Gunplay, car chases, shouting, one-liners and kung-fu – here’s our pick of the 50 most memorable action movie moments…
You’d think that compiling a list of memorable action movie moments would be quite simple, since there are so many violent, exciting, funny and downright bizarre nuggets to choose from. As we quickly discovered, the sheer number of classic moments in the genre’s history makes whittling them down to 50 extremely tricky.
To this end, we’ve established a few arbitrary rules: one, that the movies in question have to be live-action – so the wonderful downhill chase sequence from last year’s Tintin, for example, is out of the running.
Second, only movies that are in the action genre first and foremost actually qualify. Action movies with sci-fi, fantasy or comedy elements are fine, but space operas with action elements (sorry, Star Wars franchise) and dramas with glimmers of pulse-racing violence (The Godfather,...
You’d think that compiling a list of memorable action movie moments would be quite simple, since there are so many violent, exciting, funny and downright bizarre nuggets to choose from. As we quickly discovered, the sheer number of classic moments in the genre’s history makes whittling them down to 50 extremely tricky.
To this end, we’ve established a few arbitrary rules: one, that the movies in question have to be live-action – so the wonderful downhill chase sequence from last year’s Tintin, for example, is out of the running.
Second, only movies that are in the action genre first and foremost actually qualify. Action movies with sci-fi, fantasy or comedy elements are fine, but space operas with action elements (sorry, Star Wars franchise) and dramas with glimmers of pulse-racing violence (The Godfather,...
- 3/8/2012
- Den of Geek
The controversial mayor of San Francisco wants to upgrade to the governor's mansion. Would you hire this pretty face to run the world's eighth-largest economy?
Gavin Newsom wants to be the governor of California. Eventually. "But not now!" he laughs ruefully. "Let me wait until next year. Who the heck wants it now!"
Newsom, the famously hair-gelled, gay-marrying, hate-him-or-love-him mayor of San Francisco, has politely interrupted our conversation at Max's Opera Cafe, a favorite haunt near San Francisco City Hall, to check a text on his iPhone. Breaking news: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has just announced the layoffs of 5,000 state workers and proposed the sale of beloved state-owned landmarks, his most recent fist shake at the budget gods to stave off California's fiscal disaster. "Well, that's not surprising," says Newsom.
The state is bedeviled by plunging revenues, widespread foreclosures, failing schools, crumbling infrastructure, and a shaky credit rating, all being tackled...
Gavin Newsom wants to be the governor of California. Eventually. "But not now!" he laughs ruefully. "Let me wait until next year. Who the heck wants it now!"
Newsom, the famously hair-gelled, gay-marrying, hate-him-or-love-him mayor of San Francisco, has politely interrupted our conversation at Max's Opera Cafe, a favorite haunt near San Francisco City Hall, to check a text on his iPhone. Breaking news: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has just announced the layoffs of 5,000 state workers and proposed the sale of beloved state-owned landmarks, his most recent fist shake at the budget gods to stave off California's fiscal disaster. "Well, that's not surprising," says Newsom.
The state is bedeviled by plunging revenues, widespread foreclosures, failing schools, crumbling infrastructure, and a shaky credit rating, all being tackled...
- 7/7/2009
- by Ellen McGirt
- Fast Company
As stated in my introductory post [1] for Killer Imports [2], I wanted to write some posts other than reviews. This post addresses a topic that I’ve always wondered about. I was tempted to add the word "always" to the title of this article, because I can’t think of a single Asian director who has succeeded in Hollywood. When I say Asian, I should qualify that I mean directors who were not born on American soil. And when I say succeed, I mean in both critical and financial terms, and more often than not, these two ways of judging movies don’t go hand in hand. And of course, I’m generalizing. I admit I am also comparing their Hollywood films with the films they have made on their own soil. In a sense, this article is probably being unfair. In some cases, these Asian directors are hired to recreate...
- 4/10/2009
- by Reed
- FilmJunk
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