Guest Brian M Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 Here are a few that rock my world. Not in any order or anything. And in no way presented here as a 'complete list'; they're just some films I love. (and yeah, I realize some of these cross genres. i.e. they're action / horror, horror/sci-fi etc) ACTION Die Hard Die Hard 2 Aliens Predator V for Vengeance Matrix Long Kiss Good Night Lone Wolf McQuade Enter the Dragon First Blood The Terminator Under Siege HORROR The Exorcist The Howling An American Werewolf in London The Thing Poltergeist Dog Soldiers Invasion of the Body Snatchers (70s version with Donald Sutherland) Dawn of the Dead (original) Evil Dead Dead by Dawn: Evil Dead 2 Alien Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loz Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 Action films are a bit hard to classify to be honest (horror is a lot easier). For example it is easy to see why Die Hard would be classifed as an action film and rightly so, however would you classify Apocalypse Now as an action film as well? Certainly action in it, but at the same time there is an underlying story to it which places it a million notches above Die Hard in terms of being a thought provoking film. Similarly Rocky, great film, in fact fantastic film, an action film, again no shortage of action, but is the action part to it the core entertainment, possibly not. Similar points could be made for films like Jaws, Platoon, King Kong (the original one), The Terminator, Spartacus, Dirty Harry, The Dirty Dozen etc etc etc etc etc Horror is generally a lot easier and when making a list of Horror films it goes like this: 1. The Exorcist M A S S I V E G A P American Werewolf in London A N O T H E R G A P The rest!! 'The Exorcist' sits in my top 10 ever films let alone top 10 horror films (and to be honest I can take or leave horror as a genre, never really been that fussed about it). Although again this throws up questions about what you would include as horror. If we are to include things like Psycho, some of the classic 1930s Frankenstein films, The Omen, and also modern day comedy horrors like 'From Dusk Til Dawn' then it opens it right out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 Good action films: Kung Fu Hustle The Kill Bills Desporado Face/Off Hard Boiled Cheesy but still watchable action films (guilty pleasures): Commando Speed Robocop The Running man Pitch black Starship troopers Bad boys 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gem Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 Not too into action films, but I love a good horror flick! 1. Nightmare On Elm Street - was 7 when I first saw it, my innocence was officially gone 2. Friday the 13th 3. Texas Chain Saw Massacre... probably the one that scared me the most didn't mind the remake that much either. 4. Evil Dead 5. Pet Cemetery - put me off cats, and kids for a while. My top 5. And although I can pretty much sit through all of them, I daren't touch the Saw movies, modern graphics are a bit too real Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lofty Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 You won't have seen Hostel then? Or My Little Eye, of a few years back, which I think counts as a horror. What surprises me though is that nobody's yet mentioned Carrie. I can still remember the first time I saw the film, years ago at the pictures ... that bit right at the end, when you think it's all over and you're expecting the credits to roll. Brian De Palma's finest moment and then some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maksimov Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 Action films are a bit hard to classify to be honest (horror is a lot easier). For example it is easy to see why Die Hard would be classifed as an action film and rightly so, however would you classify Apocalypse Now as an action film as well? Certainly action in it, but at the same time there is an underlying story to it which places it a million notches above Die Hard in terms of being a thought provoking film. Similarly Rocky, great film, in fact fantastic film, an action film, again no shortage of action, but is the action part to it the core entertainment, possibly not. Apocalypse Now is clearly a war movie. If there is a war going on, it's not necessarily a war movie. But if there is a war going on, but the movie's main focus is not on shooting guns and killing the enemy, I'd say it's a war movie. It's not easy to classify some movies, though. Aliens for example is about killing loads of aliens, but it's also a metaphor about Vietnam war. So does that also make it a war movie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loz Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 Action films are a bit hard to classify to be honest (horror is a lot easier). For example it is easy to see why Die Hard would be classifed as an action film and rightly so, however would you classify Apocalypse Now as an action film as well? Certainly action in it, but at the same time there is an underlying story to it which places it a million notches above Die Hard in terms of being a thought provoking film. Similarly Rocky, great film, in fact fantastic film, an action film, again no shortage of action, but is the action part to it the core entertainment, possibly not. Apocalypse Now is clearly a war movie. If there is a war going on, it's not necessarily a war movie. But if there is a war going on, but the movie's main focus is not on shooting guns and killing the enemy, I'd say it's a war movie. It's not easy to classify some movies, though. Aliens for example is about killing loads of aliens, but it's also a metaphor about Vietnam war. So does that also make it a war movie? Thing is I don't see Apocalypse Now as a war movie, simply because the main theme/message is not war related, it is just set with war as the backdrop (much the same as in Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness') - if anything it is a study of man and man's varying reaction to the horror, the greed and the power that threatens us all. For me if Apocalypse Now is to be classifed as a war film then the Deerhunter has to be as well and I don't classify that as a war film either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clubhappy Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 Action movies..... 