Great 80's Action Flicks

[Lord Nepenthean]

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?

[Arrrhalomynn]

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

[thx1138]

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.

[2D-Forever]

Conan the barbarian, and....

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

Aliens  -assuming its from the 80's

[den68]

Mad Max 3? heh heh!

http://www.madmaxmovies.c...DennisGruchala/index.html

[Lord Nepenthean]

Very nice, Den.  Very nice indeed.

[Lord Nepenthean]

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.

[den68]

WOLVERINES!

[2D-Forever]

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.

[shadytool]

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...

[drone8888]

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

I wish they'd release it on DVD.

[Mike Leon]

"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

[IceBladeX]

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.

[jonlester]

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.

[thx1138]

First Blood is a good movie.

Rambo 2 & 3 are wank.