![]() Only to be rejected as canon when the TV series The Sarah Connor Chronicles emerged… Die Hard 3 decided to expand to a free roaming approach, take a Speed type mad bomber story, make said mad bomber be the brother of Hans, insert another rejected Lethal Weapon script to allow John some buddy moments with Samuel “mofo” Jackson and brought back the same director as before.Īnd Terminator 3 was noted as a T2 rehash only this time the baddie was female. Rambo III showed that while the series was out of ideas, it was hardly out of steam with more Russian killing by its hero only set in Afghanistan. ![]() It’s always tough to conjure up a third part, let alone justify its own existence. Wether by a slight hair or just 10x more fun, I think we can all agree that it has just a way better done plot, stunts and technical specifics. ![]() T2 though has just a tad better pace and epicness to it overall though. Rambo II is easily one of the most jaw-dropping action-war flicks ever conjured up yet T2 is also so stunning in its well-captured shots and always energetic even when it’s showing slower character development. I’ll just move Die Hard 2 out of the way as it truly accomplishes nothing new. They were all hits in their own right but yet so different from their original installments. This is where it gets trivial if not overtly biased. It also made firing shotguns and riding motorcycles cool on-screen again! Terminator 2 showed that it was possible to have visual storytelling and make yet another grimly fascinating epic with seemingly no happy ending in site. Die Hard 2 decided to do a copy and paste only to have the action be more Airport-inspired and feature an Oliver North type baddie. Here we go now with another dilemma: Rambo got a make-over as a one man army sent on a disaster-ridden spy mission to save some Vets and get even with Russian militants in his unexpected second parter. We could be here all day so you know what? They all win as they’re all the ingredients that are part of one huge key recipe and I (or anyone for that matter) can’t embrace ‘80s Action without any of these results. They all have the perfect mood, notable fights, great dialogue (even by action movie standards) and upped their stars’ in the fame department. This is absolutely the hardest one to pick as all of these first entries gave it their all and it paid off for each of them. And Die Hard was an unofficial Christmas movie that closed put the ‘80s with its unusual heist (so unusual that every plot summary and poster for it even gets it all wrong!), ‘70s inspired disaster movie cliches, hostage taking, Eurotrash villains and also being inspired by an action-packed book while going through a list of various leading men and TV leads before finally picking the star of Moonlighting as the most unlikely next tough guy. The Terminator was an above average B-movie with beyond respectable production values by Roger Corman-vet James Cameron, coincidentally inspired by a similar cyberpunk story featured on The Outer Limits and was a surprise hit meant as James’ answer to epics like Star Wars and slashers like Halloween. There can be only ONE best of the best franchise ultimately though so time to break it down!įirst Blood kicked off the beginning of the ‘80s action craze with its Bad Day at Black Rock type premise and a modified version of the popular novel of the same name. I’ve seen plenty of comparisons on the site but decided to update it with three beloved yet rather key franchises featuring the noted Planet Hollywood stars Arnie, Stallone and Bruce.
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