Posted on 11/21/2012 7:02:53 PM PST by MNDude
What are your three favorite action movies?
Woops. You said three. Oh well.
Bridge On the River Kwai
Rio Bravo
The Seven Samurai
Bullitt
Goldfinger
Mysterious Island
My taste in movies, and music, crystallized some time ago.
Uncommon Valor
The Dirty Dozen
Lethal Weapon
True Lies
Best car chase scene is Classe Tous Risques, 1960.
Ronin
Heat
The whole Band of Brothers series (I’ve watch it all day long 4 times.....and each time I hate Sobel more)
ping
Yes, wholeheartedly! Action, comedy, romance, terrorism. Can’t beat it. Next, the original Four Feathers.
From Paris with Love
stars Travolta and Rhys Meyers
starts off kind of slow for about 5 minutes, then hardly lets up until the end.
Just pick out the 3 best Zatoichi movies.
ZULU
ZULU DAWN
55 DAYS AT PEKING
BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
Almost any Akira Kurisawa Samurai movie.
Samurai 1
Samurai II
Samurai III
THE FOUR FEATHERS
BREAKER MORANT
DAAMN THE DEFIANT
TOBRUK
GUNGA DIN
THE WAR LORD
EL CID
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
THE LONGEST DAY
THE TRAIN
THE PRIDE AND THE PASSION
KINGS OF THE SUN
PORK CHOP HILL
A WALK IN THE SUN
IN WHICH WE SERVE
HELLEN OF TROY (1956)
THE LOST PARTOL
GLORY
SAHARA (Humphrey Bogart)
ACTION IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC
GUNS OF NAVARONE
WHERE EAGLES DARE
WHITE HEAT
THE VIKINGS
DEAD ALIVE (uncut version)
A BRIDGE TOO FAR
KHARTOUM
THE LONG SHIPS
ENEMY AT THE GATES
BLACKHAWK DOWN
WATERLOO
WAR AND PEACE (RUSSIAN version 1968)
GLADIATOR
GETTYSBURG
GODS AND GENERALS
LETTERS FROM IO JIMA
MAJOR DUNDEE
THE WILD BUNCH
THE PROFESSIONALS
300 SPARTANS
WINCHESTER 73
Any movie with RANDOLPH SCOTT
HOMBRE
FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS
MASTER AND COMMANDER-THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
DAS BOOT (LONG VERSION)
THE BRIDGE AT REMAGDEN
VON RYAN’S EXPRESS
THE GREAT RAID
DEFIANCE
WE WERE SOLDIERS
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX (1966)
PATHS OF GLORY
DARK OF THE SUN
KING SOLOMON’S MINES (1930S AND 1950S VERSION)
THE ANGEL WORE RED
LORD JIM
IVANHOE
AIR FORCE
THE NAKED PREY
And way, way too many more!
I loved “The Man who would be King” too.
Die Hard
Ronin
The Transporter
Ok, answering my own posting...
Die Hard
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Batman Begins
Da Terminator (I’ll be baaack).
Die Hard
The Transporter
Sorry, I just got carried away.
Predator
True lies
The outlaw Josie Wales
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