Aliens was one of my favourite films of all time and one of the first films to really ‘get’ to me. Brilliant direction. Nothing by todays standards but to be totally freaked out by dots on a computer screen was spine tingling at the time.
Not sure if I can call it an action film but I really really loved the first Batman (1989) film. Keaton was the right kind of messed up anti hero and a complete anathema to Adam Wests camp portrayal. As somone who grew up reading Arkham Asylum comics it really hit a note with me at the time. Surpassed since of course, but in context it felt game changing at the time - superheroes at that point were flawless.
When androids are going around kicking the fuck out of each other, personally I think that lifts it from Period Drama, through Chickflick and RomCom to Action.
You, sir, are Automatonist. Aliens going around kicking human butt (Preadator, Alien, Aliens) is not counted as sci-fi but Androids or Robots doing the same is?
And Star Trek 1 was in 1977 wasn’t it (goes to IMDB to check this out) OK, 2 years out 1979 still not the 80s, obviously Polish vodka has done more damage to your brain than you care to admit
I’ve upvoted Bearsy as he has had the sense to lay out some criteria for what constitutes an “Action Film”. Such a shame that the OP didn’t think to do this and has ruined what could have been a golden thread.
oh, and Topgun doesn’t make it into the top 50 action films of the month it was released, let alone the decade. Piece of shit film from another poison dwarf.
