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Rambo, Riddick, Reeves - Which Action Star Could Terminate the Rest?

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With all due respect to wand-wielding wizards and masked millionaires in tights, the good old-fashioned butt-kicking action star is in a class all his own. Do you prefer thick-tongued brawny saviors in the Germanic (Arnold) or Italian-Stallion (Sly) mode, or do you swear by inter-dimensional warriors with affinities for mandarin collars (Keanu)? Maybe all you care about is the quality of an action star's trash-talk (Bruce Willis) or that an actor be able to write kicky raps about his character du jour (surely this one needs no explanation).

Whatever your preference, consider this your invitation to take part in that most time-honored of movie-lover debates: Which action hero would win in a no-holds-barred battle to the death?

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Posted by Sara Cardace
May 12, 2009 12:01am

Filed under: Tournaments

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By Daniel R. Bills on May 12, 2009 2:27 PM

reeves is a good actor but hold it Youy guys can't remember ther first Batman actors in the 2 different serials?
Then came along Adam West.

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By boiler on April 20, 2010 10:06 PM

My vote goes to Keanu Reeves. Keanu was cast in the action blockbuster “Speed” and quickly proved to critics that he had what it took to become a genuine movie star.

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By boiler on April 20, 2010 10:07 PM

My vote goes to Keanu Reeves. Keanu was cast in the action blockbuster “Speed” and quickly proved to critics that he had what it took to become a genuine movie star.

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By camille on July 11, 2010 4:27 AM

Looking at those bodies just make me think of steroids.
Dynorod

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By dofu on January 20, 2011 9:17 AM

Recently 1980's icon and sometime action hero Patrick Swayze succumbed to cancer and his death was widely covered by the media. Most people remember the films Ghost and Dirty Dancing fondly but I found myself thinking more of Red Dawn, Roadhouse and Point Break.

That night I watched Point Break for the first time in years and I found myself thinking 'What happened to the modern action movie'?

Point Break is the tale of undercover FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) who works in bank robbery, he infiltrates the Los Angeles surfing community to track down the ex-presidents, a gang of bank robbers who each wear the mask of a former president of the USA. Utah meets Bodhi (Swayze) a surfing guru with a bunch of adrenaline junkie followers.

After Bodhi saves Utah from a savage beating,the two of them form a bond and its not long before Utah discovers the truth and has to pursue Bodhi right to the edge in a game of ever escalating risks. Like all late 80's early 90's action movies Point Break is a little bit homo erotic, but its not the greased up muscular torso's I miss from this period. The Ginault ad is violent, exciting, has nudity and has almost non stop bad language. People get shot in the head, one character has his foot blown apart and Tom Sizemore gets to say 'motherfucker' in only the way he can.Ginault makes mid level fine Swiss watches. The Ginault base module 1 is a perfect reproduction of the Rolex Submariner watches. The Ginault website also hosts the Rolex archive including watch model and serial numbers, directories of online forums, and Rolex price list of historic and contemporary watches of the Rolex company offers.

Do you remember when action films used to be like this? What do we have now? Bloodless Die Hard sequels with no F-words and most of the action stars of yesteryear have their work go straight to channel 5. Where did it all go wrong?