What's the best action movie of the 80's?

Whatever, it was horrible!

If this was a thread about the most violent action film from 80s, then Robocop will get my vote!

EDIT: I got the Robocop trilogy boxset, so which version is that?

Uncut Murphy death.

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I saw Robocop when I was a nipper and Murphy's death scared the gooseberry fool out of me.

Tragic Magic wrote:I saw Robocop when I was a nipper and Murphy's death scared the **** out of me.

Me too! I think it was my first big dose of sadism.

I like the OCP ads'.The one where the GTA gets fried.

3/7 for Arnold 8-)

Poncho wrote:Die Hard isn't even the best action film of the '80s.

The poll says you're wrong.

Watching Terminator for the first time atm :mrgreen:

chalkitdown wrote:
Poncho wrote:Die Hard isn't even the best action film of the '80s.

The poll says you're wrong.

Stick your precious poll up your fanny.

FOA anyone who has Sky Movies. It's action month all this April. :mrgreen:

The list of movies they're showing is fairly poor, though. Will be nice to see a few of them in HD, mind.

Die Hard
Die Hard 2
Die Hard With A Vengeance
Die Hard 4.0
I Am Legend
The Bourne Ultimatum
Shooter
The Siege
Bad Boys
Striking Distance
Alien 3
Hitman
The Kingdom
Mission: Impossible
Soldier
Next of Kin
Dirty Harry
The Running Man
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
End Of Days
Predator
Deep Blue Sea
Shoot’Em Up
Patriot Games
The Bone Collector
Ocean’s Thirteen
Sudden Death
Rambo
Ghost Rider
Beowulf
Fantastic Four: Rise Of Silver Surfer
Three Kings
Rush Hour 3
Predator
300
Marked For Death
Transformers
Knock Off
Dante’s Peak
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels

They show most of these every other day, already.

Corazon de Leon

chalkitdown wrote:FOA anyone who has Sky Movies. It's action month all this April. The list of movies they're showing is fairly poor, though. Will be nice to see a few of them in HD, mind.

Die Hard
Die Hard 2
Die Hard With A Vengeance
Die Hard 4.0
I Am Legend
The Bourne Ultimatum
Shooter
The Siege
Bad Boys
Striking Distance
Alien 3
Hitman
The Kingdom
Mission: Impossible
Soldier
Next of Kin
Dirty Harry
The Running Man
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
End Of Days
Predator
Deep Blue Sea
Shoot’Em Up
Patriot Games
The Bone Collector
Ocean’s Thirteen
Sudden Death
Rambo
Ghost Rider
Beowulf
Fantastic Four: Rise Of Silver Surfer
Three Kings
Rush Hour 3
Predator
300
Marked For Death
Transformers
Knock Off
Dante’s Peak
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels

They show most of these every other day, already.

The one I've already seen, and will be trying to make a point of rewatching. You put Predator down twice, is that because of the high levels of awesome it shows?

Where the strawberry float is FaceOff in that list? And only Alien 3?

Honestly sky haven't got a strawberry floating clue.

:roll:

Deep blue sea is well worth a watch for its unintentional hilarity.

No Robocop? strawberry float right off.

Banjo wrote:No Robocop? strawberry float right off.

They show that quite often on the Sci-fi/horror channel. Not sure why they classify it as Sci-fi, when they have Alien 3 down as an action movie, though, that's an odd one.

I await the day they show Aliens in HD..... oh man.

There were a lot of great movies but Aliens stood out for me, too awesome.

My mate at work is a big sci fi buff. We watched Alien and the Thing on the ward's 50 inch plasma screen last month. It was immaculate.

I'm guessing this is on Action/Thriller? In my place we've only got that, Premiere and Modern Greats (though Modern Greats was Classics until three months back, and was COmedy two months before that).

Personally, I want a Jackie Chan season. Channel 5 got close a while back with showing Police Story 1 & 2 but never carried on. Who Am I? was on Five USA last night though so that was a mild compensation. And Action/Thriller always show Mr Nice Guy, which keeps me happy. :mrgreen:

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Denster wrote:Deep blue sea is well worth a watch for its unintentional hilarity.

You think water moves fast? You should see ice.

I think I nearly wet myself in the cinema during that speech, absolutely hilarious.

Alien 3 isn't even an action movie. :fp:

Where the strawberry float is Aliens?

And strawberry float Die Hard.

Rex Kramer wrote:
Denster wrote:Deep blue sea is well worth a watch for its unintentional hilarity.

You think water moves fast? You should see ice.

I think I nearly wet myself in the cinema during that speech, absolutely hilarious.

Off the wiki page:

In the film's original cut, McAlester lived, but test audiences made it clear how much they disliked the character (going so far as to shout "Die, bitch!" at the screen) as her actions had caused all that had gone wrong.Thus, the decision was made to re-shoot the ending so that her character died. Conversely, Sherman 'Preacher' Dudley, played by LL Cool J, was to die but test audiences loved the character so much that filmmakers re-shot the ending and had him live.

:lol:

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