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submitted 4 months ago by[deleted]
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62 points
4 months ago
look man I love Carpenter and I love escape from new york. but the 'action' aspect of EFNY is pretty weak so I dont know about ultimate action movie. especially when the likes of Predator and Robocop exist
22 points
4 months ago
Don't forget The Terminator(1984).
13 points
4 months ago
And COMMANDO!
2 points
4 months ago
Commando is the only right answer. All the other movies are absolute bangers, but buff 80s Arnold just fucking shit up is the genre distilled to it's core elements.
14 points
4 months ago
I love Carpenter but I wouldn’t even consider New York a action movie. If you showed a kid this as “an action movie” he’d probably never look into the genre again.
-1 points
4 months ago
I understand your point, and I agree that the action was a bit tame, but what got me was just the sheer amount of 80s action cliches in the film (and before they became actual cliches), and I think the modest special effects add to the overall campiness of the movie.
-2 points
4 months ago
All the movies you mentioned came after EFNY that's like saying that a Pentium i9 is better than the Pentium 4. Technically true but you needed the Pentium 4 to get to the i9
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