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[digita1alchemy]

10.) Hard Target (Lance Henrikson motherfuckers)
9.) Speed
8.) Drunken Master II
7.) Cliffhanger (Also, best action movie trailer ever made)
6.) True Lies
5.) The Raid 2
4.) Hard Boiled
3.) Robocop
2.) Police Story
1.) Die Hard

The late 80s and early 90s were truly the golden age of action cinema.

 

[Haloid1177]

1. Die Hard
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
4. Aliens
5. Mad Max Fury Road
6. The Matrix
7. The Raid
8. The Road Warrior
9. Fast Five
10. True Lies

 

[JLynn]

1: Police Story (Jackie Chan, 1985)

2: Drunken Master II (Lau Kar-Leung & Jackie Chan, 1994)

3: Fist of Legend (Gordon Chan, 1994)

4: Wheels on Meals (Sammo Hung, 1984)

5: RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987)

6: Commando (Mark L. Lester, 1985)

7: The Killer (John Woo, 1989)

8: Terminator 2: Judgement Day (James Cameron, 1991)

9: La Femme Nikita (Luc Besson, 1990)

10: The Raid 2: Berandal (Gareth H. Evans, 2014)

 

[True Savior]

8. Fist of Legend

I wanted to slip it in there . I had it wrote down but then i took it .Such a great movie. It's a great step up by him from what he was doing at the time.

Jet is menacing as fuck in it.

And his abilities in the movie are something else (and his stunt man)

But at the same time there are so many martial arts movie deservingly to be mentioned. Reading about the action genre , sometimes people go over the same 10-20 movies over and over when the genre is so enormous and with many different talented people working on it.

 

[Fancy Clown]

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Aliens
3. Die Hard
4. Mad Max: Fury Road
5. The Road Warrior
6. T2
7. Temple of Doom
8. Predator
9. The Bourne Ultimatum
10. The Raid 2

Will probably end up changing this a couple times...the urge to put Fury Road in the top 3 is real

 

[Soulfire]

1. Die Hard
2. The Matrix Reloaded
3. The Raid
4. The Matrix
5. Hot Fuzz
6. Ip Man
7. The Raid 2
8. Equilibrium
9. Dredd
10. Punisher War Zone

Gonna re-watch some things so it might change before the deadline

 

[Carbonox]

1. Terminator 2
2. Predator
3. Mad Max Fury Road
4. The Terminator
5. True Lies
6. Die Hard
7. The Matrix
8. The Road Warrior
9. Commando
10. The Raid 2

 

[Thezez]

1. Die Hard
2. Lethal Weapon 2
3. Crank
4. True Lies
5. Independence Day

 

[Josh5890]

1. US Marshals
2. Die Hard
3. Bloodsport
4. Executive Decision
5. Terminator 2
6. The Fugitive
7. Seven Samurai
8. Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
9. Total Recall (The 80's version)
10. The Grandmaster

 

[Splatterpunk]

1) Predator
2) Hard Boiled
3) Police Story
4) Die Hard
5) Drunken Master 2
6) 36 Chambers of Shaolin
7) Fist of Fury (1972)
8) Aliens
9) Commando
10) The Raid

Honorable mentions to: Ninja Scroll, Once Upon a Time in China 1+2, Sword of the Stranger, The Killer, City on Fire, Ong Bak/The Protector, Dredd, District B-13, Punisher: Warzone, Chocolate, 13 Assassins, a million more HK movies. Props to whoever mentioned Duel to the Death, got to see it on the big screen recently and it was awesome. Is there an action movie OT anywhere?

 

[JDHarbs]

1. the general

I like you.

Isn't this technically a comedy though?

 

[SHEF]

1. Django Unchained
2. The Man From Nowhere
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
4. Snowpiercer
5. Die Hard
6. The Matrix
7. A Bittersweet Life
8. Terminator 2
9. The Good, the Bad, the Weird
10. Dredd

 

[Premium Quality]

1) Robocop
2) Predator
3) Die Hard
4) Terminator
5) Seven Samurai
6) Lethal Weapon
7) Big Trouble in Little China
8) Hard Boiled
9) Ip Man
10) Dredd

 

[LaNaranja]

1. Fast and Furious 6
The best Fast and the Furious movie by far and also my favorite action movie. I absolutely love Justin Lin's use of practical effects with as little CG as necessary as it kept everything grounded even when it was completely ridiculous. The initial scene where Dom's team gets taken out one by one by Shaw's team was a thing of beauty.

