Braindead Radio Episode 5: Lights, Camera, Action!

[B_Metal]

The best Bond movie is the one that apes Bourne. Casino Royale. Fact. Plus Commando has Hockens dad as a villain. So much win.

[Ed Hocken]

My dad is mexican Dan Hydea?

[B_Metal]

Yes, but you got your moms looks and his sense of style.

[Ed Hocken]

[B_Metal]

Lol. Sorry Clint. I'll stop now.

[Abraham Smashington]

I can't think of them in terms of who out ranks who. But as for action movies:

Die Hard
T2
Predator
Die Hard 3 to a lesser extent.
The Rock
Con Air
Hard Boiled
True Lies
Speed


That sort of thing. I know the Bourne movies are supposedly great, but the shaky cam turns me off so much.

Here's a small taste of my list:

Commando
Predator
Rambo: First Blood
Drunken Master
Raiders of the Lost Ark
T2
Die Hard
HEAT
Hard Boiled
The Matrix
Mission Impossible
Crank
Mad Max 2
Escape from New York
Big Trouble in little china
If Looks could Kill (lulz)
The Professional
Time Cop
Punisher War Zone
The Rock
point break

And yep I know most are from after 75, but that's how I roll.

[Howard]

Damn. I'm in for a world of hurt.

The Matrix? Action? Anti-action maybe.

[Abraham Smashington]

I'd say more martial arts than action, but the lobby shoot out and the helicopter rescue are both pretty great sequences.

[PHEDG]

Lethal Weapon
Aliens
Ronin
The Dark Knight
Romancing the Stone
Clear and Present Danger
Minority Report
The Abyss
True Lies
Black Hawk Down
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

[Howard]

I'd say more martial arts than action, but the lobby shoot out and the helicopter rescue are both pretty great sequences.

It wants to be an action movie (desperately) but ultimately it's a mind-fuck film through and through. Action isn't what drives the film forward therefore it is not an action film.

Edited to add: The above was spoken in an English Lit Prof voice.

[Abraham Smashington]

Just another reason why we didn't include it.

[Captain Russ]

This whole fucking thing begins and ends with STOP! Or My Mom Will Shoot!

[Abraham Smashington]

I saw that shit in the theater with my 4th grade teacher and the rest of the smart group. haha

[Captain Russ]

Estelle Getty was a badass.

Stallone was in a fucking diaper.

AUTOWIN.

[Ed Hocken]

if we're going to bring martial arts flicks into this:

Ong-Bak FTW

also, Last Boy Scout

And if we include Action-Comedies

Beverly Hills Cop
Pineapple Express
True Romance