I like Con Air better than Die Hard but I dunno if it is better. Die Hard's pretty perfect. All those I listed are solid 10s imo. Forgot Midnight Run.
― Cars and Freedom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Well I don't know if there is actually anything else that's Die Hard gr8.
― Rejoice that you weren't eaten (chap), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
really, Dirty Harry is an action movie? The rest of the thread leads me to believe this genre hadn't been invented in 1971.
So, for prehistoric elements like chracterization and plotting:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jVsxsWgYMWk/S33ViuPevLI/AAAAAAAAClM/Sju4M-qbPyA/s400/WagesOfFear.jpg
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Wages of Fear as an action movie seems fair enough. Dirty Harry is a definite stepping stone between the policier and the Action Movie as an 80s phenomenon.
― Cars and Freedom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
while we're being genre nazis, midnight run, which i love, surely a raod movie/buddy movie smash bang fusion
thx for these posts ppl!
― zvookster, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought about the buddy movie aspects of Midnight Run but yeah genres are permeable. By the same token 48 Hours is kind of a buddy movie.
― Cars and Freedom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
watched The Wages of Fear on Netflix tonight due to this thread. wow, really great film. got a laugh out of the final scene ending really abruptly and shooting me back to the Netflix menu though. also enjoyed the fact that two of the main characters were named Mario and Luigi.
― circa1916, Thursday, 27 January 2011 06:20 (thirteen years ago) link
what do you like about die hard? I would recommend Ronin
― based god kwassa kwassa (dayo), Thursday, 27 January 2011 06:41 (thirteen years ago) link
this is probably challops but I don't think the action parts of Die Hard are great. movie's aged well because it has a sense of humor.
― based god kwassa kwassa (dayo), Thursday, 27 January 2011 06:45 (thirteen years ago) link
ronin's cool but it's kind of pretentious & slow, captures that le samourai sort of feeling p well but also a bit "i watched michael mann after he watched antonionionio". and like some of the character interactions are awkward and wrong & some of the spy stuff like i can't really remember but was p hokey and hard to give a shit abt but yeah it's p cool
― zvookster, Thursday, 27 January 2011 06:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Just watched Crank for the first time; clearly no Die Hard, but enormously enjoyable.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Sunday, 30 January 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
no repping for Lethal Weapon on this thread? up there with Die Hard imo. also set at Christmas time oddly.
― piscesx, Sunday, 30 January 2011 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Heat is way better than Die Hard. Can't believe this is the first mention on this thread.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 30 January 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Heat is great.
― ENBB, Sunday, 30 January 2011 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
^^was about to say
― Kerm, Sunday, 30 January 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
as M Z Seitz points out here, this 1964 French thriller-spoof vehicle for Jean-Paul Belmondo has quite an Indy-influence vibe. Some very funny scenes, and great stunts.
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/that-man-from-rio-1964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceB4bqJVEYg
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 03:50 (nine years ago) link