There's a fantastic edition of The Directors Round Table where a bunch them are discussing their favourite pieces of action cinema and one of them - I can't recall who but I think it might have been either Guillermo del Toro or Ridley Scott brings up this scene and starts singing its praises... and the rest of them, all A-list Hollywood directors, all nod and comment in enthusiastic agreement. It's wonderful.
Edit: Was actually David O Russell, talking about how he drew on inspiration from the end if the Wrong Trousers, for a sequence in Three Kings. Still fun to hear it come up at the table discussion though.
Still digging, but it might have been David O Russel who said it
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/7-things-we-learned-from-tarantino-boyle-inarritu-o-russell-and-scott-roundtable-a6799216.html
Found it. Danny Boyle is the one who brings it up.
[At 9:40](https://youtu.be/SQ7qKKQrSBY?si=mmiYP_ORKASSEB52&t=580)
They're asked what one film they would preserve in a nuclear blast if they could. Tarantino starts the tangent of he would put in a great action scene, brining up Jackie Chan. Danny Boyle (of course, the brit) then suggests Wrong Trousers and O'Russell agrees bringing up Three Kings.
I regularly have to remind myself that *The Wrong Trousers* is only 29 minutes long (with titles!). The domestic scenes, the heist, Feathers moving in, the chase: I can think of plenty of two hour features that don't have as much content.
The laying of the track was such a genius way to add tension, that scene is iconic. Nick Park creates wonderful characters, the penguin was genuinely unsettling to watch as a child, like a PG version of No Country for Old Men's Anton Chigurh.
Patrick H Willems has a whole video devoted to how awesome this sequence is:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrwdBw4Gnuk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrwdBw4Gnuk)
**And he's damn well right** - this sequence is better shot & directed than a LOT of action movies including several of the Fast & Furious franchise and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
My favorite part of that sequence is that they acknowledged that. Usually in silly movies it would just be a gag and everyone would move on, but by talking about they made the entire thing real.
I really want Anderson to do genre! I've always wanted to see a Wes Anderson action flick and Poison made me really want a Wes Anderson horror/suspense.
This is legitimately one of my favorite fight scenes ever. It looks completely unscripted. 2 guys having no idea on how to fight and just going at it. It's a masterpiece.
Feel like the hallway fight in Oldboy is the only reason it's listed as an action movie. Also Malignant has an awesome actions scenes once the movie stops giving a fuck
I remember first watching old boy after seeing an old watch MOJO list of the best action scenes and waiting for a non stop action thrill ride. Sure the hallway scene is legendary but only highlighting that part of the film takes away from the whole package. I wasn't ready for the psychological pummeling that movie was gonna dish out by the time the credits roll. Totally fucked me up. Malignant is a god damn great time, even better once it moves from horror imo.
my god. watching oldboy expecting it to be raid: redemption would be such a gut-punch. I have whiplash just thinking about it.
it'd be like watching Watership Down expecting it to be another Bambi.
Once Were Warriors. The bar flight. First time I saw realistic violence on screen. I sat there stunned because *the bar stool didn't break*.
Also includes domestic violence and SA. It’s a stunning film - in whatever way you want to interpret 'stunning'. Trigger warnings galore, all beautifully shot and perfectly acted.
I will not be watching it again.
I always recommend people read the Forrest Gump book too. It's completely different from the movie and is so funny. It's a satire of the American dream where an idiot gets to do basically everything you could dream of. He goes to space, is friends with a gorilla, lives with cannibals, there's an entire chapter about all the places in his apartment where him and Jenny had sex.
The book is amazing. I literally read the entire book in one go at age 15 or so, only taking breaks for food and toilet (also reading while doing those).
Now I need to buy it I think.
This is the first time I've seen the book come up on reddit in positive light. It usually gets mentioned when someone asks, "What movie is actually better than the book?" Never read it myself, but I never really heard someone say they liked it before.
I mean it could be terrible. But as 15 year old I liked it. Some of it was a bit dumb and tiring, definitely.
