Commando is the kind of movie that when it turns up on cable TV as you’re flipping around, you end up watching the whole thing. Die Hard functions as kind of a summation of ‘80s Action Movies. Because it’s educational. Is The Untouchables an Action Movie? They’re war movies. Shawn S. Lealos is a freelance writer who received his Bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma with a minor in Film Studies. It’s not easy to pace a long chase in a way that continually ramps up the intensity without flat-lining into an over-edited, boring highlight reel of action “moments.” Miller has this technique of shooting POV shots from cars low to the road in a way that makes you feel like you’re seconds away from death. Pam Grier . When The Terminator came out I was thirteen, too young to get into those those big, bad R-rated movies. The best decade of movies managed to last fifteen years, from ’67 to ’82. Humanoids From The Deep, like Jaws, but stupid. DIRECTOR. Trains hurtling.

From there we’re slammed into the empty desert, hauling ass down the road with Max and his dog. Soon came Superman II, way more of an action movie than Superman, but not yet an Action Movie. That explosion goes to 11.

bang! thanks for trying. Few Action Movies have the incessant drive of The Terminator. Shawn is a former member of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle before relocating to Texas and has work published in the Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma Gazette, Vox Magazine and Loud Magazine and on websites like The Huffington Post, CBS, Time Warner Cable, Yahoo, The Movie Network, Chud, Renegade Cinema, 411mania and Sporting News.

It’s like a comic book in how its shot, with each frame pushing the story on.

All of the chase sequences are exemplary, with the final, tanker-truck chase again transcending the genre and landing deservedly in the conversation of most thrilling sequences ever filmed (and edited). It still feels wrong to me. The Road Warrior, like all Action Movies, is full of violence, but it’s not gratuitous. It features and/or invents almost every Action Movie cliché you’ve ever seen. Mandy Moore Is Pregnant and Expecting Her First Child With Husband Taylor Goldsmith. No way.

Released seven years later, The Sandlot was another coming-of-age story that has stood the test of time. In regards to your comments ‘They looked to the characters and genres of the ‘70s, carefully excised the ideas at their core, and polished them until all traces of ambiguity, politics, and depression were gone. Making a list of everything that entertains me about that movie may actually take longer than simply watching it. Blockbusters came in many genres,  but the most quintessential genre of the ‘80s is the Action Movie, which I will make special by capitalizing. Well, there’s the part above where I wrote: “In ’81 came Raiders Of The Lost Ark, still not an Action Movie. The word itself implies it—Movie. A one-stop shop for all things video games.

And I think that’s the kind of impulse that gives rise to the violence in our storytelling. It’s based on an original screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, who never managed to get it made, and directed by Andrei Konchalovsy, who never made anything better.

I’ll call it a Proto-Action movie.

I know I said Action Movies officially began in ’82. Producers didn’t want art.



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