Poll question: Best Action/Adventure Franchise

Poll result (19 votes) Fast and Furious (3 votes) Vote Terminator (1 votes) Vote Indiana Jones (1 votes) Vote Star Wars (12 votes) Vote LOTR (0 votes) Vote Other (specify) (2 votes) Vote

The Connery Bonds are of course the gold standard, followed by Craig. I like but don't love the Brosnan Bonds. I'll watch the Dalton and Lazenby Bonds if they happen to be on.

Every Roger Moore Bond except for Live and Let Die is garbage.

He was the funniest Bond.

>He was the funniest Bond.

He was too funny. He made the Bond movies tongue in cheek, and campy. That isn't what Bond is supposed to be. I read the Ian Fleming books as a kid and there wasn't any humor in them. Sean Connery injected a little humor and personality into the Bond character and that was cool, but Roger Moore was doing too much.

The Roger Moore films were too much like parodies of a spy film, like Flint, Matt Helm or Get Smart.

In order

Star wars
Indy
MCU
Pirates
Terminator
fast furious /Hunger games
transformers

Big drop, then

lotr/ Hobbits/Harry potter

From Iron Man forward, every Marvel movie is a part of the next, including Guardians of the Galaxy.

By far the best out there.
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LOTR and Star Wars fits the same general bill to me. The Matrix, Harry Potter, Terminator, shit like that.

F&F and Indy are very different animals to me.

I view competition for F&F as other "straight" action movies like Die Hard and Lethal Weapon. F&F is essentially b the Star Wars of it's kind.

Indy is straight adventure. Goonies, Jurassic Park, shit like that.

I also view comic book movies in their own category.

'cause that one happened in the "future" with respect to Fast & Furious through Furious 7.


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It has absolutely zero to do with my post.

with respect to being action/adventure franchises, F&F is just like Star Wars.


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F&F is a huge, long story just like Star Wars, Matrix, etc...

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>F&F is a huge, long story just like Star Wars, Matrix,
>etc...

that makes no sense

one is a space opera sci-fi

the other is "realist" action adventure

>that makes no sense
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>one is a space opera sci-fi
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>the other is "realist" action adventure

SW is an action adventure story, F&F is also an action/adventure story. I agree that they're different genre's, however at their most basic they're still multi-movie stories.


(by extension, Better Luck Tomorrow can also be included in this since there's plenty of references to Han's life prior to F&F that relate back to Better Luck Tomorrow).


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Cars and skateboards are also the same because they both have four wheels. I think I'll use eucalyptus leaves in my salad tonight because lettuce leaves and eucalyptus leaves are both leaves.

I'm certainly amused, I'll give you that much.

Some of these movies have similar elements but they are definitely different genres.

I would vote Star Wars if it weren't for Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones.

The Indians Jones movies were some of my favorites, but Crystal Skull is literally unwatchable.

Fast And Furious didn't really get good to me until #4.

The Bourne movies (even the Jeremy Renner one) are all thoroughly watchable. Same with the MI series.

from humble quirky beginnings, the series blew up in scale but managed to keep that kid-in-a-toy-store level of inventive set pieces and weirdness. I honestly find it the best work of Rodriguez and Tarantino together. Unless you count Sin City 1.

I bought El Mariachi on VHS back in the 90's. It's one of my favorite films of all time. Desperado and Once Upon A Time... are also awesome in their own right (Salma Hayek nude???) and the three together make for good watching in my book.


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And it came out at the perfect time for me. I was in middle school when Desperado came out. My dad rented it and I found the VHS. (datin myself) it blew my entire mind. I saw Mariachi and OATIM in college and have wished somehow Rodriguez would get back to that cinematic level.

I can't say he ever really reached it again, but it's enough to give me hope whenever I see he has a new project.

yall have no clue

only one movie has come out so far, and while I'll be there opening night (already got tickets) it doesn't qualify for the poll.
If this second one is anywhere near the first, we're in for something.

and since it's all one world and the movies are connected with an overarching story, i think it counts.

I'm not a huge fan of this genre....but Aliens by a landslide for me. All three movies are completely different from each other. And they're all fantastic.

the first one is one of the best ever, sure, buuut..