dryars

Quick searches on this subject turned up nothing, so here we go. Post you're 10 favorite action sequences/scenes/moments on dvd.
One last note, please try to keep this from being a LOTR spam-fest. We already know that Moria, and Helms Deep were cool, but try to think of other movies besides LOTR's.

Anyways, here are my Top 10 favorites:

10. Starship Troopers -- Landing on Klendathu.
9. The Matrix Reloaded -- Highway Chase.
8. Aliens -- Fire fight in the operations room.
7. Die Hard 2 -- Skywalk ambush scene.
6. Heat -- Gun fight after heist.
5. Scarface -- "Say hello to my little friend"
4. T2 -- Raid on Cyberdine Systems.
3. The Rock -- Shower room ambush.
2. Ran -- Attack on the third castle.
1. Gladiator -- Opening battle.

Lets see everyone elses.

Sessa17

Geez, this is near impossible. I'll name a few, but in know particular order. . .

Heat, T2, & Aliens - Are the only ones I completely agree w/ you on.

Hard Boiled - Warehouse shootout & Hospital shoot out.


A Better Tommorow 2 - When Chow storms the mansion. (maybe my all-time favorite gun fight).

Throne of Blood - The ending.

The Matrix - The lobby gun fight. (And I LOATHE the Matrix, but even I have to admit this is one hell of an action scene).

Drunken Master 2 - Every fight in the movie.

talemyn

Well that seems a little harsh. Why would you want to exlcude some one of the best fantasy battle sequences of all movie time from a list of the "Top 10 Greatest Action Moments on DVD"?

Anyway, here's my list in no particular order (some agreements from the other lists):

- Saving Private Ryan - D-Day Landing
- The Rock - Shower room ambush
- Braveheart - Battle of Falkirk
- The Matrix - The lobby scene
- We Were Soldiers - Almost all of it
- Pearl Harbor - "The" attack (whether or not you like the movie, it's a pretty good action sequence).
- Drunken Master 2 - Every fight in the movie. (stolen from Sessa . . . good call! Outstanding matial arts work by JC)
- Gangs Of New York - The opening "rumble"
- The Two Towers - Battle of Helms Deep
- Natural Born Killers - The prison break

Honorary mention (only because it's not on DVD yet) - Return Of The King - Battle at Minas Tirith . . . whether or not you have something against LOTR or Petter Jackson or Orlando Bloom or fanboys . . . whatever . . . it's hard to deny that this is one of the great battle scenes in the history of movies.

It's interesting . . . I think my criterion on the is base on the director's ability to manage and mold chaos. The more chaotic, the better, but only if the director can control it.

OldBoy

10. Breakdown: ending scene where Kurt Russell and JT Walsh are fighting with chain on truck and Kurt grabs chain and then pause and yanks and JT flys off
9. Raiders of Lost Ark: Opening gold relic sequence
8. Reservoir Dogs: Climatic pointing of guns at each other in warehouse
7. True Romance: Climatic pointing of guns at each other in hotel room (put this before bc obviously came before and written by QT)
6. Braveheart: the big battle scene where Wallace and troops are holding till last second and then bring up those tremendous pointed spears
5. The Deer Hunter: Russian roulette with DeNiro, Walken and the Vietnamese
4. Red Dawn: When the girl is running from the gas station being chased by the Russians and the Wolverines pop up from the earth
3. Jaws: Opening when the girl gets taken for a ride
2. Blade Runner: Ending rooftop sequence when Harrison and Rutger battle it out for the last time..love that end moment
1. The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Climatic pointing of guns at each other in the showdown to end all showdowns.

honorable mentions:
Rocky III: there is this scene in last fight when Rocky blocks a punch by Clubber with his left hand..real cool.
The Matrix: when he discovers he's the one
The Killer (John Woo) pick any scene

pagansoul

Man from Snowy River - Riding off and down the cliff scene. My heart stops every time I see it. Nothing I have ever seen has ever topped it.

Jalizarin

in no particular order:

Apocalypse Now: helicopter assault
T3: crane chase sequence
Tombstone: climactic pointing of guns at each other in the OK Corral
Enemy At The Gates: the tractor factory standoff (more intense than action)
Platoon: final assault & when Elias is left behind

many favorites were already mentioned.

Tha Freak

(not in order, trying to name different ones that are not mentionned)

- Aliens : Loader fight
- SW Phantom menace: two jedi Vs. one Sith fight
- Blade: intro fight
- Carlito's Way: Train station shooting
- SW Phantom menace: Pod race
- T2: motorcycle race

Rypro 525

no order (shouldin't this be in movie talk)
car chase in to live and die in la
agent smith vs. neo in matrix revolutions
alabama vs. virgil in true romance
bank shootout in heat.

illennium

My favorite is the ladder scene in Jackie Chan's First Strike.

gutwrencher

would be my top choice...on a personal level.