1...Die Hard [ all 3 of them ] 2...Midnight Run [ ok, kind of a comedy but still a great action movie ] 3...Swordfish 4...Heat 5...Bourne Supremecy/Identity 6...U.S.Marshalls 7...Independence Day 8..Any scouse confirmation or christening video [ plenty of fifghts there ] 9..The Italian job 10..Smokin Aces Loads more im sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maksimov Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 Thing is I don't see Apocalypse Now as a war movie, simply because the main theme/message is not war related, it is just set with war as the backdrop (much the same as in Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness') - if anything it is a study of man and man's varying reaction to the horror, the greed and the power that threatens us all.For me if Apocalypse Now is to be classifed as a war film then the Deerhunter has to be as well and I don't classify that as a war film either. Apocalypse Now has a strong anti war message, so I classify it as a war movie. It sure isn't an action movie to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valerie Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 From Dusk til Dawn and Don't Look Now. Especially the latter makes me afraid to travel to Venice in a fortnight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maksimov Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 Thing is I don't see Apocalypse Now as a war movie...if anything it is a study of man and man's varying reaction to the horror, the greed and the power that threatens us all. I think you have just described some strong elements of warfare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fansince65 Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 I saw a real horror job the other night had me peeping out from behind the settee, and have had bad dreams about it ever since, I think it was called CLSF part 2 Liverpool V Chelsea........AAAARRRGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loz Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 Thing is I don't see Apocalypse Now as a war movie...if anything it is a study of man and man's varying reaction to the horror, the greed and the power that threatens us all. I think you have just described some strong elements of warfare. Aargh but what came the first? The or the Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maksimov Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 Argh yourself Loz...are you suggesting we should classify movies based on the basic human emotions they deal with? Or maybe we should go back to the roots and argue if we should classify them as tragedy, comedy or satyr... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Brian M Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 Turn your speakers up as loud as they'll go... I L.O.V.E THIS SONG!!! Yippie Ki-ay mother f*cker... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkleyblue Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 Jeez, this was hard. I had a long old think, and a look at the videos on the shelf (yes Iam an old f**ker with VHS still) So, in no particular order, except for the first Horror Horror The Exorcist - Top film in any genre Don't Look back The Omen Hellraiser A Clockwork Orange The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original, not so much the remake) The Evil Dead Near Dark Blood Simple The Lost Boys Action - (I might have taken some liberties here) Matrix 1 + 2 The Dirty Harry Series The Man with No Name trilogy The Blues Brothers Car Chases Terminator 2 Predator Alien First Blood Total Recall The Dam Busters The Eiger Sanction There may well be more as I think some more, so I might have to come do some editing Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliott Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 From what i can think of: ACTION Terminator 1 & 2 Predator Alien/s The Bourne films... Indiana Jones! Die Hard Total Recall The Running Man Blade Runner The Last of The Mohicans Lethal Weapon! Kill Bill GLADIATOR Cliffhanger HORROR The Omen Saw The Ring Hellraiser: I shat my pants at this one. The Thing: And this. The Shining Exorcist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maksimov Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 Just some titles in no particular order Action: Die Hard, Once Upon a Time in China, Indiana Jones Trilogy, James Bond - Goldfinger, Leon... Horror: Shining, Bride of Frankestein, Psycho, Nosferatu, Alien... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Brian M Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Just thought of another fantastic action film. How could I have left this one off the list! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lofty Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Funny, we were talking about that film (the name of which I won't mention so as not to spoil the suspense/surprise) in the chat last night; that and the Wanderers, which is one of my favourite films of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Brian M Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 and the Wanderers, which is one of my favourite films of all time. Another classic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moos Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Most modern horror movies are rubbish. I've seen fluffy, pink bunnyrabbits who are scarier than modern horror movies. There are of couse some exceptions. One that spring to mind is "The Others". Pretty scary movie. Spine-tingling. Of the old ones I'm a huge fan of: Alien (sci-fi/horror, I know) Nosferatu (the 1922 version of course) Psycho (if you're thinking of the remake then you're off your rocker, mate) Halloween (greatest theme song ever?) Now don't start thinking of the sequels. Psycho 1 is great, the rest aren't as good. Halloween 1 is great, the rest...no. But this is of course common knowledge. Sequels (or prequels) are worse than the first movie 99% of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moi Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 I realise that I'm resurrecting this topic, which may have run its course, but glancing through it, I'm amazed nobody has mentioned The Wicker Man, which I think is so much more frightening than the Exorcist, because it is so plausible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loz Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 The Wicker Man takes me back to back to the point I made about films like Apocalypse Now. A superb film and definitely one I would consider if someone asked me to name my favourite 25 films ever but not one I would ever think of if someone asked me to name my top 10 horror films. The reason for this being that I don't see it as a horror film. Maybe that is for the very reason you say, that being that so much of it is entirely unbelievable (just last week I spent the night in our local hotel and was disturbed throughout the night by a naked busty Scandinavian pounding on the wall of my room with her fists) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moi Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 The Wicker Man takes me back to back to the point I made about films like Apocalypse Now. A superb film and definitely one I would consider if someone asked me to name my favourite 25 films ever but not one I would ever think of if someone asked me to name my top 10 horror films. The reason for this being that I don't see it as a horror film. Maybe that is for the very reason you say, that being that so much of it is entirely unbelievable (just last week I spent the night in our local hotel and was disturbed throughout the night by a naked busty Scandinavian pounding on the wall of my room with her fists) And you find it implausible that a voluptuous Viking blonde would demand admittance to your room in the night? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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