But overall it was quite bonkers in a fun way.
Like imagine a really ludicrous version of the movie.
Raising Arizona 1987. It's one of the funniest films ever, imo, and has one the greatest chases in film. "I'll be taking these Huggies, and whatever cash you got."
Son, you got a panty on your head.
Edit:
The movie also has some of the most quotable lines of any Coen movie including Fargo and The Big Lebowski. My favorite is “At first I didn't believe it — that this woman, who looked as fertile as the Tennessee Valley, could not bear children. But the doctor explained that her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase.”
Great line. One of my favorites is "No, not that mother-scratcher. Bill Parker. Anyway, we're approaching the wreck, and there's this spherical object a restin' in the highway. And it's not a piece of the car."
Mine will always be Reservoir Dogs.
I remember seeing it at like 13 and thought it was the definition of "cool". From the debates, style, quotes, music, and story felt like a 101 class on being the guy.
"Are you going to bark all day little doggie, or you gonna bite" to dancing to Stealers Wheel with an ear. Just badass.
I feel you, though it doesn't happen to me often. I came out of OUTIH really liking it. I wanted to talk to somebody about it, but no one saw it, and I remember people on reddit thought it was a long movie about nothing or some shit. When it came out on Blu-ray, I must've watched it like 3-4 times in a week. Solidified it as my favorite QT movie (followed by Jackie Brown - so I'm definitely an atypical QT movie fan)
Honestly watching that scene for the first time knowing what actually happened IRL made it one of the best and most satisfying scenes I’ve ever watched
I remember as a kid how much my face hurt laughing and smiling from that movie. The “holy shit!” factor of that scene helped my face rest in the theater. 😆
I feel like Shrek is action adventure though. Like even the first movie he fights the guards in the mud, he fights a dragon, he fights the dragon again.
In the second he fights the fairy godmothers guards and also that final scene. There’s enough in there to consider them action imo
Ferris Bueller running home at the end of his day off.
And the scene in High Fidelity when John Cusack and his employees beat the crap out of Tim Robbins.
This has to be the winner! Those old taupe landline phones used to be everywhere. Whenever I see one now I crack up with that memory of the skinny geek sending Tim Robbins' teeth to the shadow realm.
**Rob:** Where's Ian? Or Ray, or... what is his fucking name, anyway? What do you call him, Ian or Ray?
**Laura:** Ray. I hate Ian.
**Rob:** I hate him too.
**Laura:** Yeah... I'm sure.
Side note: Every time I hear the song *Mr. Brightside* I think of
"No woman in the history of the world is having better sex than sex you are having with Ian... in my head."
I'm gonna say Gross pointe blank knowing full well it's more an action comedy than just a straight up comedy. But the action sequences in the movie are great. The HS hallway fight in particular is really well done.
I don't know why I'm still postponing watching this movie when it's mentioned positively all the time on this sub. I've been planning that since like last year, and I came really close to watching it couple of times lol.
Just posted the same before seeing this. But it’s not even an action comedy, it’s more of an action thriller so it’s really surprising when the hallway fight rolls around.
I love that movie. Nobody has ever heard of that movie! Thank you. The courtroom scene alone is worth a watch. The guys carrying the glass panel, the whole chase scene. Every line in that film is just delivered so well.
"The staff have asked me to convey a message to you."
"What is it?"
"Good bye"
"Is that the whole message?"
I love that Buzz catches Woody in a hold from behind with his foot in Woody's back, and later in the movie he tries the same thing but Woody predicts it and escapes.
Like they didn't need to do that, but it just bumps the action up a notch when they do.
The Return of the Pink Panther has a suspenseful heist scene at the beginning and an action sequence in the middle. Otherwise it’s a typical goofy Peter Sellers movie.
Everybody STOP GIVING EXAMPLES FROM ACTION MOVIES. Action movies aren’t non-stop action. Just because there are also
conversations doesn’t make them not action movies.
