Adam Does Movies Live for Friday? I'm Adam, of course. We're gonna be talking about action movies today. We're gonna be talking about The Expendables 4. It's gonna be pretty epic. I have composed, I have put together 25 top of the line action films that I'm gonna be going over via my letter box to count at Adam Does Movies. You can find me there, you can follow me there. You can also become a member on Patreon at patreon.com slash Adam Does Movies or become a YouTube join member via the YouTube join button. With it, you get access to 300 exclusive videos, lots of homemade videos, depending on which tier level you're at. And even recommend a video for me to roast. I just today procured a 12 part roast playlist on YouTube. These are like 20 to 30 minute videos and there are 12 of them ranging from destroying cats, the movie, if you remember that gem, Alien 3, Michael Bay Ninja Turtles, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. There's tons of them there. I'm very proud of those and we have more coming up. Next one on my list is Super Mario Brothers, the movie, followed by Twilight. So I mean, if I'm lucky, I'll be going through all the Twilight movies. Who knows, who knows where the world will take me after that. We don't have to waste any more time. I will just say, of course, super chats are appreciated. I'm not gonna beg for them, but I'm gonna be going through my 25 movies on this list. I have way more than I'm gonna shout out. If you have one I don't mention, or if you just agree, throw a super chat in and say, hey, Adam, what you put this up on the board, let people know that I think End of Days with Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the greatest action movies of all time. I'll disagree, but I'll put it up there. I'll prop, I'll prop the hat. Con Air, maybe that's on your list. I think it was almost on mine because I do really like that movie. Not quite though. Let's get into it. I'm gonna start with the Expendables 4 review. I'm not gonna spend a lot of time on it. And there will be no spoilers. I've decided with movies that aren't big tent pull films. I'm not gonna do these full movie reviews where I set up the camera, mix the audio in, get the video clips, make it like a five hour affair for $4 and a couple thousand views if I'm lucky. It's just not worth my time and it's not gonna happen. I'm gonna do them on the lives instead. It's a little bit more organic that way anyways. I'm just kind of off the, of course it's not gonna be as tightly executed by me. I'm gonna be stumbling over things. And that's one other thing I wanna point out. I noticed the comment, it only takes one. It only takes one to really drive me into the ground.   I just respond, don't watch. I've made this clear I think and if I haven't I apologize and if I come off as something that I'm not, I also apologize. But my number one goal here is to provide entertainment through comedy and to become a source for movie news and rants and roasts and reviews without the puff, without the expertise knowledge or the fact that I'm not like some trained movie critic professional. And I don't claim to be in the ear of Hollywood and the actors and the writers. Like I'm you is what I'm getting at. I'm just a regular dude going to movies. I have a full-time job, I have a family.  I will screw up on dates, movies come out. This is, I should not be your only or number one source for like factual movie news content. I should be your number one source for having a good time and maybe being relatable. That's it. That's it.  He's really on the pulse of everything going on in Hollywood, he's the guy I turned to when I want to know what insider knowledge there could be or, you know, he's flying all across, going to red carpet premieres. He knows all these people. No, I'm just, that's not me at all. Regular dude, just a regular jackass trying to keep up with news like everyone else. Okay, we do have a super chat right out of the gates which I appreciate. Let's bring it up. Josh Carlos 98 for 4.99, thank you, Josh. Edge of Tomorrow is an action gem. T2 and Aliens are all timers. What are your favorite action movie quotes? Die Hard excluded, of course. Josh, we are actually going to do a favorite movie quotes episode. I think that's gonna be my podcast coming up on Monday and I will be, or maybe I'll do it, you know what? I don't know if I want to use that for the podcast. I feel like we have more fun when we can kind of share in these things together. So Josh, Tuesday or Friday will be a movie quote one and you can hold me to that. Because again, I just see them, you know what, I'm gonna make a note right now. We'll make a note as I'm talking through this that next week, next week, stream favorite movie quotes, comma worst movie quotes, comma timeless movie quotes. So essentially it's gonna be a three for the price of fun. I'm gonna give you my personal favorite that I quote still to this date. I'm gonna give you movie quotes that have withstood the test of time and I'm gonna give you movie quotes that I can't stand hearing or I couldn't stand hearing when they were popular. One that springs to mind right away is you're my boy, blue. When old school came out, that phrase was said so often. I just, I almost hated the movie after a while. I don't, old school's great, but it got me close. I was on the fence. I was ready to jump and say, nope, we're done. All right, thank you Josh for the questions. You and I may agree with some of, just maybe some of the picks for action. But since you asked, what are your favorite action movie quotes? I really like off the top of my deck. I really like in Predator when Arnold throws a knife through a dude and pins him to the wall and he goes, stick around. It's so dumb. It's so good though. I love it. Arnold has a lot, even in true lies. He looks at the dude that's strapped to a missile and he goes, you're fired. Beep, and launches the thing. Do we have another one from Josh here before I move any further? Do we have another one from Josh here? Have you seen True Lies? Says, ask Josh for $4.99. Very underrated by James Cameron. What are your underrated action films? Josh, I love the super chats. I feel like you might want to hold up for a second because I could potentially cover some of the stuff that you're asking me, but I love it. So thank you for the support. I really do appreciate it. All right, let's quickly talk about Expendables 4 because I know people are just chomping at the bit to know what I thought. If you're not familiar, Expendables 4 is the fourth entry in the Expendables franchise. Yeah, this is why you come to me for a source of movie information. I know all the deets. This one's directed by Scott Waugh. Waugh, not sure. Again, I don't pronounce names properly. I'm not that kind of person. Everybody's an expert, but me, I guess, online. He previously directed a gem called Need for Speed based on the video game property. Yeah, so he knows what he's doing behind the lens of a camera, said no one ever.  Expendables 4 is shot terribly. The acting is horrible, and I know it's expendable. So you have some of the worst action actor stars in one place, Dolph Lundgren. There's a couple of wrestlers in here, UFC guys. You got two of the dudes from the raid in this movie. Do you think they utilized them properly? No, of course they didn't. Jason Statham's in the mix, of course. Sylvester Stallone's in it for 10 minutes. Megan Fox is in the mix. Oh, wait, what did I just say? Sylvester Stallone's in it for 10 minutes? Yeah, I'm being serious. You would think the leader of the expendables would kind of be a bigger, more prominent player in the fourth entry, and you'd be wrong. Because the story in this one revolves around Christmas, AKA Jason Statham's call sign as an expendable, and how he's trying to uncover something, or you know what's really funny is I have IMDb up. Let me give you the plot synopsis for this one. Armed with every weapon they can get their hands on. The expendables are the world's last line of defense and the team that gets called when all other options are off the table. That's it. That's the plot synopsis for expendables four. In other words, there is no plot. Something about a nuke, something about transporting it on a large ship. 75% of the movie takes place in one location and it's that big aircraft carrier in the ocean. But more specifically, it's a soundstage of an aircraft carrier, somewhere in Hollywood. This is a very cheap-looking, cheaply made film. The advertising is nowhere to be found. I tried to even find a wallpaper or a poster and what you're looking at on the screen is the best they had to offer. Just Google expendables posters and you will be amazed at how little anything they put into this. They're looking to coop, I think, 15 to 30 million. The opening day numbers are 750,000. That's how far from grace this film franchise has fallen. Now don't get me wrong.  You've had Bruce Willis in them. You've had John Claiborne Don. You've had Mel Gibson. You've had some of the greatest players in the action space. Jet Li, Jackie Chan. Wait, I don't know. Jackie Chan hasn't been in it, I apologize. Jet Li, though, has definitely been in a couple of them. I think Antonio Banderas was in one. You have Wesley Snipes. And I brought up Antonio Banderas because his counterparts in this or a person that does a decent Antonio Banderas impression, I don't know who the actor is. If he's related to him, I would not be surprised. Let me look on here really quickly and see if he pops out. No, I don't know if it's his son. It must be just a dude that I guess is, the guy in the movie is playing his son. So Banderas, whatever Banderas's character was, his son is in this one. And he basically just does a poor man's cosplay of Antonio Banderas. I mean, it's a good impression, but that's really it. Most of the characters have nothing to do. 80% of it's Jason Statham. I like Jason Statham, but it's no secret he does pretty much mediocre to horrible films. This is on the horrible side. And I feel like a lot of the time we were watching Meg 2 precursor because it does take place again on the aircraft carrier. The intro to Meg 2 takes place in an aircraft carrier with Jason Statham. So this really feels like this is him escaping one movie and going right into the next shitty one. Action-wise, if you're like Adam, these movies aren't about the acting, they're not about the story, they're about the cool action scenes with our old dogs coming back for one last ride four times over. I agree with you. But when you don't have good acting, which these never do, when you don't have good dialogue, which this one certainly doesn't have, when you have no story at all, again here, and when your main protagonist is nowhere to be found, what you're left with is a B to D to Z set of characters.  Why are you in an Expendables movie? 50 Cent is in this? This is where we're at now. 50 Cent is in the movie as an Expendable. Why?  So poorly shot. Now, again, if you're looking for action, there is a lot of it in the second half. It all takes place on the ship. And that's really it. There is a various amount of weapons being used.  Some people throw axes. None of it looks very good. The camera's very close up. It's cutting a lot. The CG, I know people say this once in a while. It legitimately is PlayStation 2 graphics at times.  