Best spy movies or other action films?

[Matthew Carberry]

Shoot 'Em Up with Clive Owens has an "anti-gun" plotline it gleefully ignores, a good villain, and a lot of fun "shooting of ups." Also Monica Belluci as a wet-nurse hooker.

Not spy movies but History of Violence and Eastern Promises and Appaloosa have some well-shot violence.

Last Man Standing is over the top and fun. Collateral has good sequences.

[æg151337]

"The f*ck is that? What the f*ck is that?"
"It's me Bren gun!"
"Don't you think you could've brought something more practical?"

Isn't there a thread for this?

Crushes metal cup with metal hand "Groovy..."

[Levant]

Awesome selections.  I'll keep the DVR player and Amazon busy for a while but keep them coming.

There are some new ones coming out, too.  I'll try to add them as I see the commercials again.

[Levant]

Shoot 'Em Up with Clive Owens has an "anti-gun" plotline it gleefully ignores, a good villain, and a lot of fun "shooting of ups." Also Monica Belluci as a wet-nurse hooker.

Not spy movies but History of Violence and Eastern Promises and Appaloosa have some well-shot violence.

Last Man Standing is over the top and fun. Collateral has good sequences.

Which Last Man Standing?  There are several.

[Levant]

Man On Fire is a good one. The new Bond films with Daniel Craig are pretty good, less gadget and more action.  A lot more oike Ian Fleming wrote.  The "Justified" series from FX is a good shoot-em-up series, and available on disc.

I think I'll like this one:

Product Description
Justified is the story of Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), a true-blue hero and something of a throwback, given to wearing a Stetson and cowboy boots, carrying his sidearm in a hip holster – a weapon he only draws when he has to, and when he does, he shoots to kill, because, as he sees it, that’s the purpose of a gun.

[Perd Hapley]

Which Last Man Standing?  There are several.

I'm pretty sure he means this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Man_Standing_%28film%29

Similar to Yojimbo, or Fistful of Dollars.

And if you haven't seen either of those, just forget everything else until you have.

[Tallpine]

Which Last Man Standing?  There are several.

The last one, of course   

[MechAg94]

How about The Man Who Knew Too Little?  One of Bill Murry's better movies IMO.

Or just about any of the Sean Connery James Bond movies.

[Tallpine]

How about The Man Who Knew Too Little?  

Joanne Whalley - Yes!   

[MechAg94]

Joanne Whalley - Yes!   

Yes, I didn't know if I should start a discusson on spy movie women. 

[Tallpine]

Yes, I didn't know if I should start a discusson on spy movie women. 

Jenny Agutter was in The Eagle Has Landed 

[Levant]

I am not normally an Angelina Jolie fan, at least off screen, but I did like Wanted.  Just googled and found there was a Wanted 2.  Haven't seen that one.

I also liked Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

I particularly like those where the spy is fighting against the rotten elements of their own agency. 

[MechAg94]

Mr and Mrs Smith is a good one. 

I didn't care for Wanted.  The imagery of the curving bullets and long range shooting was cool, but the concepts were just nuts.  I want some of those bullets that go through multiple targets with no deformation at all and no deflection.  Suspension of disbelief goes only so far for me with movies that are not SciFi/Magic. 

[Bob F.]

" days of the condor" was originally, I think, "6 days of the condor."  How about "Enemy of the State"?
What was the one with the rather homely hit man and the little girl??

[freakazoid]

" days of the condor" was originally, I think, "6 days of the condor."  How about "Enemy of the State"?
What was the one with the rather homely hit man and the little girl??

The Professional with one of my favorite actors Jean Reno?
Another good action type movie with Jean Reno is Wasabi.

[charby]

Was that a snidly covert wham on the Obamster?

Obama isn't the prez in Olympus Has Fallen.
And in the movie you'd WANT to because the consequences for America don't end with a White House with burn marks on the portico. 
Watch the movie.  Find out.  I ain't sayin' more. 

I watched it last night, I would say that it snarks the current POTUS.

[Levant]

That's one of the movies that made me think I should start buying some DVDs and watch them.  There are a lot of good movies, I just never get to see them.

[charby]

That's one of the movies that made me think I should start buying some DVDs and watch them.  There are a lot of good movies, I just never get to see them.

Why buy when you can do Netflicks or something similar.

[Tallpine]

We buy most everything at the pawn shop for a couple bucks, or in the Walmart $5 bin.

Keep the DVD as long as you want, and then take them back to the pawn shop if you don't want to keep them.

[Levant]

Pawn shops here are asking more than Walmart is.  The $5 bin is a good idea.  But I don't mind paying Amazon prices for most either.  I figure I could run a 30 to 50 dollar a month tab and be cheaper than getting movie channels from Dish Network - though this only works out if I turn off the movie channels I have.

[Levant]

What I really wish, to go along with building a DVD library, is that you could get a la carte channels at decent prices.  I would only need Mayberry, TVLand, Food, Cooking, Blaze, Fox News, and Investigation Discovery for the wife.  Since that is 7 channels out of the 250 channels I pay 75 a month for (before premium movie channels) then I should be able to get that for about 20 bucks a month.  I could buy a lot of movies to watch during Raymond and Chopped. :)

[Tallpine]

Pawn shops here are asking more than Walmart is. 

I think they are $2 or $4 and they pay you half of that for any that you bring in.  So you can effectively rent them indefinitely for a dollar or two.  Ladypine usually goes to town instead of me.

[Hutch]

Animal House.  Wait... What?

Long ago I had a coworker that compared all movies, no matter the genre, to Animal House.

Me: "How did you like Predator?"
Frank:  "Parts of it were almost as good as Animal House"