, for Samuel L. Motherfuckng Jackson)
Any suggestions? I'm on spring break, and feel compelled to increase my repitoire of good action movies.
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Boondock Saints
What IS it with people and this sodding film?
The Killer
Hard Boiled
Bullet In The Head
Azumi (simply for having the funniest death ever in it)
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
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I can definitely agree with youe first two suggestions Speeing, although I've never seen the new Shaft. Just the old one.
My own favorites, aside from the two good ones you already threw out there:
-Aliens
-Commando
-Terminator 2
-Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
-Sin City
-Kill Bill Vol. 1
-GoldenEye
More if I think of 'em.
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Boondock Saints
What IS it with people and this sodding film?
A-fucking-men.
Hooray for Aliens.
- Last Man Standing Yojimbo, except without Toshiro Mifune and with a semi trailer's worth of 1920's firearms in place of swords.
- Die Hard Solid engaging stuff, considering its apparent place at the vanguard of 80's action flicks.
- Way of the Gun For those of us who like gunfights with just the slightest hint of realism. Also, damn fine writing and playful employment of tired cliches
- A Better Tomorrow 1/2 #2 primarily for the last 15 minutes...my my my.
- Heat OK, so the characterizations are hit-or-miss. But it's a solid crime epic, and the gunfights are brutal.
- The Wild Bunch still holds record for "most mexicans killed in one movie."
- Red Dawn Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen vs. the combined Soviet and Cuban military machines. Classic!
- The Warriors Not a 'bang-bang' shoot-em-up, but solid fights, fantastic atmosphere, and a solid hit of machismo cheese.
- RoboCop It's fucking RoboCop.
- DeathRace 2000 Not sure if it's the buckets of splattering gore, car designs that would not look out of place as a highschool float design, or Sylvester Stallone's performance (unmatched until Over the Top 13 years later). Whatever it is, it's classic and completely willful 70's camp filmmaking.
- Wasabi Jean Reno reunites with the daughter he thought he never had. A classic tale of Father-Daughter bonding. Oh, and he punches people, causing them to fly 30 feet through the air. Almost forgot about that bit.[/b]
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Shaft (Mainly, for Samuel L. Motherfuckng Jackson)
The new "Shaft". That is one bad movie. The only decent part in it is the fact that Richard Roundtree is in it.
We already had Die Hard, Terminator 2, Aliens, and Way of the Gun
Starship Troopers: bad movie version of a good book, but lots of bang bang.
A Fist Full of Dollars: "My mistake, 4 coffins."
And one that I've read good things about but haven't been able to get a hold of yet: Series 7: The Contenders.
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Starship Troopers: bad movie version of a good book, but lots of bang bang.
Most misunderstood movies of the 1990s. Remember: just about everything Paul Verhoeven makes is deeply satirical. RoboCop? Well he's scab labour, isn't he? Starship Troopers: geez, where to start?
The Bourne Identity was a damn good action film.
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You need some 24 in your diet. Not that it's always about shooting people, but when he does it is awesome. Other than that maybe some Red Scorpion or some Red Dawn or maybe Red Heat, anything with the word red in it. They generally suck enough to be good.
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Boondock Saints
What IS it with people and this sodding film?
A-fucking-men.
Thirded. I have it, and it doesn't suck (though, I bought it because I remembered it being far better than it actually is), but it's just another action film. And, hell, I have a better Irish accent than the American dude.
Just about any Bond film, seriously.
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Predator is probably my favorite action movie of all time.
Though Deathrace 2000 is seconded, because quite frankly, David Carradine is a dude, and I love the way you become the President of America in the future. It's just so damn simple.