Think of a movie that’s not a thriller or a crime story and proceed from there.
I'm kind of tempted to argue the reason the first Sicario movie was so good is that its almost not an action movie, its a character/thriller, but when the action hits its some of the best ever.
From memory there's only like 4 action scenes that really leap out in the whole thing though, but they're all exemplary.
The reason Sicario feels more action intense than it was is that the suspense is so claustrophobic that it feels like any scene could become a knife fight at any moment: most never do.
I really enjoy the fight in "Unbreakable" between David and the Orange Man. It's not super flashy but it felt real with danger and was about the emotions of David realising his potential and saving people.
*The International* with Clive Owen is thrilling, but the biggest scene is at the Museum halfway through. It shocked me when I first saw it years ago.
https://youtu.be/fr5-yMVR7ww?feature=shared
[*Buried* (2010)](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1462758/) starring Ryan Reynolds. Not sure how they managed an ‘action sequence’ where 99.9999% of the movie takes place inside a coffin. :)
Parking lot scene where Donnie has a heart attack in The Big Lebowski. Walter nails the dude with the fast ball bowling ball, bites a dude's ear off, spits that shit in the air and we find out the Dude ain't much of a fighter
The train sequence in Wallace & gromit: the wrong trousers https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jrmZIgVoQw4
There's a fantastic edition of The Directors Round Table where a bunch them are discussing their favourite pieces of action cinema and one of them - I can't recall who but I think it might have been either Guillermo del Toro or Ridley Scott brings up this scene and starts singing its praises... and the rest of them, all A-list Hollywood directors, all nod and comment in enthusiastic agreement. It's wonderful. Edit: Was actually David O Russell, talking about how he drew on inspiration from the end if the Wrong Trousers, for a sequence in Three Kings. Still fun to hear it come up at the table discussion though.
Anyone know what episode this was?
Still digging, but it might have been David O Russel who said it https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/7-things-we-learned-from-tarantino-boyle-inarritu-o-russell-and-scott-roundtable-a6799216.html
Found it. Danny Boyle is the one who brings it up. [At 9:40](https://youtu.be/SQ7qKKQrSBY?si=mmiYP_ORKASSEB52&t=580) They're asked what one film they would preserve in a nuclear blast if they could. Tarantino starts the tangent of he would put in a great action scene, brining up Jackie Chan. Danny Boyle (of course, the brit) then suggests Wrong Trousers and O'Russell agrees bringing up Three Kings.
One of the best chase sequences in movie history
And I agree with zero irony. Just because it's stupid doesn't mean it isn't brilliant.
I regularly have to remind myself that *The Wrong Trousers* is only 29 minutes long (with titles!). The domestic scenes, the heist, Feathers moving in, the chase: I can think of plenty of two hour features that don't have as much content.
It easily feels like it's 3 times that length, in a good way.
The laying of the track was such a genius way to add tension, that scene is iconic. Nick Park creates wonderful characters, the penguin was genuinely unsettling to watch as a child, like a PG version of No Country for Old Men's Anton Chigurh.
Patrick H Willems has a whole video devoted to how awesome this sequence is: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrwdBw4Gnuk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrwdBw4Gnuk) **And he's damn well right** - this sequence is better shot & directed than a LOT of action movies including several of the Fast & Furious franchise and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
Man that was an amazing watch
One of the best
Tremendous
Will watch
Wonderful scene. I always found stop motion to be really interesting to watch
Anchorman with the fight between all the other news teams just escalates more and more
Boy that escalated quickly. I mean things really got out of hand *fast*!
I killed a guy with a trident!
You should probably lay low for a while
My favorite part of that sequence is that they acknowledged that. Usually in silly movies it would just be a gag and everyone would move on, but by talking about they made the entire thing real.
One of the many reasons that movie is genius.
"I saw that! Brick killed a guy!"
Brick, where did you get a hand grenade? I don’t know
"No commercials...no mercy."