I made a joke in my YouTube short when I was leaving the theater and on TikTok. You can follow me on TikTok if you want as well out of this movies. I said that it's really bad when Megan Fox is the best actor in the movie. And I am 100% serious. Megan Fox, who I don't think can really act at all, unless she's playing one specific character, which is like a hardcore bitch, which is what she plays here. She can do that very well. Otherwise she's terrible. She recently did the voice acting in Mortal Kombat 1. It's the most embarrassing thing I've heard since Peter Dinklage did his voice in Destiny. Equally is horrible. They're just reading out the script. But here, she's having a lot of fun. She's actually showing some range. She still looks great. All the plastic surgery and stuff's really paying off. But you put her, who is essentially a Barbie doll, action Barbie, caked on makeup, dressed like a Kardashian. And then you put her next to these like 75, 80 year old, tough as nails, catch your midfaces. She stands out like a sore thumb.  But she also is having the most fun. Everybody else seems completely checked out. And I was too by the time this hour 45 minutes shut down.  I don't know how this script got through. Apparently Stallone was too busy to be in his own franchise, doing his reality TV show with his daughters, or who knows what he was doing for the weekend. This also feels like it was shot over an extended three-day weekend. Like legitimately they had no time with a lot of these actors. So they're like, ah, well, green screen them in. It's fine. We'll fix it in post. And that's that. And this is Expendables four. That's my review. If you saw it, let me know. Throw a super chat out and say, hey, Adam, Expendables four is great. It was good, Adam. It was good. We got one more from Josh, Josh Carlos. The Losers 2010 is greater than Expendables four. Josh Carlos, you could insert basically any movie title there and it'd be greater than Expendables four. Howling seven new moon rising is borderline better than Expendables four. That's maybe a bit unfair. Let's get to the fun part of this. That was Expendables four. I think I said enough. Let's go. Let's go to my list. You're gonna see a couple of them right out of the gates. Fair warning. This is not in order. I always have to say that because my pride's on the line. Here we go. The first one. A lot of these are gonna be things you're familiar with if you know me, but that's okay. Some of them might be out of left field and you're like, oh, wow, Adam, great pick. First off, we have Die Hard, 1998. Nakatomi Plaza, wait, 1988? Oh my God, how old am I? Yeah, of course, 1988. Why did I think this was an early 90s movie? Okay, 1988. Even better. It's really holding up. John McClain, Hans Gruber. They're at the Nakatomi Plaza. I don't have to relive the story. John McClain is in the wrong place, I would say at the right time because he's the only cop that can get things done. His wife, Holly's there. The terrorists have taken over. They're robbing the place.  This was really a tough as nails brawler film where you could identify with the lead character. John McClain, Bruce Willis. He's not like super ripped like Chris Hemsworth. Like he's in shape, but he's in like realistic normal guy shape, hitting the gym three or four times a week shape. He's balding.  It's got some great violence. Dude's getting choked with chains.   Alan Rickman sells everything he's in and it's no exception here. I've praised this movie up and down and for good reason.  I watch it every holiday, which is it's a Christmas movie, of course. And I celebrate it. I really do. Next up on the list, we have Lethal Weapon, 1987. So just a year Richard Pryor, Lethal Weapon comes out. This is a Richard Donner vehicle. We have Riggs Murta, Danny Glover, Mel Gibson. I don't think Renee Rousseau is not in this one. She doesn't come in until later. You have Gary Busey as the villain. This movie I just watched not that long ago with my son Connor, who's 11. He felt very cool watching this R rated film. It's got a ton of swearing. It's got a little peek a nudity here and there. You got a dude getting shocked in the water. Mel Gibson's just completely unhinged and that works out well for this character as well. Watching him jump off of a building right away with the guy and how he's just got this raw passion for the job.  And then you have Murta, which is a great counterpoint because his partnership with him is one of begrudging acceptance, I would say. Murta is a family man.  He's got a wife. He's just trying to pay his bills and get out without getting shot. And yeah, Riggs is doing everything he can to get shot. So it just plays off very nicely. Some really good action. A surprisingly long final boss battle with Busey, which I wasn't expecting. Again, it's been a long time since I had watched it previously. So when they were out in the front yard, just kind of duking it out while the rest of the cops watch and root them on, that was freaking raw. That was awesome. And Lethal Weapon's awesome. I should also point out, I should also point out that there's 25 on this list, but really I'm opening up an entire box, an entire war chest of movies here because for every first movie that's on this list, I can confidently say, there's at least one or two other entries in the property that's just as awesome, if not arguably better in some people's eyes. So for instance, Die Hard. We have really three, we have two really awesome Die Hard movies.  Same director, McTiernan did both.  Die Hard 2, Die Harder. It's a step down for sure. Quite a big one. It's a little cheesier. Well, it's a little cheesy, I should say. I don't think Die Hard's cheesy at all. The second one is a little campy, but you do have the T1000 and they're rolling around on the ground shooting dudes. And that's pretty sweet. There's some good double crosses and triple crosses. It's again, taking place on Christmas. And then the fourth one, we water down. McLean stops smoking. He shaves the head fully. He's got his kids annoying him. He's got Justin Long there and it's PG-13. Why did they do this? Why did they censor themselves?  It's still a very watchable, fun movie. Okay, Lethal Weapon, same, we don't talk about Die Hard 5. Die Hard 5 goes in the trash can. We forget it exists, right? We wiped that from our memory. Lethal Weapon does not have the baggage that Die Hard does. Lethal Weapon stays rated R all the way through. We got four really solid Lethal Weapon movies. Now, I will say the only difference between Lethal Weapons is as they go on, they get more comedy based and less action based. There's still action, but it goes from, I would say a drama action comedy to a comedy action drama by the time when it's all said and done. You have Chris Rock in the fourth one who's freaking hilarious. And the way he bounces off Joe Pesci as Leo Getz, I think, or Leo Gates, it's perfection. It's perfection. So yeah, they let these two comedic geniuses, Pesci is a comedic genius in this movie. He's really good, but they let them just go at it. It's hilarious. Okay, stay in focus. We have The Rock. The Rock, first off, it's Michael Bay, all right? This is Michael Bay's best movie in my opinion. It's got all the Bayisms, you expect. Lots of slow motion, lots of cameras, kind of like looking up at their heroic person. We got explosions up the wazoo. We got a badass soundtrack. We got car chases.  And we're not escaping it. No, no, no, no, we're busting into it. That's what makes this so fun. You got Nicholas Cage going full on cage many times in this movie. Sean Connery being a badass. And you have freaking Ed Harris as the smart, calculated villain. Oh my God, this movie's bad. I need to watch this movie again like yesterday. I need to show my kids this movie because it's cool. I'm guessing it's about 20 minutes, maybe a half hour too long because Michael Bay overstays his welcome every single time. But there's a lot of good stuff in this movie from beginning to end. A lot of good, my favorite scene in the film are when the Marines break into Alcatraz. They come up through the sewer like a ninja turtle and they're in a standoff with Ed Harris and his men who clearly have the upper hand. They have the high ground, Anakin Skywalker. They have them surrounded and there's like this, is it Bean? Is it Sean Bean? That's not Sean Bean. Oh, who is it? I'm looking on the list. I thought one of the Marines was the dude from Terminator. I can never, I always forget his name. Well, whatever. There's a standoff scene and it goes back and forth. The music is super dramatic and the head of Harris is like, I need your men to stand down. I need your men to stand down. The other guy's like, I will not tell my men to stand down. It just goes back and forth and it keeps heating up. It's awesome. Absolutely awesome. Let's take a break and see if some super chats came in so I can catch my breath. Kelly Clarkson. Catch my breath. No one can take me down. The wand for $5, thank you wand. Stallone disagreed with the producers over the direction of the franchise. They should have listened. Oh, is this like a creed thing all over again? Stallone keeps getting like railroaded in his own movies. That's too bad. Okay, so they basically gave him a glorified cameo in the fourth and they cash grabbed their way out. You know, I think Expendables 2 is a really fun movie. I think Expendables 2 hit the tone perfectly. There's lots of corny, campy moments, tons of one-liners over the top action. The first Expendables felt like a movie. They were trying to make kind of a serious gritty film with callbacks to old action movies, but it was a little too boring. It wasn't large enough in scale, I didn't think. And I think two just, I think two hit it the best. Plus you have JVs. You have John Claude Van Damme as the villain, which is great. Let's get back to the list. John Wick. Again, there are four John Wick movies. All of them have tons of great action moments, very fun films from beginning to end. John Wick 1 is on here because it's the one that started it. And I also do think this is easily the best. Not the best, easily the best for me because not only does it have great action, but it actually has a story that has some meaning to it. Some purpose, it's a revenge tale. It's a tale about a guy trying to get out of his past, but it pulls them back in. Whether it's its fault or it's his fault, it's obviously his fault. He can't let these sleeping dogs lie. He has to go back for vengeance. I think this is a great movie that kind of came out of nowhere. I remember the trailers being very ho-hum. Like, all right, this is a low budget kind of sea list film. I went to it and I was floored by the awesome action, the gunfoo and Keanu just being Keanu in the best ways possible. This neat little underground society they had going really played well in the first film. This is kind of a Matrix 3 situation for me when it comes to the John Wick sequels. Matrix shouldn't have gone all in on Zion.  John Wick shouldn't have gone all in on the underground secret spy stuff. I don't care at all about the high table.  And the high table, the shenanigans out in the middle of the desert, where he's on a horse. I'm too far separated at this point. Now I'm just watching Looney Tunes action and it's still fun, but it's surface level. That's why John Wick 1 works so good. But again, these are all really a slick film, very stylized movies. This should come as no surprise, 1986. Man, 86, 87, 88, what a year. What a year for action movies, huh? What a time. James Cameron, probably not the last time we'll see him on the list. He takes a tried and true formula from the first Aliens movie, the Jaws style, keep your creature in the dark, solo, picking people off one at a time. It's eerie.  I'm going full-blown action for the sequel. We're gonna have space marines. We're gonna have cool one-liners. We're gonna have awesome guns. We're gonna have a ton of Aliens. We're going to invest in the lore. We're gonna expand it.  