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The ULTIMATE action movie list

#41 Morgoth

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 11:00 AM

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 01:59 PM

dog soldiers should be there. great action comedy horror flick.

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 08:28 PM

Out For Justice
Die Hard (the original)
Equilibrium
Demolition Man
Predator
Rambo: First Blood
Aliens
Ong-Bak
Eraser
Commando
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Bullitt
LÃ©on (also known as The Professional in the U.S.)
Last Man Standing
Lethal Weapon
Boondock Saints
Once Upon a Time in China
Big Trouble in Little China
Braveheart
The 5th Element
Full Metal Jacket
Shooter
300 (why this wasn't up higher amazes me)
TRANSFORMERS
Shoot Em' Up!
The Rundown
Snatch
Bad Boys 2
Glory
Black Hawk Down
Indiana Jones *any of them* (I'm embarrassed it took any of us this long to put it here )
True Romance
Heat
Long Kiss Goodnight
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Fight Club
The One
The Bourne Trilogy (wtf so low?)
Old Boy (completely twisted, great plot, and plenty of cool fights )
The Last Boy Scout
the Matrix
the good, the bad and the ugly

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 08:34 PM

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 08:37 PM

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 08:38 PM

I'm perplexed at including some of these as actioners... sure, the OT left it wide open, and some of them are movies that have action scenes, but TRUE ROMANCE? HEAT? THE PROFESSIONAL??? these are brilliant movies, but they have maybe two action scenes. FIGHT CLUB is a psychological thriller with periodic scenes of people doing the hitty kicky and some property damage.

To moi, when you're talking action movie, you're talking movie where the plot is a thinly veiled device to move the characters from kicky 'splody to stabby shooty and the setting is just to give the movie cool places for the shit to go down - see SHOOTEMUP, DIE HARD or EQUILIBRIUM. LoTR is a great series of movies, full blown cast of thousands war scenes, etc, ditto BRAVEHEART and GLORY, but that's not the same as RAMBO 3, which is basically 2 hours of Rambo killing people with sharp objects and guns.

If, on other hand, you're talking about action scenes, the list works.

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 08:47 PM

Abyss;306898 said:

I second this.. though that may be somewhat odd seeing I added the Good, the bad and the ugly to the list

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 08:49 PM

Agrees with Abyss about many of the chocies on this list. Therefore I add Nemisis. Best android/cyborg movie since Bladerunner. It has a guy with a canon in his skull

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 09:56 PM

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 09:56 PM

meh. Link was dead :(

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 09:57 PM

crosspost, I still win

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 10:18 PM

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 04:47 AM

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 06:05 AM

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Posted 27 June 2014 - 10:38 PM

THREAD NECROMANCY AS I'M BORED:

Out For Justice
Die Hard (the original)
Equilibrium
Demolition Man
Predator
Rambo: First Blood
Aliens
Ong-Bak
Eraser
Commando
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Bullitt
LÃ©on (also known as The Professional in the U.S.)
Last Man Standing
Lethal Weapon
Boondock Saints
Once Upon a Time in China
Big Trouble in Little China
Braveheart
The 5th Element
Full Metal Jacket
Shooter
300 (why this wasn't up higher amazes me)
TRANSFORMERS
Shoot Em' Up!
The Rundown
Snatch
Bad Boys 2
Glory
Black Hawk Down
Indiana Jones *any of them* (I'm embarrassed it took any of us this long to put it here )
True Romance
Heat
Long Kiss Goodnight
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Fight Club
The One
The Bourne Trilogy (wtf so low?)
Old Boy (completely twisted, great plot, and plenty of cool fights )
The Last Boy Scout
the Matrix
the good, the bad and the ugly
Hardboiled (From before John Woo lost it and Chow Yun Fat hadn't gone... fat)
Ronin
Nemisis (little known completely insane B-action extravaganza with Oliver Gruner)
Death Wish 4 (C'mon, Charles Bronson PEOPLE!!!)
A better tomorrow (1&2 - the epitome of Yun-fat and Woo, greater even than hardboiled IMNSHO)
Dirty Dozen
Desperado
Saving Private Ryan
The Raid 1 & 2 (Indonesian action films)

meh. Link was dead :(

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Posted 28 June 2014 - 01:07 AM

Out For Justice
Die Hard (the original)
Equilibrium
Demolition Man
Predator
Rambo: First Blood
Aliens
Ong-Bak
Eraser
Commando
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Bullitt
Leon (also known as The Professional in the U.S.)
Last Man Standing
Lethal Weapon
Boondock Saints
Once Upon a Time in China
Big Trouble in Little China
Braveheart
The 5th Element
Full Metal Jacket
Shooter
300 (why this wasn't up higher amazes me)
TRANSFORMERS
Shoot Em' Up!
The Rundown
Snatch
Bad Boys 2
Glory
Black Hawk Down
Indiana Jones *any of them* (I'm embarrassed it took any of us this long to put it here )
True Romance
Heat
Long Kiss Goodnight
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Fight Club
The One
The Bourne Trilogy (wtf so low?)
Old Boy (completely twisted, great plot, and plenty of cool fights )
The Last Boy Scout
the Matrix
the good, the bad and the ugly
Hardboiled (From before John Woo lost it and Chow Yun Fat hadn't gone... fat)
Ronin
Nemisis (little known completely insane B-action extravaganza with Oliver Gruner)
Death Wish 4 (C'mon, Charles Bronson PEOPLE!!!)
A better tomorrow (1&2 - the epitome of Yun-fat and Woo, greater even than hardboiled IMNSHO)
Dirty Dozen
Desperado
Saving Private Ryan
The Raid 1 & 2 (Indonesian action films)
The Expendables(manlieness to the max)
Taken

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