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Sunday, 11 February 2007 |
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- Die Hard – NYC cop Bruce Willis battles terrorists who hold a building hostage using his skills and smarts. Thrilling story, great action scenes and stunts. It’s Bruce Willis’ greatest action role!
- Indiana Jones Trilogy – A series of adventure stories packed with thrills, surprises, and humor. Harrison Ford is the archeologist Indiana Jones who goes from one dangerous situation to another to acquire priceless artifacts and save the world. It’s perfect entertainment!
- Star Wars Episodes 4,5, 6 – This classic space adventure seems dated now, but when it came out, it broke a lot of ground in filmmaking. Very original engaging characters, the best of which are R2D2 and CP30, Han Solo, and of course, Darth Vader.
- Rocky – I like this series. A small-time underdog boxer, Sylvester Stallone, gets a million-to-one shot at a championship bout. Great underdog story, thrilling fight scenes.
- Saving Private Ryan – The first 20 minutes about the DDay landing is harrowing. Tom Hanks lead a squad of soldiers looking for a private who lost all his brothers and can go home. They go through hell to find him. Anti-war movies don’t get any better than this.
- Total Recall – a very entertaining, over-the-top sci-fi action starring Arnold Schwarzennegger as a man whose mind has been tampered with.
- True Lies – another Schwarzennegger over-the-top action movie, this time he is playing a top-secret spy, but his wife thinks that he is just a timid salesman.
- Unforgiven – interesting character from Clint Eastwood about a has-been killer who cannot shoot straight anymore, but has to shape up in the face of a sadistic sheriff. A Western made when everybody thought that the Western genre was dead.
- Gladiator – Cameron Crowe plays a principled Roman soldier who winds up as a gladiator in the Coliseum. Spectacular action scenes inside and outside the Coliseum.
- The Departed
- Robocop – Peter Weller is a cop who died and gets turned into a half-robot, raising havoc among the bad guys with his new-found fire- and other powers.
- The Fugitive – A great chase movie because the pursued (Harrison Ford) and the pursuer (Tommy Lee Jones) are equally matched. Great action and stunts.
- Reservoir Dogs – Flashy story of a bungled jewelery theft with the jewel thieves spewing great dialogues. All the actors are great, especially Steve Buschemi. The first showcase of Tarantino’s talent.
- Pulp Fiction – Another flashy, violent Tarantino feature about lowlifes (whose characters are very original including John Travolta and Samuel Jackson’s bickering, philosophical hitmen) going through crises. It was so strikingly original in its time, with the story not being told chronologically. Tarantino humor and dialogue still sparkles.
- Terminator 2 – Arnold Schwarzenneger is a later-model cyborg out to protect a mother and her child who is being hunted by a state-of-the-art cyborg from the future. What do you do when the state-of-the-art cyborg just won’t die? Great action and special effects.
- Cop Land – A very human Sylvester Stallone plays a fat sheriff who is losing his hearing and gets into trouble with other corrupt NYC cops in suburban New Jersey.
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