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Mission Impossible 1 also not really an action movie
Spy Thriller is what it is
Spy Thriller is what it is
Looking at your list the some of the 00's and 10's movies I wouldn't even consider to be an action movie.
Gladiator?
Avatar?
Batman?
Looper?
Inception?
These are Dramas that include action scenes.
Mission Impossible 1 also not really an action movie
Spy Thriller is what it is
Usually when you search catagoties you getYeah, I would call them all crime dramas.
I guess we have to start asking the question here, "What is an action movie?"
Usually when you search catagoties you get
Action
Drama
Horror
Comedy
Sci Fi
Under a standard system like this.. These movies are under action.
So yeah i think theres some devate as to what an action movie is.
How is the rock not a crime movie? Lots of criminals!
Well I can tell you a lot about MI 1 since I have seen it recently
I can only recall 1 real action scene in that movie and that's the final train sequence. They have other scenes in the movie that are iconic but those are slow burn tense slow scenes.
I need Total Recall people dying every 5 minutes type shit.
Well one thing I noticed was that you specified it was a "spy thriller."
Do you think of Casino Royale or The Bourne Identity as action films?
There are several titles in that list from the 90s that I have watched several times. I bet I've seen The Rock at least 15 times. Maybe 20.
I think from the 00s and 10s the only films that I've watched more than maybe three times are Kill Bill, Crouching Tiger and Casino Royale.
Bourne probably more so than Casino but they are both pretty much thrillers
That's fine. But doesn't it speak more to your enjoyment than creativity? I mean, getting a criminal outta jail to help stop another criminal wasn't a new concept.
Nah. It ushered in the end of a simpler time. A time when explosions could be defended by a slow-mo walk towards the camera. When guns never ran out of bullets. When there was always time to say something cool after killing someone. When it was always made obvious, in at least one scene, that tits and ass were the only reason there was a woman along for the ride with the hero.
Sadly "logic"... and "equality"... and "science" came along and fucked everything all up
Wouldnt the matrix be sci fi?
I dont think action movies exist.
Never saw 48 Hours.
But I thought that making a movie about a guy who has his face surgically removed and then switched with the face of another guy was pretty creative. Taking standard action tropes but then setting them on the ruins of Alcatraz was an inspired decision. Everything about The Matrix was mind-blowing at the time, and on a technical level it was literally revolutionary.
Total Recall and Demolition Man both explored the future in ways that I can't remember any other film doing. T2 was obviously a sequel, but if it was a fucking GREAT sequel that built upon the original in a huge way. The Long Kiss Goodnight took the ideas of amnesia and dual-identities and placed them in an action setting in a unique and entertaining way.
Yeah, I think that era was full of creativity and full of films where, at the time, you watched them and went, "This feels new to me. I don't feel like I've seen this before."
None of this really speaks to the conceptual basis of the stories, though.
Sure, we may be living in the era of "realistic" action movies, but having to reload a weapon has little to do with the narrative of the film.
Yes, Face Off is totally creative. Although I thought it kinda sucked. Matrix was highly creative.
Terminator 2 wasn't creative at all. It just beefed up the action. But I'll give it to you on LKG.
Sounds like what it might be is the convergence with sci-fi that elevated that era. Now we're inundated with sequels and comic book adaptations. I'm more of an 80's kid so that could be why the 90's didn't seem particularly special. I'd already seen Aliens, Blade Runner, and Terminator.