2. The Long Kiss Goodnight
It is a Shane Black script through and through and just a ton of fun throughout. Lethal Weapon has nothing on this. Geena Davis and Sam Jackson are fantastic.

3. Iron Man 3
Every Marvel movie has action in it, but no other Marvel movie is really an action movie like Iron Man 3. It is another Shane Black Christmas movie and I really love the cast in this one.

4. Bloodsport
My personal favorite Jean-Claude Van Damme movie. The movie is full of ridiculously hilarious and awesome moments.

5. Battle Royale
I fucking hate reading subtitles. They are the fucking worst. Battle Royale is the only movie with subtitles I have seen more than once, it is that good. It also helps that there is so little dialogue in the movie.

6. Kill Bill Vol. 1
Not my favorite Tarantino movie, but the only one that really qualifies as an action movie in my opinion (besides Vol. 2). The kitchen fight and the Crazy 88 fight are beautiful.

7. The Mummy
Brendan Fraser at the peak of his career. I appreciate the fairly smaller scale of this movie.

8. The Mummy Returns
More of the same.

9. Speed Racer
Why didn't people like this again? The visuals are gorgeous and the races are all great.

10. Cellular
Does anyone remember this movie? It stared Chris Evans and Jason Statham and yet it seems no one ever talks about it. Granted, the whole movie is about a phone call with a stranger but still, it is pretty damn entertaining.

There are plenty of movies with great action that I wouldn't really call action movies. I love Django but that is more western than action movie. The Warriors is another movie I love but I wouldn't classify it primarily as an action movie. Same with Hot Fuzz, which I love more than anything on this list.

 

[parbofellas]

No Star Wars boooo

 

[KevinCow]

Mine will undoubtedly be an unpopular list, but here we go.

1) The Avengers
2) Die Hard
3) Speed Racer
4) Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
5) The Matrix
6) Iron Man 3
7) Captain America: The Winter Soldier
8) Terminator 2
9) John Wick
10) Live Free or Die Hard

 

[Toothless]

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. The Matrix
3. Casino Royale
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. Mad Max: Fury Road
6. Battle Royale
7. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
8. From Russia with Love
9. In the Line of Fire
10. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

 

[jmizzal]

1) The Matrix
2) Terminator 2
3) Die Hard
4) Taken
5) Bad Boys

 

[Michael F. Assbender]

1. Die Hard
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
4. Terminator 2 (I put it above the first one despite some niggling issues, including the fact that nearly every scene with Edward Furlong in it is almost unwatchably annoying)
5. Robocop (original)

 

[Jack Remington]

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Terminator 2
3. Aliens
4. Die Hard
5. Predator
6. Mad Max: Fury Road
7. Avatar
8. Total Recall
9. The Terminator
10. Black Hawk Down

 

[Foggy]

1. Die Hard
2. Hard Boiled
3. Predator
4. Fist of Legend(1994)
5. Robocop
6. 13 Assassins(Miike)
7. The Raid
8. Universal Soldier: Regeneration
9. The Last Boy Scout
10. Bloodsport

Nothing will top 1985-1995 in action cinema.

 

[Decado]

Hard. May adjust later:

1. Die Hard
2. The Raid: Redemption
3. Hard Boiled
4. Kill Bill Vol. 1
5. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
6. Aliens
7. Robocop (1987)
8. Mad Max: Fury Road
9. Dredd
10. The Raid 2

The Raid 2 probably has the best action sequences, but the pacing is off so ranked it lower.

I've only seen Fury Road so I'm not sure if that is a good place for it.

Close are:
Rambo
Total Recall (1990)
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
The Man From Nowhere (not quite actiony enough)
and some Asian flicks I just haven't seen recently enough like Ip Man and First of Legend.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

I kinda feel like Animated/Anime films don't really count. In a medium where you can literally do whatever you want, it's sorta unfair to put that up against live action when it comes to camera movements, framing and stunts.

