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Poll Question: whose action movies do you enjoy the most?
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    Posted: December 12 2006 at 04:14
    

i know that all of these directors have other movies than action ones too but let's focus on those only...

i'm torn between Cameron and Stone but i'll give the edge to Cameron...
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I can't vote without John McTiernan as Die Hard is the greatest action film... ever...
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Originally posted by ResidentAlien ResidentAlien wrote:

I can't vote without John McTiernan as Die Hard is the greatest action film... ever...

    
i thought of him too... you're right...he should be up there too...anyway... out of these 4, who would you pick?
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Out of those four, I don't really like any.  I like Terminator... but don't like anything else Cameron's done.  I love Indiana Jones... but strongly dislike the rest of Spielberg's filmography.  I wouldn't really consider any of those Stone films to be "action films" though (not that I like either).  My favorite by Stone is Talk Radio.  So... yeah...  I'll abstain from voting.  Lol.
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I can't decide between Steven Spielberg and Ridley Scott.
 
 
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Points: 3089 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 12 2006 at 07:48

my favourite of the poll's directors is scott, but i don't think his films can be called "action movies". spielberg would then be my choice (still i voted scott, what the hell Big smile)
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I like Cameron's films,which are pretty good for action films.

And how could you consider Stone an action director?Most of his movies are dramas and biography and character studies.And Platoon isn't an action movie but one of the best and most realistic war movies ever made.


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What is Stone doing here? Shocked
 
From the others, though also not only action -oriented, I'd go with Ridley Scott.
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Ridley Scott for Blade Runner and Alien
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I don't really like too many of these- not into bloated Hollywood action films. I'm not one to come on like an arthouse film fan (I HATE those!!) but for me the best action director of all time is the Hong Kong film director, John Woo. I love the combination of melodrama and very stylised violence, with some jawdropping shootouts. 20 year old films like 'A Better Tomorrow' still pack one hell of a punch today. A film like that clearly shows CGI and a big budget is NOT necessary to create a great action film- his output has more heart (and blood, actually) than the rubbish coming out from the Cannon/Joel Silver production line of the same era.
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From that list RIDLEY SCOTT but my other action movie directors favourites are...

JOHN McTIERNAN: Die Hard, Hunt of the Red October, Basic...
JOHN WOO: Hard Target, Broken Arrow, Bulletproof Monk, Paycheck...
RICHARD DONNER: Superman (1978), Lethal Weapon (parts 1 to 4), Assassins...
JOHN FRANKENHEIMER: Grand Prix, French Connection II, Ronin, Reindeer Games...
RENNY HARLIN: Die Hard II, Cliffhanger, Deep Blue Sea...
GUILLERMO DEL TORO: Mimic, Hellboy, Balde II,

... E N E L B U N K E R...
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Spielberg just gets for the Indiana Jones trilogy.

Of all of them its John Woo, just for the amazing Hard Boiled.
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Not Stanley Kubrick or Quinton Tarantino. 
 
Probabaly, Peter Jackson. 
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No Tarantino?!!
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I'm also wandering where Tarantino is... Ah, well, I went for Ridley Scott. Simply LOVE Alien
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Originally posted by prog_simon prog_simon wrote:

Simply LOVE Alien
 
 
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