Ok, So you may have seen my blog on how much I enjoy 80s action movies. So I figured since I'm doing all these top ten lists, I'll do one on my ten favourite 80s action movies. So here it is...
1. Die Hard. Just a guy kicking ass and coming up with great one liners from start to finish, and killing the bad guy at the end. Good stuff.
2. Predator. Great movie. Alien predator hunts a bunch of macho commandos in the jungle, finally after all his men have died, Arnie decides it's time to fight back and kicked that aliens ass. If it bleeds you can kill it.
3. Rocky IV. Good movie. The build to the fight between Rocky and Drago was great. The fight was intense, although I wish it went for longer. Rocky even helps end the cold war at the end, is there anything he can't do? And to top it all off the soundtrack was just pure awesome.
4. The Running Man. I thought this was great. The mix of sci-fi and action was excellent. Arnie gets wrongly accused of a crime he didn't commit and decides to take action into his own hands. Eventually taking care of the host of the show he had to fight for his life on. With the way societies going, reality TV will probably be like this soon.
5. Bloodsport. Oh yeah. Guys kicking the shit out of each other for 2 hours, what more can you want from a movie. The parts in between the fighting scenes were pretty cheesy, but the fights made up for it. With Frank dux kicking the bad guys ass and coming out on top in the end and winning the Kumatai.
6. Escape from New York . Snake pliskin is a badass, sent in to do a job the government doesn't want to do itself. So he enters a dystopian New York, (now a maximin security prison) and has to rescue the president and find a cassette tape about nuclear fusion, with important details on it. So he kicks some bad guys ass for 2 hours, rescues the president, gets the tape. Then when the president goes to play the cassette tape, he realised Snake replaced it with some cheesy 60s song. Oh that pesky Snake.
7. The Terminator. Oh yeah, a cyborg wants Sarah Connor dead, so she can't give birth to the future leader of the resistance. So a pissed off cyborg is kicking ass and killing everyone in its path and only Kyle Reese can stop it. Oh and apparently he's the father of John Connor but John Connor was the one who sent him back to save his mother. Whatever.
8. Red Dawn. Oh no, The Russians and Cubans are invading America and only a bunch of teenagers from Colorado can save America. Good violent movie. The enemies should have known they can't beat a man with tiger blood.
9. Conan The barbarian. A barbarian kicking ass and getting sweet revenge, what more can you want from an action movie.
10. Rocky III. Hulk Hogan, Mr T, Rocky. Rocky loses the championship to a hungry newcomer named Clubber Lang. He thinks his career is over until Apollo Creed convinces him to give it another shot. So they work on changing Rocky's style, so his quicker on his feet. Rocky ends up winning the rematch in 3 rounds. Good movie, with some epic montages. Oh yeah and he fights hulk hogan.
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