The MoFo Top 100 Action Movie Countdown

Unsubstantiated to call Pacific Rim aged? And Garbage?


You ever seen the acting in it?
Or the story involved?
Screenplay?
Or the photography?
Casting choices?


Sure the CGI is still pretty good, but the rest of it... is garbage.

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The Killer was my #2. It's one of the most stunning action films I've ever seen. Very few actors have looked as cool as Chow Yun-Fat in this film. It's a shame I haven't seen John Woo's Hard Boiled yet after all this time.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was my #23, but it could have easily been higher (I didn't mind the order of my list very much). The first few scenes (until the moment they arrive at the village) are absolutely sensational and after that there is still plenty of great stuff. It's my favorite Indiana Jones film of them all. Incredibly entertaining movie.

Enter the Dragon was my #21. It's just your typical awesome action flick, filled with extremely charismatic actors who are able to deliver every thrill you need. I loved it.

I actually like Total Recall a lot as well, but it wasn't on my list.

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Yes, I've seen the ****ing movie and I think it's laughable that you think it's age makes it's problems any more telling. What exactly do you think happened in the past "2.5 YEARS" that makes you think it it's acceptability has decreased to "sooooooooooooooooooo bad"?

What self-awareness have we as moviegoers suddenly attained in this timeframe that has changed our minds from...

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Im with Rodent , Pacific Rim was a giant turd never to be watched by me ever again. It starred that tool from Green Street with the worst cockney accent of all time. Robocop is still fantastic, and perhaps gets better with age like a fine wine.

Another solid set of action films, I nearly voted for the Killer, and Enter the Dragon and Total Recall were on my list.

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Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed PR when I first saw it. I kinda liked it on 2nd viewing...


This is my 3rd.
Dude, the British actors are so wooden they sound like American actors doing British accents lol!
The cliché dialogue is worse than cringe worthy.
British actor Robert Kazinski is a soap actor (Eastenders, Dream Team), and as soap actors go he's beyond Z-List... and in Pacific Rim I can't tell what British accent he's actually trying to do. He seems to go from British, to Australian, to South African, to something he seems to have made up on the spot.
Idris Elba is awful as well. His accent changes from scene to scene too.


Leading man Charlie Hunnam... well, what is he? American? Russian? Japanese? He too can't seem to get his lines out without fluffing them in some god-awful tongue twisted stutter.


The dialogue is clichéd and well, unimaginative, and delivered in the most plankish way imaginable makes it worse.
"We are cansellin' thee apoc-allips"





Decent CGI and a half decent concept of crossing mind-melding Vulcan style with Matrix style mind transporting doesn't make a good movie when everything else in the film is total bilge.


I dunno, maybe the first couple viewings, taking everything in, clouded my judgement... but now I know what's going on before it happens, the movie hasn't just aged, it doesn't even get going.

Also, I just want to say that I LOVE that Temple of Doom beat out The Last Crusade on another MoFo list.

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Its a matter of opinion really fo Indy 2 or 3 as the second best Indy film but everyone knows Raiders is the best movie bare none. Here people loved Temple of Doom other places its Last Crusade.

Raiders is not the best Indy movie.

Yeah,Crystal Skull is.

Yes it is Im sorry Spielbergs wife was horrible in Temple Of Doom. Raiders is the best then Last Crusade, Temple of Doom Is 3rd and Crystal Skull lags behind in 4th.

It's one of the few things I think MV and I agree absolutely wholeheartedly on is that Temple Of Doom is the best of the Indiana movies.
I love the other 2 (Skulls doesn't really exist as far as I'm concerned) but Doom is definitely the better.
More fun, more humour, Shorty kicks ass, Spielberg's missus is kooky, plus it's darker than the others and deals with a mysticism that most Westerners are foreign to.
The other 2 movies have mysticism based on stuff we already know a bit about, but Doom is based on something unfamiliar and dark.
I like dark.

That's your opinion, which is fine to have, but don't say "everybody knows" when you're talking about your opinion. You don't speak for everybody.

I'll take that.

It's one thing not to like it or change your own opinion of it, it's another to suggest that it's "aged" over the brief span of time it's been around.

Pacific Rim was the film I completely forgot about while making my list but decided to sneak in with a revision at #25. I do semi-agree with Rodent. It's not that it hasn't aged well, but that it was always a pretty terrible movie. Especially the dialogue; it's incredibly cringe worthy. The film is still really entertaining though, and the giant robots vs giant monsters action scenes are still fun to watch.

Out of the remaining films, I haven't seen The Killer (and I don't think I've ever heard of it before now either).

Seen: 72/80
My List: 9
3 honourable mentions

01. Dredd (2012)
03. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
04. Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
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06. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011)
07. Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
09. Hot Fuzz (2007)
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13. John Wick (2014)
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19. The Rock (1996)
21. Crank (2006) (H)
23. Taken (2008)
24. Fast Five (2011) (H)
25. Pacific Rim (2013) (H)

Oh I see its ok you to say every day how badly this or that movie sucks or hate this or that movie. Im not even saying I hate the movie. I am saying there should be a poll or something before you assume that Temple Of Doom is number 1 most liekd Raiders movie. Dont you as a fan want too know where your movie ranks in MOFO land. When I say everyone knows Im talking about Polls done else where and Raiders is number 1 Indiana Jones Movie. I''ll have too look up that poll.

Dude.

Who said anything about where it ranks? You said "everyone knows Raiders is the best" as if it was some kind of indisputable, commonly understood fact, when it actually is only your opinion. When I say "this movie sucks" (which is something I rarely say, usually I say "I hate this movie") I'm expressing an opinion, which I don't always feel needs to be qualified and I'm speaking only for myself. I never claim that my statements represent "everyone."

Oh no, they're talking about Temple of Doom again.

Can't be bothered talking about every movie that has shown up. Two have made my list lately. Enter The Dragon was my #24, i kind of just remembered it when i was at the bottom of my list and i couldn't be bothered renumbering it, i probably like it more than some i have higher.

And i had Temple of Doom at #9. It is indeed the best Indy, thought we'd already discovered that together?

01.Once Upon A Time In The West
04.The Wild Bunch
09.Temple of Doom
10.Hero (2002)
11.From Russia With Love
12.The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
21.Ong-Bak
23.Once Upon A Time In China
24.Enter the Dragon