There's gonna be a bunch of xenomorphs as we're labeling them. He just goes all in on this lore and on the action, spectacles through the roof. He really takes this into a new genre altogether. And I appreciate it. This is a very fun movie. You got Bill Paxton in here. Sigourney Weaver is back, of course. Oh, the guy that was singing it, Michael Bean. I think I said Sean Bean before, who is from Lord of the Rings and whatnot. He always dies in his movies. Michael Bean, who also dies in pretty much everything he's in, is in this one. I think he survives in this, but they kill him off anyways later. So screw it, right?  Yeah, is Michael Bean in The Rock? I felt like he was. I think Dr. Cox is in The Rock from Scrubs. Dr. Cox, that actor, I forget his name, but he's been a ton of stuff, just like cameos. He's in seven. He has like a small bit part in seven. All right, I'm completely off base. Let's keep going. Let's keep going. Next up, speaking of Cameron. Tch, tch, tch. Ski dee dee, slee dee dee. Ski dee dee, dee dee. Why is this song so beautiful and haunting at the same time, and badass at the same time? It's got everything. We have Arnold. You can't have an action, you can't have an action list without Arnold Schwarzenegger on it. Several times. And here he is, Terminator 2 Judgment Day. The first one can be on the list as well. I don't know why I jumped to two, because one and two are both freaking great. In their own mind. Again, this is another case where Cameron kind of flips the genre again. The first movie is like a horror thriller. Schwarzenegger's playing the villain here.  Oh, no, I'm sorry, two. I don't think Judgment, is Judgment Day mentioned in the first movie? I can't, I think it might be. But whatever, he wants to, Skynet wants to stop her from giving birth to John Connor, who's eventually going to stop the robots after Judgment Day, whatever. It's very much a mess. It's time travel shenanigans. But Judgment Day is an action film, first and foremost. There are horror elements, of course. The T-1000 is scary as crap, he's going through the bars, he's blading through the door. This movie is a powerhouse of practical effects and CG married together in perfect harmony. Has it shown its age? Not really, to be honest with you. It still looks damn good. I think it helps that it's this liquid metal robot, to this chassis is made of kind of a liquidized whatever material that you can't really, it's like one of the easier things to animate, I guess, because it is abstract. It's just blobby shapes and reflections. And it's one of the easier things you can build out. So from an effects standpoint, they didn't have a terrible amount of time, a terrible amount of headache.  Arnold not being able to kill people because Connor requested he not. So he's shooting them in the legs.  I don't know what you call these things. He's just shooting those pellets through the air, providing the smoke, the T-1000 liquidizing through the helicopter. Have you seen this boy? The chase in the dam. Oh my God, when Arnold is just on the motorcycle, popping the shotgun, the sod off, shooting the locks off the fence. All practically done. And it's the reason why you're along for the ride. If it looked fake, if it looked like he was in front of a green screen the whole time, if there wasn't a stunt double actually driving a motorcycle and doing this stuff, you are separated. You lose some of that connection to the scene and some of that wow expression and feeling that you're getting, that emotion is gone when it's so fake. Again, I'm back to Expendables 4 because there's so many scenes in that movie where the guys are jumping on cars or they're on a turret in the back and it's so clearly a green screen and they just did that cheap, almost anime effect where they blur the background and have it moving super fast. No, no, that's a hard pass for me. Oh God, I just lost. What did I do? What did I do? Cancel. Jeez. Whoa, I don't even know who I was. I lost the video for a second, but I'm back. Let's go to the next one on the list. Speaking of Stallone, we brought him up earlier. Here we have it, Rambo First Blood. Is this movie just called First Blood? Interesting. Letterbox has it as just First Blood. It clearly says Rambo all over the poster. This is a very simple, very well executed action film about a dude coming back from war and he's got a bunch of hillbilly, dipshit cops harassing him, giving him a hard time. The guy's seen everything.   Movie's called First Blood because they drew First Blood. He's a killing machine. You don't throw a punch at a killing machine and expect to get a slap on the wrist, okay? This guy's using guerrilla tactics. He's setting up traps in the woods. He's kind of like home alone, booby trapping things, but instead of slipping on marbles and pretending to get hurt, these guys are getting impaled on spikes. That's a great movie. Stallone, very little talking involved. It's all just about his presence and he has the presence. He's got that star power. In the final moments, he breaks down. He starts crying to his superior. And yeah, I love this movie. It's really good. 1982, a lot of 80s on this, I'm noticing. A lot of 80s. All right, here's something a little bit more modern. We have the Raid 2011. Again, Rambo, you can take Rambo through, what are they, five of these movies? There's Rambo, there's Rambo, First Blood part two, Rambo three, John Rambo. And then I think the last one was just called Rambo again. I don't know, the last one sucked. Most of them aren't great. The first one's badass. And then I really liked John Rambo. I think it was called when it's like hard R. Dudes are getting everything blown off. One guy throws a baby in the air and takes a blow torch and just freaking fries the baby. It's insane what they do in that one. The Raid, there are two Raid movies. Raid and Raid 2, Redemption. I love them both about equally. The first one, very simple premise, dating out of the, what is this? I haven't seen this movie since it released. So I apologize, I'm not gonna remember the plot. Let me just read it. Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the rundown apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. Cloaked under the cover of pre-dawn darkness and silence and elite SWAT team is tasked with raiding the safe house. Okay. Yes, this movie almost entirely takes place in the safe house, going from floor to floor, tons of hand to hand combat, some awesome explosions and gun fighting. This movie is legitimately insanely cool. The sequel is, I mean, the sequel takes the simple premise of the first one and kind of runs with a more wild script. A very, I would say a more, I don't know, what's the word I'm looking for here? Complex script. This first one's a very simple idea. And the second one's got like a prison break. There's a rivalry between family members and gangs. There's different characters that come and go. One's got a baseball bat. One's got different weapon they use. I saw both of them once. I did a movie feud on these movies if you want a more actual cohesive thought on them because I only saw them each once, but I remember being blown away by them and I really do need to watch them both again. I just want to put them on the list because they really are that good. Check out The Raid and The Raid 2 Redemption and you can check out my movie feud on The Raid versus The Raid 2. That's a pretty good episode if I recall. And I actually do go over the story, the characters and the action in detail. Predator, another 80s, 87. Dutch and his gang of commandos, they go into the rainforest and they don't come out, at least not all of them. In fact, none of them except for Dutch. And I believe the woman gets away somehow.  We have another very simple idea.  That's over right away. Turns out the people they're going to see are all skinned alive, hanging in trees. And something has gotten to them that is not the villains of the picture. It's this alien that's crashed down and it's now hunting our hunters. So these big burly men get broken down into just shells of themselves.  He's going to have this cool showdown with the predator on a log and the camera cuts away. All we hear is him scream and die. It's the most anti-climatic thing I've ever witnessed. It just bothers me so badly that we don't get that fight. This is, again, this is another, oh, this John, I didn't even know this was John McTiernan. Same director that did Die Hard. Did Predator. Man, John McTiernan's awesome. Lot of quotes in this movie. Anytime. Still my favorite is Anytime. Anytime. Okay, we have, oh man, I love this movie. I love this movie, 300. You want to talk about quotable. Zack Snyder here. This is the movie that put Zack Snyder on the map for me and I think for pretty much everyone else. 300 shot on a very small green screen soundstage, I think for the entire film, I think it's all green screened. Based on a Frank Miller comic, a graphic novel, I'm sorry, graphic novel. This follows Gerard Butler as Leonidas and his rag tag crew of 300 Spartans. And by rag tag crew, I mean, the best of the best. If these kids, if these pups were born with any defects or abnormalities or they just didn't look up to snuff, 300, the Spartans just started to pill them and it started over again. They really bred boys that would become vicious fighting machines. This is what they call a fishtail, a fisherman's story. It's based incredibly loosely on supposed real events that took place in history between the Spartans and the Persian army. But what we have here are Spartans going up against these freakish nature, freakish things beyond nature. There's like ninja assassins at one point. The dialogue is super heavy. It's just about as brotacular as you can get. Leonidas has some of the greatest lines ever.  He, he, it's being narrated incredibly well. Lena Headey's in this as the wife.  Snyder gets it perfectly right here. And it's probably because he didn't write the movie. I think that's where things really become disconnected with Snyder. What's next? Okay. Oh, should point out, I keep forgetting to do this. Predator sequels, none of them live up to even a small amount of the coolness the first one had. But I think almost all of them are watchable to a degree. Even the horrible, completely misguided predator or the predator I believe it's called the predator. It's a terrible movie, but it's a terrible fun watchable movie. You can watch the movie and laugh at how bad it is. And I really like to pray, which is the prequel to predators not to be confused.  So pray is the prequel to predator. Predator is the introduction to this universe. The sequels predator two. The next one is predators. Then you have the predator and then we're at pray.  What a nightmare of naming. There are two 300 movies, 300 and 300 rise of an empire. 300 rise of an empire is not very good. It's watchable schlock. It's someone doing a poor impression of Zack Snyder because he didn't come back to direct. Leonidas is not in this one. Lena Headey's there. She looks wildly different probably because there's almost a, I think there's like a decade in between these movies. Yeah, it's a watchable movie, but it's not great. All right, X2 X-Men United. You can throw X-Men. This is one of the, this is one of the exceptions where I would say X-Men 1 is a good movie. I don't think it's a great movie, but it's a nice starter course to these X-Men characters. X-Men 2 though goes way more extreme. Everything's so much better here. The visuals, the, the action, the storyline, they really, a singer and crew really got things buttoned up and was able to play off of the different mutant abilities and mix and match scenes and how they would be utilized. For instance, there's a spot where they are taken off in the X-Wing away from the suburban little village they were at when the pyros started blowing up cop cars. They get in the X-Wing, they fly off. The army shows up. They start shooting missiles at the thing. Storm is making tornadoes to try to, you know, weave in and out and get away from these fighter jets. Missiles get through. So Jean Grey uses her psychic ability to try to veer him off course, starts going dark Phoenix, a precursor to the third terrible movie.  