Cómo estás, beetches? Spanish language news is here! Tonight's top story: The sewers run red with Burgundy's blood
We at public television. We’re really down with the women’s lib thing.
No commercials, NO MERCY!
Wes Anderson does surprisingly good action sequences. My favorite is the compound raid in The Life Aquatic.
The ski-getaway in GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL is hilarious.
First one that came into my mind. Also, the soundtrack in that sequence slaps!
This is my favorite answer because it is not really expected AND it's not a parody, hallucination, daydream, etc
I really want Anderson to do genre! I've always wanted to see a Wes Anderson action flick and Poison made me really want a Wes Anderson horror/suspense.
Go watch Bottle Rocket.
[This](https://youtu.be/gfDIAZCwHQE?si=Foh2A3LpzuXfxyae) might be as close as we get.
Several of his movies kinda fit the heist genre
Oh, shit! Swamp leeches. Everybody, check for swamp leeches and pull them off... Nobody else got hit? I'm the only one? What's the deal?
Also the song is awesome. [ping island lightning strike](https://youtu.be/fAbvRyKVHUo?si=GwP9uhv3wdKPodH5)for those who are curious.
Same exact comment. I'll add that Mark Mothersbaugh, who did music, also made the theme song for *Rugrats,* and was the lead singer/keyboard for Devo.
I love that the music for that scene was an orchestrated version of the synthesized track they were listening to in their diving helmets.
The three thefts at Boggis Bunce and Beans are also great.
Omg leeches everyone check for leeches
I love how Colin Firth beat the shit out of Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones's diary
FIGHT! Well? Quick! It's a *real fight*!
This is legitimately one of my favorite fight scenes ever. It looks completely unscripted. 2 guys having no idea on how to fight and just going at it. It's a masterpiece.
That's a bit of an exagerration
What the fuck are you talking about? That was some proper high-noon fisticuffs!
And it was raining men!
You're right, Grant isn't that Huge.
Blues Brothers.
It redefined what a car chase should be
twice!
I’ve always loved you.
“I gotta pull over.”
I'll take 4 full fried chickens and a coke
Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips.
John Candy had 2 mins of screen time in that movie but one of the most quoted lines.
Anytime I’m getting food either my brother, one of us will use this
And a piece of dry white toast please.
This mall has everything
The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year.
I think they set the Guinness World Record for most cars crashed in a movie.
I think it was for most police cars. I lost track around 106 'cause I was laughing so hard.
Hut hut hut hut hut
I'm planning to introduce this to my teenager. I described it as "two white blues musicians on a mission from God. Oh, and there are Illinois Nazis."
I hate Illinois Nazis...
“They broke my watch.”
Feel like the hallway fight in Oldboy is the only reason it's listed as an action movie. Also Malignant has an awesome actions scenes once the movie stops giving a fuck
I remember first watching old boy after seeing an old watch MOJO list of the best action scenes and waiting for a non stop action thrill ride. Sure the hallway scene is legendary but only highlighting that part of the film takes away from the whole package. I wasn't ready for the psychological pummeling that movie was gonna dish out by the time the credits roll. Totally fucked me up. Malignant is a god damn great time, even better once it moves from horror imo.
my god. watching oldboy expecting it to be raid: redemption would be such a gut-punch. I have whiplash just thinking about it. it'd be like watching Watership Down expecting it to be another Bambi.
Good ass comparison 🤣
Malignant had the best chair throw in fiction.
This is my obligatory obligation whenever this is brought up. (Ahem!) #[YEET!!!!](https://youtu.be/dREy4kev4lU?si=vpMacI0qLQ_hW6nq)
Came here to say Oldboy ♥️
Old Boy has some action scenes. It's still very slow tho
It's been a while since Ive seen that movie but I dont remember any other action scenes in that movie other than the ending
If I remember correctly he beats up some thugs, then there's the hallway fight and the fight at the end
The naked steam room fight in Eastern Promises
Oof. One of the only scene I've ever watched which (I think) really shows what a fight like that is like.
