Only Marvin and Baby Min posted, so I think they showed me enough support for me to post the top 5! Anyway, its being a long time since I posted, so here goes the top 5!
5th - Enemy At the Gates
This movie is freaking cool. Its about 2 snipers, playing a cat and mouse game with each other, but trying to kill each other. The tactics and the way they go about their duties are just fantastic!
You can watch a clip of the sniper action here
Its just brilliant.
4th - Terminator
If you haven't seen any of the 3 movies of the Terminator franchise, you must have been living in the mountains. Terminator was a fantastic idea by James Cameron, and he really must have fantastic imagination to come up with a story that has time travel, machines becoming self aware and going to war with the humans, and a heroine who saves the day. Terminator and Terminator 2 was fantastic, but Terminator 3 was quite a let down. Now, there's Terminator 4 coming up, and its about John Connor leading the fight against the machines.
3rd - Sin City
Sin City is a movie that I watched a few months ago, but the way it is being filmed just takes my breathe away. It consists of 3 stories which intertwines with each other. My favourite story is the Bruce Willis and Jessica Alba story arc. Willis said one of the most memorable quotes in the film which is "An old man dies, a young girl lives. Fair trade."
I love the comic book style of the film, it might be in black and white, but the way they use the colours in the film, just amazing.
2nd - Predator
Let's not talk about Predator 2 cos I think its shit, but Predator 1 was really the kind of action films I love. The way Arnold Schwarzenegger resorts to using the environment, setting up traps and using mud as camo to battle with the Predator is just wow! The Predator is just a hunter, who hunts for sport. Remember in Predator 2, after the cop managed to kill the predator? The Predators spared the cop life and gave him a cowboy gun. Well, there was an idea from the producers that they wanted to make a Predator 3, involving cowboys and a Predator. This would be a very good idea as in the cowboy days, there wasn't really much weapons to fight it. However, the idea wasn't materialised but I still hope that 1 day it will.
Predator is linked to the number 1 movie in my list, so I'm sure many of you will be able to guess what it is.
AND NOW, NUMBER 1 ON THE LIST GOES TO......
1st - Aliens
Alien 1 was good, Aliens 4 was ok, nothing fantastic, Aliens 3 was crap but Alien 2 was just AWESOME. This movie was produced by, James Cameron of course. Instead of a leading man, its a leading lady, heroine Ellen Ripley, which is very similar to the Terminator series, which has Sarah Connor as the heroine.
This movie has been copied by many movies, games etc. The design of the Aliens, the idea that Aliens are like insects, even Starcraft has some ideas from them!
So many fans in the world has called for Aliens to fight against the Predator, as in Alien 1, the Alien species was brought to the planet by another unknown alien that was quite similar to the Predator.
Anyway, back to the movie. I really love the part where the American Marines came on the planet being very cocky and arrogant and thinking that the Aliens couldn't match their firepower. However, after the team was nearly wiped, they know that the Aliens are a species not to be messed with.
The final scene of the show is the best. It caught me unexpected when I was watching it as a kid. Highly recommend you people to watch this scene. Here is the LINK.
Hope you guys enjoy my Action Movie Awards. If you ever find yourself bored, you can go watch anyone of these movies. I guarantee you will be satisfied. :)
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