The 101 Greatest Action Movies According to Filmicability
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"I discovered in doing this list that the action genre was really born in the 1960s. Before then, most movie "action" came in the form of war movies, westerns, film noir, and serials. When the long-dominating western started to lose steam in the late '60s, the action genre--which, for the most part, is a wildly-differing urban-based one--took its place. We still had guns a-firing, but instead of horses, we had cars. Thus, save for a very few titles, you won't see many movies made before 1960 on this list. I left [war movies and westerns] off this overview. The Matrix, The Terminator and Mad Max are sci-fi movies that really let the action-movie in them do all the "talking." I even have a few superhero movies on the list, and that's a subgenre I generally abhor! Anyway, based on (1) thrills, (2) overall quality, (3) relevance to genre, and (4) influence, here are the results." - http://filmicability.blogspot.com/
avg. score: 35 of 102 (35%)
required scores: 1, 16, 29, 41, 55
