I love this thread. I watch all the movies. ALL OF THEM. Except the bad ones. I don't like campy, cheesy stuff. Makes me sick. >:c
Wild Geese is a fantastic movie about mercenaries. Rediscovered it just today while watching some 007 flicks. God those older ones are so cheesy.
This one's pretty great. Suffers from standard mook syndrome, but definitely good overall.
That reminds me. Forbidden Planet is an excellent ancient movie. Supposedly it helped inspire Star Trek, which isn't hard to believe. If you like original Star Trek, you'll probably like Forbidden Planet.
Speaking of ancient space films, Galaxy of Terror gets my vote as well. If you couldn't tell from the name, it's a bit, erm... well, it's a horror movie, among other things, but one that I'd say is pretty well-written and interesting.
I have to disagree.
Only 10 of the 50 guys make it out of there.. Poor Janders.. :'C
They're trading casualties pretty evenly once they've lost the element of surprise after the attack on the barracks to rescue what's his name. A whole truckload of guys gets strafed and then napalmed. Then they lose at least half their men running to the plane at the end.
*writes down name*
I am watching that as we speak. Will return with verdict. *runs away*
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Watch
The Raid. Best new action movie, with pants-shittingly awesome action. Gunfighting and knifefighting and people getting smashed on things and punched. It's begin to end nonstop fighting. No gore which makes me happy, but there is still killing, which I'm fine with. There's a second one which I've heard is just as good, but I haven't seen it and I don't vouch for it.
Speaking of horror,
everyone ought to watch
The Thing, with Kurt Russel. Watch the older one
first if at all possible though it isn't necessary, as there was a prologue-sequel of the same name made a couple years back which is also very good. They're not connected narratively, I just think they're better viewed in that order.
I recommend
War of the Arrows and
Little Big Soldier for some traditional fighting action and a good story.
On to kung-fu:
Ip-Man is the fantastic true story (with wire fighting, but deal with it the whole thing looks great) of Bruce Lee's master back when the Japanese occupied China. Very good movie. There is also a sequel,
Ip-Man 2, which you should read nor hear nothing about until you've seen the first one. The lead, who plays the titular character, Donnie Yen, is also in some other fantastic movies and he's worth checking out. There is also a third film, which I think is a prequel, and does not star Donnie Yen. I do not vouch for that one.
Anything with Jackie Chan barring his American movies (though the fighting is very good in Rush Hour 1/2 and Shangai Noon 1, I don't much like the story in any of them at all) is amazing:
Operation Condor 1/2,
Project A/A2,
Shinjuku Incident,
Gorgeous,
DRUNKEN MASTER,
Legend of the Drunken Master,
First Strike, and
Who am I? which also has one of my favorite fight scenes of all time. God damn does Jackie Chan put on some kick ass performances in all of these.
ALL of the
Ong-Bak movies are fucking epic, though it's been a long time since I've seen them. Watch them all.
All the above barring
The Thing are foreign movies so unless you're watching a Jackie Chan flick (which he's dubbed all of them himself) you're stuck with subs my friends. But if you're watching these you're here for the action.
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