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Posted: 10/17/2004 7:40:43 PM EDT
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First Blood was OK, but a bit overboard. Last Man Standing was nothing original. Assassins? Never heard of it. The Rock? 2.75 inch rockets with "guidance chips?" Little balls of VX that would burst if you breathed on them too hard at the beginning of the movie, but that are bouncing down stairs by the end of it? Nahh, suspension of disbelief only goes so far. Untouchables was not much of an action flick. It was more of a crime drama. The Jackal - the one with Bruce Willis? You HAVE to be kidding me! Boondock Saints was great, but too eccentric to be a "best" action flick. |
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Posted: 10/17/2004 7:48:56 PM EDT
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Raiders isn't sci fi, it is an action flick. Pretty good too, I just liked Die Hard better. |
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Posted: 10/17/2004 9:02:10 PM EDT
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The scene where Willis is nearly drug out the window is one that made me squirm in my seat. The best moment in the film and one that makes you hold your breath. Only scene that might compare is the knife fight in Spielbergs Saving Private Ryan, it was hard to watch......
Car chase scenes in Bullitt and French Connection were tense and a little nauseous. For their day they were the best. |
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Posted: 10/17/2004 9:11:53 PM EDT
[#4]
Great thread.
Can't wait to see it again in 3 months. Oh, and Raiders was the best action flick. |
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Posted: 10/17/2004 9:12:46 PM EDT
[#5]
Die Hard was damn good...
The Negotiator Man on Fire And of course, Conan the Barbarian! |
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Posted: 10/17/2004 9:15:05 PM EDT
[#6]
As were alread mentioned:
Ronin Heat. Also a vote (regardless of the fact that it is a war movie) Saving Private Ryan. A few other good flicks: Way of the Gun Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Bravo Two Zero The Wild Geese And, of course--Any James Bond Flick with Sean Connery (Moore was OK, David Niven was funny, Lazenby was marginal, liked Dalton, and Brosnan is somewhere in the middle). AFARR |
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Posted: 10/17/2004 10:47:58 PM EDT
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It is not only the greatest action movie ever made, it is the greatest Christmas movie ever made!
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Posted: 10/17/2004 11:09:28 PM EDT
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Hardboiled |
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Posted: 10/17/2004 11:14:07 PM EDT
[#9]
The best will always be Ronin.
P.S. What the hell was in the case?
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Posted: 10/17/2004 11:18:45 PM EDT
[#10]
Oh my God! Hardboiled was freaking amazing! |
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Posted: 10/17/2004 11:18:53 PM EDT
[#11]
No...First Blood was the best
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Posted: 10/17/2004 11:19:10 PM EDT
[#12]
Its good but not the best, there are a lot of others that I would rather watch like Leathel Weapon 1, The Last Boy Scout, or Cobra. There are loys of better ones then I have listed, these are just a few that I could think of off hand.
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Posted: 10/17/2004 11:24:17 PM EDT
[#13]
Rambo: First Blood 2 was better than Die Hard
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Posted: 10/17/2004 11:25:53 PM EDT
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Hey... FUN FACT: The parking lot where the main entrance to the Nakatomi plaza is the SAME PLACE they filmed "Airheads"
Just a little trivia fact. Oh and as much as I like DH ... For some reason I like DH III just a red c*** hair more. |
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Posted: 10/17/2004 11:27:28 PM EDT
[#15]
Have you seen "First Blood"?>? |
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Posted: 10/17/2004 11:29:31 PM EDT
[#16]
What about Bad Boys with Sean Penn? I dont like Penn that much but that movie was bad ass.
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Posted: 10/17/2004 11:38:59 PM EDT
[#17]
What about Under Seige? Or do you consider it a rip off?
Tommy Lee Jones was an awesome badie in that movie. |
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Posted: 10/17/2004 11:47:43 PM EDT
[#18]
Sean Penn wasnt in Bad Boys... or are we talking about two different movies? I ma thinking of the one with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. |
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Posted: 10/17/2004 11:57:56 PM EDT
[#19]
Kill Bill (volume one) rates up there pretty high.
