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Your Favorite Action Movies

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  • #32
    Mr. FoggPatches
    Closed Accounts Posts: 681 ✭✭✭Mr. FoggPatches


    Jason and the argonauts was the film that resonated with me when I was a kid.
    It had everything.
    Gods check
    Monsters check
    Swords check
    Some kind of beast made of sand check
    Epic voyages check
    A golden fleece check

    And the greatest thing known to man - skeletons that grew from teeth that could fight like mofos and were incredibly tough to kill.

    What a film!


  • #33
    pumpkin4life
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭pumpkin4life


    Skylinehead wrote: »
    Aliens.



  • #34
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,106 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »
    Jason and the argonauts was the film that resonated with me when I was a kid.
    It had everything.
    Gods check
    Monsters check
    Swords check
    Some kind of beast made of sand check
    Epic voyages check
    A golden fleece check

    And the greatest thing known to man - skeletons that grew from teeth that could fight like mofos and were incredibly tough to kill.

    What a film!

    It was The Princess Bride for me. One of the greatest films ever made.

    Written by the same guy who made A Bridge too Far. (Does that count as an action film? I guess it is, just not the one man army type).


  • #35
    Mr. FoggPatches
    Closed Accounts Posts: 681 ✭✭✭Mr. FoggPatches


    Grayson wrote: »
    It was The Princess Bride for me. One of the greatest films ever made.

    Written by the same guy who made A Bridge too Far. (Does that count as an action film? I guess it is, just not the one man army type).

    A top, top film.
    I didn't want to watch it because it was Disney, but was pleasantly surprised.


  • #36
    granturismo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,888 ✭✭✭granturismo


    Gladiator,

    Man on Fire.


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  • #37
    Buckfast W
    Registered Users Posts: 571 ✭✭✭Buckfast W


    Shoot em Up (so over the top)
    Face Off
    Pacific Rim

    And pretty much most films mentioned on this thread.


  • #38
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users Posts: 28,392 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    The Raid.


  • #39
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Agree with most of the above. Would add:

    • Rambo (Originals. Shame on you all for not adding this! :p)
    • Mad Max (Originals)
    • 300 (different to most, I enjoyed it)

    For comedy factor, I for some reason really enjoyed
    • Guardians of the Galaxy
    • The Expendables.


  • #40
    mackeire
    Registered Users Posts: 2,280 ✭✭✭mackeire


    Tango and cash


  • #41
    Beanntraigheach
    Registered Users Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Beanntraigheach


    I cannot believe nobody has mentioned this masterpiece:



    Solid gold!


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  • #42
    podgemonster
    Registered Users Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭podgemonster


    Fúckin love the Die Hard, has everything.

    Suave Sophisticated Villain
    Powerful Dangerous Henchmen
    Wise-Cracking every man hero with no shoes
    Arséhole FEDS
    Buddy Cop on the radio

    And my fave, the incompetent Deputy Chief of Police:

    Sergeant Al Powell: I think he's a cop. Maybe not LAPD, but he's definitely a badge.
    Dwayne T. Robinson: How do you know that?
    Sergeant Al Powell: A hunch, things he said. Like being able to spot a phony ID.
    Dwayne T. Robinson: Jesus Christ, Powell, he could be a ****ing bartender for all we know.


  • #43
    kirk buttercup
    Registered Users Posts: 784 ✭✭✭kirk buttercup


    Ehm Bourne ?


  • #44
    Glenster
    Registered Users Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    podgemonster wrote: »
    Fúckin love the Die Hard, has everything.

    Welcome to the party pal.


  • #45
    buck65
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    Naked Gun.


  • #46
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    +1 for Con Air and The Rock.
    Con Air isn't on tv enough anymore, thankfully ITV3 and 4 show The Rock at least once a month.


  • #47
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,106 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    I just remembered this one. It's a lot of fun although the story is pretty much non existent. The whole thing is shot first person. And I think it's about 80% action scenes.




  • #48
    Summer wind
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    Cobra
    Bad Boys
    Dog Soldiers
    Taken
    Safe
    Lethal Weapon
    Assassins
    Raiders Of The Lost Ark
    King Solomons Mines
    The Delta Force


  • #49
    kavanada
    Registered Users Posts: 184 ✭✭kavanada


    Four pages in and no vote for Ronan?!

    Great chases throughout. Worth a look if you haven't seen it.


  • #50
    Atoms for Peace
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    While not all out action films Michael Mann's Heat and Collateral had some great action sequences. Robocop wasn't been mentioned yet, as well as being one of the best action films is also a fairly spot on satire on western society.


  • #51
    kirk buttercup
    Registered Users Posts: 784 ✭✭✭kirk buttercup


    The Matrix
    Rambo
    Rocky
    Batman
    Jurassic Park
    Mad max
    Demolition man
    Lethal weapon
    Lone
    wolf McQuade
    Kickboxer
    The expendables
    Are all brilliant too


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  • #52
    LordSutch
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    Heat,
    Zulu,
    Rambo III,
    The Italian job (1969),
    Casino Royale (2006),
    Saving private Ryan,
    Alien(s),
    Predator,
    Taken ...


  • #53
    kirk buttercup
    Registered Users Posts: 784 ✭✭✭kirk buttercup


    The Mission Impossible movies are pretty good too


  • #54
    Arghus
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    Die Hard's script is a lean masterclass in giving the audience information and making it all count.


  • #55
    MilesMorales1
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAM4sFFfdpI


  • #56
    Four Phucs Ache
    Registered Users Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭Four Phucs Ache


    Most of the others and,

    Ronin

    Leon


  • #57
    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,098 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Endhiran - India's answer to the Terminator:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yysbbPStfWw


    Or Bollywood's Chuck Noris:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVcwNoZdDko


  • #58
    FTA69
    Registered Users Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    Die Hard 1-3 obviously, the kings of all action films.
    Predator is class - "if it bleeds we can kill it"
    300 is fantastic.
    Ronin is a fantastic show, good spot from a poster above,

    Another one is Centurion, Fassbender and a group of Romans fleeing Scotland while being pursued by a Celtic tribe.

    I haven't seen Total Recall in years but that's a classic as well.


  • #59
    kirk buttercup
    Registered Users Posts: 784 ✭✭✭kirk buttercup


    😂😂😂😂 they look brilliant


  • #60
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,106 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Just to add. About 90% of Jackie Chan films should be on this list.


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  • #61
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Riddick has to be up there for me, all the riddick movies
    pew pew

    Bourne movies too


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