Post Your Top 10 Action Movies

[Dukefrukem]

Ones you can really sit down and poop your pants over... guns, kung-fu, explosions, whatever...

1. Hard Boiled
2. Matrix: Reloaded
3. Terminator 2
4. Kung-fu Hustle
5. Spiderman 2
6. Batman Begins
7. Indiana Jones: the Last Crusade
8. Die Hard
9. Aliens
10. the Killer

[origami_mustache]

Genres are so arbitrary...I really don't know what counts as action...

Seven Samurai
Sanjuro
Yojimbo
All Quiet On the Western Front
City of God
Robocop
Bullet Ballet
Battle Royale
The Killer

[Raiders]

1. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
2. Point Blank (1967)
3. The Blade (1995)
4. The Road Warrior (1981)
5. The Hunted (2003)
6. City on Fire (1987)
7. Mission: Impossible (1996)
8. A Touch of Zen (1969)
9. Hard Boiled (1992)
10. Sonatine (1993)

[Morris Schæffer]

1. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
2. Point Blank (1967)
3. The Blade (1998)
4. The Road Warrior (1981)
5. The Hunted (2003)
6. City on Fire (1987)
7. Mission: Impossible (1996)
8. A Touch of Zen (1969)
9. Hard Boiled (1992)
10. Sonatine (1993)

This is still so damn odd.

[Morris Schæffer]

Die Hard
Speed
Hard-Boiled
Runaway Train
Blue Thunder
Lethal Weapon
Aliens
T2: Judgment Day
The Matrix
The Road Warrior

I'm never entirely comfortable narrowing things down to 5 or 10, but this sounds about right.

[Dead & Messed Up]

The usuals...

01. Raiders of the Lost Ark
02. The Road Warrior
03. Aliens
04. The Adventures of Robin Hood
05. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
06. Speed
07. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
08. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
09. The Warriors
10. Die Hard

[lovejuice]

'tis fun.

1. A Better Tomorrow
2. Aliens
3. Raider of the Lost Ark
4. Clear and Present Danger
5. Miracle (jackie chan)
6. Seven Samurai
7. Dynamite Warrior
8. Face/Off
9. Tear of the Black Tiger
10. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

i just pull these of the top of my head. not in any order. at first i try to make it diverse, and get stuck at number 7. then i realize woo, cameron, and spilburg need to have more than one film included.

i want to see D's.

[D_Davis]

8. A Touch of Zen (1969)

Nice. I often wonder if I should have put this higher in my Top 10. If I were making a list of my top 10 martial arts films, It would definitely be on it. It is such a grand and epic experience.

I don't want to put my Top 10 yet, because it gives away a lot of stuff in my Top 100 - which is almost finished....

[D_Davis]

3. The Blade (1998)

Is this Blade, with Snipes?

I thought maybe it was The Blade (Dao), Tsui's film, but that came out in 95. This film is super high on my top 100. One of the best damn films ever made.

[Dukefrukem]

I got to say I'm very surprised not to see T2 on most of theses lists.

[Raiders]

Is this Blade, with Snipes?

I thought maybe it was The Blade (Dao), Tsui's film, but that came out in 95. This film is super high on my top 100. One of the best damn films ever made.

It's Tsui's film, naturally. I just put the wrong year.

[number8]

1. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

Uh, you rule.

[number8]

I'm sure the order changes on some days:

1. Hard Boiled
2. Commando
3. The Killer
4. Die Hard
5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
6. Yojimbo
7. Kiss of the Dragon
8. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
9. Versus
10. Ronin

[Dukefrukem]

ah I love Ronin. Been a while since I saw it.

[Boner M]

Ten off the top of my head.

To Live and Die in LA
Hard-Boiled
The Road Warrior
Aliens
Assault on Precinct 13
Winchester '73
Seven Samurai
Terminator 2
Die Hard
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

[D_Davis]

It's Tsui's film, naturally. I just put the wrong year.

Very cool. Glad to see some love for this amazing flick. One of the very best. It really demonstrates the amount of dramatic tension and character an action flick can have.

It's a shame it's never been released in a legit, remastered format on DVD. I just can't understand why.

[lovejuice]

7. Kiss of the Dragon

is that jet li's film? personally i won't put in on mine, but very glad to see it on someone else's. such an under-appreciated film. i even prefer it to danny the dog.

[number8]

Word.





The director is directing a live-action Blood: The Last Vampire. Here's hoping it kicks as much ass.

[D_Davis]

I hear Corey Yuen is doing the action choreography on Blood, so it will at least have some killer fights.

[Russ]

Anybody ever seen The Gauntlet?

[jenniferofthejungle]

1. Die Hard

2. Robocop
3. Aliens
4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
5. Predator
6. Lethal Weapon
7. Terminator 2
8. First Blood
9. Assault on Precinct 13
10. Enter the Dragon

[lovejuice]

Word.





The director is directing a live-action Blood: The Last Vampire. Here's hoping it kicks as much ass.

what i like most about the flick is how it manages to keep its gritty atmosphere through out the whole film. yes, and that scene above.

[megladon8]

Yeh, Kiss of the Dragon farkin' rocks.

Tcheky Karyo plays one of the slimiest, most loathesome villains I've seen in years.

[megladon8]

I've left out westerns and a few other movies which could possibly be considered "action", but I don't personally consider them as such. I also chose not to put them in any particular order, since I would never stop changing it...

Batman Begins
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Die Hard
The Matrix
Hard Boiled
Sanjuro
First Blood
The Bourne trilogy (can't pick a favorite)
Goldeneye
Indiana Jones 1 & 3 (can't pick one)

[Sycophant]

Reading through this list, I don't think I have enough of a grasp on the term "action cinema" to be able to put together a list of my own.