Top 5 Action Movies

Posted September 17, 2008
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The tough thing about this one is defining “Action”. To me, there are “Adventure” movies, there are “Comic Book” movies, and then there “Action” movies. Lethal Weapon movies are “Action”; Indiana Jones movies are “Adventure”. That said, I can’t really lay out the necessary characteristics of “Action”. I just know it when I see it.

5. Die Hard With A Vengeance

Wow, this was hard. So many good choices. I almost went with a Bourne or Lethal Weapon movie, but in the end I remembered how much fun I had watching the 3rd Die Hard.

4. The Rock

Nic Cage’s best action movie. And speaking of Nic Cage, you know what wouldn’t make my Top 500 Action Movies list? “Face-Off”. That movie sucks.

3. Speed

Spectacularly tense. If only they hadn’t made the “bus jump” look so silly. Just put down a ramp right before the gap, or something.

2. Terminator 2: Judgement Day

Pioneering special effects, a great story, Arnold…this one had it all.

1. Die Hard

Of course.

2 comments so far

  1. trylobyte on September 17, 2008

    I agree, Die Hard With A Vengeance was great! I don’t get how some people hated that one because it doesn’t follow the so-called ‘Die Hard formula’ (McClane battling bad guys in one confined location).

    You can’t match the first one (I think they tried that with DH2 but failed) so you try something else like DH3.

    As for the list, I would replace Speed with John Woo’s Hard Boiled :-)

  2. mikecinc on September 18, 2008

    I’ve never seen “Hard Boiled”. I’ll have to check it out.


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