top-list Top 10 movie action sequences.

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I haven't come up with a top 10 yet but I have a top 7 and still thinking on the 8,9 and 10. What your thoughts, on mine, and what are your top 10? For me:

1. Braveheart (The Stirling Battle)
2. United 93
3. Bonnie and Clyde (the last shootout)
4. Robin and Marian
5. Eastern Promises
6. King Kong 2005 (The T-Rex fight)
7. XXX (The avalanche)
 
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In no particular order:


- Neo finally realizes he's The One, and stops running from Agent Smith
- T100 and T1000 throw each other through shopping-mall walls, then chase ensues in LA river
- Leon takes on ALL of the NYPD
- A couple of cute kids hide in kitchen cabinets to evade a pair of hungry velociraptors
- Henry Jones Jr. rescues Sr. from captivity within nazi tanks
- "YOU, SHALL NOT PASS!!!"
- The "barbarian horde", led by the Spaniard, unexpectedly wins the reenacted battle for Carthage
- Jason Bourne escapes the American consulate
- Luke single-handedly downs a couple AT-ATs
- Mad Max fights off an army of marauding crazies, to protect
a tanker full of dirt
 
It's hard to separate the action from the film, so just I'll go with the films.

In no particular order...

Die Hard - set the new standard when it came out.

Raiders of the Lost Ark - the others are good, but this one was first....

Star Wars IV- another one that changed the game - V & VI are awesome as well.

Terminator 2 - although the original has its moments

The Road Warrior - especially the tanker truck sequence.

Enter the Dragon - Bruce Lee was the freakin' BOMB

True Lies - Now there's a fun film....

Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon or Hero - martial arts artistry

Rambo: First Blood - I just like it....

Saving Private Ryan - set the new standard for war films


I could really go on for a while. If you want to go really classic "The Adventures of Robin Hood" with Errol Flynn was terrific for its time.
 
I thought Lethal Weapon set that new standard and not Die Hard since it came out before. Or at least it has a similar standard to Die Hard in terms of action style.

I thought of another action scene that should make my top 10. The shootout in The International (2009).
 
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Rambo: First Blood - I just like it....
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sounds like you're apologizing for liking it :). It's one hell of a movie. I saw it first on video in 1992.
I still remember standing up from the couch in my living room when Rambo deliberately jumped off the cliff wall.
I couldn't believe it. I was still young and my imagination couldn't handle it. It was fantastic.

In the book, John Rambo dies at the end. So while filming, they killed Rambo. Then Stallone said, let's make an alternate ending cause this sucks. So when they tested it with audiences, they tested with both Rambo being killed and not. In the ones where Rambo dies, the audiences almost rioted. So they kept the ending where Rambo lives, and made a lot more money :)

Edit: If you think about it, it's the first "super soldier / jason bourne" type movie. And it is completely believable, the first Rambo movie of course. The rest are shootemups. But the first Rambo was phenomenal.

Absolutely not trying to hijack thread. Please continue with list. I think this could be a most fascinating list :)
 
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1. The truck sequence in Raiders of the Lost Ark is, IMO, the greatest action scene ever put to film.

2. The "free running" chase scene at the beginning of Casino Royale.

3. The shootout after the bank robbery in Heat.

4. The scene in Die Hard, where Bruce Willis jumps off of the roof was amazing.

5. The scene in The Matrix where Neo stops running and fights the Agent is great.

6. The scene in Jason and the Argonauts where they fight the skeleton warriors will always be a favorite.

7. The fight scene in The Bourne Identity where Jason Bourne uses a rolled up magazine as a bad ass weapon.

8. The HUGE sword fight scene with the Crazy 8's in Kill Bill.

9. The gunfight at the end of L.A. Confidential.

10. The trainstation scene in The Untouchables.

Honorable mention: The gunfight at the end of Open Range. When Costner shoots the guy holding Annette Bening's character hostage, I get chills.
 
Oh right I forgot about Casino Royale. I'm putting that in my top 10 as well.

I thought about the Heat, and it is exhilarating, but it was hard to tell which cops got shot and which not. Same with possible pedestrians in the background. I would have put it on my top 10 for sure, if they made that more clear.
 
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