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ACTION

More Must-See Action Movies

Batman 1989 Batman Begins 2005 Battle Royale 2000 Bourne trilogy 2002, ’04, ’07 Braveheart 1995 Clash of the Titans 1981 Die Hard 1988 Enter the Dragon 1973 Face/Off 1997 First Blood 1982 48 Hrs. 1982 Gladiator 2000 The Incredibles 2004 Kill Bill: Vol.1 & 2 2003, ’04 The Lord of the Rings trilogy  2001, ’02, ’03 Predator 1987 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Speed 1994 Spider-Man 2002

Rocky I–IV
1976–85
Yo, Rocky won a Best Picture Oscar. But we also treasure the series for its jogs on the beach with Apollo, Mr. T’s Mohawk, and for ultimate Cold War propaganda Rocky IV.
Line, please: “No, I don’t hate Balboa. I pity the fool.”

The Matrix
1999
Keanu Reeves’ movies about machine-manipulated reality aren’t supposed to be this good, but the groundbreaking FX (see: “bullet time”) were a revelation. Those sequels? Never happened.
Rewind: The lobby shootout is possibly the three most action-packed minutes in film history.

The Road Warrior
1981
The action-overdrive sequel to cult hit Mad Max launched Mel Gibson’s career, made assless chaps a fashion must for postapocalyptic barbarians, and coined the phrase “the Ayatollah of Rock’n’Rollah.” Now that’s a movie, dammit!

Three Must-See Action Clips

The Matrix The "Lobby Shootout," an action scene that almost single-handedly redefined a genre. For more on The Matrix and things it failed to deliver, check this out.

Raiders of the Lost Ark A trailer so exciting, it makes us want to see a movie we've already seen 1,400 times. The one, the only, Raiders. For more on Raiders of the Lost Ark and its imitators, check this out.

Batman Begins "Where are you?" "Here." With that, all traces of Joel Schumacher are scraped off the Bat symbol.

WAR

The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
Watch POW Alec Guinness, forced to build a bridge, descend from stoic to obsessed and you’ll never look at Obi-Wan the same way again.

More Must-See War Movies

Apocalypse Now 1979 Black Hawk Down 2001 The Dirty Dozen 1967 Gallipoli 1981 The Great Escape 1963 *M*A*S*H 1970 Platoon 1986 Saving Private Ryan 1998

Dr. Strangelove
1964
The funniest movie ever about global thermonuclear war. Stanley Kubrick’s coal-black comedy featured Peter Sellers at his best, playing a nebbishy British functionary, the narrow-minded U.S. president, and a twisted genius ex-Nazi.

The Deer Hunter
1978
We weren’t even in Nam, and we still have recurring night sweats about the POW Russian roulette scene—images so harrowing they almost overshadow the equally riveting rest of Michael Cimino’s examination of war’s impact on a group of steel-town buddies. The Godfather of Vietnam films. Rewind: Robert De Niro didn’t know that Christopher Walken was going to spit in his face. Hence his look of barely contained fury.

Three Must-See War Clips

The Deer Hunter One of the scenes that made Deer Hunter a harrowing classic: Two men, a Vietnamese prison camp, and a game of Russian Roulette.

The Bridge on the River Kwai The original trailer for the Alec Guinness classic. And, yes, this is why you whistled that tune every day during summer camp.

300 This is Sparta! And this is a Spartan ass-whooping.

WESTERNS

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966
In the third (and best) volume of Sergio Leone’s majestic, witty, genre-flouting spaghetti Western trilogy, Clint Eastwood’s cheroot-puffing Man With No Name elbowed aside all-American John Wayne as our classic Western archetype: wary, more than slightly cruel, and the last man you’d want to meet in gunfight.
Extra: Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack spent a full year on the Billboard charts.

More Must-See Westerns

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 High Noon 1952 High Plains Drifter 1973 Tombstone 1993 True Grit 1969 Unforgiven 1992 The Wild Bunch 1969

The Searchers
1956
Director John Ford’s Monument Valley scenery would make any young man go West, though we’re not sure we’d ride along with John Wayne’s “hero,” a leather-tough cowboy who can’t decide whether to rescue his kidnapped niece from the Comanches—or kill her.
Rewind: The final view of Wayne framed by a doorway against the open desert is one of filmdom’s most iconic shots.

Jeremiah Johnson
1972
Watch for the breathtaking Utah wilderness. Watch for the arc of a mountain man finding companionship through his quest for isolation. Or watch for the shock of über-liberal Robert Redford butchering half the Crow tribe in revenge. Actually, watch for all the above.
Extra: When the historical trapper on whom Johnson is based was reburied in Wyoming, Redford attended the funeral.

Three Must-See Western Clips

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Il Bruno, il brutto, il original trailer.

Unforgiven Clint Eastwood's last stand western gets the suitably epic trailer treatment.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Westerns don't have to be all squinty-eyed and serious. There's room for humor, too.

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