Best action movie of all time?

Are we calling anything with a fight scene or people shooting guns "Action" films now? I'm being honest, I always thought action films were defined as...well...as Die Hard. The plot is: here's a guy who is going to fight and get beat up by bad guys all movie. He's not going to really go anywhere, do anything, or solve a puzzle. He's going to find a way to kill the bad guys and save the day.

I'm serious, as I said my vote is for Raiders but I can't help but notice how the original Raiders poster said this at the top:

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"The Return of the Great Adventure."

Makes me think it isn't an action film. Discuss.

Does Man On Fire count as an action movie? If not, how about Gladiator?

If neither of those movies qualify....the Running Man

No love for ...

Enter The Dragon ?
But lots for Raiders ? Pfft...

You guys are crazy.

Bullitt is my all time favorite.

A lot of good choices named in here. I'll also put in votes for Aliens and Raiders. First Blood and Die Hard are awesome. I like T1 a little better than T2 but they've each got to be in the pantheon.

Enter the Dragon is a good one. Mad Max and Road Warrior are both awesome.

Dr. No, Goldeneye, A View To A Kill, and Casino Royale are both up there for me as far as the Bond movies go.

Ong Bak and Rush Hour. Hero and Crouching Tiger. I agree with those who suggested Matrix. It was an important movie.

I suppose Apocalypse Now is an Action movie although that wouldn't be my choice. Maybe War movies are their own category. You could probably separate out Superhero movies too like Dark Knight.

I love Cliff Hanger and I love Point Break even though I know they aren't necessarily good movies. But speaking of Katherine Bigelow, the Hurt Locker was awesome. So was Avatar.

I really like Transporter, Lock Stock, and Snatch. I loved the Expendables movies though,again, I know they're not really "good." The action sequences were remarkably well done. Stallone is still a tank.

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Originally Posted by Kosher Ham

No love for ...

Enter The Dragon ?
But lots for Raiders ? Pfft...

You guys are crazy.

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You beat me to it.

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I'd also suggest some Clint Eastwood movies but most of his movies rightfully belong to the Crime Thriller & Suspense/War/Western genres.

Can't decide between T2 and Die Hard...

T2...........like there is any doubt.....or question that it could possibly be the greatest movie of all time.

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Originally Posted by Dont Taze Me Bro

T2...........like there is any doubt.....or question that it could possibly be the greatest movie of all time.

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I'm with ya, Bud.

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I'm with ya, Bud.

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T2 is my favorite movie ever, even with the tragic "thumbs up" ending every inspired kid watching cried to.

Inception and the Bourne movies are up there for me.

Fast and Furious and Face/Off too.

I think "action movie" needs to be defined. I wouldn't qualify some of the ones people are mentioning as just action films, like Heat, Matrix, Indiana Jones and Dark Knight, otherwise they blow almost everything else out of the water. I'd qualify those as action-drama, sci-fi, adventure types.

IMO, for actual action movies, it's a draw between Aliens, T:2, and Die Hard. Predator gets honorable mention, then Rambo.

If I absolutely had to choose one I'd probably go Die Hard as a pure action film. T2 is phenomenal, but has some plot and development behind it. Aliens and T2 could also qualify as sci-fi. Die Hard is pure action film, so it gets my vote.

Raiders is tops in my book,
Die hard, T 1, Taken....

Low budget from the 80's the Hidden....

Fast Five or Bad Boys 2 (so many great action sequences) including the car chase in Miami and the gun scene in Cuba

Mad Max 2 The Road Warrior,First Blood,Predator,Enter The Dragon,Matrix,Gladiator,Speed,Bourne Ultimatum, to name a few.

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Originally Posted by Dont Taze Me Bro

T2...........like there is any doubt.....or question that it could possibly be the greatest movie of all time.

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T2 isn't even definitively better than Aliens.

However both are better than 99% of the stuff being posted since the first few posts. We've sunk from Die Hard and Raiders to Bad Boys.

The first 3 Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns. We used to count how many he killed in the movies. They changed action movies

The movies I liked best when I seen it for the first Time has to be Raiders then The Good the bad and the Ugly