Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Yes, even the original Power Rangers film had a plot....great that...me and a group of over-excited eight year old boys on the edge of our seats!
Mindless Action Films?
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Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I wasn't being serious.
I once gave this to a colleague who wanted me to recommend them a good Hong Kong/Chinese film.
I should have gone with something safe but it was worth the lulz
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Hard Boiled if you don't mind foreign films
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
all the films so far are foreign films!
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
The original starred Dolph Lundgren, fighting against a Yakuza gang.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
I actually quite like the Fast & Furious films, because I'm a bit of a petrolhead and like fast cars. 
And for bonus points Vin Diesel's in some of them, and he has a super sexy voice.
And check out XxX as well. 
And for bonus points Vin Diesel's in some of them, and he has a super sexy voice.
And check out XxX as well.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
'kin 'ell!
I thought I was anal, but even I can suspend disbelief for the length of a movie!
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Infernal Affairs, the original Hong Kong versions.
It was remade by Hollywood as The Departed, which was nominated for lots of awards, and you might want to check out that version as well.
It was remade by Hollywood as The Departed, which was nominated for lots of awards, and you might want to check out that version as well.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
'kin 'ell!
I thought I was anal, but even I can suspend disbelief for the length of a movie!
Yes, any reasonable person can, but you're forgetting the lols that can be gained from repeatedly saying 'You know, that doesn't happen' and/or 'They'd never do it like that' during the quieter parts of a film when you're at the cinema.
Not as much fun as having a loud and entirely unnecessary conversation on your mobile, though. It's great lols to wait for the quiet and dramatic denouement of a cinema classic, only to regale the assembled multitudes by blasting out Wagner's 'Ride Of The Valkyries' at the critical moment.
'DA, DA, DA, DAAAAA-DA! DA, DA, DA, DA-DAAAAAAAAA!'
And so on.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
I've just checked 2009 releases:
GI Joe: the Rise of Cobra (a bit of a crap shott 'em up, but it's got Saïd Taghmaoui in it, not one of his best of career roles though)
District 9 (shoot 'em involving aliens in quarantine in South Africa)
Inglourious Basters has some action scenes as well, not sure whether it's exactly what you're looking for though.
GI Joe: the Rise of Cobra (a bit of a crap shott 'em up, but it's got Saïd Taghmaoui in it, not one of his best of career roles though)
District 9 (shoot 'em involving aliens in quarantine in South Africa)
Inglourious Basters has some action scenes as well, not sure whether it's exactly what you're looking for though.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
And I've just checked 2010 releases:
Iron Man 2
District 13: Ultimatum (a sequel) came out this year. I haven't seen it, but I watched the original on telly a few weeks ago, District 13 (or Banlieue 13).
District 13/Banlieue 13 was a bit like the Warriors, crossed with... was it District 16, an American film where some people (cops and crims) are stuck in a police station and they're under attack? (Just Googled, 16 Blocks) And there's some good action scenes, funny lines, and some incredibly bloody good parkour chase scenes, typically French. (Actually, just Googled it and according to Wikipedia, one of the founders of parkour plays one of the lead roles in it, so no wonder those scenes are bloody good.)
Iron Man 2
District 13: Ultimatum (a sequel) came out this year. I haven't seen it, but I watched the original on telly a few weeks ago, District 13 (or Banlieue 13).
District 13/Banlieue 13 was a bit like the Warriors, crossed with... was it District 16, an American film where some people (cops and crims) are stuck in a police station and they're under attack? (Just Googled, 16 Blocks) And there's some good action scenes, funny lines, and some incredibly bloody good parkour chase scenes, typically French. (Actually, just Googled it and according to Wikipedia, one of the founders of parkour plays one of the lead roles in it, so no wonder those scenes are bloody good.)
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
my flatmate loves those films. i hated them though. parkour isn't a very impressive activity to me.
anyway, the film in whidh cops and crims get stuck in a police station, surrounded by criminals, is surely assault on precinct 13, which in itself is a rip off of rio bravo.
anyway, the film in whidh cops and crims get stuck in a police station, surrounded by criminals, is surely assault on precinct 13, which in itself is a rip off of rio bravo.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Yeah, you might be right. I though it was District 16, Googled and came up with 16 Blocks, but I think you might be right about Assault on Precinct 13. Although was 16 Blocks a rip off of Assault on Precinct 13?
I quite like the parkour stuff!
I mean, some of it's quite heart stopping to watch, and surely you have to admire and/or respect their skill and balls/courage? 
Your flatmate's right, you're wrong!
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
we argue about this constantly - he thinks they're amazing athletes, i just think they are show wankers
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Yeah, well, I'd like to see you take a running jump from roof top to roof top and see if you revise your opinion and come round to the idea that they're amazing athletes or whether you still think they're show wankers - if you live to tell the tale, that is! 
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
they're still wankers. what i object to more is the way they try to tenuously wedge into a film
i've not seen infernal affairs, but the departed is hardly mindless - it's a conspiracy thriller, not an action flick. i expect the same is true of the source material.
The Groke
hot hail/Paging Dr. Beat
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Actually, you're quite right.
The "mindless" bit had slipped my mind, and also I was just thinking more broadly about films that have action sequences in them, rather than strictly Arnie/Bruce/Sly-type "action" films.
To me, more broadly thinking, I think of films as overlapping into the action genre if they contain stuff like good guys and bad guys and guns and fight scenes and car chases.
But you're right, that is more of a conspiracy/thriller. And not so mindless either.
Just ignore me.
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I actually quite like the Fast & Furious films, because I'm a bit of a petrolhead and like fast cars.
And for bonus points Vin Diesel's in some of them, and he has a super sexy voice.
And check out XxX as well.
Pitch Black is not bad.
Dog Soldiers. Has its funny moments, like Spoon's last stand in the farmhouse kitchen.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
NOT BAD? Pitch Black is probably one of the finest sci fi B movies of the last 20 years man!
Yeah, I'll correct myself. It is very good, for B-movie sci-fi.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
if we're talking 'sci-fi' b-movies, then tremors should be mentioned
