In no particular order, I’d probably pick Terminator 2, Die Hard, Robocop, The Dark Knight, Heat, Kill Bill 1+2, District 9, The Crow (been awhile since I’ve seen it though), Speed, and maybe John Wick.
There’s probably quite a few I’ve missed out on, especially foreign action films.
What are your picks, either popular or obscure?
Mad Max Fury Road. Just never stops
Ong Bak is a stand out martial arts movie
13 Assassins. It’s directed by Takashi Miike to give you an idea of what you’re in for.
Terminator 2
Aliens if you want to count it as an action movie.
Die Hard.
Hot Fuzz
Django Unchained
The Raid. The movie that introduced “The Hallway Scene”
Hero
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Dredd
Most of the Fast and Furious movies
Layer Cake
Red Cliff
Underworld
Baahubali
Dog Soldiers
I love pacific rim. It crams in so much great Kaiju and real robot stuff.
The title music slaps too.
The music you hear everytime you try to walk through water
Holy shit, this looks amazing: https://youtu.be/HKN6FAKjFPU Would be a great movie night pick
4gib for a WEBrip! wtf is this a three hour long action movie? Check…yup. Time to break out the gummies.
Two of my favorite action movies of all time, both by John Carpenter, are They Live and Big Trouble In Little China. I could watch both endlessly on repeat and still enjoy/get laughs/have fun.
Oh shit, I forgot about Carpenter when I typed up my list. Escape from New York was also pretty decent for its time imo.