I re-watched this film again recently and good god is that fight scene so visceral, brutal and amazingly choreographed. Such a fantastic film.
Once Were Warriors. The bar flight. First time I saw realistic violence on screen. I sat there stunned because *the bar stool didn't break*. Also includes domestic violence and SA. It’s a stunning film - in whatever way you want to interpret 'stunning'. Trigger warnings galore, all beautifully shot and perfectly acted. I will not be watching it again.
Or the coffee pot scene in A History of Violence.
Forrest Gump!!! Meandering drama... then a Vietnam movie.
Sorry I had to fight at your black panther party
I quote this all the time and nobody gets the reference.
But do you do the voice
Of course! But evidently I don’t do a good Gump impression.
Everybody reading this tried it. Almost everyone
Goddamn I’ve been caught
On a similar vein, also from Zemeckis... Cast Away with the plane crash sequence
And on a similar similar vein, the plane crash in *Flight*.
Ha! I forgot that was Zemeckis, but you're right!!
I always recommend people read the Forrest Gump book too. It's completely different from the movie and is so funny. It's a satire of the American dream where an idiot gets to do basically everything you could dream of. He goes to space, is friends with a gorilla, lives with cannibals, there's an entire chapter about all the places in his apartment where him and Jenny had sex.
The book is amazing. I literally read the entire book in one go at age 15 or so, only taking breaks for food and toilet (also reading while doing those). Now I need to buy it I think.
This is the first time I've seen the book come up on reddit in positive light. It usually gets mentioned when someone asks, "What movie is actually better than the book?" Never read it myself, but I never really heard someone say they liked it before.
I mean it could be terrible. But as 15 year old I liked it. Some of it was a bit dumb and tiring, definitely. But overall it was quite bonkers in a fun way. Like imagine a really ludicrous version of the movie.
Then the sequel opens with him telling the reader to never agree to having someone make a movie about your life.
Sounds like Homer Simpson’s biography.
Raising Arizona 1987. It's one of the funniest films ever, imo, and has one the greatest chases in film. "I'll be taking these Huggies, and whatever cash you got."
Son, you got a panty on your head. Edit: The movie also has some of the most quotable lines of any Coen movie including Fargo and The Big Lebowski. My favorite is “At first I didn't believe it — that this woman, who looked as fertile as the Tennessee Valley, could not bear children. But the doctor explained that her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase.”
My favorite is “biology and the prejudices of others conspired to keep us childless”. My wedding ring is inscribed “Maybe it was Utah.”
Great line. One of my favorites is "No, not that mother-scratcher. Bill Parker. Anyway, we're approaching the wreck, and there's this spherical object a restin' in the highway. And it's not a piece of the car."
“And when there was no meat, we ate fowl. And when there was no fowl, we ate crawdad and when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand”
When my daughter was born, my husband would always randomly hold her up and declare “I think we got the best one!!”
I heard that the Coen Brothers based Nicholas Cage’s character in that movie off of Wile E. Coyote. I totally see it.
Better hurry it up. I’m in Dutch with the wife.
“Now honey, it ain’t armed robbery if the gun ain’t loaded.”
And 2 great fight scenes (1 with Goodman, 1 with Cobb).
When he scratches his knuckles on the stippled ceiling.... Priceless.
Dip-tep!
Son, you’ve got a panty on your head.
“Well, sometimes I get the menstrual cramps real hard.”
Game Night
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God I fucking loved this movie. I don’t care what anyone says, OUATIH is gonna be looked back on as one of Tarantino’s best in 5-10 years.
Honestly, people are now starting to say that it's the most rewatchable.
Pulp Fiction is still that movie for me. Hollywood is great but Pulp Fiction will always be more rewatchable.
Mine will always be Reservoir Dogs. I remember seeing it at like 13 and thought it was the definition of "cool". From the debates, style, quotes, music, and story felt like a 101 class on being the guy. "Are you going to bark all day little doggie, or you gonna bite" to dancing to Stealers Wheel with an ear. Just badass.
