What's the hands-down no-messing best action film of the decade?

I really did love action movies in the late 1980s and much of the 1990s but i feel like i haven't seen a great one in 10 years or more give or take the comic book-y type
(Batman Begins, Star Trek etc). I'm sure the Bournes are all they are cracked up to be but haven't seen them.

I'm sure there must be lots of undiscovered classics, or ones that didn't get the respect they deserve at the time and suchlike. My own fave would be Miami Vice but what's your own favourite action film from the 2000s so far?

watch the bournes.

Collateral, if that counts. (But I'm probably the wrong person to ask, since I avoid action films by and large.)

miami vice
casino royale
kill bill pt 1
district 13
bourne ultimatum
exiled

Nid de guêpes (a.k.a. The Nest)

Ong-Bak or Kung Fu Hustle

the bourne movies, yeah, but children of men had me on the edge of my seat more than anything i can think of.

Only slightly facetious answer: The Incredibles.

Collateral, if that counts.

Oh yes it does.

Star Trek was pretty fucking exciting.

The Host (Gwoemul)

Star Trek is all lens flares and shit editing. Liked it enough, but failed to deliver the action goods. I love Miami Vice, but I don't think it's action is particularly great save that final shoot-out. Same with Collateral. Looks like the Bourne movies are the way to go.

let's do it

the bournes obvs

Ong-Bak or Kung Fu Hustle

― admrl, Monday, November 16, 2009 5:12 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

both very fun

Crank 2: High Voltage

Bournes
Batman Begins
The Transporter
Everything on omar little's list for sure

Bourne Identity = #1 tho

Kung Fu Hustle x 1,000,000, if rep cinemas still existed in this town I would go see it twice a year
Crank
Transporter 2
District 9

district 9, bournes, children of men, kung fu hustle.

Bourne Identity Supremacy = #1 tho

kung fu hustle = comedy
children of men = scifi

yes i concur...both dope imo and both have action but neither are action films.

agree w/ bourne supremacy tbh

this decade has been a little disappointing on the action front to me but then again i don't get as much out of the 'crank' school of action flicks as some other folks

the action in children of men (like the escaping the farm scene where the car wont start) is better than pretty much anything else this decade except bourne shit

agreed w/ the action in children of men being amazing (like, shit i am falling out of my chair amazing) but jho has been on point

casino royale had some awesome action scenes

for me the Bournes rate: Supremacy, Identity, Ultimatum...but all 3 are very good.

this decade has been a little disappointing on the action front to me but then again i don't get as much out of the 'crank' school of action flicks as some other folks

― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:35 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

having like 500m to spend on explosions and cgi has hurt the genre somewhat - too many movies are hermetically sealed and humorless - u dont get over the top silly shit like predator or weirdo strangely artful stuff like terminator anymore - its all t3 these days

crank is hilar tho

what's an 'action' movie then? you have to be a spy?

casino royale is stupidly better than any other bond movie this decade in a fairly eye-opening way, and is probably in my top 5...the drop to QOS is ridic obv

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5104A10E9PL._SL500.jpg xp

what's an 'action' movie then? you have to be a spy?

― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:42 AM (38 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

comedy is in it for the lols, sfi is sparkling yr imaginarium w/krazy concepts and action is abt forceful a-dog shit - so its a matter of emphasis and motivation imo

forceful - a dog shit

II

If we count 2012 as action - its only purpose is to generate excitement, then that. Not as a good a film as the Bournes or Casino Royale - not a good film for anything except the FX - but for reconnecting you with cinema's primal impulse to make the viewer think WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT AND HOW ARE THEY DOING IT? it's one of the best I've ever seen.

collateral is NOT an action movie, you ppl are crazy

jho is right, too, about kung fu hustle and COM.

for me, the prototypical action movie is still Die Hard, so if i can't discern a clear lineage leading back to it somehow, i'm less inclined to think of something as an action movie. arbitrary, sure, but it works almost all the time

anyway, omar was pretty otm at the outset

btw think u all should rethink yr casino royal luv - bad enough that it completely ruins the character "james bond" in some half assed attempt to be all bourne - but the whole thing is just has a pandering cobbled together mess

it is sprawling and magnificent iirc

the drop to QOS is ridic obv

yea that was a bummer, they really f'd it up

i think also the whole aesthetic that spielberg kinda popularized w/saving private ryan (i think the technique is to remove every other frame) to make the action seem a little more jagged and vérité works only for a certain type of film but a lot of action films that aren't served well by it end up using it excessively.

casino royale suuuuuuuucked

boring answer, but it's probably one of the bourne movies

o hay whatre the kids into poker parkour skinny suits sensitive spys - hells yeah throw it all in there ffs

parker posey in: poker parkour

i'm not a huge action person, myself - but i loved all the Bourne films. thought they were fantastic. and if they count i'd also include Children of Men and District 9.

i actually really liked casino royale and quantum of solace - more than i've liked other bond films in the past. the cinematography was interesting in that it seemed like in quantum, there were tons of shots focusing on daniel craig's neck, and i think it moved upward to focus on his jaw in casino.

jho that is retarded, bond has always been about poker/casinos and stylish suits

i agree about 2012, it was actually pretty amazing aside from the family issues.

casino royale was a++ until he won the poker game, and then it was an absolute mess from thereon in. really spoiled it.

