Best five ACTION movies???what is your picks?

[george minze]

After seeing the thread on the new Michael Caine movie Harry Brown I find that there are a lot of, especially action movie fans. What are your top five ACTION Movies. Just think it would be interesting...Somehow I believe all of our tastes are close....

 

[Wyatt Burp]

Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Dirty Harry (or is this "crime drama")
Die Hard
Terminator 2
Desperado (even though our hero used Rugers)

I love Die Hard because the hero was just a regular guy and it's really funny in spots as they mock certain institutions.

 

[jframe]

Lethal Weapon, The Rock, Sudden Impact, The Getaway (with Steve McQueen, of course), and if it qualifys, the original Walking Tall.

 

[M&P777]

Raiders of the Lost Ark; The Last Crusade; The Bourne Trilogy.

 

[cmort666]

The Wind and the Lion
The Real Glory
Prime Cut
Last Man Standing
The Outlaw Josie Wales

 

[Capt Steve]

Went to dinner at a friends house Saturday night. He has built a home theatre, an entire room, acoustically perfect with leather theatre seats and a 10' screen. To demo the system he put on "2012". I haven't seen the whole movie yet but if the scenes of them fleeing LA as it collapses into oblivion are any indication this flic has got to be on the list! Also got to include the early Lethal Weapon series, most of Clint Eastwoods catalog (please spare me the Bridges of Madison County). The new James Bond, Daniel Craig, makes the cut as well.

 

[judge]

Ist edition - "The French Connection". "Bullit" with S. McQueen. "The Killing" with Sterling Hayden. "Lawrence of Arabia". "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid"

 

[mlk18]

Not sure if these all qualify as Action Adventure.

Taken
James Bond (new)
Bourne Identity
Training Day
Most Tom Clancy movies

 

[MTKTM]

Spartacus, Saving Private Ryan, Moby Dick (the old Gregory Peck version), the first Star Wars trilogy, and Deep Throat. Just kidding on that last one, but you did say "action" movies didn't you?

 

[RonJ]

Last of the Mohicans (Daniel Day Lewis)
Raiders of the lost Ark
Conan the Barbarian
Die Hard
The Legend of Zorro (Banderas & Hopkins)

 

[JD 500]

The Matrix
Ronin
Raiders of the lost ark
Scarface
Italian Job

 

[george minze]

Forgot to list mine.....Wind and the Lion, Zulu, Lawrence of Arabia, The Wild Bunch, and Saving Pvt. Ryan.........Two honorable mentions...Bridge Over The River Kwai, and the Original Bullet not the miserable remake. Old timers.....Casablanca...........Keep them coming as I get older I find renting DVD's is not all that bad, along with shooting and golf...

 

[Brett248Vista]

I only need one slot...

Equilibrium

YouTube - Equilibrium Faint

 

[Kanewpadle]

True Lies
Armegeddon
Goodfellas
Lethal Weapon
Band Of Brothers (If it qualifies)

 

[P&R Fan]

Die Hard... Gotta love that Beretta with a 100 rd magazine.
Untouchables...S@W revolvers, Thompsons and '97 Winchesters.
Bonnie and Clyde... Thompsons and 1917 S@Ws.
Fail Safe...No gunplay to speak of, but chilling.
Dr. Strangelove...Slim Whitman on the Bomb is a classic.
Von Ryan's Express...Hey, it's got Sinatra, need I say more?
Notice the newest one is 1987. That says it all.

 

[klondike]

No one has mentioned The Ghost and the Darkness or
Kelly's Heroes

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

Red Dawn
Tombstone
Armageddon
Platoon
Braveheart

 

[RonJ]

Pickins, perhaps?

 

[RobertJ.]

1. The Wild Bunch
2. The Getaway (w/Steve McQueen)
3. Dirty Harry
4. Tombstone
5. Jaws

 

[Strato]

Con Air
The Last Boyscout
Faceoff
Airforce One
Cellular