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Posted: 10/18/2004 12:04:01 AM EDT
[#20]
DrFridge, there was a movie made in the mid-80's with Sean Penn and a few other guys called Bad Boys. Basically Sean Penn is a bad kid, does some stupid stuff and gets put in jail. Its pretty cool his cell mate makes a bomb out of a radio and Penn beats up two guys who are alot older and bigger then him witha pillow case full of full soda cans. I highly recomend it.
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Posted: 10/18/2004 12:07:30 AM EDT
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OK Thanks. I thought I was losing it...well, I am but that is another story
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Posted: 10/18/2004 12:11:17 AM EDT
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Willis was perfect for Die Hard: A detective put in the middle of a bunch of Bad Guys. Nothing goes 100% right (for either side). And Willis, with his trademark irreverence, pulls it off. Bonnie Bedilia is HOT.
Great movie. As far the "Regular guy done good" Action movies goes, this one takes the cake. The heavy bass strings and tympanies playing Christmas music as the bad guys methodically take the building and turn it into a fortress is classic. Die Hard Trivia: The "bad" black geek (Theo) played by Clarence Gilyard also played Chuck Norris' partner in Walker Texas Ranger. He also starred as Tom Cruise' second "Reel" in Top Gun. Alan Rickman (Hans Gruber): This is the role that both introduced and defined him to U.S. Audiences. Too bad we don't see more of him here - (I'd really like to see him play a good guy). He has a very good German accent (Hamburg?), and his his american accent played in the movie had me fooled for a minute as well. Alexander Gudunov ("Karl") died in 1995 of liver failure: he was a member of the Bolshoi Ballet before defecting to the West in 1979, and became an alcoholic (not uncommon for defectors) shortly after leaving ballet for acting. |
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Posted: 10/18/2004 12:13:13 AM EDT
[#23]
Yes, Die Hard is an excellent action movie. True Lies is also very good.
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Posted: 10/18/2004 12:17:52 AM EDT
[#24]
Havent seen Die Hard, I'll borrow it from someone
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Posted: 10/18/2004 12:24:55 AM EDT
[#25]
3 pages and nobodey said "Ho Ho Ho Now I have a machingun." Yall are slippin.
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Posted: 10/18/2004 12:31:32 AM EDT
[#26]
Raiders of the Lost Ark. |
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Posted: 10/18/2004 12:33:23 AM EDT
[#27]
My list in order are:
1. Way of the Gun 2. Heat 3. Die Hard 4. T2 5. Last of the Mohicans 6. Predator It's hard not to factor in genre tho because Predator and T2 are clearly sci-fi but action just as equally. So, in that sense, these are great action movies too... Band of Brothers SPR Gladiator Open Range Braveheart Kirusawa films (Seven Samurai, Ran, etc.) Proof of Life |
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Posted: 10/18/2004 7:59:39 AM EDT
[#28]
No, it wasn't that good
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Posted: 10/18/2004 8:06:14 AM EDT
[#29]
great movie, dunno if it is the 'best' though
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Posted: 10/18/2004 8:06:36 AM EDT
[#30]
"Christmas Vacation" was a better action movie!
(J/K!) Kill Bill I is another great choice. |
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Posted: 10/18/2004 8:39:29 AM EDT
[#31]
other good ones face off, con air, broken arrow, 3000 miles to graceland, half past dead,
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Posted: 10/18/2004 8:47:29 AM EDT
[#32]
HEAT
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Posted: 10/18/2004 9:02:30 AM EDT
[#33]
Raiders of the Lost Ark is probably better.
