Suggest a good non-gritty/realistic action movie!

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OK so I'm fed up with these ''gritty'' and realistic action movies that are taking over the genre. Nonsense fun action movies have been relegated to bargain basement fodder starring men with sex slaves or moustaches that were cool twenty years ago.

So I'm starting this thread so we can reacquaint each other with the greatest action movies ever made, specifically those during the 80/90s Golden Era of Action Nonsense.

The sort of movies I'm refering to:

Red Dawn
Rocky - Arguably from the 3rd/4th installment (Excluding Balboa)
Commando
Red Scorpion
The Running Man
Rambo (etc.)
Total Recall
Demolition Man
Face/Off
Conair
The 13th Warrior
The Rock

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Also to promote discussion, what do you think of the recent trend of 80s remakes? Will it reinvigorate the genre of nonsense/unrealistic action, or just reinvent them into 21st Century realistic interpretations of the franchises? What do you make of the upcoming remakes of Red Dawn, The A Team, and the 80s action star extravaganza The Expendables?
 
They're older but we need to mention Where eagles dare, Guns of navarone and Kelly's Heroes. Timeless war and action classics.
 
The problem is that most modern non-realistic action films a quite bad. XXX springs to mind. For a good one, I'd watch The Losers. It's both hilarious and awesome with lots of over-the-top action, I saw it last week. It's cinematography is a little gritty, but the show itself is far from realistic.

I didn't know Red Dawn was being remade. I expect any such remake to be terrible, and not in the so-bad-it's-good way that the original was. Who's going to invade America this time, North Korea? China? Ridiculous premise 30 years ago, but much worse now.

I've never seen The Expendables, so can't really comment.

As for The A-Team, it looks frigging awful. Say what you will about the ridiculousness of old action films like Commando, at least they stayed within the realm of physics for the most part, except for old action movie staples like over-the-top explosions and people flying backwards fifty feet when they get shot. Any film that features people flying a tank and shooting at oncoming aircraft breaks that rule.

The Losers is a very similar film that doesn't go too far while still being vastly entertaining. I encourage you to check it out. Because, in the words of the old Tibetan proverb: "Don't start none, won't be none."
 
True Romance
Desperado
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Midnight Run
Point Break
Banlieue 13
Crank
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Some of them better than others, but I think all of them bring what they're supposed to.
 
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None of them are very realistic, but I think that's what being asked for.... a non-gritty and non-realistic movie...
 
Loppan Torkel said:
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None of them are very realistic, but I think that's what being asked for.... a non-gritty and non-realistic movie...
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Agree. Slightly bad wording in the title. It should have said "Suggest a good non-gritty/non-realistic action movie!"
 
Yeah I meant non-gritty non-realistic.

Gonna check out The Losers.

Point Break was an excellent call Loppan Torkel. Must rewatch it.
 
A lot of old-school Hong Kong Kung-Fu films - and the modern Thai Muay Thai films - are pretty damn ridiculous while still being entertaining. I don't think I'd class any of them - excepting Bruce Lee's films - as good though.
 
I would class Warrior King as good.

It perfectly achieves what it aims to do.
 
Lord Baal said:
I didn't know Red Dawn was being remade. I expect any such remake to be terrible, and not in the so-bad-it's-good way that the original was. Who's going to invade America this time, North Korea? China? Ridiculous premise 30 years ago, but much worse now.
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It does look pretty bad. The PLA invades small US towns. Why? (Is it to manipulate currency by forcing small town Americans to buy Chinese goods at Walmarts? :) )
 
GoodGame said:
It does look pretty bad. The PLA invades small US towns. Why? (Is it to manipulate currency by forcing small town Americans to buy Chinese goods at Walmarts? :) )
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That makes even less sense than the first movie, which at least had Cuba and Nicaragua as potential jump-off points for a Soviet invasion. Bad remakes make me sad.
 
Randomnerd10 said:
The A-Team is looking pretty good for such purposes, but I haven't seen it yet.
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I think it looks too over-the-top. It's one thing to be unrealistic, it's another thing to insult the audience by flying a tank and shooting down planes with it. Maybe "flying the tank" can replace "jumping the shark."
 
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