Nothing is harder than Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven,
in the climax right before he blows Gene Hackman away.
He literally just says yeah.
"Yeah."
And it's a response to Hackman saying,
'I'll see you in hell William Munny.'
This one is from Predator and its,
"If it bleeds, we can kill it."
It was one of my favourites, it just really stuck with me.
There's one that's very recent, a couple years ago in an Ugandan action movie called Bad Black,
made for no money, and the scene is a doctor,
and he has this big gatling gun and he's just mowing the gang down,
and as he does, the narrator of the movie, because
it's an Ugandan action movie and so it needs to have a Ugandan narrator explaining everything.
This narrator exclaims;
Got a standing ovation mid-movie, mid-movie for that line.
I memorized both Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump as a child,
and so on long road trips I would just recite them,
like from beginning to end playing all the parts.
Yeah, I was a weird kid.
The first real interaction with the aliens, and what I love about it is,
it's that how Cameron kind of develops these, these characters, these marines
and you think these are the people are gonna be there for the rest of the movie.
And then when you have your first interaction with the aliens, you know from, we've got movement.
"Let's rock!"
The aliens come out and at least two--thirds of them are wiped out in a minute.
The botched robbery shootout in Heat.
And the tracking shot hallway scene in Oldboy.
The kind of sequencing-ness of them is kind of buried,
and the choreography is kind of buried.
I don't know if I'm allowed to cheat, but my favourite action scene,
my very first foray into like filmmaking was back when it was still tape-to-tape editing.
I would take all the training sequences in all the Rocky films from 1 to 5 at the time,
and then I would make a mix of all of them back, to back, to back, to back,
because you know really when you're a kid, you see the movie once,
but then you just really want to see
the boxing match and the and the training sequence that leads up to it.
Indiana Jones, Temple of Doom.
The whole opening sequence.
All hell breaks loose in the, in the nightclub and he's searching for the vial to the, you know,
the antidote to the poison he just took and she's looking for this gigantic diamond
and they're crawling around while this big fight sequence is happening.
Then they got the big car sequence,
and then they end up in a plane and then they end up jumping out of the plane with this
inflatable boat.
To me that was like nonstop action. That is like the best sequence ever.
When it comes to action cinema, I love action films from Asia;
Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and I would say it would be 13 Assassins by Takashi Miike.
The last 40 minutes are non-stop action.
The first time I watched it was like wow, that was amazing, that seemed to be a kick-ass 20 minutes
and then I went back: No it goes for 40 minutes! I kid you not.
Just insane battles, there's even a cow on fire.
If you could do like an Expendables-style with you know,
with William H. Macy, and Paul Giamatti, and Lesley Manville and Allison Janney, you know.
I think that would be fantastic.
I mean who wouldn't want to watch that movie?
Friends of mine and I had sort of, since we were 18, were like,
wanted to make our version of The Punisher starring Daniel Day Lewis.
"What about the innocent bystanders?"
I think I would direct the ____ out of a movie with Scott Adkins.
I think we could blow some ____ up pretty, pretty well together.
This would have to be all these actors when they're in their prime.
Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung,
then from Thailand Tony Jaa, Sonny Chiba, again when he was in his prime in the 1970s,
Jeeja from Thailand.
But I would say the wild card in there after recently seeing him would be Bob Odenkirk.
"Don't call 911."
Nobody is a cracker-jack action film, really the kind of
the tonic for this pandemic that we need to just kind of
put all of our frustrations with the world into this action film.
I'm still a big Kurt Russell person, love him to death and he would be my number one.
Keith David too, and he's always had great lines, great delivery.
Another person too that I really like is Carl Weathers
and I'm glad to see that there's a kind of resurgence for him,
but I like un-ironic Carl Weathers, you know
it's great to see him in Happy Gilmore and these other things and Arrested Development.
"Baby, you got a stew going."
He was in like in Rocky and in Predator and stuff,
I love that stuff and Action Jackson is arguably one of my favourite movies of all time.
As with the rest of the world, I'm a big fan of the Fast and the Furious franchise,
but I would love to see that cast merged with the cast of Den of Thieves
because I've also become a big fan of the camp factor that is Gerard Butler.
I think his movies are so ridiculous and entertaining,
in a way that does feel like a throwback to 80s action movies,
and I would just love to see those worlds collide like some sort of like: