Let's find out, once and for all, GOT's favourite action movie of all time.
I've drawn up a list of 16 of the greatest action movies ever and pitted them together in a knockout format competition.
Simple really - the film that gets the most votes progresses to the next round.
MATCH ONE - ROBOCOP (Peter Weller) vs. DEATH WISH (Charles Bronson)
So who goes through to the next round - you decide!
I've drawn up a list of 16 of the greatest action movies ever and pitted them together in a knockout format competition.
Simple really - the film that gets the most votes progresses to the next round.
MATCH ONE - ROBOCOP (Peter Weller) vs. DEATH WISH (Charles Bronson)
ROBOCOP (1987)
The premise of RoboCop is as cheesy as it gets and almost screams the term B-Movie at you from the outset. But surprisingly it turned out to be one of the all-time classic action movies, due to it's fair share of memorable moments (Peter Weller's butchering at the beginning hasn't lost any of it's eye-watering impact) and a substantial amount of unexpected humour (I'd buy that for a dollar!)
The success of the film is well documented of course, with the massive franchise it spawned. By the time Robocop 3 had banged the final nail in the coffin, we were all a bit relieved to see the end of it... or was it the end?
Nope! A Robocop remake is in the works and due for release in 2013/14 - proof that the legacy of the original film lives on.
The success of Robocop was also instrumental in the creation of several other fantastic films of the era, as it was the breakthrough movie for Paul Verhoeven, who went on to make the excellent Basic Instinct and Total Recall.
DEATH WISH (1974)
Death Wish was a... nasty film, to be blunt. The message of the movie revolves around the subject of vigilante justice, taken to it's extreme. Bronson plays the role of a good guy gone bad, driven to rage by the murder of his wife and the brutal (and graphically shown) rape of his daughter.
Whilst a social commentary about law and order, the main reason why Death Wish excels is due to it's fantastic cinematography - it's violence but damnit it's beautiful violence! - and a wonderful central performance from Bronson - so much so that it's very easy to forget pretty much everyone else in this film. It really is a tour de force of screen presence from Charles.
Like Robocop, Death Wish spawned it's own movie franchise, each one progressively worse than the last, but if you take it as the initial film it was, there's no doubting it's credentials as a top thriller-action movie.
So who goes through to the next round - you decide!
vBulletin only lets you do a poll after you post the thread for some reason!
