Action movies, anyone?

[Metalhead]

First, a disclaimer. Please do not link to violent action scenes in this thread. Let’s keep the topic to discussion only.

My favorite action movies include Hard Boiled, The Raid 2, Action Jackson, The Running Man, Crank 2.

Do you love action movies, or do you hate them?

 

[Masked Man]

I like them okay but for me they need to either be somewhat believable and not trite, or if they can't do that, they need to acknowledge their own ridiculousness.

My favorite action movies off the top of my head would be Die Hard, Terminator I and II, Aliens.

 

[AGXStarseed]

Depends on the film for me.

 

[honeytoast]

Hard Boiled is so good. Hong Kong action films from that era are just... *chef kiss*

Agreeing with Masked Man. It just needs to have that oomph, whether it is ludicrous or takes itself seriously.

Crank is one of my favorite action movies. It is very... ridiculous lol.

 

[Crossbreed]

I like them, but refuse to watch rated-R nor TV-MA. That greatly limits my choices.

 

[Dagan]

Did you see that Hard Boiled is back on prime free? Woo said that he used AI to clean up the film and even extend a few scenes, so I'm probably going to watch it for the 37th time, haha.

I should just list the directors of said films, haha. Here's some filmmakers who are/were sometimes only known for stuff outside of strictly action, but when they've done action specifically, it's the best that I've seen:

John Woo
Johnnie To
Jackie Chan
Sammo Hung
Lar Kar Leung
Timo Tahjanto
Gareth Evans
Kim Jee-Woon
Takashi Miike
Albert Pyun
John Dahl
Scott Wiper
Jesse V. Johnson
John Carpenter
Sam Pekinpah
Walter Hill
John Frankenheimer (and his son, Michael Bay)
Patrick Hughes
Wachowski Siblings
Russo Bros.
Paul Greengrass
Steven Spielberg
George Lucas
Stanley Kubrick
William Friedkin
Edgar Wright
Guy Ritchie
Martin Campbell
Guy Hamilton
Christopher McQuarrie
Christopher Nolan
Katheryn Bigelow
Lexi Alexander
Louis Morneau
Antoine Fuqua
Luc Besson
Pierre Morel
Christophe Gans
Louis Leterrier
Chris Nahon
George Miller
Stephen Chow
David Leitch
Chad Stahelski
Ridley Scott
Tony Scott
Peter Yates
Drew Goddard
Justin Lin
Jan De Bont
Renny Harlin
James Cameron
Michael Mann
John McTiernan
Shane Black
Zack Snyder
Timur Bekmambetov
Tarantino and Rodriquez
Paul Verhoeven
Guillermo del Toro
Len Wiseman
Stephen Norrington
Matt Vaughn
Joe Carnahan
Peter Berg

I'm probably forgetting a lot more, but these folks have made films in my dvd collection, at the very least.

 

[Kitsuna]

It also really depends on the movie for me.
I like the genre in general, but I don’t like anything over the top. Tarantino movies are generally a hard pass for me.

 

[Crossbreed]

Tarantino movies are generally a hard pass for me.

I liked his Jackie Brown (1997), however. The article says it is rated R. I must have seen the TV version.

 

[Outdated]

There's a lot of really good productions out there but they're vastly outnumbered by complete crap. A good story well written is paramount but good acting and good cinematography are necessary too.

So many of these movies are the same basic story rewritten again and again with different scenery, little skill and no subtlety. Most of the Marvel movies are just plain sad, the Transformers series was insulting in what it expected people to accept. The Matrix series wasn't great for this reason either.

One of my all time favourites is Van Helsing. I loved XXX too and was proud of Vin Diesel for refusing to do the second one. Aussies don't worship heroes or celebrities so I have no idea who that pathetic fat idiot was in the second one.

The first two Dead Pool movies are amongst my favourites but the last one was a big disappointment.

 

[Dagan]

Truly, I put Tarantino and Rodriguez together on purpose. Separately, they tend to not be held in check as well. I like them better as a team.

Stephen Sommers, yes! I definitely forgot to list him. He did Van Helsing, the first two Brendan Fraser Mummy films and one of my absolute favorites - Deep Rising.

 

[Mary Terry]

I've always liked good westerns, especially the "spaghetti westerns". I have never enjoyed the bang, bang, shoot 'em up and car crash themed action movies. Gratuitous violence is boring.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Most of the violence is stupid or fake, James bond is about it for me rather watch intellectually more challenging plots.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I've always liked good westerns, especially the "spaghetti westerns". I have never enjoyed the bang, bang, shoot 'em up and car crash themed action movies. Gratuitous violence is boring.

Really liked once Upon a time in the west, masterpiece only movie I've watched multiple times.

 

[Rocco]

I have really been enjoying the Lethal Weapon tv series for the last week. Almost done with season 2 at the moment.
Action movies are a mixed bag for me. Sometimes they bore me, other times I very much enjoy them. Depends heavily on which movie it is.

 

[Trophonius]

Love them.

Die Hard is my all time favorite. This movie is the perfect action movie, not a thing should be changed.

 

[Ganeks]

I’d add John Wick 1 to your list.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Love them.

Die Hard is my all time favorite. This movie is the perfect action movie, not a thing should be changed.

Watched a bit found it silly, could not watch the rest, changed channel.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

How about action drama, The Usual suspects, that was a movie. Another master piece.