re: Movie/TV Board Best Action Movie of All-Time CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH - Voting Closed

Gotta go with T2.

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As incredibly awesome as Die Hard is, and it's an almost perfect action movie, T2 is just....different. There was nothing really like it and it took the genre beyond what was previously possible IMO. Just the story, the characters, the acting, the action, the SFX, everything was just incredible and hit on basically all notes.

There's maybe an arguable slight downgrade for not being original (since it's a sequel), but it reinvents itself and is completely different from the original in almost every way (since the original is basically a horror movie anyway). And turning Arnold into a hero instead of the big bad was brilliant.

Ultimately, these two most likely deserve to be in the final, and it sort of just comes down to personal preference for me. And while I absolutely love both movies, I like T2 more I think, so it gets my vote.

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All this. If Die Hard wins, I get it, it's a deserving winner, but T2 is just more enjoyable to watch for me. It's story is getting hated on for being one note but let's not act like it's going up against Schindlers List or something But it's got a great hero (made even better becasue of T1), a great villain, better action sequences, better story, awesome score, and iconic characters. Maybe a few slight bonus points for having the best female action hero/character of all time imo. I'm sorry but I loved me some Linda Hamilton in T2. I know the Sci-Fi element swings T2 in my favor as well because I just love that genre and odds are if you ask me "hey do you want to watch an action movie or an action movie with a little bit of sci-fi mixed in?" the majority of the times I'm going to say give me that sci-fi mixed in.

Clearly Predator is the boards honorable mention. I mean one dude started a Predator thread saying this tournament is crap because Predator isn't in the finals. It's almost like the matchup was open for almost a week and he didn't even vote in it.

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As always, thanks for doing this and staying on top of it.

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Got to do something to try and keep this place from becoming the Poli Board.

I think best movie villains might be a good tournament to do at some point. Could be kind of cool to have matchups like Oddjob from Goldfinger vs Sid from Toy Story.

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Raiders of the lost Ark
Die Hard
Predator
T2



Honestly, I think we missed on the Matrix, but it went against Die Hard too early. It SHOULD have been in the Final 4 over everything except for Predator and Die Hard.

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I think The Matrix definitely went too early, but it had a tough seeding. Trying to think of what my perfect final four would have been. Something like:

The Matrix
T2
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The 4th pick is tough. Since it was fair game, I might have Tombstone in there. Maybe Goldfinger or Kill Bill.

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you people chose very wrong the last few rounds in many ways and i hate that we're here.

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This.

Die Hard

Die Hard

1. Die Hard
vs
1. Terminator 2: Judgement Day

1. Die Hard
vs
1. Terminator 2: Judgement Day

1. Die Hard
vs
1. Terminator 2: Judgement Day



I in no way think this is the best. Just the best of the two that made it

DieHard

T2