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  • Help Me Rent Action Movies

    I'm a big action/adventure movie fan, but I feel like I've run out of stuff to rent. Please list any oft-overlooked action movies you can think of. Anything from the 90s or 80s would be much appreciated.

    Thanks.


  • #2
    Re: Help Me Rent Action Movies

    Try here
    http://www.spout.com/films/901026/ViewFilmList.aspx

    And whatever you do, DON'T hire Fair Game with William Baldwin and Cindy Crawford.
    @TerranceMulloy

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    • #3
      Re: Help Me Rent Action Movies

      I don't know about overlooked, but here are some ideas...

      Air Force One
      True Lies
      Patriot Games
      Hunt for Red October
      Passenger 57
      Under Siege
      Airport '75
      Where Eagles Dare

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      • #4
        Re: Help Me Rent Action Movies

        Originally posted by RogerOThornhill View Post
        I don't know about overlooked, but here are some ideas...

        Air Force One
        True Lies
        Patriot Games
        Hunt for Red October
        Passenger 57
        Under Siege
        Airport '75
        Where Eagles Dare
        All good choices. I'd recommend every film.
        @TerranceMulloy

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        • #5
          Re: Help Me Rent Action Movies

          Any specific breed of action you're looking for?

          Military/espionage?
          Sci-fi action?
          Tough-guy action?
          Martial arts?
          Sent from my iPhone. Because I'm better than you.

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          • #6
            Re: Help Me Rent Action Movies

            The original Italian Job with Michael Caine and Benny Hill and the original Thomas Crown Affair with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway are also good.

            I'm starting to think of some overlooked ones...

            ffolkes with Roger Moore, James Mason and Anthony Perkins
            Red Dawn Charlie Scheen and Patrick Swayze
            Executive Decision Kurt Russell and Halle Berry
            Escape from New York Kurt Russell
            Midnight Run De Niro and Grodin
            Stallone Daylight, Cliffhanger, Demolition Man, Victory
            The Final Countdown Kirk Douglas
            Hellfighters Joh Wayne
            Three Days of the Condor Robert Redford

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            • #7
              Re: Help Me Rent Action Movies

              Ronin
              The Professional
              In the Line of Fire
              Three Kings
              Hard Rain
              Breakdown
              Surviving the Game
              Tombstone
              Miracles
              The Edge
              The Big Hit
              U-571

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              • #8
                Re: Help Me Rent Action Movies

                My guilty pleasure is Stone Cold.

                With Brian Bosworth as the "hero", Lance Henriksen as the pluperfect villain and William Forsythe as his loopy henchman. I used air quotes around hero, because when candyboy goes undercover as a biker, everything the mulleted putz does only makes bad matters worse...

                ... much, much worse.

                I swear the damned thing is a very sly send-up of the genre.
                "Forget it, Jake. It's Hollywood."

                My YouTube channel.

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                • #9
                  Re: Help Me Rent Action Movies

                  Some classics:

                  Point Break
                  The Getaway
                  (both 1997, and original)
                  Broken Arrow
                  Face Off
                  Hard Boiled
                  Hard Target
                  Under Seige
                  Under Seige II: Dark Territory
                  Positive outcomes. Only.

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                  • #10
                    Re: Help Me Rent Action Movies

                    Some great suggestions. Thanks -- I think I'll start with Airport '75 and go from there.

                    Originally posted by Naudikom View Post
                    Any specific breed of action you're looking for?

                    Military/espionage?
                    Sci-fi action?
                    Tough-guy action?
                    Martial arts?
                    All of those except martial arts. I don't mind the occasional roundhouse, but I'd rather see sh*t explode.

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                    • #11
                      Re: Help Me Rent Action Movies

                      Nighthawks -- Underrated Sly
                      Out for Justice -- Action packed and funny (sometimes unintentionally so)
                      Running Scared -- Billy Crystal
                      "I ask every producer I meet if they need TV specs they say yeah. They all want a 40 inch display that's 1080p and 120Hz. So, I quit my job at the West Hollywood Best Buy."
                      - Screenwriting Friend

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                      • #12
                        Re: Help Me Rent Action Movies

                        Actually... the non-Billy Crystal Running Scared is pretty damned cool.
                        "Forget it, Jake. It's Hollywood."

                        My YouTube channel.

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                        • #13
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                          COMMANDO will always be one of my favorite guilty-pleasure action movies. It practically raises camp to an art form. And most of that's thanks to Vernon Wells as Bennett, the henchman with the chain mail vest and gay porn star mustache.
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                          • #14
                            Re: Help Me Rent Action Movies

                            I'll add William Friedkin's The Hunted, with Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro. It's worth seeing for the knife fights alone. Bonus: homemade shivs.

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                            • #15
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                              Note: Some of these movies are now available on HD, and or BluRay (or will be shortly depending on region).

                              Rewatching some of them... Like the original Die Hard... In 1080p... Is like watching a whole new movie again because of the detail that was left out in the standard DVD and sometimes VHS transfers. Also, the audio is even closer to the actual theatrical experience (broader; more bass) than a lot of the DVD and VHS transfers too.
                              Positive outcomes. Only.

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