And so then you have the top of the ship rips open, rogue flies out and the night crawler uses his disappearing act to grab her and tell her to pour back in. Then it all culminates in the plane going down where Magneto stands, puts it back together and Humpty Dumpty's this thing out of the ground. I mean, how many new abilities were just said there? Like five, six, all in that one, two, three minute sequence. And you can find that throughout this movie. But the X-Men opening in this film with night crawler going through the White House, it's still top 10 action superhero moment for me. I think that scene is so well executed. Plus you have the mansion raid where we see Hugh Jackman full on Wolverine, blades through a guy's chest, going through the hallways, taking dudes out, Colossus cameo, the final battle has a bunch of great stuff, mystique, smoking hot, still doing all her great things as Rebecca Romain Stamos. I can't say enough good things about X-Men and X-Men 2 and then X-Men 3 gets a pass now because the one that comes after it fixes it. So X-Men 3 is this like schlocky, crappy third outing that disappoints everyone that was very excited for it after X-2 was brilliant. And then Days of Future Past brings back that brilliance again, Brian Singer comes back, fixes the mistakes of director Brett Ratner in the third.  X-2 and Days of Future Past, I think are just, they're top of the line comic book films to me. You keep taking this down the line and X-Men has some decent ones here and there. I know a lot of people like X-Men 1st Class, I think it's overrated personally, but it's not a bad watch by any means.  Dark Phoenix is even worse somehow. And then we have Logan, which is master class. One of the greatest comic book movies, full stop. It's a mixed bag to be sure, but it's one that is, they're all, they're all at least watchable films. Okay, Kill Bill Volume One, Uma Thurman. We have a strong female lead. And for Quentin Tarantino, Uma kills it in this role, inspired heavily by Japanese anime, by old Kung Fu films. Kill Bill has it all. It even has an animated section in the movie for a few minutes. I haven't seen this in a while. I need to go back to it. I did watch it a couple of times when I hit theaters and at home release, I was very much anticipating Volume Two to close things up nicely, very disappointed with the ending. The final 25 minutes of Volume Two, I don't like it. And I think it keeps Kill Bill Volume One and Two from being these awesome, brilliant timeless films because it went full Tarantino at the end and you decided to subvert expectations. That doesn't work for me. Let's get into a big mode. Let me bring up a larger view for myself. But Kill Bill Volume One has a lot of creative action set pieces. You, of course, have that big fight with the 88 gang. Is that what they're called? It's something like that. Something like there's a lot of, is what I'm saying. Lucy Liu, of course, in this. You know a movie I just realized, I do not have on my list and I'm gonna say it and you're gonna say, okay, I get it. Kung Fu Hustle should be on this list because Kung Fu Hustle is a gem. It's a gem. It's like a combination of the Matrix meets Looney Tunes. And I'm not even joking. It's very much a comedy action movie. You should absolutely watch it if you haven't seen it, Kung Fu Hustle. The Matrix, speaking of the Matrix, that was not intentional. It just showed up. I don't need to say anything really. This movie basically was my high school career. I was pretend running up walls because I didn't actually have any ability to do it for real. I was pretend dodging bullets with my friend, yelling Trinity, help. I recreated scenes when we would act out fighting stuff on camera. We would make our own little mini Matrix movies. I made stupidly bad wallpaper montages in like Microsoft Word or whatever you could use at the time on the computer. I was obsessed with this film. I sat three or four times in the theaters. And I still to this day remember how freaking amazed I was where I was at in Albert Lee, Minnesota watching this with my family.  And as this roller coaster ride was happening, I just remember looking over it several different times going, can you believe this? What is this movie? Why is it so awesome and different from everything else I've ever seen? And I'm sure that was the same thing Star Wars fans had when that original new hope hit theaters. But the Matrix was groundbreaking. It was revolutionary. It was copied and pasted into other films for decades to come. And it really wouldn't be till Keanu came back and John Wick to kind of reset the formula that we would have non-stale action movies again. Because John Wick kind of opened up another genre of this gunfoo flipping around dudes with bulletproof vest sort of scenarios. But the Matrix for the longest time was the playbook. And before that was the Die Hard playbook, right? Every movie was trying to be like Die Hard. Die Hard on a bus with speed. Die Hard on a plane with con air. Die Hard on a... You name it, it's there. But the Matrix, that was it. The bullet time, the slick look, the glasses, the hacking, the trench coats, the trench coat mafia, that was a big thing.  What's with... Why is the Matrix constantly being used by dipshits for the complete wrong reasons? You had the trench coat mafia. Now you have the red pillars that's been a thing for a few years now. Are you red-pilled? Are you in that space? I hate it.  Let the movie be. Here's an unconventional one that I doubt you'll see on a lot of people's lists for action movies. But oh, and I'm sorry, again, the Matrix, I celebrate Matrix two and three. It took me many, many years to forgive the route they went with the Matrix sequels. And I understand there were many other ways in my headcanon where I think it would've worked better, but we got what we got, and I am appreciative of it.  It's got so many awesome set pieces, so many cool action moments. Matrix Revolutions is definitely the weakest. It's a huge step down, but I've calmed on it. I've calmed on it. And if nothing else, we do have the final Agent Smith versus Neo Brawl in the streets, in the rain. It's pretty cool. Everything else is forgiven. Oh, and we have that scene where this is my, one of my top scenes from all the Matrix movies, this Matrix moment. This would be another fun thing to do on a podcast. Top like 20 favorite little moments in movies. Tiny moments in movies that make it so much better. And in this particular instance, it's when it's a Neo, no, I don't think it's Neo. It's Cerf, or Cerf, how do we say it? Cerf, Trinity and Morpheus. They're trying to find Neo who's trapped between worlds. He's at the train station, right? So they go to this weird underground SNM party with vampires, and they have to go through the subway turnstiles. And I love how they frame this because the Wachowskis put the camera on a side angle, so you see exactly how all three of them go through the turnstile, and each one of them does it differently. Morpheus does this cool like jump through it. Trinity does a cartwheel over it, and Cerf does a slide or something just as slick. It's great. It's a tiny little moment that works so well. Going through a freaking turnstile. All right, Scott Pilgrim versus the, oh, we don't talk about Matrix regurgitations.  I don't think there is a movie that's let me down a harder than the Matrix 4. I had my original buddies. We're all grown up middle-aged dudes. We waited in line for the Matrix, the original movies, when we were kids, like in high school, the third one came out, or college, I don't know, something like that. But I remember waiting for like eight hours in line for that film.  And fuck, I hated that movie so bad. I remember turning to my friends so many times, just shaking our heads like, what is this? And by the end, we were actually laughing at things, not obnoxiously in the audience, not being rude, but just laughing to each other. Like, you have to at that point. It's gotten so poor, it's gotten so bad, so off the rails that you can't help but just laugh at the ridiculousness of the situation you find yourself in. Scott Pilgrim versus The World. This is another film by Edgar Wright. Let me jump out, yeah, Edgar Wright, okay. Scott has to battle seven deadly exes to win the heart of Ramona Flowers. He's currently in a relationship with Knives Chow, who's in high school, she's younger than Scott. There are so many actors in this movie. Let me read off the list. Listen to this list. Michael Sarah, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ellen Wong, Kieran Culkin, Allison, who's Allison? I don't know who that is. Let me go to people I know. Jason Schwartzman, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans, Brandon Routh, Brie Larson. The list goes on and on. You have so many great cameos and fun characters in this movie.  Ramona Flowers has this awesome hammer. This is based on, do you call these graphic novels as well? Comics, there's a few of them I know. And they're page for page sometimes, showing things going on. But Edgar Wright has such a fun way that he plays with lettering in the movie and the stylized action. And every seven deadly sins fight is completely different from the last. One of them's hand to hand, which leads into some weird musical for a little bit. And another time he has to have a skateboard off with Chris Evans, who's an actor in the movie. And he has stunt doubles that Scott has to fight. Then he has a music battle, like a music battle of the band situation. And music, again, Edgar Wright's known for his music. It's infused through this whole thing. It's one of the best soundtracks ever. I know they're redoing. I'm not like huge on what they're doing actually. Netflix is making a animated version of this movie. And I think it's like exactly the same. So it's not a sequel. It's the same exact story with all the same voice act. Like all these actors in this film came back to voice their characters, which is cool, but why do the same movie again? It's the reverse of what Disney's doing. Disney's live-actioning all their animated films. This thing on Netflix has animated their live-action film. I'm not huge on it, because I think this movie is about as perfect as you could possibly get. It's an action movie through and through. There's tons of it in it. Oh man, oh my God. Before I go to this one, we have some super chats finally coming in. I appreciate the super chats. Perm for $10. The Matrix is my favorite movie, tied with Back to the Future. Good, good man, Perm. I assume you're a man, I don't know. Good woman, whatever you are, Perm. Perm is Perm, and Perm's got good taste. Thank you for the super chat. Jen Rose for $5, thank you, Jen. The Dark Knight is one of my favorite action movies.  