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Trashy cult cinema from the fringes of good taste.
A list of every film mentioned in the documentary In Search of the Last Action Heroes.
List by hotsake
UPDATED: July 10th, 2020
In case you need some ideas for a movie night. Or just something really stupid/amazing/both to watch. All sorts of genres represented here, but with a skew toward action/horror/sci-fi and some comedy.
Note: This isn't strictly BAD movies, there are some (underappreciated) greats in here, or maybe just some movies you might have forgotten about. At the very least they're all interesting.
This is a loosely ranked list of all the films I've seen that are tagged with the "Action" genre. I'm a huge fan of the genre, enjoying it more than any other, and I wanted a way to document what I like and don't in the genre. Hence this list.
When I rate films, I rate based on my overall enjoyment of them, and not as examples of any particular genre. So the top portion of my list is a ranking of every film I've rated at least 8/10, but ranked specifically as Action movies. So a film like Harakiri (1962), which I find to be a flawless film, doesn't rise to the top, as it's not a great "Action Film" so it gets ranked lower.
After the ranked portion, I've grouped all subsequent ratings alphabetically. So all the films I rated 7/10 are grouped alphabetically, followed by the 6/10 rated films, and so on.
The movies that Joe Bob Briggs hosted on his first series, The Drive-In Theater. See comment for complete listings by date.
All Movies In Series In Chronological Order
Movies that feature detectives and criminals or are about some crime In Alphabetical Order
Movies with car chases shootouts and are fast paced in Alphabetical Order
The movies that Darcy the Mail Girl posted JB's Drive-in Theater and MonsterVision bits for. So far.
So Bad, its good :)
Sci Fi, Kung Fu, Action, Super hero, Ninjas, Robots, Cyborgs, Aliens, Dystopian Future, Other Worlds, Spaceships, Western, Time Travel, Cops, Lone warrior, Big Guns, Swords, Bikes, Synth music.
mostly from the 70's to mid 90's.
No Horrors.
The "250 key movies" rated and reviewed in the book Action! The Action Movie A-Z (1997) by Marshall Julius.
Author's ratings:
1-14: 5*
15-22: 4.5*
23-51: 4*
52-92: 3.5*
93-140: 3*
141-182: 2.5*
183-211: 2*
212-226: 1.5*
227-244: 1*
245-250: 0.5*
"Vengeful cops and car chases, lunatic villains and martial arts masters, male-bonding, gun fights and super secret agents, swords and sorcerers, wartime Nazi-bashing, boys' own adventures, casual destruction and general death-defiance... this is what we want to see, and if you feel the same way, "Action!" is for you, a fan's guide to the wackiest genre of 'em all, with 250 key movies rated and reviewed" -Introduction
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