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What's your favorite action movie ever?
I have to say that Predator, Aliens, and any of the Die Hards are mine...I just can't choose.
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Tekhead
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Starship Troopers.
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scalliano
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I would say The Matrix Trilogy, but T2, the aforementioned Die Hard Trilogy and Alien films (except Alien3) are all pretty close seconds.
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The Arena knows no gender, colour or creed, only skill.
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True Lies and Thunderball.
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dna
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Raiders of the Lost Ark would have to be up there. Aliens...
I'm sure there's some more...
Ah - I know, anything with Yahoo Serious in it.
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I'm not gonna say anything about jurassic park.
i would say
predator
alien2
the matrix
last action hero
the delta force
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dna
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Delta Force? With Chuck Norris?  Dakmn smileys --->  |
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And now to cynically criticize your opinions, hehe...
Predator was pretty good, though Predator 2 was horrid.
Alien was great, Aliens was just as good (if not a tinge less interesting), while Aliens 3 and Resurrection sucked.
The Die Hard series is good for what it is, I suppose... Mindless killing, cursing, and explosions.
Starship Troopers was quite entertaining, though did not have near the amount of depth that the book possessed. I haven't seem the sequel yet, though I doubt it's any good, as it was one of those straight-to-video releases.
The Matrix Trilogy, nah. The Matrix was great, and the Animatrix yeilded a few gems, but the sequels were not too great by comparison.
True Lies was quite entertaining.
I've never seen, or heard of, Thunderballs.
Indiana Jones in general was okay. Harrison Ford is usually pretty entertaining though. (Blade Runner anyone?)
The Lost World was good, better than the first film, but III was such a god-awful piece of trash.
Last Action Hero was interesting.
Delta Force has never been viewed by these eyes.
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the Animatrix yeilded a few gems IMHO, The Animatrix only yielded some good eye candy. The stories I could have taken or left. But yeah, Square... The movie production arm of Square/Whatever it is now rocks. |
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omg , forgot the best 1 of all
MAD MAX trilogie
it was in my eyes the first and the best of a new style o films , ( it also futures a boomstick )
about the delta force ( yes with that texas ranger dude )
a plain has been taken over by some moslim extremists ( yes the idea was the before Bin-laden ) and is flown over to israel and the delta force has to come back in action and get the hostages back to safety
( note somewhere in the movie 1 of the terrorists says ,
"1 day i will drive a tuck filled with dynamite up to the white house and detonate it "
yes , Bin-ladin wasnt the first guy with this plan )
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The Mad Max trilogy was pretty good, though hardly the best of the post apocalyptical genre. I always liked Waterworld quite a bit, despite everyone else in the world hating it for some unkown reason  Some really good action movies however, are: Ninja Scroll Terminator 2 (agreed, even if the first one was quite campy and the third just blew big time) Equilibrium (despite being a rip-off of every other dystopia one could think of, and then not even following through with it's own philosophy very well) Darkman They Live ...There are obviously others, but they fit into other categories better than they do "action"... |
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The Mad Max trilogy was pretty good, though hardly the best of the post apocalyptical genre. I always liked Waterworld quite a bit, despite everyone else in the world hating it for some unkown reason I liked it too, but Waterworld is the Daikatana of the movie industry. It was touted as THE BEST MOVIE EVAR!! and was really just average. And I agree with the addition of T2 to this list. Awesome movie.  |
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mad max had rape , fast cars , ugly ways to die and a boomstick . mad max was aso the movie that brought mel gibson to the top and futured the v8 interceptor with 600hp heightened back and the sweetest turbo over . ( if 2f2f would only future things like that  ) I wanna have suck a turbo on my car to only a bit bigger like this  waterworld was cool for those 4 machineguns gunner who blew up his 1 teammate because he couldnt see . |
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A very, very small shred of intelligence. They were all big and bad until some scientist pulled out a slide whistle The Pteranodon sequence was lame and the Spinosaurus was not that great of an idea either, I thought. Of course, I felt the plot in general was lacking big time. |
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Equilibrium (despite being a rip-off of every other dystopia one could think of, and then not even following through with it's own philosophy very well) Equilibrium is to 1984 as I, Robot is to Asimov's original. A decent enough flick, granted, but a butchered cliche. Starship Troopers would have to be my fav. Can't think of any real action flicks that have the plot to keep me interested. More a fan of movies like Memento, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, etc.. |
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"Who says a chainsaw isn't a ranged weapon?"
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Snatch was just a butchered, dumbed-down version of Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels made for the American audience. With the exception of Brad Pitt's Pikey portrayal, it was unimpressive. Guy Ritchie, to me, was a one hit wonder. Of course, you can't expect much out of someone who would marry Madonna (yuck!). In that respect, I'd rather choose a Tarantino flick.
Memento was quite a well done film though. Not action, per say, but still great. Following was good too.
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>while Aliens 3 and Resurrection sucked.
While I won't argue Ressurection was a mess, watch the extended version of Alien3 on the Quadrilogy (or however its spelled). So many important, good scenes were cut out of the theatrical cut (or the one you've seen on VHS/DVD up until early this year). Alien3 is a solid film, though can't compare to the first two.
My favorite action films:
Dead or Alive
Predator
T2: Judgement Day
Kill Bill volume1
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I tend to prefer action movies over others for some reason... don't ask, I dunno.
And I guess what one would actually consider an 'action' movie... I haven't read any of the posts at all, so I'm just going to post.
My favorites are:
The Jackal
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Saving Private Ryan
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