Keep it coming, love those reels. Thank you, Jen. My goal is to get more over the top with the out-of-theater reactions every single time. So expect some very frantic, all over the place, goofy, out-of-theater reactions for me going forward. I have a fun time doing them. I'm trying to have fun doing them. Jen, Dark Knight is not on my list. It was on my list. I pulled it off, I put it on, I pulled it off. It sounded a little sexual. That's okay, it's Adam Does Movies. I didn't find Dark Knight to be that action heavy. I find Dark Knight and Christopher Nolan movies in general as more psychological thrillers with little spices of action sprinkled in, little sprinkles here and there. Dark Knight Rises has a decent amount. Enemy Gens has a decent amount. I found Dark Knight to have kind of a small amount of action. Although I guess you could say is comparable to Heat. You know, Heat's a long movie. Dark Knight's a long movie. And every so often you do get a really visceral action set piece. So it's definitely a fair play. I think I might have Heat on my list. So by that standard, I should really have the Dark Knight on here as well. And you are right to have it on yours because Dark Knight is brilliant. Blade, 1998. We could easily put Blade II on here as well. Blade II I think is better than Blade. But I can hear both sides of the argument. Blade I definitely grittier. Definitely more violent, bloodier I would say. More of a horror. The sequel is more action with horror elements. But Del Toro did the sequel. And God, I love, I'm such a sucker. And I brought this up before on the stream. I am a big sucker of these early 2000s movies. I'm referring to Blade II here where the CG is pretty shoddy. Yet the director goes all in on it.  So you'll have Wesley Snipes doing his actual cool ninja sword moves. And then he will clearly turn into a CG version of himself, a CG body double. And he'll jump like 30 feet into the air, do a flip, defy gravity. And then he'll land as the actor again. It will be this great seamless interplay where you obviously can tell the difference. But I love how Blade II goes so hog wild with it. In the final fight with the Master Reaver, they are exchanging blows and 50% of the time it's really actors. And the other 50%, it's these CG doubles. And I think it's so fun.   Wesley Snipes owns this role. When the recast was announced, I just, I didn't care. No one they pick is going to hold the candle to Snipes. He is Blade, in my opinion. He was born to play this character. Kind of like Ryan Reynolds was born to play Deadpool. To a lesser extent, Hugh Jackman became Logan. I could see an argument though for someone else. I just, there's some actors that just embody the role so, so well. And Blade is one of them. Oh, and to shout out Blade for one of the greatest introductions to a superhero character, full stop. That blood rain shower scene in the meat packing plant with the vampire rave. Oh my God. What a cool intro and the music. Ooh. It's, it's really good. All around. Very good. And I think that there was definite inspiration for the Matrix from Blade or vice versa. Matrix was 99, I think. So yeah. I think Blade inspired. We're drinking a gas station Coca cola classic today. This is my first step, my throat was a little parched. I don't think we have a lot left. See if there's any more super chats. Nope, we're ghost right now, okay. Edge of tomorrow. We got Edge of tomorrow here, folks. I should probably click on these for the video, so at least you get a little something more to look at than my mug, if you're watching. Tom Cruise, we got Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton. This would have been one of Bill Paxton's later year roles, because obviously he's not alive anymore, but Edge of tomorrow is really cool. It's a sci-fi action flick. It's also known as Live, Die, Repeat. It's been rebranded three times. Before it was Edge of tomorrow, it was like Solaris or something weird, and then they called it Edge of tomorrow, and then when it came out on DVD, they rebranded it to Live, Die, Repeat. So you might know what is that. And then there was supposed to be a sequel called Live, Die, Repeat, Repeat, but that has not come to be yet, which is a tragedy. Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise in this. Like he always is, but the guy knows how to make a good action movie. He knows of a star in a good action movie. Emily Blunt is peak Blunt here. She's smoking hot. She's a great counterpoint to Tom Cruise who's also smoking hot, like always. And I think the suits, they have these like mech suits. They fight these alien mechanical creatures. They're kind of like the Sentinels from The Matrix. It has a Groundhog's Day situation going on. Days keep repeating. This one day keeps repeating itself. And Tom Cruise's character, I don't care what his name is. It's a major Bill Cage. What a generic name. Bill Cage has to figure out how to stop the day from repeating, which is to kill the source of the repetition. A master queen alien in the heart of the city where the world is ending. Bill Cage is the only guy that can figure this out. He has to somehow convince Emily Blunt's character. I don't know her name. We'll call her Tanya Shores. That sounds like a generic name she could have. And they are going to together work as a team to figure this out. It's got a great ending I remember, but I don't remember at the same time.  So every time I watch it, it's new again. That's the brilliance of this film and the brilliance of my lack of good memory. God, Edge of Tomorrow is great. Where's the sequel? Jan, $5 Super Chat says mission impossible, ghost protocol is amazing. Anything with Tom Cruise is heart flame, heart flame, heart flame. Love fire, love fire, love fire. I assume that's what that means, Jan. And I agree with you, except for the mummy. We don't, not the mummy. Troy McClure is here, $2 Super Chat. Thank you, good picks, but they could all use more thrusting. Thrust, thrust, thrust, thrust it, thrust it. That's from Showgirls. If you don't know the reference, that's from Showgirls. I recently roasted the Living Hell out of that, the new roast video, you should check it out. You should really check it out and share it and like it and do all that stuff because it's not like people are searching up for Showgirls movie. So it's really grassroots support at that point for some of these roasts, it's grassroots. Mad Max Fury Road, 2015, George Miller's back baby, directing his second movie of all time. It's so funny, George Miller's been around forever and he's really only directed like six movies. He takes his time and then some. There's people that make a meal out of something. George Miller makes a feast out of something. He goes all in. Mad Max Fury Road is the definition of going all in.   It's like a typical Tuesday for me in South Carolina. Tom Hardy, who's playing Tom Hardy, which is to say a guy covered up. What a role, right? Tom Hardy's major characters are Bane from Batman where you never see him, Mad Max from Fury Road where his face is covered 80% of the film in that berserker masking. And then he's in Dunkirk where he's got an aviator pilot mask on for the entire film as well. Like this guy could be deep faked and we would not know it at all. They could have a body double play his character. He could just do some voice work, I guess, although you can't really ever hear his voice. Really, this is a Charlize Theron vehicle. She's part of this like group of women that got away. They've been living out in the middle of this oasis. Mad Max gets her and the rest of these princesses and they're trying to get to another castle. I just, the way that this is shot and filmed, a lot of practical effects, a surprising amount of CG that people don't even realize, which is the best kind of CG. For instance, if you haven't seen the behind the scenes, there's shots of them driving these cars down a road in the desert, going by all these huge mountain peaks and canyons. There's a dude playing the guitar, fires blasting. Dudes are jumping around on ladders. The stunt work is all practical. They really are swinging ladders around in vehicles. What's not are the mountains. We're completely painted in, which is awesome. That's really cool. This movie's very cool. There's supposed to be a sequel. Oh no, I believe it's a prequel. So Mad Max Fury Road has had a prequel in the works for like a thousand years. The girl that's in everything, Princess Peach, the voice of Princess Peach, she has a few names to her belt. She's in Queen's Gambit. What is it? Anya, Anya-Tiller Joy, I got there on my own. Anya-Tiller Joy is playing the role that Charlize Theron had. I don't know, I forgot her name. I forgot her character name, doesn't matter. I am a little bummed out. I know Charlize is bummed out that she didn't get to reprise the role because she could easily pull it off, but I guess they're just gotta get someone else, which is a shame. Oh, well, would you look at that, Jan? Would you look at that? Mission Impossible. And this runs the gamut. Jan, you will actually be interested to know I had Ghost Protocol as the pick on here, but by the time I got to this point of the list, I thought, you know what, why? Why Ghost Protocol? There's a ton of great moments in the early movies, including the first, the bullet train sequence at the end, the breaking into the high maximum security computer area where the sweat's dripping down, the fish tank blowing up, then you have the cheesy ass John Woo movie and the second one where he's got the long hair, he's on a motorcycle. There's plenty of great action moments in that. Plus the third J.J. Abrams film really kind of resets the whole tone of the series.  Philip Seymour Hoffman as the best villain in the franchise in the third movie, then Ghost Protocol takes things up another notch. I mean, all of them kind of just keep ratcheting up the scale, there's really not a bad one in the mix and the second one, I guess, but it's still watchable. It's a watchable bad movie, I think. Yeah, this is Cruz at his best. This is Cruz at his best right here. And I am in agreement. I do think Ghost Protocol is my favorite, just inching out for me over the fifth one. God, there's so many of these movies. What is Mission Impossible? I think it's Rogue Nation, but I get all of them kind of confused. I'm pretty sure, yeah, Mission Impossible 5, Rogue Nation and Ghost Protocol are right next to each other on my lineup of awesome action, Mission Impossible movies. Okay, next up, we are almost at the end. So I would like to suggest if you have a movie that's your favorite action film, super chat it now. I'll get to them at the end because I only have four or five more on here. So it's very likely if you have one in your back pocket, now's the time to throw it out because it's probably not gonna be on my list. Okay, what do we got? We got Tremaclure for $2. He says, good picks, but they could all, no, no, I already read that. He was really into the thrusting. Perm, $5, love all these movies. And yes, I'm a man, baby. That's right, Perm. That's right. Okay, we got Hot Fuzz. Another Edgar Wright. I have two Edgar Wright movies on here. This is part of whatever that trilogy's called. I don't know the name of it, doesn't matter. Simon Peggs in them, all Nick Frost is in them all. It's their little universe that they're in. Hot Fuzz is a really fun one because it's really two different movies to me.  He wants to get into the fray. He wants some excitement in life. He's partnered up with this kind of dumb, lovable oaf.  