Best 80's Action Movie and Why it's probably Die Hard

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Road warrior or Aliens for me but what a fantastic decade for action movies. Black Rain, Road House, Missing in Action, Death Wish, and American Ninja are some unmentioned ones that were solid(not top tier but solid). Loved Red Sonya, Conan, Willow, and all of the fantasy movies as well just to derail a bit.
 
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Paul verhovens other films might be more interesting than robocop

total recall was filmed in the 80's

flesh and blood is under rated as well
 
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I need an "I'm sad" reaction.



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Find a proper image that conveys that reaction and post in the reactions thread and I'll look at making it happen if it's good.


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Damn, this is a tough call. What's the criteria you use?

Music: Needs a killer soundtrack.
Visuals/Cinematography/FX: Needs to look awesome.
Lead Actor Charisma: Needs a strong lead.
Cultural Impact: Needs to have had a strong effect on the culture at large.
Dialogue (1Liners, if we're honest): Needs to be quotable.
X-Factor: That special something that puts it a notch above the rest.
Villain: Needs a memorable villain for our hero to defeat.

What a wealth to choose from. There needs to be a modern-day John Milius to bring back this sort of glory.
 
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Real Answer : either Terminator or Die Hard
Fun Answer : either Lethal Weapon (technically also a Christmas movie), Big Trouble in Little China, or Commando.
 
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Lightning Lord Rule said:
Find a proper image that conveys that reaction and post in the reactions thread and I'll look at making it happen if it's good.


On Topic:

Damn, this is a tough call. What's the criteria you use?

Music: Needs a killer soundtrack.
Visuals/Cinematography/FX: Needs to look awesome.
Lead Actor Charisma: Needs a strong lead.
Cultural Impact: Needs to have had a strong effect on the culture at large.
Dialogue (1Liners, if we're honest): Needs to be quotable.
X-Factor: That special something that puts it a notch above the rest.
Villain: Needs a memorable villain for our hero to defeat.

What a wealth to choose from. There needs to be a modern-day John Milius to bring back this sort of glory.
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Soundtrack plays a lot into it. Terminator and Robocop has amazing ones. Die Hards use of Ode To Joy is right there as well. Nothing is going to top the one liners from Die Hard though.

No criteria because this thread is about glistening chests, poorly timed gas explosions, enough blood loss to cripple an elephant and lots of leather.


Wait...this took a turn. Why am I hard?
 
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I have to go with Commando, i've had way too much absolute-shit-faced drinking sessions with that movie to not vote for it. It's the best drinking game we had years back
 
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Also, a shout-out to John McTiernan. Talk about a murderer's row of TMDB credits.

Predator
Die Hard
Hunt for Red October
13th Warrior (enjoyable but not great)
Thomas Crown Affair (underrated, I like this movie a lot)
Basic (also underrated)
 
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Soundtrack plays a lot into it. Terminator and Robocop has amazing ones. Die Hards use of Ode To Joy is right there as well. Nothing is going to top the one liners from Die Hard though.

No criteria because this thread is about glistening chests, poorly timed gas explosions, enough blood loss to cripple an elephant and lots of leather.


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Aliens soundtrack is tough to beat. They were using bits of that in movie trailers for YEARS afterwards. Conan the Barbarian soundtrack is also phenomenal.

Quotables is also a tough call. What's better, "Yippee ki yay, motherfucker!", any of the awesome Predator quotes from sexual tyrannosaurus to big pussy jokes, "I'm getting too old for this shit...", "If we're not back by dawn, call the president", "I'll be back", "I'll buy that for a dollar!"

You'd almost have to go by sheer numbers of great quotes, instead of which ones are better than others.

Great thread.
 
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There's only one answer and it's Predator.

There isn't a movie with better pacing, suspense and one liners than that.
 
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There's only one answer and it's Predator.

There isn't a movie with better pacing, suspense and one liners than that.
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It's tough to disagree with this. It ranks a 9 or 10 on all of the criteria I listed above.
 
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I always liked Running Man over Commando when it came to Arnie movies. Running man should be in tier one of action movies.
 
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Coolest gif gets the nomination
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Lightning Lord Rule said:
Aliens soundtrack is tough to beat. They were using bits of that in movie trailers for YEARS afterwards. Conan the Barbarian soundtrack is also phenomenal.
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That's all Gustov Holst.

Mars - Bringer of War is every 80's soundtrack.



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Quotables is also a tough call. What's better, "Yippee ki yay, motherfucker!", any of the awesome Predator quotes from sexual tyrannosaurus to big pussy jokes, "I'm getting too old for this shit...", "If we're not back by dawn, call the president", "I'll be back", "I'll buy that for a dollar!"
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"I'll be back" is probably the best. Predator quotes are a bit too camp.
 
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