But now that you mention it, Die Hard is a solid #2. Heat is great, but to me it's more of a drama than action--even though the action that is there is stunning. There aren't too many that even come close to Die Hard. It has all of the elements. And Willis as the wry, sarcastic, tough but not TOO tough American against the Euro-trash certainly makes me smile. |
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Posted: 10/18/2004 9:10:10 AM EDT
[#34]
My #2. I think Die Hard was more fun. Heat was great and better thought out. |
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Posted: 10/18/2004 9:16:07 AM EDT
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HEAT
Ronin Dirty Harry Magnum Force The Getaway (the original) Bring me the Head of Alfrado Garcia Probably a bunch more 70s stuff in the same vein . . . Any other Sam Pecinpah movie that could be classified as an action movie . . . |
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Posted: 10/18/2004 10:04:42 AM EDT
[#36]
I liked the movie HEAT much better than DIE HARD because HEAT seemed more realistic, DIE HARD seems more cheesy, especially DIE HARD II with all the riddles and rymes bull shit.
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Posted: 10/18/2004 10:18:30 AM EDT
[#37]
No But I love the series. I need to pick up the trilogy on DVD.
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Posted: 10/18/2004 11:49:20 AM EDT
[#38]
I think everyone agrees Die Hard II sucked ass. Die Hard III had the riddles - and it was a direct ripoff of Dirty Harry. Viewing the individual film on its own merits - and not tainted by a shitty sequel(s) - what do you find so cheesy about Die Hard? |
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Posted: 10/18/2004 11:55:22 AM EDT
[#39]
Boondock Saints had too many unbelievable scenes. A man jumping off a five story building, lands on a body, and walks away. An "expert" hitman stands 20 feet in front of the 2 "experts" and they shoot at each other with pistols for one minute and the only thing that gets hit is a fellow's thumb. Too unbelievable. |
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Posted: 10/18/2004 11:57:57 AM EDT
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The test is where are they on display in the movie store? Ohh and Pulp Fiction was better than both of the above.
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Posted: 10/18/2004 11:58:46 AM EDT
[#41]
"Heat" and "To Live and Die in LA" get my votes. "Ronin" is better than "Die Hard" also. And why not "Red Dawn"? Not exactly a war movie since the war in it never happened.
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Posted: 10/18/2004 12:02:54 PM EDT
[#42]
I like Heat very much - I just wish they'd lose the sappy love-story thread... 
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Posted: 10/18/2004 2:41:26 PM EDT
[#43]
I think SA just likes Die Hard better because of the prodigous use of his name sake.
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Posted: 10/18/2004 3:02:25 PM EDT
[#44]
For me it would be a toss up between Kill Bill and Die Hard. |
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Posted: 10/18/2004 5:26:50 PM EDT
[#45]
Am I the only one that thought Heat was a piece of crap minus a couple good shooting scenes? Kill Bill was a freaking great movie though. Not sure if it applied to this category though. If so then I have to add Good, Bad, and Ugly and Enter the Dragon as both better films than Die Hard. |
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Posted: 10/18/2004 5:57:44 PM EDT
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Enter the isle of Dr. No had some good martial arts scenes - but like most chop socky flicks, was very formulaic and predictable. The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly - a great movie, but not what I would call "action." Heat was not a piece of crap - how DARE you! This is sacrilege!  .
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Posted: 10/18/2004 9:31:42 PM EDT
[#47]
No, big +1. Heat was too long and too slow. It did have a few good action sequences, but that was it. I don't get the Ronin thing either, that movie sucked. DeNiro hasn't made a good movie since Goodfellas. |
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Posted: 10/18/2004 9:45:23 PM EDT
[#48]
Heat is way to long and dramatic for me to consider it an action.
I like Die Hard, but I think I like Lethal Weapon just as much... |
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Posted: 10/18/2004 9:52:02 PM EDT
[#49]
Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Ronin..
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Posted: 10/18/2004 9:54:47 PM EDT
[#50]
I'd been waiting years for it to come out on DVD and it finally did. Worth the wait. While not the best film ever it does have some great scenes, the car chase being one of them. |
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