And when they find out it's this crazy cult behind the scenes, the second half turns into an all-out Michael Bay extravaganza complete with those same camera angles, awesome action over-the-top music and expensive effects, explosions. You name it, it's parodied in here to perfection. Big fan of Hot Fuzz. Here we go. All right, we have Heat on here from 1995. I just rewatched Heat four or five months ago for the first time in decades. It holds up really well. It's a long movie, but it takes its time, tells a gripping tale of these two different walks of life. You have Pacino's character, a man of law, trying to take down these master criminals. Robert De Niro is prime in this, Pacino's in full form. The scenes where they sit down together and have their dialogue that apparently they only, I don't even think they rehearsed, I said, I think they went in fresh. And the monologues they have, these are just top performers at the peak of their game, exchanging heavy dialogue, trying to outman each other. It's just trying to out-Michael man each other. You have the sadly late Val Kilmer in this. Oh, Kilmer died, didn't he? Did he die? Val Kilmer, he said late Val Kilmer, but I actually, I can't remember if he died.  He's still alive, okay. Well, the late still alive Val Kilmer is in this. Why did I think he died? There's all these, there's that sad documentary that came out not that long ago. Well, whatever, okay. A lot of great actors in this movie. Someone's probably dead, that's in here. Yeah. I have a full review of Heat on my channel, not that long back. I swore he died. Now I'm really flustered about the whole thing. This will be a controversial one, but I think it has to be on here. Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring. Again, all three Lord of the Rings movies can go on here. I'm even bold enough to say you can throw all three Hobbit movies on here. Action comes in many faces, comes in many shadows, many shades. Lord of the Rings takes us to Middle Earth where we have elves fighting orgs, creatures of darkness. We have wizards fighting other wizards, spellcasters. There's hobbits trying to run for their lives.   I mean, you have Sauron, Saruman. You have the King. You have Legolas, one of the coolest action stars, one of the coolest elves of all time.  There's a ball-rog battle. Freakin' Legolas slides down the trunk of a massive elephant. There's a ghost army. I can go on for hours about these films. I probably have if you stock up all the time I've talked about them on the channel.  Even better, they're full of heart. So you have action plus you have the great story. It's the best of both worlds. Now, I will say this list does not have any, which is sad to say, this is sad to say. I don't think I have any Jackie Chan movies on here. I tried to pick movies that are more than just good action films. And I think Jackie Chan movies are just good action films. They're not really good movies. So the story is usually pretty terrible. The acting's very bad. The effects is very dodgy. But the action, of course, is great. So if we were to do a martial arts list, that's where I would throw Jackie Chan films. Operation Condor, Rumble in the Bronx, Jackie Chan First Strike, some of his really old stuff. What does he have like Hidden Master or? I can't remember the names of all of them.  I can't remember the names of these. I apologize, but Jackie Chan, obviously, the king of action, Bruce Lee's made some great movies, of course, too, but this is more Americanized with an occasional touch of something foreign thrown into the mix. And all the time, I'm really just, I like them for a lot of different reasons, not solely action. True Lies, there it is. This is, someone brought it up earlier, it is kind of an underrated, underappreciated James Cameron film, probably the most least known of the Cameron movies. You have the Abyss, you have Titanic, you have Avatar, you have Aliens, Terminator. And then it seems like True Lies is just kind of a separate conversation once in a while, messaged and passing. But True Lies is one of my favorite James Cameron movies. It's one of my favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. It really marries these two director slash actor in perfect harmony. You have Jamie Lee Curtis in her prime. You have lots of great action scenes, plus you have comedy thrown in. At one point, this movie completely shifts gears and it turns into a film about Arnold Schwarzenegger trying to find out if his wife's having an affair. And it just, we spend like 30 minutes on this before we get back to the actual plot. True Lies is great. Raiders of the Lost Ark, again, Indiana Jones, the original trilogy all belong on this list. These are timeless action films. Have they shown their age? Of course, especially Temple of Doom has some pretty rough special effects. Raiders is almost perfect in my eyes. Last Crusade is really good still. They have a pulpy Saturday morning cartoon feel to them and that's intentional. So even as they show their age, it's really not a bad thing. They kind of by design have some age already associated to them. We don't need to talk more about it. Harrison Ford embodies the role. I could put Star Wars on this list. I just didn't know how far to go because the Star Wars original trilogy probably deserves a spot. It's on a lot of different lists already. You have a sci-fi list I'd throw it on. I'd throw it on greatest movies of all timeless. We can calm down with Star Wars, I think. We all know. We all know. Now, speaking of diehard on a bus, Speed, watch this one with the family. I think a year ago, Keanu Reeves really good in this. Sandra Bullock, America's sweetheart. One of her early roles really nails it. This is a fun one, folks. And the villain, Dennis Hopper. He's prime here. The way he laughs at the one part. I love it that my son was doing that for like a month straight. You have Jeff Daniels in here too. I forgot about that. Is Jeff Daniels dead? I think everybody's dead. I feel like some of every movie I click on. I think he's dead now. That's too bad.   Okay, this is the last one on my list. Out of all the movies on here, face off is probably the worst. Probably pretty easily the worst. Con Air should really be on here over face off. The only reason I put face off on this is I love the performances, uh, Stallone. I love the performance, Stallone's in this, of course. I love the performance that Cage gives. And equally, if not more impressive is Travolta, I think. John Travolta playing Nicholas Cage, playing his character, it's just like three shades. It's his three days separate and I love it. Who is Caster Troy? I am Caster Troy. I'm Caster Troy. You have Nicholas Cage, full cage unit. This is a John Woo movie. You have white doves. You, I don't know what other kind of doves there are. You have doves. You have really crappy, choppy, slow motion. Wonderful one liners. Lot of over the top action.  There are some really weird things in this movie. There's a lot of people touching faces too. And I don't mean when they're doing the surgery. I mean, one of the big things about this is the mother and kid or the dad and kid, they're always like touching the face, feeling the different nuances in the skin. I don't know what's going on with that. It's John Woo. It's John Woo. And this was my list. Maybe a little sloppy at the end. Maybe these aren't, these aren't the powerhouse mainstays that some of the others are. But I think we all know them and appreciate them for multiple reasons. And I'd love to hear from you now. Now's the time. If you have one that I did not mention and get the Super Chats in, it's Friday night and feeling spicy. I'll stick around for a while if you want to. If the Super Chats come in, I'll stay in. We have a couple. We have a beautiful $10 one from Deeter Bastion. Good morning, Adam. Great list, but I have to watch Scott P. again. Never saw it as an action movie. To add some movies, Mad Max 2, The Road Warrior, Fair. Really, I should have said you can, when I said Mad Max Fury Road, that was obviously the three that came before it. I guess, you know what? I've never seen Thunderdome. I've heard mixed things. Some people really like it. Some people hate it, but I've never seen it. What else? Police Story, which is, I believe, Jackie Chan. Robocop. Yeah, Robocop. Yeah, Robocop's fun, Robocop's fun. Hard Target, yes. Hard Target with Jean-Claude Van Damme. That's probably his best movie, Blood Sports Solid 2, but Hard Target's really fun. That has a scene early on when he roundhouse kicks a meter and coins go flying out in slow motion. He roundhouse kicks so hard, he busts open one of those pay meters on the side of the road. Long Kiss Good Night is a classic.  That's a Remy Harlan film. He did Die Hard 2. Gina Davis is the main star, another strong female lead, and Gina Davis gets it in this. She's really good in here. Samuel L. Jackson, you know, Blinken. You look around, he's kind of like Sin City.  He's in an alley somewhere in every movie. Samuel L. Jackson exists. You may not see him, but he's there. And he's very much present in Long Kiss Good Night, and he's great in it. Yeah, I like this movie a lot. Very good picks. I haven't seen Robocop in a while. It's been a minute, but Robocop, of course, really fun. Perm's back, $5. Thank you, Perm. Just wanted to give a tip of the hat to Point Break, and I could watch Fifth Element on repeat all day long. I'm gonna say something that might make people sick to their stomach. I'm gonna take a drink before I say it. I've never seen Point Break. Patrick Swayze, another person. I've never seen it. I didn't see the remake either. I feel like I missed the point where I could watch it and have it be anything but not great. But if you think it's still awesome, then I guess I should probably give it a chance at some point. I should watch Point Break, get it out of my system. You know, earn a prize.  I love that movie. It got raked over the coals when it hit theaters. It got lambasted by critics. I saw that movie. I saw that movie back-to-back nights. I was a big fan of it. And I did almost put it on the list. There's just too many. There's just too many. Yeah. There's just too many. That's the bottom line. All right, I'll give you a couple more seconds, couple more minutes before I duck out. Thank you guys for the super chats and for some of those suggestions. Point Break is definitely one that I should get on my list. I think that's one of the few that I read off today that I had not seen. And I highly suggest you check out the ones that I brought up, especially the Raid movies. Those are, I gotta re-watch them obviously. I don't remember the plots with the dam. I just remember there's a lot of kick-ass explosions and hand-to-hand combat, great martial arts happening. There's a lot of good movies in the space is the bottom line. All right, I'm not gonna waste any more time. Thank you guys. We are going to have the podcast out Monday, as always. It goes out at, oh God, what do I do? I think I do 8 a.m. 8 a.m. the podcast goes out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and any other podcast service I have set up. I believe Amazon is one of them and Google maybe a couple others who knows. iHeartRadio, that's a thing I'm on, I believe. I don't really check them out. It all kind of populates there on its own. But that goes out Monday. The topic is TBD, of course, because I'm C to my pants over here, full-time job family just trying to get this all squared away when I can. What else do we got coming up? We got the movie roast. For Super Mario Brothers, the movie that's gonna hit next week. The week after, we have Twilight movie roast. The review next week will be on The Creator and that will be one that I actually will do a full review on. It won't just be one of the live reviews. Although if you guys like it, we can see how it works out. We can see how it goes. Otherwise, I don't think I have anything else. Again, maybe check out patreon.patreon.com slash Adam Does Movies, become a YouTube member right here via the YouTube join. And with that, I will say have a great weekend and I will see you very soon. Take care.


