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What are the best guy/action flicks?


In no particular order, mine are:

-Braveheart
-Ronin
-Highlander
-Serenity
-Ocean's Eleven
-Red Dawn
-Green Berets
-Kelly's Heroes
-Where Eagles Dare
-Tomb Raider
-Die Hard
-Mad Max Trilogy
-Matrix
-The Saint
-Conan the Barbarian, also the best line "What is best in life?  To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women."
-Name of the Rose
-Stargate

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Kelly's Heros! headbang.gif That is such a funny movie, even if it is full of hippie philosophy moved back to WWII setting...
Spartacus
Dirty Dozen
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Das Boot
Apollo 13
several Bond, James Bond films

and I agree with several others from your list...

(wondering to myself why is it that 99.999% of the best loved action flicks for men have as a major plot element bloodshed and mayhem? weirdface.gifwink.gif )

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Hello! Gladiator!!

And you call yourselves real men. rolleyes

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Ahem... we don't watch the movies for the drool factor of the leading man... sheesh! rolleyeswink.gif

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Coco's right, I missed one of my absolute favorites.

I love movies of strength and honor and duty, doing what is right. Gladiator is a great movie!

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Drool factor... what do you take me for? rolleyes

-- Edited by arbilad at 11:12, 2007-06-08

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I'm a fan of many of the superhero genre. (It's action more or less, right?) X-men, Spider-man, Superman, Batman...

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Personally, I don't understand that genre at all... Come to think of it.... there are so many things I just DON'T understand!!! wink.gif

Sometimes I can't completely avoid them... cause the rest of the family pretty much overrule me... rolleyes My one vote against dozens sometimes, yeah like THAT is going to get me anywhere... weirdface


-- Edited by PollyAnna at 23:50, 2007-06-07

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Man, I forgot the 13th Warrior!

I can't stand the superhero ones, never seen any of them.

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Red Sonja
Ultra Violet
Resident Evil
Underworld
Into the Blue

All movies with great scenery.

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I don't like action movies just for the sake of action, but I do like action in movies.

Lord of the Rings
Star Wars
The whole Babylon 5 TV series
Serenity

...all have decent action, while feeding the "what if" part of me brain...

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I highly recommend Ronin for the best car chase and gunfight scenes. Heat has a great gunfight scene.

I did like Chronicles of Riddick. Ahh, The Fifth Element to go with Resident Evil and Ultra Violet, hmmm.....Milla Jovovich.

Never could get into Red Sonja.

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Blackhawk Down
Band of Brothers
Saving Private Ryan
LOTR
Predator
Raw Deal
Alien
Aliens
Alien Ressurection
Bloodsport
pretty much any Clint Eastwood western
pretty much any John Wayne western
Tombstone

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Oh yeah, forgot about Band of Brothers. Though, I classify that as more a historically based drama than action film. Very well done mini-series.

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Must you always split hairs? With all due respect... wink.gif

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Valhalla wrote:

I highly recommend Ronin for the best car chase and gunfight scenes. Heat has a great gunfight scene.

I did like Chronicles of Riddick. Ahh, The Fifth Element to go with Resident Evil and Ultra Violet, hmmm.....Milla Jovovich.

Never could get into Red Sonja.



How could I have forgotten the Fifth Element.  Another film with beautiful scenery.biggrin



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Hey an action flick has to have the element of fiction to it... duh! biggrin.gif That is part of what makes it easier to stomach all the senseless killing that goes on of the bad guys by the hero! wink.gif

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The Italian Job
Star Trek (gooooo fake action!)
another vote for LOTR
another vote for Serenity
Willow
Minority Report
Merlin?
Ladyhawke?
Clear and Present Danger
Back to the Future?
Steel Magnolias

I may be crossing this line here. They're not all strictly action. And I don't know if they qualify as 'guy films' ...seeing as I'm not a guy.





Just kidding on the last one!!!!! Sheesh.

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rofl.gif You ALMOST got me Euph!!! biggrin.gif

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I loved the action part in Steel Magnolias, where the white-haired friendly old lady tells the bereaved mother, "Hit Weezer!!" biggrin

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What is this Serenity show I've never even heard of? weirdface.gif

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scifi movie: completed the illfated single season Firefly tv series... if you have a netflixy type thing, put Firefly in your queue and then watch Serenity. You won't be sorry...

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Ahem... Euph, the title of the thread is best guy/action flicks... not tear jerking chick flicks! rolleyesrofl.gif

Steel Magnolias... indeed!

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What!? Steel Magnolias has death in it... and threatened violence... and a comment about track-lighting a guys named Steve.

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How can a movie with an armadillo cake and fancy "balloons" not be a guy film?

(BTW, see my end note, Cat. rolleyes )

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Er... sorry, I thought that was your signature line... biggrin.gif

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