Mindless Action Films?

[The Octagon]

Crank

The Rock

And I second tango & cash

 

[diabolus]

Heat.. a great bank robber flick with De Niro

 

[Jon-of-arc]

Put that on full screen - mindless enough...?

 

[DotCommunist]

Heat goes on for fucking ages. There is a good film there, but someone wants to trim the fucker down. I swear it clocks in at nearly three hours FFS!

 

[kained&able]

yeah it is about that and alo hardly mindless! although the op menyioned bourne so umm errr.

Unleashed is quality action film, het li and bob hoskins with some of the most brutal fight scenes i gave seen, proper hardcore without being overblown and gory. One secne is smooth as fuck.

dave

 

[T & P]

The Transporter is pretty mindless and entertaining.

 

[Orang Utan]

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



Plus the minge inspired brain bug at the end

minge? don't you mean fanny?

 

[diabolus]

Heat tries to be not-mindless but pretty much is.. and yeah about an hour too long

 

[Orang Utan]

it's fucking shit, that's what it is. i so hate that film.

 

[DotCommunist]

It would never get shown on ITV- with ads every half hour the cunt would be knocking on five hours long.

 

[Orang Utan]

it's been on tv
eta: oops

 

[renegadechicken]

Zombieland is awesome

 

[Santino]

Mindless films have to be cleverly made to be enjoyable. I hate films that are mindlessly mindless, because I spend all my time thinking 'Who's going to clean all that up?' and 'The value of the damage they've done to the city is greater than the value of the cash nicked from the bank' and 'No way! would that stand up in court, and think of all the forms they'll have to fill in!'

 

[Orang Utan]

do you really think 'who's going to clean that up?' and why would criminals care about the damage they've done?

 

[Orang Utan]

two recent daft action films i enjoyed are the island and deja vu, both overlooked films from major directors. they're utterly fucking ridiculous though.

 

[Ranbay]

Taken

 

[Orang Utan]

Taken

yes!

 

[Santino]

do you really think 'who's going to clean that up?' and why would criminals care about the damage they've done?

I was thinking of the damage that the devil-may-care cops do in chasing them.

I do think that a well-written film can let you sit back and enjoy it, whereas a so-called 'mindless' action flick leaves me just irritated that if they leave big questions hanging over this action scene, what hope is there for the rest of the plot. Even the most light-hearted of action films needs some logic within the plot, or you might as well just watch a parody with some fight scenes in it.

 

[Orang Utan]

don't watch the two films i recommended then.
one thing that does bug me is car chases that cause all sort of civilian car crashes. people must be terribly injured in them.

 

[Santino]

don't watch the two films i recommended then.
one thing that does bug me is car chases that cause all sort of civilian car crashes. people must be terribly injured in them.

YES! That too. See also crashing a car through a window into a restaurant and everyone diving out of the way just in time. Never any customers with mobility problems in those restaurants.

 

[DotCommunist]

Taken is one of those films where a seriously dangerous goodie gets done over and then you can sit back and watch his righteous vengeance on the baddies. I quite like that, although I will spit out terse analysis when it is done and we are are having a beer in the pub.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Definitely Demolition Man (as already mentioned).

Brilliant film and lots of humour. Sylvester Stallone evens mentions Arnie

 

[Orang Utan]

his vengeance isn't exactly righteous though is it? it's morally dubious at best.
mind you, all vengeance is morally dubious.

 

[Orang Utan]

YES! That too. See also crashing a car through a window into a restaurant and everyone diving out of the way just in time. Never any customers with mobility problems in those restaurants.

if they did, they'd be well nippy in their wheelchairs

 

[Ranbay]

there is an extended version out

Taken is one of them films if it's on i have to watch it one more time

 

[DotCommunist]

his vengeance isn't exactly righteous though is it? it's morally dubious at best.
mind you, all vengeance is morally dubious.

If someone stole your daughter to be auctioned off as a sex slave you'd go right on it, surely. Righteous anger fo sho

 

[Orang Utan]

he shoots everyone! even in the back!

 

[gavman]

i watched the remake of 'the crazies' last night
does the mindless violence thing..sufficiently i guess

 

[Captain Hurrah]

True Lies

"You're fired."

Edit:

YouTube never fails.

 

[Bakunin]

I have a nasty feeling that, when Russell Crowe finishes his big screen remake of 'The Equaliser', it will more than likely be a mindless action film that owes little if anything to the TV version.