Service members across Guam join together to observe and commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the Battle of Midway at the T. Stel Newman Visitor Center outside of Naval Base Guam, June 3rd. We put this ceremony together to not only venerate those who served and made the ultimate sacrifice at the Battle of Midway, but also to help our generation understand its significance and the lessons it holds for our Navy today. It also serves as a key piece of our naval history that all of us should reflect upon. The battle speaks to our character, our resolve, in order to achieve greatness in the defense of freedom. The weeks leading up to the battle have been described as America's darkest hours in the Pacific. The stories of courage and heroism at Midway are remarkable in every sense. From the stories of those sailors who stayed at their posts until the bitter end, to the stories of those who rescued shipmates from the carrier yoke town which sank during the battle. From Joint Region Marianas, I am Petty Officer Timothy Wilson.


Welcome to the coronavirus weekly brief. I'm your host, Melissa Sallick-Ferck with New America. Here are the headlines you need to know. A trial of the University of Oxford's vaccine candidate is running into problems because the rate of infection is falling in the UK. Their trial will test the infection rate of people who received the vaccine candidate compared with those who receive a placebo. However, if the overall rate of infection is low, the results may not be able to demonstrate efficacy in the time required. In the UK, 10,000 people have volunteered for a trial to test the vaccine in the coming week, but Adrian Hill, director of Oxford's Jenner Institute and one of the vaccine's developers, says that he expects fewer than 50 of them to catch the virus, and if fewer than 20 test positive, the results may be useless, the telegraph cited him as saying. The Oxford vaccine candidate has received a huge boost Thursday with the US government pledging 1.2 billion in funding and allowing a 30,000-person trial in the United States. Science Magazine writes at the head of GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, Seth Berkeley, quote, says clinical trials of the Oxford vaccine may yield an efficacy signal by October, but he doubts there will be enough data to satisfy regulators evaluating whether the license the product, unquote. Hill speculates that they may have to move trials to other countries where there are higher rates of infection. Public health officials need to build public trust in vaccines by communicating vaccine expectations clearly and emphasizing vaccine safety, not speed in clinical trials, say health experts. Stat News writes that, quote, in the public imagination, vaccines are often seen effectively as cure-alls like inoculations against measles. Rather than those vaccines, however, the COVID-19 vaccines in development may be more like those that protect against influenza, reducing the risk of contracting the disease and of experiencing severe symptoms should infection occur, unquote. Childhood vaccines like those for measles and polio are more than 90% effective, but the seasonal flu vaccine may be only 30 to 50% effective, though estimates vary. Like a flu vaccine, a coronavirus vaccine may give partial protection to individuals rather than the full protection that could yield herd immunity that many politicians seem to expect from a vaccine. Paul Offit, a vaccine researcher and author of a book about the botch 1955 polio vaccine, told Science Magazine that he worries that U.S. presidential election ambitions are driving the timeline for the vaccine and questions whether the planned trials with thousands of people could be completed in time. Offit, among others, is also concerned that accelerating vaccine trials could lead to vaccines with side effects, which are sometimes, quote, detected only when a candidate moves from thousands to millions of people, unquote. He's not the only one. BioCentury warns that public health officials who focus on speed and do not emphasize safety and efficacy in their work and in their communication with the public risk losing the public's trust, which includes not only vaccine deniers, but also those who are concerned about a, quote, vaccine that hasn't been thoroughly and honestly tested, unquote. Trump's, quote, unquote, game changer drug, hydroxychloroquine is associated with increased mortality in a study of 96,000 COVID patients. Hydroxychloroquine, President Trump's game changer drug, which he announced he was taking as a preventative last week and now says he has finished, does not appear to offer any benefit in treating COVID-19 patients and is associated with higher risk of death and abnormal heart rhythms, reported a study of almost 100,000 patients published Friday in the medical journal, The Lancet. In light of the new information, the World Health Organization has suspended their testing of hydroxychloroquine, pending further safety information, reports Bloomberg. Cardiovascular side effects are particularly important because COVID-19, which first appeared to be mainly a respiratory disease, now turns out to attack multiple organ systems, including the heart and cardiovascular system and can create severe blood clotting. Hydroxychloroquine is approved to treat malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, but at lower doses and in patients who were generally otherwise healthy reports the Washington Post. The study found that those given hydroxychloroquine had a 34% increase in risk of mortality and a 137% increased risk of a serious heart arrhythmia. For those receiving hydroxychloroquine and an antibiotic, there was a 45% increased risk of death and a 411% increased risk of serious heart arrhythmias, writes the Washington Post. The Lancet study is an observational study that analyzes past records, not a clinical trial that randomly assigns the treatment or placebo to patients and can offer stronger evidence about a drug's safety or efficacy. However, the study's extremely large set of patients and its design, which focused on earlier treatment in patients with less severe cases, making it a convincing addition to the existing data on risk of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19, according to in the pipeline. And healthcare workers around the world see more compensation for dealing with coronavirus but not in the US. All over the world, governments are supporting healthcare workers who are risking their lives to save others amid the coronavirus pandemic by offering them bonuses or hazard pay according to a summary of global approaches by the Washington Post. In Ghana, healthcare workers are receiving a 50% raise on top of income tax waivers for working to stop the outbreak. Canada announced salary increases. France included bonuses for doctors and nurses as part of its $120 billion stimulus package. Russia took a similar approach, but some emergency responders say they haven't received any money yet. In Iraq, one governor promised free land to public health employees. The United Kingdom is paying families of medical workers who die of COVID-19, a lump sum of what equates to $65,000. Yet in the United States, no national hazard pay has been approved and healthcare workers have even faced reduced hours and pay as hospitals lose non-essential business according to mercury news. And the USDA and DOJ are set to investigate price fixing for meat. Meat prices are at a record high in supermarkets, but the prices for cattle are at all-time lows. In April, the price for beef was $6.22 per pound, nearly 26 cents more compared to March. Further, the average cost for cattle was below $100 per 100 pounds in April, contrasting from the five-year average of $135 per 100 pounds. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Justice are examining whether the meatpacking industry is price-fixing. The U.S. Department of Justice is focusing on America's largest meatpackers, including Tyson, JBS, National Beef, and Cargill. These companies comprise nearly 85% of the U.S. meatpacking market and have been the subject of previous antitrust lawsuits. Further, the USDA is set to review price fluctuations in beef according to USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue. Meatpacking giants have stated beef prices have increased during the pandemic because factories are operating at lower capacity. However, the industry has long been scrutinized for monopolistic practices, which are egging on the current probe, writes Politico. To see our daily brief, go to the address and our show notes and follow us on Twitter at New America ISP and tune in next Monday for our next episode.


