Posted on 11/21/2012 7:02:53 PM PST by MNDude
What are your three favorite action movies?
I really like Boondock Saints !!
Eagle Eye is pretty gripping.
The Great Escape is awesome !!
I like this movie too.
Man ! So Many Good Ones !!
Breaker Morant broke my heart. Loved Das Boot ! Lawrence was so cool. Guns of Navarone !! Enemy at the Gates !!!
The Outlaw Josie Wales is incredible !!
Every time I’m watching it, my wife says, “now how many times have you seen this ?”
ha ha
Master & Commander !!
Very Good One !!
Sacre bleu!...eet es in FRENCH!
...yes.
Yeah, that was good flick. Hey South, Hi-Rise/’skraper construction was my gig before retirement also. Remember the old reply, when up in the tower, when another tradesman passed you by and asked ya, “Hey, hows it goin”? Yep, it was: “D.L.D.B.”!! (Don’t Look Down Baby)! Damn a lot of years ago, and I’d probably crap my pants now just LOOKING at an exterior man-lift cage clankin’ it’s way up the side of one of those monsters!
Sand Pebbles ! Yes !!
Kelly’s Heroes ! Another Fave.
True Lies had a lot of good stuff. My fave. parts were the Harrier blasting away with it’s cannon. The part where it’s fire went down into the water and ‘ate’ part of a building’s corner away looked pretty real.
Hey Bobby. I’ve worked on many tall buildings. On Fox Plaza I tried to stay on the ground. Of course that wasn’t always possible. One day a few of us went to the roof. It was interesting (great view, btw). We approached the rail which was about 4’ tall. I really felt safe so it was cool. Then we walked up a set of steel stairs and found ourselves on the helipad where there was no rail. We got within 6’ of so from the edge to look down. It was incredibly scary. So we laid on our bellies and inched closer. I have no idea why we did such a thing other than we were young and dumb. I’ve been on many buildings since but I didn’t go the the helipad. Once in a lifetime was enough.
Oh yeah, The Road Warrior is clearly some kind of pinnacle in the action movie genre — the dark post-apocalypticness, the camera angles, the Australianness, the studded leather, the crazy motorhead aspect with the V8s and the nitrous injection and the weird auzzie Ford variants...it’s all just so dang cool.
The Wild Bunch
Bonnie & Clyde
Deliverance
Zatoichi: The Fugitive (1963)
Zatoichi, the Blind Swordsman (1989)
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight (1964)
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