Static Cling

Moving to Movie Talk.

Geofferson

to the Aliens nod

davidlynchfan

Colors -bloods and crips draw with uzis.

jdpatri

Hmmm... trying not to retread some of the same ground...

Once Upon a Time in China I, II - various. the two run together in my collective memory.

Desperado - three mariachis, book store burning

Fist of Legend - schoolhouse scene? I think it was a schoolhouse. It's been awhile since I saw it.

The Empire Strikes Back - Rebel Base Attack on Hoth

Star Wars - Death Star Trench

Once upon a time I thought some of the battle sequences in Tron were cool. Probably seem pretty generic nowadays though.

garolo

What? I can't believe that no one has mentioned Road Warrior yet?

How about the car chases in Bullit and The French Connection, the one against the world sword fight in Samurai II, the final battle in Seven Samurai, the climatic shootout in The Wild Bunch and for the sheer gratutitous violence, the ending of Straw Dogs.

edit: I forgot the race scenes in Grand Prix and LeMan.

gutwrencher

great chases. however, I prefer the car/cop scenes from one of my all-time fav's...The Driver. I have the import pal dvd...no domestic as of yet.

dryars

I know it sounds harsh, but I figured everyone and thier mothers would mention LOTR's. Think of FOTR and TT not being excluded but already implied.

Oh I forgot Saving Private Ryan -- Normandy Landing. Good call on that.

Dubya

The ones I like to watch multiple times...

- T2 - the motorcycle/18 wheeler cab chase
- Heat - the bank heist shootout (the scene that spurred me onto getting into home theater)
- Apocalypse Now - The helicopter attack
- U-571 - the attack that caused the americans to board the U boat and take it down
- Raiders of the Lost Ark - Indy chasing (by horse) the truck carrying the ark
- Jaws - the crew's first sighting of the shark and the subsequent shooting of the barrels
- Total Recall - The chase/shootout in the subway station
- The Spy Who Loved Me - the opening ski chase
- Jurassic Park - The T. Rex attack
- Point Break - Johnny Utah chasing Bhodi through residences after the botched bank heist

EskimoJoe

Black Hawk Down?

cruzness

Raiders of the Lost Ark - Opening sequence
The Matrix - Lobby Scene
The Two Towers - Battle of Helms Deep
Ronin - Last car chase
Matrix Reloaded - Highway chase
Pearl Harbor - the bombing of the Harbor
The Killer - any scene
Fist of Legend - Dojo fight
Legend of Drunken Master - any drunken fight.
Jurassic Park - T-rex vs an SUV
Felowship of the Ring - Battle in Balin's Tomb and the bridge of Khazad-Dum
Leon:The Professional - 1st assassination scene
Empire Strikes Back - Hoth Battle
and coming soon - Return of the King - Battle of Minas Tirith

Randy Miller III

Fight Club- Edward Norton vs. himself

QuiGonJosh

Final shootout in The Killer
Hospital shootout in Hard Boiled
Final 20min. fight in Drunken Master 2 (Legend of Drunken Master)
Podrace, Duel of the Fates in Phantom Menace
Speeder chase, Jango VS Obi-Wan, Droid Factory, and Clone War in Attack of the Clones
Highway Chase in Matrix Reloaded
Burly Brawl in Matrix Reloaded
Final 30min. of Matrix
Tank Chase in Goldeneye
Truck chase in Licence to Kill
Truck chase in Raiders of the Lost Ark
Mine chase in Temple of Doom
Tank chase in Last Crusade
Shootout in Heat

scroll2b

1.) T2 - any scene
2.) Aliens - last half of the movie, especially the power-loader
3.) The Matrix - any scene
4.) Seven Samurai - any scene, especially the climax
5.) Lawrence of Arabia - train explosion scene
6.) True Lies - opening mansion-exit scene, horse riding scene
7.) T3 - Crane scene, though it's getting a bit boring now...
8.) Predator - first firefight, torch scene, "come get me!"
9.) Titanic - the sinking
10.) Rocky - climax, training

Honorable mentions: Speed - bus jump, Gladiator, Jurrasic Park, Saving Private Boohaa, & Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade....

garolo

Over 20 years since I've seen it, I totally forgot about The Driver. I don't think that I've even seen it on TV!

And while we at it how about some campy action car chases al la Roger Corman. Anyone for Death Race 2000?

jdslater

I would add the drug field scene in XXX, I know the film has its haters ( I loathe the way it keeps saying James Bond is too old, and then follows their blueprint so closely). Anyway this scene REALLY pumped up through your amp is beautiful, its nice the jump was really done and not CGI (apart from the head). And if you watch closely there is abit of logic in the scene.