Kevin's Watch

no Bourne kicks the transporters ASS!!
hands down.

I agree with Ez: Bullit, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Getaway...McQueen's too cool for school...but action-wise he's the granddaddy...

Take the Money and Run had some very good action sequences...

Here's you trivia question--what's the movie with Linda Hamilton way back when she was hot, before she got buff and looked like a skeleton, with, maybe Robert Wagner? The car that jumps between the buildings is one of the most memorable action scenes I can remember (that was, like, the original jump of it's type). Maybe the movie's not that memorable...but, for the time, I thought it was pretty good.

clue #1: it came out two years after the first Terminator and starred Tommie Lee Jones to boot!

Dude, that's Black Moon Rising, and that's a badass film.

McQueen was no doubt the king of cool and one of the earliest action stars. I loved the train chase in The Hunter, as well as the car chase through the corn field.

The Bourne movies were OK, the first Transporter was pretty good, though it was awfully derivative.

Well, I watched Die Hard 2 tonight. First time since I saw it in the theater. A few thoughts...

-Renny Harlan is no John McTiernan. Maybe it's Jan de Bont's work as DP on the first film. Maybe it's that Renny just hasn't made a decent action film (other than The Long Kiss Goodnight). I dunno, but DH2 looks pedestrian, DH loos awesome.

-The action sequences are flat. Which is a damn shame, 'cause the Skyway Annex shootout could've been great. Instead, we get goofy slo-mo, and John McClane rolling around like Martin Riggs.

-The exposition in DH comes out of people's mouths as they're doing something. The exposition in DH2 takes forever to come out, and slows the film down.

-Bill Sadler did a fantastic job as Col. Stuart. He's arguably the best thing in the picture. The scene where he talks the plane into crashing is great.

-Were in not for Die Hard, Die Hard 2 would've been fantastic (even with Renny's sloppy direction).

I really hope McTiernan steps up for #5.

I really wanted to like Die Hard 2...but the film was doing everything in its power to really turn me off. (I still like Bruce Willis.)

I already gushed like a fanboy about the Bourne movies in the Bourne Ultimatum thread; here I'll just add my support to the Bourne enthusiasts.