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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 05:49 PM
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Poll question: Best Action Movie of All Time?
Raiders, for my money, is the best action movie of all time.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 05:51 PM
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1. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World...
Edited on Wed Oct-22-03 05:54 PM by Richardo


Lennie Pike (Jonathan Winters): "Even businessmen, who rob and cheat and steal from people everyday, even they have to pay taxes. "
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 11:42 PM
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27. I'll buy that . . .
this movie had the greatest cast of comedians ever assembled anywhere, anytime . . . action movies don't have to be shoot-em-up blow-em-up affairs . . . in fact, those are the kinds of flicks I tend to avoid . . . M4 World, on the other hand, was a sheet joy to watch, from start to finish . . . got my vote! . . .
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 11:54 PM
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29. And the plane flying through the billboard was a legit action stunt...
...a REAL billboard, baby! That would fit in with any modern action flick, except they'd probably fake it up with CG.

:toast: ,OneBlueSky!
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 12:02 PM
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33. That's my Favorite Movie
I watch that one a couple times a year .
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 05:53 PM
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2. I liked The Last Crusade best...
of the Indiana Jones flicks.
They were all great, though. :-)
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 05:55 PM
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3. Dude, - LOTR: FOTR, Fight Club, Blade Runner & Leon
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 05:57 PM
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4. ah!!! How could I forget LOTR???
I guess because its an epic or something.

Fight Club I considered but dismissed as social commentary. Action? Yes, but with a much largerm point. Blade Runner, definitely.
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 05:59 PM
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6. And Leon is a classic. Jean Reno as an assassin who
befriends a little girl.
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DCDemo Donating Member (847 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:01 PM
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7. What about Blade/Blade II?
Edited on Wed Oct-22-03 06:02 PM by DCDemo
They are pretty sweet..not the best, but very well done.

On edit: Doh- forgot my personal favorite. Lawrence of Arabia. The action scenes are what Star Wars and LOTR were building on.
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ColtsFan Donating Member (13 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 05:58 PM
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5. Enter The Dragon-Bruce Lee
The dude changed the action movie.
Honorable mention:
Vanising Point, The 7 Up's

Now we need a best Horor Movie Poll huh?
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toddzilla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:05 PM
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9. how could you not put aliens in there?
to me that is one of the best action movies ever made.. is it considered sci-fi?

other good 'uns..


predator
boondock saints
the last boy scout
escape from new york
the sound of music

:crazy:
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PDittie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:44 PM
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24. Alien, Aliens and Predator
Predator is on right now on FX.

Gov. Gropenator, Gov. Body, Apollo Creed, Billy Bear, and Bill Duke.

What a cast.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 10:28 AM
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31. Hi ColtsFan!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:03 PM
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8. New Wave Hookers
I love the action in that
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Character Assassin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:12 PM
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14. New Wave Hookers III and Let Me Tell Ya About Black Chicks were better
Besides exhibiting subtle use of more sophisticated character development and rhetorical devices interwoven into dialog, it was the painstaking detail shown to costume design that really left an impression on me.

All of that, and action, action, action.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:15 PM
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15. I'm scared--I think you're serious!!!!!!!!!
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:41 PM
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19. But I still think Dark's masterwork was "Snakepit"
The pre-scene interviews where he asked the girls about mortality were just so innovative and...wrong. And that's why it's so good.
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Character Assassin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:44 PM
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20. I don't know.... "Black Throat" had that shocking scene with two Klansmen
That was pretty fucking (pardon the pun) daring for the time, and even today.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:05 PM
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10. Voted for Crouching, but not sure I'd call it an action movie
It really is on a different level than most action flix. By that I mean, a much higher level.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:07 PM
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11. I tried to watch that movie *twice*, and fell asleep both times...
I do not "get" CTHD. :shrug:

And let me say that I typically like foreign films, have no problems with subtitles, and like a little out of the ordinary style in my movies.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:10 PM
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13. Really, I love the movie--I think it's brilliant
I also think Ang Lee was robbed for the best director Oscar that year.
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FlemingsGhost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 11:48 PM
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28. Holy sh*t... Me too!
Edited on Wed Oct-22-03 11:50 PM by DemsUnite
I watch ** A LOT ** of films, (and openly admit to being a bit of a snob,) but I just couldn't make it past the first twenty minutes. Twice!

I took it as a sign that it just wasn't meant to be...
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donotpassgo Donating Member (867 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:08 PM
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12. Raiders, Hardboiled, Time and Tide...and They Live with Rowdy Roddy Piper
"I came to kick ass and chew bubble gum and I'm all out of bubble gum"
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:17 PM
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16. Raiders
I think is the best action film to date. It was the first to incorporate all the old B movie serial tricks into one film.

And Wow! Who has done more than Harrison Ford to make the bullwhip a hip fashion accessory?
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dreissig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:29 PM
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17. The Bond Movies
The Bond movies were sexist but they were lively.
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:35 PM
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18. Aliens
my favorite of the four movies, and the one that most deserves consideration as an "action" classic (the first one's horror, the third one's a drama, and the fourth one's sf).

But of the list you posted, I'll go with Raiders as well. It was so much fun when it first came out!
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GOPEC Donating Member (217 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:45 PM
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21. Raiders
American intellectual recruited by bumbling US intelligence to find the ultimate WMD before Nazis can get it (remind anyone of Joe Wilson?).
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 07:02 PM
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22. The Dirty Dozen
..........
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Salviati Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 07:20 PM
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23. I'm gonna have to vote raiders, but...
I like the Last Crusade better, plus I'd like to have seen The Rock up there as well...
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Terwilliger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:57 PM
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25. Aliens goes into two categories, but a more compelling actioner...
I haven't seen. Very well done.

That's not to say there aren't hundreds more, but I liked the inclusion of the Great Escape....I ALWAYS love to watch that movie.
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Snow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 09:04 PM
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26. What about "The Mussels from Bruscles?"
what was his first called, ummmm, "Kickboxer"?
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LSdemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 11:58 PM
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30. Terminator 2
You have to admit its a pretty good movie.
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soleft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 12:52 PM
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36. I liked Terminator better
I liked Kyle as hero better than terminator as hero. I also thought Sarah Connor had a better arc in the original.
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MGKrebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 11:59 AM
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32. It's usually a great bad guy that makes a good action movie.
I think that's why Die hard is good. Alan Rickman is perfect.

Under Seige (Steven Seagal) is good because of Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey.

Also for your consideration:

Enemy of the State.
Rob Roy (Tim Roth is incredible)
Robin Hood (Erroll Flynn)
Captain Blood
Narrow Margin (Gene Hackman)

And in the comedy/action vein:
The Great Race- Peter Falk and Jack Lemmon are fantastic. Great sword fights, and "Pardon me, Mr. Pardner, whooo is this Texas Jack?" LOL!

But in the end, my vote goes to The Matrix.
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Prisoner_Number_Six Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 12:11 PM
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34. To Live And Die In LA
for the car chase, of course! Ultraviolence at its best.

Also, A Clockwork Orange, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
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JackDragna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 12:49 PM
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35. Big Bullet
John Woo at his finest. The best gun battle in cinema history.
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 12:53 PM
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37. The Road Warrior
Nothing compares.
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 01:03 PM
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38. Run, Lola, Run was FAB!
Good stuff.
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