80's action movie shoot out

[Hunter Rider]

No, no. I meant it's atmosphere and visual style of action scenes. I have see it about 10 times and I liked it

Phew!,good to know you are up on the classics of the 80's Cinet:

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I watched Escape from New York last night, and there is no way that can be called an action movie either.

 

[Cinemaman]

Phew!,good to know you are up on the classics of the 80's Cinet:

I love 80s damn it!

 

[Movies205]

Aliens is in the same untouchable classic bracket as Alien.

To each his own... I consider Aliens in the same catagory as Terminator 2, inferior to the original but damn entertaining it's own right. Both Terminator 1 and Alien are genius in it's execution and suspense, while there sequals garner bigger budgets allowing them to produce amazing action and visuals, it simply doesn't rank as high up in terms of quality or film as the originals manage to achieve. However I'll concede I haven't seen ALiens in 2 years or so, I have it on my DVD shelf so I can pop it in and watch it, if you'd like me to give it another gander...

 

[Kevin Roegele]

To each his own... I consider Aliens in the same catagory as Terminator 2, inferior to the original but damn entertaining it's own right. Both Terminator 1 and Alien are genius in it's execution and suspense, while there sequals garner bigger budgets allowing them to produce amazing action and visuals, it simply doesn't rank as high up in terms of quality or film as the originals manage to achieve. However I'll concede I haven't seen ALiens in 2 years or so, I have it on my DVD shelf so I can pop it in and watch it, if you'd like me to give it another gander...

I see Alien as the more visually impressive movie (as with all Ridley Scott films), it's incredible to look at. Aliens is just pure excitement. It's more thrilling and dramatic than Alien. The last half-hour is real edge-of-the-seat stuff.

 

[Movies205]

Here's the thing... When I first saw Alien and then ALiens, I was like ALiens was way better since it was way more entertaining, and quite frankly I found Alien boring. I was completely in love with Aliens especially with the Queen at the end. So a couple of years passes and the new Quad. DVD Set came out so I bought it, watching through them again, I completely fell in love with the mastery of Alien and the sheer intensity of it. I rewatched Aliens and god-damn it felt a lot longer and it kind of lost a little bit of its magic in the reviewing. Perhaps its due for another rewatching, its been a while since I've seen any of the alien movies, I think the last alien movie I saw was AVP

 

[Catman]

I think of Lethal Weapon as more of a thriller than an action movie. The action is secondary to the character interaction between the leads, and the drama.

Isn't that how IT SHOULD be?

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Isn't that how IT SHOULD be?

Yeah.....I didn't say there was anything wrong with that.

 

[Dark Donnie]

Die Hard for me although Predator is a close second

 

[turtlefocker]

Lethal Weapon and Lethal Weapon 2 are both kick-ass action thrillers. Sadly the third and fourth films were sub-par at best.

 

[hitmanyr2k]

I can watch Aliens for the characters alone. The action is just gravy.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I just passed 20,000 and I didn't even realise.....

 

[Catman]

Lethal Weapon and Lethal Weapon 2 are both kick-ass action thrillers. Sadly the third and fourth films were sub-par at best.

I like Lethal 3 & 4. They are inferior to the first two but still very entertaining.

I just passed 20,000 and I didn't even realise.....

And it only took you 7 years. Some people around here get 20,000 after only a month.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

And it only took you 7 years. Some people around here get 20,000 after only a month.

I know! And I post any old crap which comes into my head. As you well know.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Bump

 

[blind_fury]

Die Hard is winning by a large margin.

What a surprise.

 

[chaseter]

Predator

 

[Hunter Rider]

7 votes between Die Hard and Aliens,i expected Predator to do better

 

[Catman]

7 votes between Die Hard and Aliens,i expected Predator to do better

I expected Die Hard to win.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I expected Die Hard to win.

Nah! really ?t:

 

[co2]

Man, I'm such a product of 80's action movies because I love all of those films. I grew up on those movies..they are classics to me. Not sure what that says about me.
They just don't make 'em like that anymore...though Live free or Die Hard recently came pretty damn close. It had that 80's action movie spirit more than anything I have seen in recent memory.