What's your favorite 80s action movie?

[gerrydevis]

Hey
These are mine favorite 80s action movies
beverly hills cop
back to the future
batman
who framed roger rabbit
ghostbusters
The Terminator

[marshal99]

80s action.

Predator
Aliens
Die Hard
BloodSport
Rocky III
Terminator
Robocop
Big Trouble in little china
The Karate kid
Indiana Jones movies
Mad Max 2

[jesse_custer]

1. The Killer

2. Die Hard

3. Conan the Barbarian

[Pro]

Back to the future springs to mind first as I identify it readily with the 80's.
But i think my real favorite is Star Wars: The Empire strikes Back.
It's just on the edge of the 80's but definitely one of my all-time favorite movies.

[The Black Guardian]

My short list:

First Blood
Die Hard
Escape from New York
Lethal Weapon
Predator
Red Dawn
RoboCop
Death Wish II
Commando
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

[Jettison]

Van Damme's Cyborg...big influence on me as a kid.

[David Walton]

Die Hard.

'Nuff said.

[LordEd1976]

big Trouble in Little China
Buckaroo Bonzai
Aliens
Terminator
Batman
beverly hills cop
Escape from New York


just to name a few

[brundlefly]

Die Hard.

'Nuff said.

Seconded. If I can only pick one 80s action flick, that would definitely be the one.

Terminator and RoboCop as 1st and 2nd runners-up.

[Jared]

[QUOTE=brundlefly;10313714]Seconded. If I can only pick one 80s action flick, that would definitely be the one.

Thirded. Die Hard is a classic.

2. Predator
3. Rambo: First Blood Part II

[Damiean Dark]

The 80s is still the decade to beat for entertainment imo from films like Ghostbusters and Robocop to toons like Thundercats and music from the likes of prince and madonna recent decades just didnt cut it in comparison for me.

The "Noughties" 2000/2010 where pretty dire really the only great thing that happend was the leaps in technology.

[rick]

the 80's produced lots of great action pictures, but for me nothing quite tops Die Hard.

[Frank]

So many choices but my favorite is Flesh + Blood from Danish crazy man, Paul Veroheven. It's like a medieval Mad Max 2 on acid. Rutger Hauer in his prime stars as this rogue bandit that's sometime good, sometime bad, leading a band of killers.

[Karl Cook]

I'd like to echo all the posters who've mentioned Die Hard. Just absolute quality.

[M. Bushbug]

Two words: DIE HARD.

[rick]

I would have to also throw The Road Warrior up there for a solid second place.

[Ronald Bryan]

Die Hard is the action movie.

[Damiean Dark]

Aliens anyone?

The cocky soldiers that get wiped out theme has been done many times since but Aliens is still the best for it imo Drake,Vasquez,Hicks,Apone and co still rock more then 20 years later.

[Libaax]

1. The Killer by John Woo,with Chow Yun-Fat, greatest action film i have seen.

2. Die Hard a pure classic

3. Aliens Stronger film than Die Hard but it was not only action it was Action/Horror.

[Ilash]

Well, I view Indiana Jones and Back to the Future as adventure movies more than actioners. As such, there is only one answer for me: Die Hard. Bruce Willis was a great action hero in it, the story and setting were brilliantly simple but, most importantly, you had Alan Rickman as one of cinema's greatest and, lets not forget, funniest bad guys. Without him, none of the other Die Hards ever had a hope in hell of coming close to the original.

[jesse_custer]

1. The Killer by John Woo,with Chow Yun-Fat, greatest action film i have seen.

I'm glad to see someone else mentioned this great [and apparently overlooked] action film.

[Libaax]

I'm glad to see someone else mentioned this great [and apparently overlooked] action film.

Well i'm not in US first and i have huge respect for Asian Cinema. I grew up in where Hong Kong,Bollywood were bigger than hollywood.

Grew up on Jackie Chan,Jet Li movies. Chow Yun-Fat,John Woo etc was next natural step.

I saw The Killer for time as an adult 3 years ago. It was mindbogglingly cool,great action. Better than i remembered.