 

[Stuggernaut]

1. Die Hard
2. Rambo: First Blood
3. Predator
4. Cliffhanger
5. The Matrix
6. The Bourne Identity
7. Lethal Weapon
8. Crank
9. Terminator II
10. Conan the Barbarian (Original)

Also, wow was that Cliffhanger trailer posted back a bit SPOILERY....hehe.

 

[Walpurgis]

I kinda feel like Animated/Anime films don't really count. In a medium where you can literally do whatever you want, it's sorta unfair to put that up against live action when it comes to camera movements, framing and stunts.

I disagree. A lot of anime take the easy way and use garbage fight scenes with bad animation that are basically just panels from the manga.

Sublime stuff like this is rare and takes a lot of skill (her sword is supposed to be invisible, btw).

 

[zma1013]

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Die Hard
3. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
4. Aliens
5. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
6. Saving Private Ryan (Do war movies count as action?)
7. Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Casino Royale
9. The Matrix
10. Dredd

 

[Bobby Roberts]

I disagree. A lot of anime take the easy way and use garbage fight scenes with bad animation that are basically just panels from the manga

That's not my point, though; I'm not comparing great anime to bad anime. I'm also not saying anime counts less compared to live action, or that the creativity on display is lessened. In fact, I'm saying the opposite: There are some animated films being nominated in this thread that are fucking amazing from an action standpoint - so amazing, in fact, that it's unfair to put them up against action movies constrained by the fact they have to have real live people in them.

Part of what makes an action movie stick isn't just the choreography or the camera movements - it's the tangibility of what's happening. Even in something like The Matrix, people are swinging and getting swung on, getting hit, dodging squibs, so on and so forth. A camera crew has to capture all that, people have to do weeks or months of training to prep for the shoot. That all comes through, that's part of why action movies are loved the way they are as a genre.

In an animated action film - you don't have to deal with any of that. And because you don't, you end up getting to do shit people simply can't do. It's why the medium is beautiful, and why I love it as much as I do. It's also why I think it's unfair to put something like Redline or Ninja Scroll up against something like Predator or Fist of Legend.

It just doesn't feel right, to me. I dunno.

ALSO just rewatched Fury Road for the fourth time tonight after finally getting the blu-ray.

I'm bumping it into my top 3 all time. Just under Die Hard.

 

[KevinCow]

That's not my point, though; I'm not comparing great anime to bad anime. I'm also not saying anime counts less compared to live action, or that the creativity on display is lessened. In fact, I'm saying the opposite: There are some animated films being nominated in this thread that are fucking amazing from an action standpoint - so amazing, in fact, that it's unfair to put them up against action movies constrained by the fact they have to have real live people in them.

Part of what makes an action movie stick isn't just the choreography or the camera movements - it's the tangibility of what's happening. Even in something like The Matrix, people are swinging and getting swung on, getting hit, dodging squibs, so on and so forth. A camera crew has to capture all that, people have to do weeks or months of training to prep for the shoot. That all comes through, that's part of why action movies are loved the way they are as a genre.

In an animated action film - you don't have to deal with any of that. And because you don't, you end up getting to do shit people simply can't do. It's why the medium is beautiful, and why I love it as much as I do. It's also why I think it's unfair to put something like Redline or Ninja Scroll up against something like Predator or Fist of Legend.

It just doesn't feel right, to me. I dunno.

ALSO just rewatched Fury Road for the fourth time tonight after finally getting the blu-ray.

I'm bumping it into my top 3 all time. Just under Die Hard.

I get what you're saying, but following that same logic, shouldn't CGI-heavy movies be out, too? But then if you do that, you can't just say "No movies with CGI," because that would rule out pretty much every movie in the past 15 years, even something like Mad Max: Fury Road that is so beloved for its practical effects. So then you'd have to draw an arbitrary line somewhere and say, "A movie can have no more than X amount of CGI to count." But where would you draw that line? Avatar? The Avengers? Mad Max?

Plus the thread title isn't, "Greatest Live-Action Action Movies," it's just, "Greatest Action Movies." If people want to vote for animated movies, I say go for it.

