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10 Modern Movie Action Scenes That Shook My Reality

filmjunk.com — With Wanted ripping up the box office and polarizing action fans, I decided to take a look at some recent action sequences that have really had me on the edge of my seat.

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  • HtomSirveaux, on 07/04/2008, -2/+81Dugg for giving props to Children of Men.
    • 1gunners4, on 07/05/2008, -0/+9Before I even clicked on the link I thought "If this doesn't have the final sequence in Children of Men I'm burying it."
      • gravityPersists, on 07/05/2008, -0/+8The scene in the car is phenomenal too, it's like five minutes with no cuts (well, there were, but you can hardly tell unless you're scrutinizing it).
      • expert01, on 07/05/2008, -11/+1From the description I almost wish that I'd lasted that far in the movie... but I dropped out 20 minutes in. It's as boring as Solaris.
    • adrames, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1Probably my favorite movie of all time. I think I'm gonna watch it again today.
    • nayrproductions, on 07/05/2008, -2/+2I really liked Children of Men but the ending seemed weak to me. It almost ruins the entire movie.
  • azher, on 07/04/2008, -2/+4fantastic !!!
  • Ducttape21, on 07/04/2008, -1/+48Dugg of Children of Men.
    • SuperWinner, on 07/05/2008, -7/+1I'm sorry but any movie with no ending sucks, I don't care how many great actions scenes there are in it.

      Blade Runner had an ending, I rest my case.
    • MidnightRIder77, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1*for*
  • dweeb79, on 07/04/2008, -22/+710.) Spider-Man2 [Great]
    9.) King Kong [I despised everything about this film]
    8.) United 93 [EH, Nothing Special]
    7.) Oldboy [A Level above F*cking Awesome]
    6.) Eastern Promises [It's good but nothing special]
    5.) LOTR [O Yeah!]
    4.) Bourne [The way its cut hurts the film as a whole]
    3.) Kill Bill [Overrated]
    2.) Death Proof [Underated]
    1.) Children of Men [Doesn't Deserve #1 - In its own right its very special but not #1]

    This is what happens with a list that's subjective.

    • btschul, on 07/05/2008, -9/+7***** you. Children of Men is the 2nd best movie ever made.
      1. Dr. Strangelove
      2. Children of Men
      • badenglishihave, on 07/05/2008, -6/+1Crud. At first I buried you, then I realized that what you said was so absurd it was funny.
      • fetusburgers, on 07/06/2008, -1/+0Dr. Strangelove? Seriously?

        The best movie ever is Trainspotting
    • paulvq, on 07/05/2008, -0/+4Are you kidding me? The Bourne Ultimatum alone won no less than five awards for its editing. The fast cuts were what made it unique.
      • SuperWinner, on 07/05/2008, -2/+1fast cuts made it hurt my head.. they were good movies but enough with the shaky cam already
      • btschul, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1Superwinner: Don't be so ***** dramatic. "fast cuts made it hurt my head" don't be such a pussy.
  • MidnightRIder77, on 07/04/2008, -1/+52I'm still wondering why Children of Men didn't get a Best Picture nomination. Proof the academy doesn't know *****. For me Children of Men would have been on their twice. The car scene was ***** intense as well.
    • mithrasinvictus, on 07/05/2008, -2/+4*there*
    • danharlow, on 07/05/2008, -6/+1Is that because you are only capable of truly enjoying a film that has received an awards or nomination? If that's the case then your movie collection must SUCK.
      • MidnightRIder77, on 07/05/2008, -0/+2Did you even read my ***** post? Good movies such as Children of Men deserve nominations because it builds credibility for the people that made it and allows them to get more movies/better scripts and actors so they can make more good movies. When did I ever say that I only enjoyed Oscar nominated movies?
    • SuperWinner, on 07/05/2008, -4/+2cuz it had no ending, and was inferior to the book
  • btschul, on 07/05/2008, -1/+20Dugg for making Children of Men #1. That 15 min. take was the first thing I thought of when I read the title.
  • trademark912, on 07/05/2008, -12/+9I have watched many an action movie in my day, and hardly any of these would be on a list I would have made. The opening sequence in "Octopussy"? How about the car chase in "French Connection," it set the standard for modern day car chases. What about the Die Hard series? In the most recent, McClane takes out a helicopter with a car! Did that not blow this guys mind?
    • noumuon, on 07/05/2008, -0/+5i'm guessing you missed the part where he said he's only including movies from 2000+. l2read.
  • piano08man, on 07/05/2008, -1/+2mirror? digg yourself out of that hole.
  • olegk, on 07/05/2008, -10/+2Dead. Buried.
  • PwrUps, on 07/05/2008, -1/+32http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:bGzWNkKNPxYJ: ...

