Movies The Gentlemen, The Man From UNCLE, Jack Reacher, Bourne Trilogy, The Guest etc.
Just good action, good acting and little downtime from the action/suspense. Need something to pass the time.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is the king of this genre of movie.
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The Running Man, based on a Stephen King book that is pretty good and could’ve arguably predicted reality TV. It’s hilarious from the outfits to the one liners.
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Commando, more hilarious Arnie stuff. This movie has a lot of his original one liners in it and is funny as hell with it’s acting.
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End of Days. This was meant to be a serious horror/action film using religious themes and the apocalypse. It’s so bad, both Arnie and Gabriel Byrne are on a quest to overact each other.
Does Predator count? It’s got very little downtime, I watched it silent in a bar once and ignored my friends for like an hour I was so invested.
My favorite is Mad Max Fury Road.
Mad Max: Fury Road is not dumb, it is an excellently crafted piece of film. Telling a story and hitting emotional beats with car chases is exactly what Fast and the Furious tries to do, but fails. Fury Road is a technical masterpiece. No I will not be taking questions.
I loved Crank just cuz it was so dumb and fun.
Ong Bak
hell yeah. this is my favorite genre. i think of it as “Bro Lit”. there’s always just enough emotional tension for me, a bored idiot, to buy in to the necessity of some asses getting kicked. before COVID i was hoping to start a movie series with a small group of friends to share and watch the shit out of these movies, later discussing their commonalities and divergences. there is a lot to make fun of in this broad genre, but there is something especially appealing about a good one.
gonna have to check out The Gentlemen and The Guest.
this list isn’t comprehensive… it just has ones i could think of that i don’t see elsewhere in here, and not all of them are “dumb”, but none of them require much brain to stick with.
evil government/corporate conspiracy
- Bourne Legacy (2012)
- American Ultra (2015)
- Haywire (2011)
- Shooter (2007)
- Lethal Weapon 1
- Die Hard 2
- The Hunted (2003)
this predatory crime syndicate is going DOWN
- Homefront (2013)
- Payback (1999)
- Man on Fire (2004)
- The Equalizer (2014)
- Get Carter (2000)
- Lucy (2014)
- Next of Kin (1989)
- Taken (2008)
- Roadhouse (1989)
- The Punisher (2004)
ultimo hombre, against the odds
- The Fugitive (1993)
- The Grey (2012)
this terrorism will not stand, man
- The Jackal (1997)
- Under Siege (1992)
culture clashing for personal enrichment
- The 13th Warrior (1999)