 

[Net_Wrecker]

1. Hard Boiled
2. Raiders of The Lost Ark
3. Mad Max Fury Road
4. The Good, The Bad, The Weird
5. Drunken Master 2
6. Die Hard
7. Seven Samurai
8. Lethal Weapon
9. Aliens
10. Starship Troopers

I'm never satisfied with lists so I might change this around some before the deadline. It's always in flux anyway aside from Hard Boiled sitting in the throne. Also tried not to throw The Killer and Road Warrior on there for the sake of variety.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

I get what you're saying, but following that same logic, shouldn't CGI-heavy movies be out, too?

No. Why would that follow? CGI-heavy isn't the same as completely animated. That's a leap you can't logically make. The rest of your post just kinda takes that leap and is asking me questions on the other side of the jump. But I can't follow you over there: A live-action movie that uses a variety of visual effects tools (including computer animated imagery) isn't the same as a completely animated film at all. There are still constraints in play with live-action, and a lot of what causes people to value action movies is how well they can work against those constraints, and use them to create really kinetic, impactful sequences, just as much (if not more) than if the VFX allows them to cut loose and do completely impossible things.

Besides which, look at the movies getting nominated: 1) there's not a lot of CGI-heavy nominees, probably because 2) people sort of intrinsically note that and, to some degree, hold it against the film, especially if it's not used all that well.

 

[Jigorath]

1. Terminator 2
2. Die Hard
3. The Matrix
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Mad Max: Fury Road
6. Ghost in the Shell
7. Casino Royale
8. The Raid 2
9. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
10. Kill Bill Volume 1

 

[Walpurgis]

That's not my point, though; I'm not comparing great anime to bad anime. I'm also not saying anime counts less compared to live action, or that the creativity on display is lessened. In fact, I'm saying the opposite: There are some animated films being nominated in this thread that are fucking amazing from an action standpoint - so amazing, in fact, that it's unfair to put them up against action movies constrained by the fact they have to have real live people in them.

Part of what makes an action movie stick isn't just the choreography or the camera movements - it's the tangibility of what's happening. Even in something like The Matrix, people are swinging and getting swung on, getting hit, dodging squibs, so on and so forth. A camera crew has to capture all that, people have to do weeks or months of training to prep for the shoot. That all comes through, that's part of why action movies are loved the way they are as a genre.

In an animated action film - you don't have to deal with any of that. And because you don't, you end up getting to do shit people simply can't do. It's why the medium is beautiful, and why I love it as much as I do. It's also why I think it's unfair to put something like Redline or Ninja Scroll up against something like Predator or Fist of Legend.

It just doesn't feel right, to me. I dunno.

ALSO just rewatched Fury Road for the fourth time tonight after finally getting the blu-ray.

I'm bumping it into my top 3 all time. Just under Die Hard.

I understand what you are saying. I just go off of what impresses me more relative to what is most common in the medium/genre. In the end though, it always comes down to what provides me with more fun. The fact that those movies are live action definitely adds to the fun for me but the crazy shit and beautiful animation in Fate/Zero does as well. I guess I just follow my heart.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

The fact that those movies are live action definitely adds to the fun for me but the crazy shit and beautiful animation in Fate/Zero does as well. I guess I just follow my heart.

Well, shit. I may be a crusty old rules laywer sometimes, but I can't argue against that.

 

[glow]

1. Predator
2. Story of Ricky
3. Master of the Flying Guillotine
4. Apocalypto
5. Die Hard
6. Hard Boiled
7. Total Recall
8. The Streetfighter
9. Assault on Precinct 13
10. Crank

 

[StaffyManasse]

This is hard. Also, I have a feeling this thread is going to be generating a lot of salt.


Like in the greatest film thread, I am going list my personal greatest, the films I always return to, or often think about. Films, that when someone says "action movie" I instantly think about. On my list, you're going to be seeing this man a lot:

My childhood hero.

I also wanted to trim the list to only include the very top 5. Films I have seen, and will continue to watch many many times. They never get old. Outside the list there are of course so many great films I hold in high regard, but these are on their own level.

The list:

1) Terminator 2
2) Mad Max: Fury Road
3) Aliens
4) Predator
5) Total Recall (1990)

Observations:

I like my entertainment with a taste of sci-fi.
Fury Road is on 2nd spot.
List is basically Arnold in his prime acting years + two great female leads.

