IWW4Edge Of Tommorrow
The best action movie of the 21st century so far, IMO.
Not Everything Everywhere All At Once?
entropicdriftNot a complete list but here’s a selection of movies that have come out since the turn of the century that I feel beat it out in ranking for “best action movie”:
Matrix Reloaded
Lord of The Rings trilogy
John Wick 4
Logan
Mad Max: Fury Road
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
House of Flying Daggers
Dredd
Everything Everywhere All At Once
But yeah, I mean it’s up there in rarefied air.
ElectricAirshipChristopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy!
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
I’m gonna be “that guy” and point out that 2000 was technically the end of the 20th Century.
The 21st didn’t start until January 1, 2001.
And yes, people hated it when “that guy” pointed this out 25 years ago, too.
That’s valid, but I prefer to use 0-indexing even though there’s no year 0. If somebody asks me about “the 2010s”, I’m gonna include 2010 in that, not 2020
I’m pretty sure I watched John Wick 4. I would totally disagree with that one. The further they went the more stupid it got, and it drove me crazy. It stopped being entertaining when everything just turned into gun magic (particularly for the good guys) instead of gun fu. The first one is great, is grounded, and it has stakes. Then they lose it, especially when they’re walking around with their suit coats that block any bullet and can’t be harmed. I’d rather watch Wanted or something if I want gun magic. At least it’s willing to have fun with the idea.
sp3ctr4lEhhhhhhh…
I’m still personally giving that to Dredd (2012).
Its… basically the distilled, platonic ideal of ‘a dumb action movie’, at least to me.
Extremely simple in general concept, not a complex story at all.
But executed fucking brilliantly.
Don’t get me wrong, other movies have better combat, more intricate and realistic choreography, crazier stunts, more mind bending stories.
But Dredd?
The movie is … literally like the character.
Efficient, decisive, to the point, with exactly the right amount of spectacular violence, world building, action movie ‘zinger’ type lines, plot and character developement, with near perfect timing/pacing…
…and holy shit that soundtrack.
Oh, you want to convey furious intensity restrained into controlled bursts of maximally efficient destruction?
Cool!
Lets make the entire soundtrack out of angry sawtooth waveforms.
It’s a great movie with a terrible name and bad marketing. Definitely holds up
The book’s english title was All you need is kill .
Live Die Repeat was the name the Director wanted to use for the movie.
I don’t know why the naming is so… bad
All you need is kill, is getting an anime adaptation.
Which is just going to further confuse people who didn’t realize they have already watched Edge of Tomorrow and know the whole story, probably.
I remember this movie being advertised at one point under one name before the name switched to Edge of Tomorrow. So anybody that wasn’t paying attention could have easily missed the name change.
Live Die Repeat was the tagline on every (maybe not every) poster and it was often the largest text on screen, maybe you’re remembering that?
Also the end credits has a Take That song that doesn’t even vaguely fit the tone of the movie, because cross-promotion synergy I guess?
Dammit I thought they had announced the 2nd movie
I don’t like tom cruise either but watching him get his ass kicked every single time he got out of bed was worth the watch
UKFilmNerdThis is a fantastic film and even my wife who was not a Cruise fan really enjoyed it too. It looks like we’re getting very close to a sequel as well.
BentiGorlichI watched it the other day and I just loved it. Can recommend 8/10
Oh it’s that scientology piece of shit. Thanks, but no thanks.
It’s sad that Hollywood is run like yet another megacorp and only profits count. As long as people watch the movies, they will whitewash said cult.
TheMadCodgerDon’t like Cruise either, but I’m a sucker for any Groundhog Day temporal loop films, so I really enjoyed this one.
I prefer to see this one as a video game, the main character keeps dying and respawning at the beginning of the game, and it could be days between spawn and respawn.
Then about 2/3 through, it goes into Survival Mode.
Then about 2/3 through, it goes into Survival Mode.
If you haven’t seen Palm Springs with Andy Samberg, it’s really good. Another Groundhog Day kinda movie
Read the original comment and was gonna suggest Palm Springs. Glad someone beat me to it
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It is kind of meta funny that you didn’t properly remember a movie about resetting timeline fuckery.
tuckermI remember being surprised by how good this movie was. I expected it to be some completely generic schlockbuster, but it turned out to have an interesting concept, with fewer tropes than it could have had. I remember liking Tom Cruise’s character, too. I thought he was going to be some tough guy G. I. Joetagonist, but he was actually kinda funny and relatable.
Yeah, I ignored it when it release, assuming it was just some stupid blockbuster action movie. I watched it recently when Christopher Bingham talked about it in his time loop series. I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed it.
gmtomAgree. It has all the usual blockbuster adornments of what usually turns out to be a good guys win linear snooze fest. I prefer Cruise in atypical roles, e.g. Tropic Thunder.
What made it a better Tom Cruise movie was that he wasn’t Tom Cruise right away.
In his movies he is always the best soldier and never makes a mistake, in this he started off unlikable and had to become the best, one mistake at a time.
This is interesting because I bought the book. I wasn’t aware there was a manga. Now I’m wondering if the manga or the book came first.
The novel came first, but as far as im aware the manga is a pretty faithful adaptation and was more successful, so I tend to recommend it more.
Such a cool title for the book.
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