Favorite Action Movie

[MAD]

Raiders of the Lost Ark

 

[kiddiedoc]

I excluded war, western, and intergalactic/sci-fi. If we include those, my list gets much longer....

 

[TN-POSSUM]

Some more "pure" action movies I like that's not been listed:

Lethal Weapon (all of them)
Con Air
Shooter
Unleashed
Fast and Furious (most of them)
Dirty Harry
Jack Reacher
Jaws

 

[GroverCleveland]

Can't believe I forgot Jaws.

 Shooter is good too.

 

[Brave Volunteer]

yes!

Tombstone

I started to list Tombstone but again, I wasn't sure if it's technically categorized as an action film or just a western.

 

[Brave Volunteer]

Another action film that I love is Nighthawks with Stallone, Billy Dee Williams, and Rutger Hauer.

 

[hndog609]

Can't believe I forgot Jaws.

 Shooter is good too.

This is sort of the scenario I found myself in with Aliens. There's a crapton of "action" but is it really an "action movie"? There's definitely some shiz going on in Jaws but is it an action movie? It's hard to pin down the criteria.

If I were to add to my previous post I'd certainly have included The Matrix and John Wick.

 

[TN-POSSUM]

A few more action movies I like:

The Karate Kid

The 1st 3- Pirates of the Caribbean- movies

Kong: Skull Island

 

[give_him 6]

Is arm wrastlin' considered action?

 

[walkenvol]

Is arm wrastlin' considered action?

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Action yes, but not in the good movie category.

 

[walkenvol]

I think Fury was a really good action / war movie along with Saving Private Ryan

 

[RDU VOL#14]

The Bourne Movies, especially the 3rd one. The fight scene in the Moroccan apartment is one of my favorites.

The Rock was a favorite.

Lethal Weapon movies were all great .


Die Hard 1-3

The Peacemaker with George Clooney and Nicole Kidman.

True Lies


Gladiator if that qualifies .

Like others have said, if you include war films my list gets much longer, going into some of my favorite movies of all time .

 

[Tin Man]

Gracious. Lot of great films listed above.

T he Empire Strikes Back
The Wild Bunch
Saving Private Ryan
The Road Warrior
Jurassic Park
Tombstone
Predator
Terminator 2
Bonnie & Clyde
Aliens

 Patton - love it, but not in the same class as ...Ryan or A Bridge Too Far for me. The inaccuracies kind of bug me, although George C. Scott's performance stands above them all.

A Bridge Too Far is a great movie despite Gene Hackman’s attempt at a Polish accent and Ryan O’Neal’s ham fisted acting.

 

[GroverCleveland]

A Bridge Too Far is a great movie despite Gene Hackman’s attempt at a Polish accent and Ryan O’Neal’s ham fisted acting.

I went to Arnhem and Oosterbeek in November to the Airborne museum.

 

[NEO]

Mad Max saga
Arnold's top movies
Sicario
The Raid II
John Wick movies
Die Hard
First Blood

Of the 80s action flicks First Blood is by far the most realistic. Outside of the jumping off the cliff scene the rest is pretty accurate on what a green beret would and could do against a hillbilly police force and some national guard guys.

 

[Brave Volunteer]

Of the 80s action flicks First Blood is by far the most realistic. Outside of the jumping off the cliff scene the rest is pretty accurate on what a green beret would and could do against a hillbilly police force and some national guard guys.

But to be fair to the National Guard guy, he DID have to get back to open up the drugstore!