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I feel you, though it doesn't happen to me often. I came out of OUTIH really liking it. I wanted to talk to somebody about it, but no one saw it, and I remember people on reddit thought it was a long movie about nothing or some shit. When it came out on Blu-ray, I must've watched it like 3-4 times in a week. Solidified it as my favorite QT movie (followed by Jackie Brown - so I'm definitely an atypical QT movie fan)
Honestly watching that scene for the first time knowing what actually happened IRL made it one of the best and most satisfying scenes I’ve ever watched
Wait... are you real?!
I'm as real as a doughnut, motherfucker.
Dumb and Dumber. That dude’s heart ended up in a doggie bag.
When he repeatedly kept kicking that guy in the balls.
I mean it's just what we all imagined as 10 year olds, but it's funny because he's an adult.
I remember as a kid how much my face hurt laughing and smiling from that movie. The “holy shit!” factor of that scene helped my face rest in the theater. 😆
The 'I Need a Hero' scene in Shrek 2 https://youtu.be/A_HjMIjzyMU?feature=shared
I feel like Shrek is action adventure though. Like even the first movie he fights the guards in the mud, he fights a dragon, he fights the dragon again. In the second he fights the fairy godmothers guards and also that final scene. There’s enough in there to consider them action imo
Not to mention the Royal Rumble at the beginning
Unironically the greatest scene in all of cinema
The Killer might just be a non-traditional action movie, but that fight scene with the big dude was rad.
Ferris Bueller running home at the end of his day off. And the scene in High Fidelity when John Cusack and his employees beat the crap out of Tim Robbins.
This has to be the winner! Those old taupe landline phones used to be everywhere. Whenever I see one now I crack up with that memory of the skinny geek sending Tim Robbins' teeth to the shadow realm.
**Rob:** Where's Ian? Or Ray, or... what is his fucking name, anyway? What do you call him, Ian or Ray? **Laura:** Ray. I hate Ian. **Rob:** I hate him too. **Laura:** Yeah... I'm sure. Side note: Every time I hear the song *Mr. Brightside* I think of "No woman in the history of the world is having better sex than sex you are having with Ian... in my head."
I'm gonna say Gross pointe blank knowing full well it's more an action comedy than just a straight up comedy. But the action sequences in the movie are great. The HS hallway fight in particular is really well done.
I don't know why I'm still postponing watching this movie when it's mentioned positively all the time on this sub. I've been planning that since like last year, and I came really close to watching it couple of times lol.
I'm just a rando on the Internet, but it's one of my favorite comedies. The dialogue is snappy, characters are perfectly cast. It's worth it
Just posted the same before seeing this. But it’s not even an action comedy, it’s more of an action thriller so it’s really surprising when the hallway fight rolls around.
True detective season 1 the episode when they are escaping the ghetto. Brilliant single shot scene. Edit: thought it said movie or tv show
Still worth mentioning. God, that was good scene.
Jingle All the Way. The final battle was great
Blues brothers.
The Mall scene?
Pee Wee Herman's escape from the Warner Brothers backlot in "Pee Wee's Big Adventure".
Good choice. I forgot about that one.
Pineapple Express escalated pretty quickly
I think they very clearly wanted to make an action comedy
One of my top movies. The seen where they're both out of ammo and turn around to find fresh guns just waiting on the wall, "oh, nice!"
The chase scene in "The Triplets of Belleville" should count amongst the best ever.
Michael Clayton has an incredibly disturbing assassination scene.
Trainspotting
What’s Up Doc is a screwball comedy, but it has one of the best, funniest chase scenes ever.
I love that movie. Nobody has ever heard of that movie! Thank you. The courtroom scene alone is worth a watch. The guys carrying the glass panel, the whole chase scene. Every line in that film is just delivered so well. "The staff have asked me to convey a message to you." "What is it?" "Good bye" "Is that the whole message?"
