I know this will bring up a lot of consternation and angst, BUT I think its something we all have opinions on. Personally I think if comes down to flicks from the three greats of that decade, Arny, Sly and the walking legend himself Chuck Norris!

 

My thoughts:

 

Arny - Predator / Commando

Sly - First Blood / FB Pt2

Chuck - Delta Force

Got to throw Jean-Claude Van Damme in there for the hell of it for universal soldiers and the street fighter movies.

 

Also can't forget to add Arnold Schwarzenegger's films Total Recall & Last Action Hero.

 

Lets not forget Bruce Willis with movies like Die Hard , The Last Boyscout and The Fifth Element.

 

And how could you not put up Sylvester Stallone seriously ROCKY & RAMBO !!! ... not to mention he teams up with Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man and to top it off he was Judge Dread.

 

Grant not all of these are great movies but they did what they were meant to do entertain the masses and make a some people very very very rich.

Edited October 3, 200816 yr by chambersAUS

how could you not put up Sylvester Stallone seriously ROCKY & RAMBO !!!

 

Yeah Bruce was pretty darn good in Die Hard

 

First Blood is Rambo mate sheesh, well technically we're both wrong as its Rambo: First Blood, wouldn't put Rocky in there myself but thats cos I never got into the boxing flicks.

 

Universal Soldier was great but that is from the 90's, not 80's so your out there as were a lot of the other flicks you mention (5th Element, Total Recall, Last Boy Scout etc, good flicks all).

Ohh sorry kind of missed the 80's part .... ohh well its all just one big blur of rock fights, blowing up army men and drinking in the later part. I mean the late 80's and most of the 90's here.

Ohh sorry kind of missed the 80's part .... ohh well its all just one big blur of rock fights, blowing up army men and drinking in the later part. I mean the late 80's and most of the 90's here.

 

The two greatest periods of action flicks where there was no 'green screen acting' and the extras that got shot in the films actually died!

Holy crap Red Dawn

Lethal Weapon 1&2

Edited October 3, 200816 yr by stewsta

Holy crap Red Dawn

 

Oh yeah remember that one, oh and Top gun what about Escape from L.A and oh say E.T hahaha

(cough cough)

 

MADMAX ...c'mon!!!!..

 

(the origanal )

E.T ain't an action movie...

lethal weapon movies are the best, i love mel gibson hes so hot!

 

Mad Max was terrible it was like 50 mins of driving, then 10 mins of killing, then another hour of driving. And Max didnt even kill the Bad guy. It didnt even deserve its R rating. Dont even get me started on the Sequels

 

E.T is totally an action movie, that bit on the bike is sooooo action packed

Edited October 3, 200816 yr by AIF LANKY

E.T is totally an action movie, that bit on the bike is sooooo action packed

 

I call HAX!!! (o:

 

Red Dawn was pretty darn good, "oh nos the russians have taken over a small country town in the us, we're loosing the war!!!"

Arny - Predator & Willis - Diehard 1

 

Chuck simply didn't make any good movies...cept for the cameo in the Bruce lee 1

 

Predator was on TV again last weekend ...still watchable.

This is a action/sci-fi but still better than star wars, and yes I was only a bub when this was out but yeah dad saved it for me .

 

The Last Star Fighter.

 

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=H7NaxBxFWSo

 

Love it to death sad movie aswell.

The Last Star Fighter.

 

Yeah that was a good flick, wouldn't rate it above Star Wars tho . . . well the "digitally remastered" versions i would, great way to take a good flick an make it crapola

No Retreat No Surrender

 

http://www.vandamme.ru/photos/movies/nn/nn6.jpg

lethal weapon movies are the best, i love mel gibson hes so hot!

 

Mad Max was terrible it was like 50 mins of driving, then 10 mins of killing, then another hour of driving. And Max didnt even kill the Bad guy. It didnt even deserve its R rating. Dont even get me started on the Sequels

 

E.T is totally an action movie, that bit on the bike is sooooo action packed

 

You are so gay

lo0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0ol

lethal weapon movies are the best, i love mel gibson hes so hot!

 

Mad Max was terrible it was like 50 mins of driving, then 10 mins of killing, then another hour of driving. And Max didnt even kill the Bad guy. It didnt even deserve its R rating. Dont even get me started on the Sequels

 

E.T is totally an action movie, that bit on the bike is sooooo action packed

 

sounds funny coming from a 15 year old . and yes you are so gay .

no retreat no surrender was awesome , another good boxing flick from the 80's is gladiator . and who could forget daniel larusso , a.k.a the karate kid hahaha .

oh , and mad max is freakin awesome , thunderdome ftw .

I'll big ups this one, has the cheese of the 70's an the awesomeness of the 80's!!!

 

Enter The Ninja!!!

oh yeh enter the ninja , i watched it to many times .

Arnie's True Lies is one of my favourites of all time.

 

It may be early 90's though...