Does anyone but me miss action movies from the 'good old days'?

jimh0220

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From the 80's! Arnie, Bruce, Sly, Van Damme, etc! Cheesy catch phrases you not only could, but HAD TO repeat to your buddies! You knew them the first time you heard them.
The violence was gratuitus, and usually was ridiculous, but it was COOL! Blowing stuff up, shots you could never make, fights that went on for 5 minutes or more. All So COOL!!!!

Am I alone?
 
Nothing worse than an epic gun battle where everyone sprays lead like it's free and never re-loads. You can keep your 80s action movie.
 
I'd rather watch the old reruns of "Gunsmoke", "Have Gun Will Travel", "Lawman", "Rawhide", & "Wagon Train", rather than the garbage on TV now-a-days...
 
i love them !!!! All of them, I do not understand how you can not like them.
 
I like 'em better than all this CGI stuff we get today. The amazing thing about watching Bruce Lee do amazing stuff is knowing that be did it. The amazing thing about watching James Bond ski jump off a cliff and then open a parachute is knowing that it's not some computer-generated or green-screen faked thing but -- while Roger Moore didn't do it -- some person actually did do it (and in one take).

Speaking of takes, the "modern style" of camera-cutting every three seconds not only makes it seem "more intense," but it also lets them stitch together bits and pieces from sometimes hundreds of takes. Today's star -- or his stunt double -- only needs to get it right in three-second increments.
 
jimh0220 said:
From the 80's! Arnie, Bruce, Sly, Van Damme, etc! Cheesy catch phrases you not only could, but HAD TO repeat to your buddies! You knew them the first time you heard them.
The violence was gratuitus, and usually was ridiculous, but it was COOL! Blowing stuff up, shots you could never make, fights that went on for 5 minutes or more. All So COOL!!!!

Am I alone?
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You are alone. Those movies sucked. :p

John Woo films, on the other hand...
"Arnie" and Van Dammit are sissy little schoolgirls compared to Chow Yun Fat.

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Actually Schwarzenegger action movies were fun sometimes. Some were good, some were awful. He always sucked at trying to be funny.
Van GoshDarn movies were practically unwatchable. Not as bad as Keanue Reaves, but close.
I liked many Bruce Willis movies, except the stupid Die Hard crap.
Stallone had an equal number of decent movies and junkers.
 
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I don't miss them so much "cause they were so cheesy". I have them all on hand for whenever I get the urge.

They still make me smile.

Bloodsport is my favourite martial arts movie ever closely followed by kickboxer....

I can watch predator over and over again..

Favourite predator quotes:

"knock knock"
"Stick around"
"If it bleeds, we can kill it"

and my all time favourite

"dude you're bleeding"...."I ain't got time to bleed"

I always dreamed I would be that tough one day :)
 
I always thought it was so cheesy how Sean Connery picks goons off from across an empty warehouse hip firing his handgun, but man, I love the old Bond movies.
 
GarnetandBlack said:
I always thought it was so cheesy how Sean Connery picks goons off from across an empty warehouse hip firing his handgun, but man, I love the old Bond movies.
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Don't forget: he's got a little help. That's no ordinary PPK. Q-Branch has been through it.
 
I tried to watch Commando last year when it came on at 2am, and I couldn't sleep. I got thorough the first half hour and I couldn't take any more of it.

Later, I looked through a bunch of the old 80's action movie scenes on Youtube. "Some were good, some were awful" pretty much describes my opinion of them. I'm with Gollnick though, I'll take the old 80's action movies over most of what we have today.

The fight scene between Patrick Swayze and Marshall Teague in Roadhouse is still my favorite fight scene.

~Chris
 
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Just watch one of the Charles Bronson,, Death Wish movies...Simple but great plots (all of them,,one,two and three)...Bad guys do something,,"very bad"..Old boy Charles Bronson goes and hunts em down vigilanty style..The old time scary music in the background..All the freaks out on the street at night..

I still love watching them when AMC or some other network will occasionally show one...
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Era's come and go.

The formula for those movies where ONE guy takes on an entire army by himself and comes out virtually unscathed with an endless supply of bullets and other things that go BOOM armed only with the "wrath of God" on him looked good when I was a kid (80's was my generation too). Now, I don't think it might be that successful.

Now De Niro's "Ronin" or any of Michael Mann's work (but especially HEAT the epic gun battle from the bank heist) floats my boat.
 
untamed said:
Now De Niro's "Ronin" or any of Michael Mann's work (but especially HEAT the epic gun battle from the bank heist) floats my boat.
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The old Michael Mann Crime Story television show is still great too, especially the movie-length pilot.
 
Shann said:
Still waiting for a Gymkata sequel :)
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Sacasm? Never heard of it, but I found this: http://www.cracked.com/article_18996_5-reasons-gymkata-funniest-movie-80s.html

Kurt Thomas was a three-time World Champion Gymnast and a sure bet for Olympic gold in 1980, but missed out because the U.S. boycotted the games over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Getting this movie instead was like replacing a winning lottery ticket with an eviction notice from dignity.
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I can watch all the Terminators. They are somewhat of a classic to me. Rambo's are the same way.

Has anyone seen the Expendables? I thought they are worth seeing. The second one has Chuck Norris.
 
All these posts and not one mention of Clint?
"Make my day","Do you feel lucky,punk?" and my personal favorite these days"A man's got to now his limitations".

I also love Bonanza. Hoss was a pisser.
 
I forgot to mention Lone Wolf McQuade. The best character in the movie was his Dodge Ramcharger.

~Chris
 
I'm not sure that 'miss' qualifies in my case, being as I'm way to young to have grown up watching most of the television shows and movies from back then. But I still enjoy John Wayne movies and the like over a lot of the stuff being put out now.
 
Bob W said:
The old Michael Mann Crime Story television show is still great too, especially the movie-length pilot.
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I remembered that one too with Dennis Farina right? I heard he was a real police officer once as well.
 
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