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    • doctorinfierno, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3Dude, thank you, I've tried reading this article for like half an hour
    • Acglaphotis, on 07/05/2008, -0/+4i less than three you.
    • Pinkshisno, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1I just three you.
  • mrdeeds2324, on 07/05/2008, -6/+7Mirror: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:bGzWNkKNPxYJ: ...
  • NeoHomer, on 07/05/2008, -12/+1You gotta be pretty stupid to think a movie can alter your reality. Movies are entertaining, but that's it.
    Hollywood is a joke, but not as big a joke as the actors.
    Movie making could fall off the face of the earth and you know what would happen? Not a freaking thing, life would go on, maybe even better. It's getting to be about time when they realize that fact...they are useless and worthless when it comes right down to it.
    • EWaldron, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1Yes Hollywood can be a joke, but not always.

      "Movie making could fall off the face of the earth" -- You could say the same about music (amongst many other things).
      Films can make people laugh, cry, scared, give them hope and appreciation but most of all, they can make people really think about their lives. OK, so quite a few of them are crappy, but every once in a while good ones do come along, that people discuss and argue over for years after.

      No, they are not the most important things in the world but I sure would miss them. I admit this doesn't really apply to all of the movies on that list.
  • LokitheComplex, on 07/05/2008, -0/+48More Like "10 Diggs that shook my server"
  • Miamisun, on 07/05/2008, -2/+22The lack of the original Matrix is disturbing. It feels like people are so scared to feel like they are writing a "cliche" story that they are leaving it off altogether.
    • Niubai, on 07/05/2008, -0/+7After I watched Matrix for the first time back in 1998 or 1999 (can't remember) I got that "wow" sensation. Just WOW, what a badass movie. How come a sci-fi movie be so philosophical and make you think a lot about how the things are, what is real. But then ... they shat all over with the second and the third ones. For me Matrix stopped at the first incredible movie.
    • buu2, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3RTFA!! The author clearly says this list is movies after 2000. Matrix came out in '98-99. Therefore it is ineligible for this list.
      • SuperWinner, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1ah, thats why all the movies on the list suck ass...
  • sg1alias, on 07/05/2008, -12/+1I love action movies but Children of Men and Wanted are terrible, I was so bored I had to leave the theater. But Lord of the Rings now that totally deserved to be on the list
    • enderwigin, on 07/05/2008, -2/+4I can understand why you disliked Wanted but Children of Men!

      I will grant you the fact that Children of Men is a thinking man's action movie but all that means is you must be an idiot.
    • carpespasm, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1Say what you will about the movie (I thought it was adequate), but that long scene from CoM was very well done and fit in with the overall way the movie was done.
  • doctorinfierno, on 07/05/2008, -2/+4It's a great list no doubt, Children of Men numero 1! I would also consider the car scene were Juilanne Moore gets shoot, its impressive. Oh, yeah although it's not on the list the extinguisher scene from Irreversible.
    • HamSandwich, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1I agree with you on both points. Both are pretty good, but that fire extinguisher scene really grabs you.
    • HtomSirveaux, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1I saw that extinguisher scene as a clip by itself before I had seen the movie. It made me sick and kind of ruined my day. Eventually I saw the whole movie and the context of the story gave it some reason and then it wasn't so disturbing to me.
  • chaos7, on 07/05/2008, -9/+2children of men copied the half-life video games. those who played the games will know what i mean.
    • grylls, on 07/05/2008, -3/+1Or you could just... you know.. tell us? Fanboy.
    • Oetzi, on 07/05/2008, -1/+5You sir are an idiot. nBecause it feels slightly similar it copied it? And I think most people on this site have played Half-Life. Dumbass.
    • HamSandwich, on 07/05/2008, -1/+4I don't think they copied Half-Life. Sure, there are similarities.... but they both borrow heavily from Orwell's 1984.
    • Apocalyptic0n3, on 07/05/2008, -1/+2Of course! Because, you know, Half Life was made in 1998 and the book that the film was based off of was made in 1992. Brilliant statement!
    • NotOptium, on 07/05/2008, -1/+2Yeah, and Ayn Rand stole her ideas from Bioshock.
  • grylls, on 07/05/2008, -13/+5Buried for having spiderman on the list. None of the spiderman movies deserves to be on any "good" list.
    • williamlee, on 07/05/2008, -4/+1I bury you.
    • chrisinsocalif, on 07/05/2008, -1/+1Where were the headcrabs and the crowbar?
    • HtomSirveaux, on 07/05/2008, -1/+3Dude, Spiderman 2 is one of the best modern, comic based movies yet. One of the few series of movies where a sequel is better than its predecessor, in my opinion. I won't argue about Spiderman 3 though, there was no excuse for that *****.
  • estacado, on 07/05/2008, -11/+3I don't get what the fuss is all about Children Of Men. It's entertaining, but no where near as good as people say it is.
    • Whackly, on 07/05/2008, -0/+5Hey! Everyone! Check it out! You know how there "always one of them?" Here he is.
    • powlol, on 07/05/2008, -1/+1See the problem with what you just said is it makes you come off as a self absorbed *****.

