(Entertainment Weekly) Twenty shiatty action films that you can't help but love. It starts with Con Air and takes off from there like a hairbird in flight
For the most part, no. I did however enjoy that period of JCVD movies, in no small part because they always let him get his ass kicked before he won. He was kind of the opposite of the super-badass that Segal always played. Even at 11, I knew Flash Gordon was goofy, but it was so far over the top it became fun. Starship Troopers I consider a dead-on parody of the fascist propaganda of its source material.
1. Con Air 2. XXX 3. The Marine 4. The Jackal (Willis / Gere version) 5. Wanted 6. Starship Troopers 7, 8, & 9. JCVD x 3: Bloodsport, Kickboxer, Lionheart 10. Hudson Hawk 11. The Long Kiss Goodnight 12. Terminal Velocity 13. Flash Gordon 14. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 15. The Last Dragon 16. Best of the Best 17, 18, 19, & 20. Andy Sidaris quadrilogy: Picasso Trigger, Hard Ticket to Hawaii, Savage Beach, Return to Savage Beach
I would have added the Steven Seagal classics Hard to Kill, Out for Justice, and Under Seige.
BillCo:dgc360: I would have added the Steven Seagal classics Hard to Kill, Out for Justice, and Under Seige.
Steven Seagal is the worst actor in the history of mankind. I was only able to watch Executive Decision because he dies early in the movie.
Uh, that's kind of the point. Have you seen the list of movies the headline is referring to? I've typed out the list above. You're ranking Nic Cage, Vin Diesel, JCVD, John Cena as having a higher quality of acting ability than Steven Seagal?
Also then to my own list I will add American Ninja.
Wanted wasn't enjoyable, in a traditonal or an ironic sense. The only reason I didn't walk out of it was that my wife inexplicably wanted to stay, I suspect because she was mad at me for suggesting that we see it and wanted me to suffer through the entirety of what I had wrought.
It was a movie about a group of assassins taking orders from a magic loom who violated the laws of physics by swinging their guns around and healed themselves with magic wax. And I didn't even get to see Angelina Jolie's its.
NeuroticRocker
2009-11-03 12:31:35 PM
What?
The Long Kiss Goodnight and The Jackal are AWESOME!
Just fun action.
The Long Kiss Goodnight had mild humor in it, but it was so much fun.
/Chefs do that!
SurfaceTension
2009-11-03 12:43:33 PM
/and Starship Troopers was actually not that shiatty
R.A.Danny
2009-11-03 01:02:28 PM
Worst movie ever.
Except for the shower scene.
thisdaydreamer
2009-11-03 01:10:47 PM
/and Starship Troopers was that shiaty.
czmilosz
2009-11-03 01:17:02 PM
filth
2009-11-03 01:23:41 PM
The English Major
2009-11-03 01:24:55 PM
What?
The Long Kiss Goodnight and The Jackal are AWESOME!
Just fun action.
The Long Kiss Goodnight had mild humor in it, but it was so much fun.
/Chefs do that!
"See you're assuming I won't shoot your sorry ass, and everyone knows when you make an assumption, you make an ass out of you and umption."
Hender
2009-11-03 01:27:45 PM
Sybarite
2009-11-03 01:29:21 PM
dgc360
2009-11-03 01:35:53 PM
1. Con Air
2. XXX
3. The Marine
4. The Jackal (Willis / Gere version)
5. Wanted
6. Starship Troopers
7, 8, & 9. JCVD x 3: Bloodsport, Kickboxer, Lionheart
10. Hudson Hawk
11. The Long Kiss Goodnight
12. Terminal Velocity
13. Flash Gordon
14. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
15. The Last Dragon
16. Best of the Best
17, 18, 19, & 20. Andy Sidaris quadrilogy: Picasso Trigger, Hard Ticket to Hawaii, Savage Beach, Return to Savage Beach
I would have added the Steven Seagal classics Hard to Kill, Out for Justice, and Under Seige.
They did Con Air and not The Rock?
Hender
2009-11-03 01:39:19 PM
dj_bigbird
2009-11-03 01:40:18 PM
SpaceyCat
2009-11-03 01:58:06 PM
That was as awesomely bad movie as Flash Gordon and Mortal Kombat.
R.A.Danny
2009-11-03 01:58:06 PM
Dead on, yes. Unwatchable, yes.
FishyFred
2009-11-03 02:00:17 PM
/Flash! Ah AHHHHHHHH! Savior of the universe!
Hender
2009-11-03 02:00:57 PM
Dead on, yes. Unwatchable, yes.
Let me tell you something--I'm from Buenes Aires and I say KILL 'EM ALL.
HeadLever
2009-11-03 02:01:04 PM
/maybe didn't have the MultiPass
//Or maybe someone considered it a 'good' movie
An-Unnecessarily-Long-Name
2009-11-03 02:02:20 PM
All Awesome. I was waiting for the list to have True Lies on is. Best movie ever
Hender
2009-11-03 02:05:50 PM
All Awesome. I was waiting for the list to have True Lies on is. Best movie ever
The article was about shiatty action movies, not good ones.
GAT_00
2009-11-03 02:06:08 PM
Starship Troopers sucked. HARD. I don't know what you're talking about.
Hudson Hawk is the best of all those movies.
BillCo
2009-11-03 02:09:45 PM
Steven Seagal is the worst actor in the history of mankind. I was only able to watch Executive Decision because he dies early in the movie.
FishyFred
2009-11-03 02:11:47 PM
I guess I can understand why some people don't like it. However, those who don't like it tend to be pretty uptight and snobby.
Would you like to know more?
dgc360
2009-11-03 02:15:36 PM
Steven Seagal is the worst actor in the history of mankind. I was only able to watch Executive Decision because he dies early in the movie.
Uh, that's kind of the point. Have you seen the list of movies the headline is referring to? I've typed out the list above. You're ranking Nic Cage, Vin Diesel, JCVD, John Cena as having a higher quality of acting ability than Steven Seagal?
Also then to my own list I will add American Ninja.
neglogon
2009-11-03 02:15:39 PM
And yes, Hudson Hawk was a very under-appreciated movie GAT_00.
Cagey B
2009-11-03 02:46:29 PM
It was a movie about a group of assassins taking orders from a magic loom who violated the laws of physics by swinging their guns around and healed themselves with magic wax. And I didn't even get to see Angelina Jolie's its.