Your favorite 80s action flick.

It was indeed, and a legendary film and cast. However, I was just paraphrasing the Seinfeld line when he burns Newman.

Technically the 1980s were from January 1, 1981 to December 31, 1990.

But that is semantics. I was only joking. Please do not take anything I say in a these threads too seriously.

 

Die Hard: probably the most influential action movie of the last 30 years. How many action movies that followed it were summed up as "Die Hard on a bus...a boat...a plane...etc".

Lethal Weapon 2: A terrific movie gets an even better sequel. The ultimate buddy cop movie.

Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Casablanca of action movies. Spielberg directs, Lucas signs the checks, Ford beats up Nazis, everyone goes home happy.

Aliens: I've never heard a movie audience shout so loud then when Ripley yells at the Alien Queen "Get away from her you, BITCH!".

 

Ha! i should have caught that.

 

Rambo (1,2,and 3)
Sudden Impact
The Terminator
Die Hard

 

The Terminator - not even close It gets extra points for how grimy and cheap it looks.

A very good decade for action films!

 

For the Us it's RoboCop for me too.
It was so shocking in so many ways

• The STUPIDEST name possible
• The most violent begining of any film I had seen up to that point
• The military industrial complex
• The obvious parallels with Vietnam
• Exploring what it means to be human
• The newscasts and commercials being SATIRE back then, and fact now. The 6000SUX
• Ed-209
• So many quotable lines

Just an amazing film.

 

The Empire Strikes Back (May 21, 1980)

 

"Brazil"
Well, somebody got machine-gunned...
Somebody was tortured to death....
Maybe we should redefine "action movie".

 

No.

 

Le Professionnel


John Woo's The Killer
The Killer | Trailer | 1989