QoS was better all round, I think.

haha it's not like i'm gonna see crank again w/o drinking game, once was enough

but it was supremely shit-did-they-just-do-that entertaining

best thing about sin city was mickey rourke

crank 2 is more "i can't believe they just did that" but it's pretty bad

the one with werewolves?

xp

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:45 PM (42 seconds ago) Bookmark

fuck, i dunno! never saw

thatd be "brotherhood of the wolf" right?

For me, the make or break moment in "Crank" was the sex scene. That was where I just said "you know what, I am just going to laugh nonstop at this script from here on out because otherwise I'm pretty certain my head will explode".

brotherhood of the wolf yeah

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237534/

sucked imo

DAN OTM that sex-scene was so gratuitously, joyously OTT my jaw dropped, my eyes bulged and i shook my head in absolute awe at this piece of cinematic chutzpah

the scene where he humps the grandma?

what about that french martial arts musketeer movie, was that any good?

― goole, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 1:44 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol i forgot that even existed

he's not talkin bout brotherhood of the wolf, he means the musketeer, the one that was just dumas + inexplicable yuen wu ping choreography

unless he didnt mean that.

no nunez where he bangs amy smart in front of like 200 ppl in the middle of the street and she is inexplicably enjoying it more than any sex ever and they are all cheering and our heads threaten to explode

ha no i was talking about bro-hood of wolf as it turns out. i dunno WHAT yr talkin bout tbh

lol xp

the movie elvis mentioned, 'the nest'....that looks promising.

public sex w/amy smart yall

unlike LJ I did not cum in a wet fury at the sex scene

crank 2 has the exact same sex scene, but this time at a racetrack

hahahahahaha wait

imdb reviewer hates on "midnight run", he can fucking die

think u mightve just out louised louis dan

he will

xp

ha no i was talking about bro-hood of wolf as it turns out. i dunno WHAT yr talkin bout tbh

lol xp

― goole, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 1:50 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246544/fullcredits

catherine deneuvre + the director of timecop + the stunt choreographer from once upon a time in china

i never saw it, i just remember bein all http://s5.tinypic.com/oqhmc0.jpg when it came out

all u need to know about broho of the wolf is that it stars mark dacascos

oh man peter hyams

this thread is going fast and furious but a few points

1) amy smart is just slamming, like, i love her
2) brotherhood of the wolf was great--esp the part where monica belluccis boob turned into a mountain

oh also 3) sin city was fuckin stupid like every single frank miller anything ever

bros of the wolf was v eagerly anticipated by this guy, i'll admit

don't really remember much about it, tho, except for it being ott

kinda want to see crank just for amy smart

The Musketeer had a really good first action sequence and then got hella boring.

thats is how i feel about every movie amy smart has ever been in evan

yeah i'm with that

frank miller hasn't done a decent anything - comic bk, movie - for at least twenty years, but some of his comic bks, especially the ones drawn by david mazzuchelli, are better than 95% of the movies mentioned on this thread

no but guys see sin city was fun and awesome and lots of shit blew up and they turned that emo spiderman kid into a cannibal

mee too re amy smart dudes - we should run a train on her sometime

still haven't seen sin city all the way thru, but it was a fine movie to come into half-way at a brew and view w/booths and smoking allowed

icey :o

only if you guys all have to keep the poison from coursing through your body obv

yeah sure or whatever

that HURRICANE OF OWNAGE post is probably the best action movie review of the decade, hands down, no messing

that emo spiderman kid into a cannibal

you mean frodo, but same diff

haha whoops

my favorite action movie of all time is paddle to the sea

Terrible movie, but Shoot 'Em Up has some legit action.

ah but it's fucking rubbish, y'know?

Again I say, it's this movie.

http://i25.tinypic.com/1z6xco0.jpg

More people need to see it.

Here's a trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FtP7A_QwSs

by the way guys I'm gonna nominate D-War based on a 10 minute clip I saw in a shopping mall this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWI5uL_NevA

slug dragon beast thing with howitzers strapped to its back vs. puny tanks