And the House of Representatives on Tuesday tasked security agencies on the need to put together a task force to check and repel attacks on the nation's airports and railways. This follows a motion of urgent national importance brought by Honorable Nolim Najee at Plenary. This is following recent incidents of terrorist attacks on the Kaduna International Airport and the Rigasa end of the Abuja Kaduna Standard Gauge within a space of four days. Finally, his report is presented from our studio. These two incidents occurred within a space of four days and federal lawmakers do not find the development acceptable. Honorable Nolim Najee is representing Nkhanu East-West Federal Constituency of a number of states. Debating the motion, he said 12 persons were adopted by the terrorists that attacked the Kaduna International Airport on the 25th of March, with one person, a security personnel with Nigerian airspace management agent in Nama, reportedly killed. This is despite efforts by the military to repel the attack, noting that if something drastic is not done urgently, it may embolden terrorists to attack more airports in the country. Definitely, if it happens in other places, if they start attacking our airports, the implication is that even the international airlines will stop coming to Nigeria. That's the implication.  And the implication is that the etiquette will double, because once the premium on insurance goes up, the etiquette will double. So that's why I'm asking, that's the leadership to come to our aid to see how we can solve this problem. Lawmakers, while condemning the act called for proactive action by security agencies through the setting up of a task force to man the nation's airports and railways. We must present a very formidable front as a house to ensure that this thing do not happen again. And for it not happen, somebody somewhere must be held responsible. It couldn't have just been ordinary that these people drive through the city and come and challenge the security of our airports. For me, it is not only reprehensible, Honorable Speaker Sir, but a display of general ineptitude on the part of the security. Now those who used to go to Kaduna by road became challenged because of kidnapping on Abuja Kaduna road. And then thank God the railway came, the train came, Mr. Speaker. And they are being challenged today. Nigerian Railway Corporation had issued a statement that they are going to suspend the activities of the rail along that line. And Mr. Speaker, we were challenged some few days ago for us to have an infraction in the airport, which means that nowhere, nowhere is safe. So Mr. Speaker, if our roads are not safe, if our rails are not safe, and if our airport, which is the beginning point of our airways, are not safe, Mr. Speaker, then it calls for us to suspend everything political to begin to address the critical needs of Nigerians. An amendment or need to include the incident of the bombing of the train carrying over 970 passengers, which was attacked near Regasah Station, Kaduna, was also unanimously adopted. The motion was adopted when put to vote by Honorable Idris Wasey, Deputy Speaker of the House at Plenary.


Late morning. Don't forget to grab a fresh coffee when you're in at Bally Holy Farm Shop. Last year I got my secret Santa and electric egg cooker. Turned out they were vegan. So this year's gift has to be special. That's why I'm trying it for myself here at Amaldran Hotel. Amaldran gift card can mean booking a stay, like I did, enjoying a romantic meal or grabbing drinks with friends. So, with a host of ways to escape the norm, you won't be guessing their Christmas dreams. You'll be gifting them. Buy your Amaldran gift card now at AmaldranHotels.com. We're going to want to have the radio on full blast and even especially if you have, can you still buy tickets for this car, can you? The phone lines we're working on them, they are back up and running yet. The phones, they're not okay, but it's so cool. You can go online, of course, highlandradio.com. So we're going to give away car worth over 30,000 euros. There's a grand as well, is there? We still have a grand to give away today? Yeah, if the telephone lines get well, we'll sort that out. I'll figure out the ideas. I'm going to go upstairs that communication centre up there and put my phone through it. See them else. I won't have it out with them. Had it. Lee, see you soon. I'll not see you before Christmas. So happy Christmas. Are you two in it? Are you going straight home now? No. Well, there's stuff to do. We'll be packing and stuff, will you? I will like. All right, because I might need someone to fill with me while we change your bands in and out and stuff.  All right, OK, see you in a bit. All right, thanks, Lee. You'll hear from him, I think, before the morning. So it's OK. A couple of minutes past nine. Let's cross over for a news update now, and it's over to Donna Marie Doherty.


We know that there are a set of principles called multimedia principles which provide guidelines to integrate multimedia in e-learning content effectively. While literature points to several multimedia principle, in this LED we will be discussing about the modality and redundancy principle. Before proceeding further, here is a reflection spot. Consider the following two scenarios where the teacher is teaching about the water cycle. One teacher uses an image with an on-screen text without any audio. The other teacher uses image and narration without on-screen text. Which of the two scenarios do you think will be easily processed by the students? Some of you may have felt that image and on-screen text would be sufficient for learners. Others may have thought that audio narration is more useful than on-screen text. Let us see what the modality principle tells us. Modality principle recommends the use of audio to explain visuals instead of on-screen text. From the cognitive theory, we know that if both text and pictures are to be understood then there is an overload of the visual channel. While when narration is used along with an image, there is a balance in processing across the visual and the auditory channel. This prevents the visual channel from being overloaded. At this point, let us see some of the situations where modality principle is recommended. Consider the following example in which a teacher is describing the function of a herd and its different parts. In the first case, the functioning is explained as a text while in the second case it is explained along with an audio narration without a text. Then we will be able to easily process the content when there is an audio narration explaining the functioning of the herd as compared to reading a description about it. From this example, we see that it is desirable to follow the modality principle while explaining graphics. Another instance where following modality principle is recommended is when we are explaining a complex material which includes both text and images. In such case, attention will be divided between text and images because both use same modality of vision. Using narrative however divides the load between audio and vision channel which is recommended. Till now we have seen different scenarios where it is recommended to use audio with image instead of on-screen text. At this point, let us pause at a reflection spot. Can you think of situations where you need to use on-screen text to support graphics instead of an audio? You may have thought of situations like what if audio is not available or this scenario where there are no speakers. In such cases following modality principle will not be possible. Yet another scenario could be audience who are non-native speaker and find difficulty in processing the spoken words. And also there could be people in the audience who may have hearing impairment. In all such scenarios use of on-screen text is recommended. At this point, let us now look at another principle which is the redundancy principle. The redundancy principle recommends explaining visuals with narrated audio or on-screen text but not both. Correlating with the example which we saw earlier while explaining the concept of water cycle, suppose if teacher A explains the concepts using animation, narration and on-screen text while teacher B explains the concept with animation and narration without on-screen text. According to the redundancy principle, use of animation and narration is recommended. There is a common belief that use of spoken words and printed forms during presentation is better for learners. And learner can choose their format depending upon their learning preference. As an e-content designer, you may think that why not use both text and narration. A potential problem with adding a redundant on-screen text could be that learner may experience cognitive overload in their visual channel during a fast-paced multimedia presentation which has redundant on-screen text. Another possible problem which may arise is that learner may try to compare the different formats. At this point, let us summarize what we have learned till now. The redundancy principle recommends that if you have a choice between on-screen text and audio, use audio. The redundancy principle recommends explaining the visuals with narrated audio or on-screen text but not both. Thank you.


The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced the redeployment of five resident Electoral Commissioners and four Directors. In the new postings, a statement by National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Volta Education Committee, Festos Okoye, said, quote, the Wreck Ocean State, Olusego Agbaje, has been redeployed to Ogun State. His counterpart in Ogun State, Professor Abdul Ghaniu Raji, will take charge as Wreck Ocean State. The Wreck Bialse State, Dr. Cyril Omoribe, will take up his new role as the Wreck for Cross River State, while Dr. Emmanuel Alex Hatt proceeds to Bialse State as a Wreck from his former office in Cross River State. The Wreck Sanfara State, Dr. Asmao Sani Mekuri, has also been redeployed to Kaduna State. So you get notified about fresh news updates.


Trade it and upgrade it now at Appalachian Wireless and receive up to $700 off when you trade your old eligible device in and upgrade to a new iPhone 14 Pro Max or Samsung S23 Ultra on an unlimited Appalachian Advantage plan because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. Pikeville Police Department will soon be sporting new magnetic decals on their cruisers in support of Autism Awareness Month. With many people around the world having undiagnosed autism, Pikeville PD believes it's important to show support wherever they go. These are the first decorative decals ever put on the cruisers.  So we thought well that'd be a good idea, let's put something on the police cars. So Captain Blankenship got with one of the local businesses Jaded Green and together they dreamed up the ideal of that emblem, the shape, the colors, the Pikeville on it and it did a great job as you can see and as it's starting tomorrow they'll be on the police cars and I think everybody will enjoy it. It looks great. In addition to the decals, the department will be giving out free placards to those with an autistic person in their household. This will notify officers when to turn off their lights and sirens when visiting a house that has a placard so no disturbance will be made. We are getting placards made, we're getting brochures made, we've also got some other things going on and we're going to give them out free to people that maybe have an autistic individual that lives in their household. You can put on your mailbox or your home and if an officer has to come there the officer will be aware that there is someone with maybe special needs in there and it just helps us and it helps us know how to handle the situation maybe turn the blue lights off, no sirens, you know things like that that we know. The officers arriving on seeing those let's arrive and not upset so we want to make sure that we do the best we can do to understand and care for everybody but we just want everybody to be aware that what you're seeing on our cruisers are new and we want to make sure everybody knows that we we're standing behind all individuals and everybody take a look at them and see what they think. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Collum.


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