 

[TheJLC]

1. Die Hard
2. Terminator 2
3. Lethal Weapon
4. Dirty Harry
5. Dredd
6. The Rock
7. Starship Troopers
8. Predator
9. Raiders of The Lost Ark
10. Con Air

Honorable Mention:
The Warriors

 

[Jesus Carbomb]

1. Aliens
2. Temple of Doom
3. Predator
4. Terminator 2
5. Die Hard
6. Matrix Reloaded
7. Robocop
8. The Bourne Ultimatum
9. The Mission (Johnny To)
10. Hanna

 

[NightShift]

1. Robocop
2. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
3. Aliens
4. The Terminator
5. Mad Max: Fury Road
6. Predator
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Starship Troopers
9. Die Hard
10. Commando

 

[Jables Swan]

1. Die Hard
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Teminator 2: Judgement Day
4. Aliens
5. Robocop
6. The Matrix
7. Mad Max: Fury Road
8. Predator
9. Kill Bill Vol 1
10. The Raid

 

[Mr. Sam]

Off the top of my head:

1. The Matrix
2. Aliens
3. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
4. Die Hard
5. Predator
6. Robocop
7. Mad Max: Fury Road
8. Commando
9. Speed Racer
10. Lethal Weapon

 

[Discotheque]

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1. Die Hard
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
4. Terminator 2
5. Hard Boiled
6. The Road Warrior
7. Drunken Master 2
8. Predator
9. Speed
10. Robocop

this list would've been more interesting if I allowed myself to vote for something outside the canon...meh[/QUOTE]

Oh wow. Bless up for the speed love, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say while matrix might be the better movie, speed is more fun to watch again

1. Raiders of Lost Ark
2. T2
3. Fury Road
4. Lethal Weapon
5. Die Hard
6. Aliens
7. Road Warrior
8. Hard Boiled
9. Matrix
10. Predator

Edit; for the numbers, you took seconds out of my day are you happy now?!!!

 

[Sölf]

Looking at several of these top 100 lists, there are movies in there I would never even classify as an action movie (like, Inception, really?). And after seeing The Raid... I somehow doubt anything in the next few years will come close (and looking back, I either haven't seen some of the really good ones or though they were not that great, hm).

1. The Raid 2
2. The Raid
3. John Wick
4. Star Wars - Episode 3
5. The Good, The Bad, The Weird
6. The Matrix
7. Shiri
8. Star Wars - Episode 6
9. James Bond - Die Another Day
10. Pirates of the Caribbean 3

Nothing really old in here, because I either haven't seen it or it wasn't that memorable for me compared to these. Eh, whatever.

 

[Secret Fawful]

I think it's completely unfair to leave animation out of the category. Sure, it bypasses the work and craft that goes into a live-action production, but plenty of work and effort of a different kind goes into animation, and movies like Ghost in the Shell are a cut above the rest for a reason. I can't think of very many Western animated action movies, and that's part of why animation should be counted. Too many people think animation doesn't matter, can't be anything elevated, and then on the opposite the idea that animation is too good to compete? They're films too. Animation does matter, and as long as movies are ranked or critiqued, I'm going to be there to make sure animation is given respect and counted, because it deserves to be. Honestly, I'm leaving out a lot of movies I see other people counting because I think they fit into or are better in a different genre, like the Mummy. But animation is a medium, and it's one that will always count as far as I'm concerned. Just a few decades ago when stuff like GITS came out you'd be a super nerd or laughed out of town of you tried to claim that an animated film could compete with movies like Die Hard or Terminator. Animation deserves respect and deserves to be counted.

 

[TP-DK]

I'm terrible with lists, as soon as I have to make one I forgot half the movies.

1. Die Hard
2. Terminator 2
3. Aliens
4. Predator
5. The Matrix
6. Die hard Vengeance
7. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
8. The Good, The Bad, The Weird
9. The Raid
10. Lethal Weapon

 

[KevinCow]

No. Why would that follow? CGI-heavy isn't the same as completely animated. That's a leap you can't logically make. The rest of your post just kinda takes that leap and is asking me questions on the other side of the jump. But I can't follow you over there: A live-action movie that uses a variety of visual effects tools (including computer animated imagery) isn't the same as a completely animated film at all. There are still constraints in play with live-action, and a lot of what causes people to value action movies is how well they can work against those constraints, and use them to create really kinetic, impactful sequences, just as much (if not more) than if the VFX allows them to cut loose and do completely impossible things.