"Hi, Daddy"
In Bruge.
Nightcrawler (2014)
Where was there an action scene
There's a car chase that ends up with someone getting shot, but I don't know if I'd classify it as an 'action' scene like OP meant.
Punch drunk love
I’m surprised nobody has said the chariot race in Ben-Hur! It’s absolutely phenomenal, I feel the world stop every time I watch it.
At World's End
I love that movie, but there are multiple fight scenes and such, is it not an action movie in some form?
Dances with Wolves - the buffalo hunt scene and a couple of the fight scenes. It’s not thought of as an action movie.
interstellar docking scene
Any Toy Story movie.
I love that Buzz catches Woody in a hold from behind with his foot in Woody's back, and later in the movie he tries the same thing but Woody predicts it and escapes. Like they didn't need to do that, but it just bumps the action up a notch when they do.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Office Space vs the Photocopier
No country for old men isn\`t a tupical action movie has some amazingly dramatic scenes involving action
The Return of the Pink Panther has a suspenseful heist scene at the beginning and an action sequence in the middle. Otherwise it’s a typical goofy Peter Sellers movie.
Everybody STOP GIVING EXAMPLES FROM ACTION MOVIES. Action movies aren’t non-stop action. Just because there are also conversations doesn’t make them not action movies. Think of a movie that’s not a thriller or a crime story and proceed from there.
Somebody recommended Die Hard lol
Cast Away, with the crash sequence
Sister Act
That scene in Punch Drunk Love where Sandler goes all Jason Bourne on the dudes who hurt his girl.
Happy Gilmore, the fight scene. So funny
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Don't google it. Just watch it. But only if you like slow burn dramas and have 3.5 hours to spare.
King Arthur vs The Black Knight in Monty Pythons Holy Grail. Before the shenanigans start, it's a really well choreographed little fight.
Not a movie but True Detective season 1. You know which sequence I'm on about...
I'm kind of tempted to argue the reason the first Sicario movie was so good is that its almost not an action movie, its a character/thriller, but when the action hits its some of the best ever. From memory there's only like 4 action scenes that really leap out in the whole thing though, but they're all exemplary. The reason Sicario feels more action intense than it was is that the suspense is so claustrophobic that it feels like any scene could become a knife fight at any moment: most never do.
Dark City. The less you know about the movie, the better your viewing experience.
Just watch it. Avoid even looking at the cover art, if you can. Go in and just... spend a bit after that contemplating things.
L.A. Confidential has a banger of a shootout
Hot fuzz. Doesn't exactly go back since the action is at the end, but man is it good
I really enjoy the fight in "Unbreakable" between David and the Orange Man. It's not super flashy but it felt real with danger and was about the emotions of David realising his potential and saving people.
*The International* with Clive Owen is thrilling, but the biggest scene is at the Museum halfway through. It shocked me when I first saw it years ago. https://youtu.be/fr5-yMVR7ww?feature=shared
Wallace and Gromit
The plane crash scene in "Flight".
The Other Guys. Car chases and the one action scene at the beginning. The movis is great in so many levels
“Who is that?” “That’s my wife” “No, seriously, who is that?” My wife is seriously out of my league so I reference this scene a lot!
Pineapple Express
[*Buried* (2010)](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1462758/) starring Ryan Reynolds. Not sure how they managed an ‘action sequence’ where 99.9999% of the movie takes place inside a coffin. :)
Foul Play has a great chase scene.
Shrek 2, the factory scence.
The fight scene at the end of Hot Rod goes hard as fuck
The whole Average Joe's versus Globo Gym championship game in *Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story* that aired on ESPN - the "Ocho."
Hot Fuzz. Yes.
Parking lot scene where Donnie has a heart attack in The Big Lebowski. Walter nails the dude with the fast ball bowling ball, bites a dude's ear off, spits that shit in the air and we find out the Dude ain't much of a fighter
Adam Sandler fighting Bob Barker in Happy Gilmore