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Lately I've been in the mood to see lots of explosions and big guns in my movies, so I've been watching action flicks from the greatest decade of excess: the 1980's.

Just last night, I watched Die Hard for the first time, and was blown away by its greatness.  I never liked Bruce Willis all that much, but he gains big points for that one.

A week or two ago, I watched RoboCop, which is also really awesome, and I have Red Dawn rented and waiting to be watched.

What's your favorite 80's explosive action movie?

You forgot Terminator! That movie is brilliant. And I like all Rambo's too.

Red Dawn is pigswill.


I wonder how Rambo 3, which is very crap would go down today, if it were just released?

Rambo - first blood as it was called, is a good film! It's based on the book, altough in the book Rambo is killed.

My favourite 80's action film is probably something like  Mad Max 3.

Conan the barbarian, and....

I can't remember any other movies I've seen from the 80s.

Aliens  -assuming its from the 80's

Mad Max 3? heh heh!

http://www.madmaxmovies.com/fanstuff/artwork/DennisGruchala/index.html

Very nice, Den.  Very nice indeed.

I did get to watch Red Dawn last night, and I absolutely loved it.  It doesn't get much better than a bunch of high school kids single-handedly saving America from Communist takeover.  They couldn't possibly have had more explosions, so the only thing that could have made Red Dawn much better is if the Communists looked like the evil guys in the dream the dude from American Werewolf in London had.

Big trouble in little china.

A great hero is made by a great villian.  Lo Pan is hard to beat as an evil imortal chinese sorcerer.

big trouble in little china is awesome!

nice art work btw den.

was Commando in the 80's?  i like that one.
and Blackhole, but i really dont think it is action...

I loved the film, "I Come in Peace", and no, it's not a porno.

I wish they'd release it on DVD.

"I Come in Peace" is awesome. I love the part right at the beginning when the alien finds some chick driving a piece of construction equipment (I think it's fork-lift). So he jumps on her and sucks her brain juice, which of course means ripping her shirt off. Never has a woman driving a fork-lift been so fabulously endowed. |D

Isnt that where at the end the alien says "I come in peace" and the hero says "You go in pieces."?
I know this is an old dead topic but it caught my eye.
Conan is my favorite. Blade Runner, Die Hard, Alien, Aliens, Predator, Big Trouble in Little China, Return of the Jedi, Raiders of the Lost Ark...
I liked 80's movies more than any time period I think. Especially horror.

I always thought Dolph Lundgren was underrated.

I saw Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (what you call MM3) after a number of years and it seemed more like Braodway than the action movie the second one was.

Rambo III was recently shown two or three times in a row on TNT here and I watched it again on video in recent years too. It's short if nothing else.

I like Commando because it's the most overtly cartoonish of the Schwarzenegger 80's movies.

I always loved the Airwolf TV show, at least the first two seasons and definitely before USA took it and gave it the Barry Van Dyke treatment.

First Blood is a good movie.

Rambo 2 & 3 are wank.

Dolph Lunderen? But have you ever seen Black Jack? Worth a watch for sheer
stupidity. He plays a bodygaurd who develops a phobia of the color white. So, of
course one of the big fights happens in... A MILK FACTORY!!!

Another pretty cool 80's action gem is Split Second. Probably no one here has seen it. It's kind of obscure. It's cool though. It has Rutger Hauer facing off against a monster which lives in the sewers and rips people's hearts out. The monster turns out to be the devil, and there is an ultimate showdown in the subway. Think I Come in Peace meets End of Days.

Rutger Hauer is great.

Just saw Conan the Barbarian today, and it was pretty good.  Parts were awesome, but other parts were rather dull, which isn't what I expected from this movie.  Have any of you seen Conan the Destroyer?  Is it worth seeing?

Conan the Destroyer is terrible terrible. The studio kind of took over on that one. Still love the original, especially the end.

I disagree. Conan the Destroyer, while stupid at times, is an incredibly entertaining film. You can't beat the part at the end when Conan is riding on the giant demon's head.

Who was it he was fighting at one point, Wilt Chaimberlain?

was conan the destroyer the one were they show him on the throne at the end of the movie?  its been awhile since i have seen that one... but i remember that i liked it.

I think at the end of Conan the Barbarian they show him sitting on a throne as the credits roll, but that may have just been the old king.  One way or another is says something to the effect of "Conan eventually became king by his own hand, but that is for another tale....." thus setting up the sequel.

if you look up conan the destoyer on IMDB and chech the boards for that movie seems that most fans are pretty pissed that the end of the film shows him as a king... interesting.

They show him on the throne at the end of both. They were talking about actually making that movie but of course Arnold had to go and become a governor.

The Killer by John Woo best action movie of all time.

Commando was a fantastic, manly film. My only complaint was that Ahnuld should have been rescuing a pretty lady and not some fugly 11 year old.

"Let off some steam."