Top Ten Action Scenes! (Caution! Some Spoilers!)
POSTED BY: manwithpez
UPDATED: Saturday, August 11, 2007 19:22
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The Two Towers - The battle for Helm's Deep. Sets the standard for epic battle sequences.
Return of the King - The assault on Minas Tirith. Raises the bar from the previous film.
House of Flying Daggers - The echo game leads into a brilliant fight sequence. Not bad for a blind girl.
Blade - Blade crashes a vampire party, appropriately called a bloodbath, then proceeds to wipe out a lot of vamps.
Sin City - Anytime Marv throws down. The definition of a one man wrecking crew.
Superman Returns - The man of steel announces his return by catching an airplane. One of the greatest action scenes period.
Matrix Reloaded - Neo vs. The Merovingian's henchmen. There is a lot of great action in this film, this scene is my favorite.
Star Wars - Assault on the Death Star. After all these years it still holds up.
Flight of the Intruder - The bombing run to "SAM City". Beautiful visuals accompanied by more Cole dialogue: "they'd never expect us to try it twice, no one would go through that again".
Bullitt - Arguably the greatest car chase in movie history. At the very least it showed everyone else how to do it right.
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Can't belive nobody's mentioned the "Transporter" movies yet... Stratham's going places in the action world... and I for one can't WAIT to see he and Jet Li kick the CRAP outta each other in War... the scene in particular that I'm thinking of though... well one of them anyway, is the whole fight from the cargo containers to the bus station... ruttin' BEAUTIFUL... and the oil scene once the big fight starts in the bus station...
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Hey, I'm back, and I've given it some thought. Here's ten more!
10. Nobody Steps On A Church In My Town! (Hot Fuzz): It's meant to be funny, and it is! But, really, is there nothing more exciting than seeing the bad guy get their's? And Timothy Dalton gets his in spades in a fistfight that culminates in the single worst looking survivable wound ever.
9. Ichabod's Wild Ride (Disney's Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad): It scared the hell out of me as a child and it still thrills me as an adult. Ichabod Crane has to find a way to cross the bridge before the Headless Horseman decapitates him! The end of that sequence surprised the hell out of me!
8. Soccer Zombie Barbecue (Cell (Stephen King)): Are they zombies, or insane people, or just mindless automatons? Stephen King's cautionary evil cell phone tale offers up a few crazy moments, but none so much as our heroes trying to burn a field full of "Phone Crazies" and overestimating how much gasoline to use.
7. What Kind of Dinosaur Is That? (King Kong (2006)) - It's a V. Rex, actually, and not one, but three that our monkey has to beat to save comely Naomi Watts. It's the last one he dispatches, though, that gets my vote. He doesn't just kill it...he crushes it!
6. When Slayers Attack (Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Revelations): You knew it was coming when Faith was introduced, and they've fought several times since, but, I don't think any of those fights were near as thrilling as their first. I'm still going to give the fight to Buffy, though. I mean, the show is named after her!
5. Pegasus Falls (Battlestar Galactica - Exodus part 2): First off, you'd be hard pressed to find a more action packed, thrilling episode of BSG, and that's saying something. But, to me, there was something extremely sad about seeing the newer Battlestar bite the dust. Hey! At least she took a few Basestars with her!
4. The Fastest Man Alive (Justice League Unlimited - Divided We Fall): The Flash is kinda a joke to the JL, even if he is a founding member. He's immature and reckless. So much so that even the big name villains laugh him off. Though I doubt they'll ever do that again after he gets in touch with the Speed Force to take down the League's toughest foe singlehanded. This being a Bruce Timm show, of course, this action is not without it's consequences.
3. You Are So Beautiful (Evolution): Yes, it's a silly movie, but, the scene where our heroes fight the dino bird in the mall is both funny and thrilling. Plus, you've never seen three grown men so full of themselves after accomplishing so little!
2. That's My Spur! (Near Dark): Before he was a flying politician, Adrian Pasdar was in a very well made and written vampire flick called "Near Dark" along the way, in this movie, he's made human again, and the vampire family's he spurned comes for him. This leads to a showdown between him and a scenery chewing Bill Paxton. One of the best vampire films made, in my opinion.
1. Parkeour, Meet World! (Casino Royale (2006)): I've heard varying complaints about this movie...one that I was pretty happy with, actually, but no one I know had any complaints about the first action sequence in the movie. If James Bond can catch that guy...the rest of the bad guys in the world should just hang it up! You hear me, SPECTRE?
There's ten! That was harder than I thought it'd be, but I'll be back!
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Chiming back in again with a comment on Parkeour... it is a damn TOUGH SPORT!!! That and be expecting a LOT of broken bones and whatnot when first starting out... all in all though, a great workout 
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Originally posted by manwithpez:
5. Pegasus Falls (Battlestar Galactica - Exodus part 2): First off, you'd be hard pressed to find a more action packed, thrilling episode of BSG, and that's saying something. But, to me, there was something extremely sad about seeing the newer Battlestar bite the dust. Hey! At least she took a few Basestars with her!
Yes...that scene rocked... ipod space is limited, but this episode stays on always.
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Some of mine have already been mentioned but here goes (in no order):
Hot Fuzz
The Battle for Somerfield. Soooo funny. Sooo much action.
The Return Of The King
The assault on Minas Tirith. How big battles should be done. Still gets me when the Riders appear on the hill.
Reurn Of The Jedi
Attack on the Death Star. When all the ships fly by the Falcon's cockpit. Still amazing all these years later.
Leon
His first assignment. And then he appears out of the shadow. Brilliant.
Bourne Identity/Supremacy
Both car chases from these films.
W+G And The Curse Of The Wererabbit
The train sequence mentioned earlier is fantastic but when the two dogs go for a 'dogfight' in the planes, for me it was just that bit better.
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