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.
The first Lethal weapon before they turned it into a laurel and hardy franchise. Also Die Hard, Alan Rickman playing arguably one of the finest ‘baddies’ to date.
Also Roadhouse crept in by a year. One of Bletches all time favourites and an inspiration to him in so many sartorial ways. I always thought he’d be bigger.
Predator edges it for me, with Terminator and Aliens close behind. If Mad Max had been a year later or Total Recall a year earlier I might have really struggled with this one. Apparently Shane Black who played Hawkins in Predator is in the process of writing the next Predator film, be interesting to see what he does with it.