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Action’s Golden Age

8/9/2019

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Trying to list the greatest movies from the golden age of action cinema, roughly 1980 to 1991. I came up with twelve that not only are classics of the genre but are outstanding cinema besides. We have:
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, d. Steven Spielberg)
  • 48 Hrs. (1982, d. Walter Hill)
  • First Blood (1982, d. Ted Korcheff)
  • Police Story (1985, d. Jackie Chan)
  • Big Trouble in Little China (1986, d. John Carpenter)
  • Lethal Weapon (1987, d. Richard Donner)
  • Robocop (1987, d. Paul Verhoven)
  • Die Hard (1988, d. John McTiernan)
  • The Killer (1989, d. John Woo)
  • La Femme Nikita (1990, d. Luc Besson)
  • Point Break (1991, d. Kathryn Bigelow)
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, d. James Cameron)
Can anybody think of others? I’m trying to avoid repeating either directors or stars.
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    Derek Austin Johnson has lived most of his life in the Lone Star State.  A member of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop, his work has appeared in The Horror Zine, Tell-Tale Press, Skull Fragments: A Skelos Sampler, Rick Klaw's Rayguns Over Texas!, Nova Express, Moving Pictures, Her Majesty's Secret Servant, and Revolution SF.  His film column "Watching the Future" appeared each month at Hugo Award-winning SF Signal.

    He lives in Central Texas. 

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