List your favorites!
The very first that comes to my head that's awesome is Mission Impossible. I haven't liked any of the sequels, but the first one makes up for all of them being sucky.
Action Movies
List your favorites!
The very first that comes to my head that's awesome is Mission Impossible. I haven't liked any of the sequels, but the first one makes up for all of them being sucky.
Action movies...
Rambo!
crap. I'm totally blanking right now.
The Die Hard movies.. Cuz Bruce Willis is hawt.
The Notebook
Action is one of those difficult to define genres because these days you can pretty much throw half the films out there as action. I'll stick to the ones that I usually go to for action, which are generally seperated from superhero movies (Batman etc), toy-nostalgia movies (Transformers etc), thrillers (Bourne etc), major Sci-Fi / Fantasy (Star Wars/Trek, Lord of the Rings) and low-explosions, heavy drama (Elite Squad).
Basically narrowing it down to "heroes go around and shoot things and make one liners on occasion"
Demolition Man
True Lies
Terminator 2
Aliens
Taken
Hot Fuzz
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
Terminator 2 is, to this day, the greatest action movie ever made.
Now I want you all to stop and think for a second that there are teenagers in the world who wouldn't believe James Cameron made an action movie that good because he's done absolutely nothing of value since they were born.
Terminator 2 does kick a lot of ass, but the original is also pretty sweet too. Wow...I kinda forgot other Terminator movies existed after T2...man, that franchise took a massive turn around.
Dredd
Legend of the Drunken Master. (Drunken Kung Fu is easily my favorite style to learn and fight with, and Jackies performance here is just AMAZING)
Die Hard
Ip Man
Tai Chi Zero
Noticing a trend yet?
Eyyyyyyyyyyyyy
There are many good "Action" movies in the world, so it depends on which sub-genre of action you want to talk about.
Any and all.
Too broad. That's like posting a thread saying "what are your favorite objects?"Originally Posted by Shorty
That's possibly the worst simile I've seen in a while. If your not sure why it's a matter of scale.Too broad. That's like posting a thread saying "what are your favorite objects?"
I find it hard to believe that what are your favorite action movies is too broad a question unless you're just being deliberately difficult.
I forgive you; that's because you don't understand the depth of my love for action movies.
If you want a less hyperbolic simile, it's like asking a professional wine connoisseur what their favorite drink is. It's a complicated answer, and the favorite depends on what you're trying to accompany and the specific mood you wish to invoke. Even a less experienced wine drinker might have a favorite red wine and a favorite white wine, and they have nothing in common other than that they are wines.
Everything with Arnold Schwarzenegger. At least a lot of his stuff. Specifically the Terminator movies, Total Recall, Running Man, and Predator.
You're just being pedantic. I don't care how much of a connoisseur someone thinks they are, if you can't at least rattle off a few different answers for the "specific moods you want to invoke" then you're just acting like a pretentious nozzle for the sake of pretending you're better than everyone else on some topic. It's not a hard question and no one is limiting you to one answer. Stop acting like this is some grand, impossible task because it only is in your head it would seem.
Robocop!
Flashpoint, anything with Donnie Yen.
Air Force 1.
And those Nick Cage classics, Face Off, Con Air, etc.
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