Classic Action Movies

[Mr.Bill]

I see the old war movies was covered (full metal jacket = t3h pwnt)

and die hards and such,

I'd have to suggest if your a big arnold fan, Commando, and of course,

I'll just list em now

Scarface
Taxi driver
lock stock and two smoking barrels
snatch
Pitchblack

those are the only ones I can think up of now, (damn I hope their not already mentioned )

[Grimm]

Since we seem to be deviating towards action titles in general, I would very much like to recommend Band of Brothers, although it isn't really a single movie, more of a short series (10-14 'episodes' I think, each about an hour long).

[Grillkohle]

ooh ooh , Event Horizon, thats a pretty sweet sorta old sci-fi  :ph34r:

That movie scared me.  o_O

[Venmoch]

Event Horizon 4 Teh Win

[cutter]

If you like unrealistic combat and gun fights then I would go with

Commando
Rambo (1st is probably the best in my opinion) Man clashen beat me to it
Dang you clashen

Star Trek I and II were pretty good aswell.

But the others that were mentioned are good too!

[Uranium - 235]

Kill Bill
Starship Troopers
Prison Rape
Matrix Movies

Only one of these is less painful the second time.

[BobTheJanitor]

While we're on the subject of hot bloody action, anyone ever played action half life? It was the mod I played forever before getting into NS. Some of you nubz0rz should try it out. It's less realism-oriented than CS, focusing more on fast action and lots of blood. So basically you have slightly less accurate weapons (like LMG in NS) that do slightly less damage (hardly any battles are over in a few shots, you get to dance around and spray for a while) and you get cool stunts, allowing you to dive through a window and cap the enemy in the head while you roll across the ground. WINR! B)

[Dark]

While we're on the subject of hot bloody action, anyone ever played action half life? It was the mod I played forever before getting into NS. Some of you nubz0rz should try it out. It's less realism-oriented than CS, focusing more on fast action and lots of blood. So basically you have slightly less accurate weapons (like LMG in NS) that do slightly less damage (hardly any battles are over in a few shots, you get to dance around and spray for a while) and you get cool stunts, allowing you to dive through a window and cap the enemy in the head while you roll across the ground. WINR! B)

winnar indeed bob and as you know i too started playing ahl before ns took over my life like the addiction that is hard to break.

for some of you who don't know you can recognize some of the models in ahl from some of the movies mentioned in here to see.

btw back on topic boondock saints was a great movie and i will have to check out some of the other movies mentioned earlier in this thread.

[Legionnaired]

Ahh, yes, but did you play The Opera?

/me reminisces of the day he got a spinning, falling, jumping knife-to-the-throat-kill, earning him 10000 bucks.

[BobTheJanitor]

I downloaded it, but NO ONE played TO. I thought maybe I'd pick it up in the ut2k3 mod, until that got canned too. I'm not sure what the latest status on it is. AHL is supposedly moving to the ut2k4 engine, so we'll see what happens there.

Also, has anyone mentioned escape from new york and escape from LA yet? Those movies rox0r my b0xorz.

[Mr.Bill]

oh, opera, how I remember thee *miss's his akimbo desert eagles, ah the days..*

[Grimm]

Psh, AHL. I tried that out for a couple days, never got used to it, nobody online would help me (even when it was just me and one other guy on a map, he'd rather snipe at me with stuff).

Now, The Specialist, that's a different story. Let me tell you, I took many enemies down with a last chance blast from my beloved Sawed-Off, yes sirree. My most common weapon combination is Golden Colts (less shots, thus demanding more accuracy than the Akimbo Berettas), Steyer-Aug with Silencer, and the Sawed-Off. Of course, to deal with all those Kung-Fu whores who like to knock your weapons down, I had my backup setup of as many pistols as possible (7 sets, I believe, most of them Akimbo).

Hmm... I've gone off on a tangent.

Anyway, since Venmoch brought up the anime Ghost in the Shell, which is a very very cool movie, I'd like to suggest the Armitage movies, Dual Matrix and Poly Matrix. Not really the best stuff out there, and I highly recommend watching them with the original Japanese voices with English subtitles, but still pretty cool stuff.

[Grimm]

Event Horizon Check

Just finished watching that... I'm not big on even only somewhat-horror films, and this one will definitely mess with my sleep tonight (I know, I'm such a wuss).

[Venmoch]

Dr Weir Pwns You

[@gentOrange]

Oh god. Has anyone here seen Big Trouble In Little China? According to some friends of mine it inspired Mortal Kombat. Once you see it you'll have a hard time doubting them.

It's cheesy most of the time but a grade A movie if you ask me

[Niteowl]

STOP DIGRESSING into anime and defunct (yes! i said defunct bob!! :p ) HL mods!

now, back to the real topic.

good god, perfect examples, Big Trouble in Little China and Escape to New York are claaaaaaaaaaaaasiiiiics!

[Venmoch]

STOP DIGRESSING into anime and defunct (yes! i said defunct bob!! :p ) HL mods!

But Ghost In The Shell has uber cool action sequences!

[Dubbilex]

Oh god. Has anyone here seen Big Trouble In Little China? According to some friends of mine it inspired Mortal Kombat. Once you see it you'll have a hard time doubting them.

It's cheesy most of the time but a grade A movie if you ask me

YESYESYES


Hard Boiled (as already mentioned by XSZnub) is also a must.

And uhh....uhh....anything with Jet Li.