Just recently, I bought the super cool new edition to the "101 Movies" series, which is Action Movies. You can bet this was one of the awesomer books, weird choices not withstanding (Yes, "Avatar" is a weird choice for an action movie).There were a lot of different things about this one, a lot of things I thought were cool and others I didn't agree with.
3 Things I Enjoyed:
1:Variety-Everything from superhero films to sword-fight classics, with some high-adrenaline shoot-em-ups in between. There's even an Alfred Hithcock film thrown in, "North By Northwest" (on my "To See" list), as well as Lord of the Rings:The Return of the King.Awesome if funky choices.
2:Choice- I'm glad, for one, to see that Spiderman numero uno made the final cut, usually overlooked in favor of Spidey number 2. To not include "Chrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" would have been a tragedy of woeful proportions, but a whole score of sweet-looking martial arts films, including Crouching Tiger, are spread throughout the book.
3:Oldies but goodies-When you think action movies, you don't really consider something like "The Adventures of Robin Hood" or "Captain Blood", but they're all here.Every one is a classic, from "The Great Train Robbery" to "Safety Last".You just can't beat Golden Age Hollywood.
Now, I'm not on board with all the Bay-Bruckheimer productions, especially after seeing "Transformers:Revenge of the Fallen" (Since when does Transformers need to have Frat parties and dogs mating?),so I'm probably going to ignore those ones. Besides those, and the surprising lack of Akira Kurosawa samurai films-Mercenaries with katanas really only reminds you of action-the book is pretty dang epic.This is also probably the one I've seen the most films from.
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