After that every shoot them up film i think psst thats nothing compared to The Killer.

Die Hard is cool for McClane attitude,lines,the great villain but the killer main character,action scenes,music is too much.

[jesse_custer]

It's really true. Once you watch The Killer, most gunfights look boring and tame and uninspired. It spoils you.

[Libaax]

It's really true. Once you watch The Killer, most gunfights look boring and tame and uninspired. It spoils you.

But at the same time i enjoy decent action that have good gunfights. The Replacement Killers isnt one of Woo or Fat's best but it was good action.

I want to find other gunfight action film that i can enjoy cause of The Killer.

Not stupid standing still,blasting but cool action.

[mrc1214]

Die Hard would be #1 for me. Others i like are

Road Warrior
Robocop
Aliens
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Predator
First Blood (stallone had alot of action movies not all great but ok Over the Top,Cobra,some of the Rocky movies i think 3-5 are in the 80s)

[TShark82]

Im going with a couple of people that said Big Trouble In Little China, greatest action film ive ever seen let alone the 1980's.

Other 80's classics

Kickboxer
Bloodsport
Predator
Tango And Cash
Young Guns

[Trey]

Big Trouble in Little China
Terminator
Road Warrior
Commando


To a kid 10-15 years old, this is cinema gold!

[TShark82]

American Ninja was one action film I loved as a kid, but outgrew it.


But at the same time i enjoy decent action that have good gunfights. The Replacement Killers isnt one of Woo or Fat's best but it was good action.

I want to find other gunfight action film that i can enjoy cause of The Killer.

Not stupid standing still,blasting but cool action.

Check out Young Guns,thats a good modernized Western with fast paced gun fights.

[kalorama]

I don't know that I'd call it my favorite, but I've long considered Predator to be the perfect distillation of the essential essence of the 80s action movie.

[Karl Cook]

Lethal Weapon and Lethal Weapon 2 are both fine proponents of an '80s action movie.
Shane Black's excellent scripts were part of the reason they're great.

[cliffhanger]

TOTAL RECALL
Conan1,2
Beverly Hills Cop
Robo Cop
Hard to Kill
Predator
ALIENS-Maybe you havent been keepin up on current events but we just got our asses kicked!
Batman
ACTion Jackson-Carl Weathers is the man.
COBRA

[Monty_Cristo]

Last Dragon

[Hoss]

the 80's produced lots of great action pictures, but for me nothing quite tops Die Hard.

So true - and even more so when you think that Die Hard essentially created a whole sub-genre. Even Next Generation did a Die Hard Episode.


Can anyone think of a movie that did the lone hero enclosed in a finite space versus the bad guys for the entire time before Die Hard?

[Bouncing Boy]

I've seen Back to the Future mentioned a couple times here. Is it really an action movie? I don't even see it that much as an adventure like someone else said (though I do agree that the Indiana Jones movies are more adventure than action). I see Back to the Future as a science fiction comedy, and really more comedy than sci-fi.

I'm going to agree with practically everyone else and say Die Hard is probably the best. Beverly Hills Cop is up there too, as is Commando (yeah it was cheesy, but it was very fun and had Ahnold's best quip EVER, "Remember when I said I'd kill you last? I lied")

[Hoss]

I don't even see it that much as an adventure like someone else said (though I do agree that the Indiana Jones movies are more adventure than action).

Do they have to be mutually exclusive?

[jesse_custer]

So true - and even more so when you think that Die Hard essentially created a whole sub-genre. Even Next Generation did a Die Hard Episode.


Can anyone think of a movie that did the lone hero enclosed in a finite space versus the bad guys for the entire time before Die Hard?

I can't off the top of my head. However, this doesn't mean "Die Hard" created a subgenre. Other movies borrowed its premise or plot devices, but we still call them action movies.

[Royal]

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[Royal]

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[Bouncing Boy]

Do they have to be mutually exclusive?
No, but in the case of Indiana Jones, I don't really see it so much as action, except maybe the second one.