Besides which, look at the movies getting nominated: 1) there's not a lot of CGI-heavy nominees, probably because 2) people sort of intrinsically note that and, to some degree, hold it against the film, especially if it's not used all that well.

Because:

Part of what makes an action movie stick isn't just the choreography or the camera movements - it's the tangibility of what's happening. Even in something like The Matrix, people are swinging and getting swung on, getting hit, dodging squibs, so on and so forth. A camera crew has to capture all that, people have to do weeks or months of training to prep for the shoot. That all comes through, that's part of why action movies are loved the way they are as a genre.

Look at something like Avatar. People aren't swinging and getting swing on. People aren't getting hit and dodging squibs. The camera crew doesn't have to do any of the tricks they have to do in a non-CGI movie because they're mostly filming against a green screen - and that's if they're filming at all during an action scene, because many of them are 100% CGI. Avatar's the extreme end of the spectrum, but most modern action movies are like that to some degree.

I know CGI-heavy movies, particularly Avatar, aren't exactly lighting this thread on fire, but that's beside the point. Neither are animated movies.

Also, I disagree with your reasoning for there being so few CGI-heavy nominees and would argue that it's more because of '80s-'90s nostalgia, but that's an argument for another day.

 

[inm8num2]

(unnumbered list)

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Avatar's the extreme end of the spectrum,

But you acknowledge that it's an extreme comparison, then how is it all that good a comparison? Most modern action movies aren't like that to anywhere near that similar a degree.

I know CGI-heavy movies, particularly Avatar, aren't exactly lighting this thread on fire, but that's beside the point. Neither are animated movies.

I know it's beside the point, it was a tangential spinoff of the main point I had made, and basically conceded before you even replied because Walpurgis had basically said "yeah, but I just really love that movie" to which I don't have a counter-argument, and even if I did, it's not worth trying to put it up against that.

Animation does matter, and as long as movies are ranked or critiqued, I'm going to be there to make sure animation is given respect and counted

And again, that's not the point I'm trying to make, and I specifically made sure to say essentially the opposite.

 

[Secret Fawful]

And again, that's not the point I'm trying to make, and I specifically made sure to say essentially the opposite.

Yeah, I realized that upon a reread of your post, but what I'm saying is that animation has been given the short end of the stick so long that it deserves to be counted now, in a day and age where it gets more respect than it used to. Kicking something out of the race because it's too good or too capable is just as unfair. Animation got to the point where someone like me might even count it at all, only to be run out of the race because it got too good? No. I don't buy that, man. I mean, you don't see me loading up my list with nothing but animation, and many of the live-action out there is more than good enough to stand above or next to the best animated action. That stunt-work and those practical effects aren't getting outshone anytime soon.

Also, I feel like Ghost in the Shell and Bebop are specifically more fair by your rules than most animated movies, especially Akira or Sword of the Stranger, because where those explicitly do things that can ONLY be done in animation or with tons and tons of CGI, GITS and Bebop feel more like live-action anyway. The Matrix basically ripped tons and tons of content out of GITS media, and Bebop is like an animated John Woo movie. Sword of the Stranger, basically an animation showcase, has that super-fast acrobatic movement that real humans can't pull off, at least not without extensive wire-fu, and Akira would require so much CGI it might as well stay animated. Josh Trank hasn't convinced me that that's not the case as much as he's desperately tried. I feel like GITS and Bebop can be done, although they wouldn't be today, with enough miniatures, mattes, video editing, constructing environments out of different parts like Fury Road did, and stunt work to leave the CGI up to things like just the optical camo and some of the final tank fight at best.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

I already conceded the entire argument, you guys! Jesus! My kneecaps!

MORE PEOPLE SHOULD BE VOTING, BY THE WAY.

 

[Magic Mushroom]

Did somebody compare Hard Boiled to a Michael Bay film? Talk of a madman.

Anyway:

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. The Matrix
3. Robocop
4. Hard Boiled
5. Predator
6. Starship Troopers
7. The Killer
8. Die Hard
9. Aliens
10. The Raid