re: Best action movie of all time....

Posted by HottyToddy7

Member since Sep 2010

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Posted on 3/20/15 at 9:49 am to StarkRebel

Are war movies action movies? If they are I love

We were soldiers
Saving Private Ryan
300
Patriot
Braveheart

Posted by constant cough

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Posted on 3/20/15 at 9:53 am to elprez00

quote:
See, First Blood I never put in my pantheon. First Blood is a serious film. First Blood Part II is an action movie.

Right, First Blood is a drama and a thriller that has some action in it but its not an action movie.

The correct answer is of course as has been stated throughout the thread, Die Hard.

Posted by Ace Midnight

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Posted on 3/20/15 at 9:54 am to HottyToddy7

quote:
Are war movies action movies?

I don't think so - separate genre and some overlap with "Epics".

Posted by CocomoLSU

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Posted on 3/20/15 at 9:56 am to Ace Midnight

I feel like 300 could easily be classified as an "action movie."

And it's a fricking great one.

Posted by Henry Jones Jr

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Posted on 3/20/15 at 10:01 am to ScottFowler

quote:
Raiders

Love me some Raiders obviously. But my favorite Indiana Jones movie is The Last Crusade.

Posted by Ace Midnight

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Posted on 3/20/15 at 10:04 am to CocomoLSU

quote:
I feel like 300 could easily be classified as an "action movie."

Maybe - probably more likely to be a "war movie" - and visually stunning, if historically laughable.

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Posted by Hu_Flung_Pu

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Posted on 3/20/15 at 10:06 am to Ace Midnight

300
predator
t2
die hard
pretty much all Arnold

Posted by LSUTygerFan

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Posted on 3/20/15 at 10:18 am to dead money

Die Hard

Posted by REG861

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Posted on 3/20/15 at 10:54 am to dead money

Die hard

Oh wait that's the best Christmas movie

Posted by elprez00

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Posted on 3/20/15 at 11:03 am to Ace Midnight

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and visually stunning, if historically laughable.

Anyone watching 300 for a history lesson deserves to be laughed at.

Posted by Ace Midnight

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Posted on 3/20/15 at 12:02 pm to elprez00

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Anyone watching 300 for a history lesson deserves to be laughed at.

And I enjoyed the film - I don't rank it as "great" but it borders on it at times.

My problem is the whole "what might have been" dilemma -

Gates of Fire - a fantastic historical novel by Stephen Pressfield (comparable to Killer Angels for Gettysburg) - was optioned for film. Michael Mann was set to direct. Bruce Willis AND George Clooney were set to star, there was some discussion over who would play Leonidas (probably Willis) and who would play Xerxes (probably Clooney) - but they didn't get everything wrapped up and Michael Mann made that terrible Miami Vice film, instead.

THAT would have been a Thermopylae film really worth watching, IMHO.

This post was edited on 3/20/15 at 12:09 pm

Posted by ShamelessPel

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Member since Apr 2013

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Posted on 3/20/15 at 12:06 pm to Ace Midnight

Unleashed

The action in this movie has no bounds. Jet Li literally grabs a dude by his head and smashes his face into the ground multiple times in the first fight scene. I marked out pretty hard.

This post was edited on 3/20/15 at 12:11 pm