Mindless Action Films?

[UnderOpenSky]

You know lots of explosions and plots you don't have to think to hard about when you're on a come down. Just got proper broadband again so on a film collecting mission.

Suggestions for the best from the last 10 years. So far I've done the Borne Trilogy, Terminator and the Die Hard Series.

Lets go low brow.

 

[contadino]

Bad Boys 2 stands head & shoulders above the competition in that genre, although the idiotic Taiwanese WWOOFer we had last week thought it was a documentary.

 

[gsv]

Ong Bak.

GS(v)

 

[QueenOfGoths]

"Mission Impossible" - not keen on the first one - or Tom Cruise tbh - but the other two are pretty good action flicks.

"Face Off" - plenty of action in that!

 

[DotCommunist]

The Rock

Con Air

Total Recall

Gunmen

Predator (and the much maligned Predator 2.)

 

[Jon-of-arc]

anything by john woo

Hollywood exec: John Woo? doesn't he just do action films?
Quentin Tarantino: Yeah, and Michaelangelo just painted ceilings

 

[QueenOfGoths]

True Lies

 

[Jon-of-arc]

Predator (and the much maligned Predator 2.)

aiee, bigg-up for pred 2
"fuckin' voodoo majik, mohn!!!"

 

[Jon-of-arc]

"Mission Impossible" - not keen on the first one - or Tom Cruise tbh - but the other two are pretty good action flicks.

"Face Off" - plenty of action in that!

MI3 is a quality action movie. Well worth a watch. Tongue in cheek from start to finish, Phillip Seymour-Hoffman as the bad guy, ample quality one liners. The Con Air of the naughties...

 

[DotCommunist]

It always amuses me that in pred 1 a crack commando team were slaughtered and even Arnie struggled to take the creature down but in pred 2 a wheezing Danny Glover ran it across the city and mugged it off with its own weapon.

 

[chemn]

Starship troopers

 

[DotCommunist]

not mindless. Actually a clever satire on fascism. With a great shower scene.

 

[chemn]

Well yeah, but it's easy enough to forget/ ignore the clever satire and concentrate on the mindless violence and great shower scene

 

[Jon-of-arc]

It always amuses me that in pred 1 a crack commando team were slaughtered and even Arnie struggled to take the creature down but in pred 2 a wheezing Danny Glover ran it across the city and mugged it off with its own weapon.

I just love the tabloid TV guy spouting shit in the back-ground at every opportunity...

But yeah, the final scenes, after everyone is slaughtered in the abatoir, let it down...

 

[QueenOfGoths]

not mindless. Actually a clever satire on fascism. With a great shower scene.

Ah, getting slapped on the arse was/is surely Casper Van Diem's finest hour

Well yeah, but it's easy enough to forget/ ignore the clever satire and concentrate on the mindless violence and great shower scene

Plus the minge inspired brain bug at the end

 

[Jon-of-arc]

Robocop, as well, if we're going outside the mindless realm.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Anything with Steven Seagal in it

Anything with Sylvester Stallone

I'd say anything with Arnie but then you might end up getting Kindergarten Cop

 

[Melinda]

Under Seige! Stone cold classic of the genre.

Demolition Man! Amusing to think of Mr Snipes heading for jail IRL.

 

[Jon-of-arc]

Paycheck, with Ben Affleck, is one of the less well known Phillip K Dick adaptions, and is well worth a watch...

 

[DotCommunist]

Kidergarten Cop is fucking ace though.


Demolition Man. Sly and Snipes combine for great win. I especially enjoy the bit where Simon Phoenix gets by the retinal scanner security gate by having a guards eyeball on the end of a pen.

 

[DotCommunist]

Tango and Cash

 

[chemn]

...Plus the minge inspired brain bug at the end

Hahahah! Forgotten all about the minge-monster!! hehe

 

[Jon-of-arc]

early jet li stuff, like Fung Sai Yuk, is always good for a giggle.

 

[killer b]

the transporter? nothing to that except a series of escalating set pieces ending with explosions...

 

[Lakina]

The rock

 

[N_igma]

Last Action Hero.

 

[machine cat]

nothing compares to...

 

[gsv]

oo don't think I've ever seen that!

GS(v)

 

[machine cat]

you've never seen commando??!

 

[kained&able]

Shoot em up!!!

Its so so silly and so so brillient. Carrot related deaths for the win!


dave