      "Hey look at me! My opinion is different then most people's and because I say it isn't good, it isn't"

      If you are going to say something like that, please, for your sake, use "in my opinion" and you won't sound like a douchebag. Despite what you think, you are not the standard by which people determine the quality of movies. Not to mention, perhaps then you could actually, you know... explain why YOU feel that way
    • Shenanigans, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1There is still an obvious Children of Men bandwagon. It's like it was blogged about by someone with status and then the movie became a hit on Digg.
    • HtomSirveaux, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1When you are going to say something that you know is unpopular, try explaining yourself or back it up with facts and observations. For example if I were to say that I hated Children of Men, I'd say because it...

      1)was long winded some if not most of the time to the point where you knew something dramatic was about to happen like the car ride where his wife dies or

      2)the fact that the first 1/2 to 2/3 of the movie was back story that took seemingly forever to get through(see 1); or

      3)it has the, by now horribly cliched, washed out blue/gray cinematography that ever other war-based action movie has had before it, ***** you very much Saving Private Ryan/Jerry Bruckheimer, and the fact that they think it looks cool, because it doesn't. It looks like I'm watching the god damn thing through a navy-blue nylon. Or that

      4)for however awesome the final war climax might have been, it seemed horribly contrived that through all the other persistent realism working up to the end, it was, of course, the main antagonist's bullet that kills him and not the 10,000 others he was dodging all throughout that sequence.
      or

      5)For being a couple boiled eggs shy of 2 hours, it still only felt like half a movie. It seems like a cheat when you get up from rolling credits feeling like there should have been a "To be continued..." caption at the bottom.

      These are just a few things you could have touched on if it seemed to you to be "no where near as good as people say it is."

      Don't be so unoriginal.
  • namelessXsilent, on 07/05/2008, -1/+4not a bad list. Oldboy was awesome and well as Bourne, and Children of Men
  • Drakoi, on 07/05/2008, -5/+2Wanted: Infiltration scene.

    Nuff said.
  • bobbknight, on 07/05/2008, -1/+7Just remember in the book Children of Men, it was the men that were shooting blanks.
  • mrzack, on 07/05/2008, -12/+1in Children of Men they talked about how it was the GOVERNMENT that was behind the terrorist attacks. I think it is trying to tell us something. like 9/11 INSIDE JOB???
    • dha07030, on 07/05/2008, -3/+1Please tell me you forgot /s
    • NotOptium, on 07/05/2008, -3/+2I never believed it before, but if Children of Men hints at it...

      OMG BUSH KNOCKED DOWN THE TOWERS!
  • TheMarshmallow, on 07/05/2008, -0/+2i want to see this but i cant bc it went down :( and ive never heard anything dumber 9/11 inside job? haha stfu
  • nayrproductions, on 07/05/2008, -0/+0No Bank Robbery scene from Heat? The first Matrix alone had about 5 scenes that were better than half the crap on his list. LIST IRRELEVANT
  • morphinapg, on 07/05/2008, -1/+5Where's the beginning of casino royale? I thought that chase scene was incredible.
  • vichussmith, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1Shake your reality, or just really really cool scenes? Some of these just sound like they were highly entertaining, not reality shaking.
  • 808ethan, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1Can I get diggs even if I say Children of Men was 'wee look at me, Im not mainstream' with a whole mess of nothing, followed by nothing, with just a few minutes of an actual movie in it?
  • jizzlies, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1Definately cool scenes
  • Cebo, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1First one, right off the bat, pure *****. Spiderman his favorite superhero movie? Oh boy...
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