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July 2009

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Top Five Action Movies

5 - Shoot 'Em Up
4 - Transporter
3 - Die Hard
2 - Die Hard With a Vengeance
1 - Terminator 2: Judgment Day




*Note: I excluded all films that did not feel like your 'basic' action movie, being that they belonged to a more appropriate genre, or did not center on guns/explosions/fights. [examples: Kill Bill (because it's really a Kung-Fu Movie), Blade (because it's a super-hero movie), Tombstone (because it's a western), Indiana Jones (pulp), Star Wars (StarWars), or The Matrix (cyberpunk)] Basically it's non-Kung-Fu, Non-Hong-Kong, non-s-f, non-Sword and Sorcery, non-western, non-pulp fiction movies only.
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Notes, alphabetically:

A. Based on your note, you should be excluding T2, because it's Science Fiction up the yin yang.

B. I am amazed, astounded even, at how little you and I intersect on this one.

My Only Defense

I excluded The Matrix because it feels like a movie about philosophy and s-f, with some action scenes woven into it very well. I include T2 because it's an Action Movie with some eloquent s-f and human elements woven in. The Matrix presents itself as a plot movie with kick-ass kung-fu. T2 was made and marketed as an action movie that just happened to have a real heart to it.
Hard Boiled
Hell yes! Back when Woo was still making true kickass movies :)
I love you guys, i really do. But i can't put Hard Boiled on the top five. I mean, they go out of their way to let Tequila shoot a billion bullets out of two .45s at the beginning of the movie. I would be fine if they just forgot to throw in some 're-loading shots' due to laziness. But they made it a goal to force-feed me ignorance. And...c'mon! He's rescued by a baby he's carrying around like a football because it pee's a fire out on his leg! And what about that scene that was almost cool, where he and Mad Dog stop their fight to let another two dozen of the generic-medical-ward extras run away, only to have them gunned down by the yuppie badguy! No. I like Hard Boiled. I really do. (The birdhouse shootout is still one of the greatest miscellaneous fight scenes of all time, with the flour! Oh Man!) I just liked it better when they did it a second time with some self awareness (Shoot 'Em Up).

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