For me, its a tossup between predator or Commando.
Predator had a cool unique factor and a nuculear explosion at the end, but Arnold kicked so much a** in Commando, in true overblown 1980s fashion. You gotta love the one-liners, the hard-core machismo characters like 80's-era arnold and stallone. It's just so hard to choose a favourite.
I think action movies peaked in the 1980s. Modern action films rely too much on special effects and stupid CGI tricks. In the 80s, they didnt have all that, so they compensated with a higher body count and more violence so the audience wouldn't feel cheated, IMO.
(I'm thinking of the gurerilla camp fight from Predator in particular-- that was real fire and real explosions, according to the commentary on the DVD, if I remember correctly. There were explosives in the huts that blew up, and they were probably detonated remotely by a guy off camera at the right time, kind of like a fireworks show. That's why it looked so good and so convincing even today-- no CGI beats the real thing if you can safely pull it off. No one really got hurt during that scene, according to the DVD commentary, although the body count was at least 30 from what I can see. )
Predator had a cool unique factor and a nuculear explosion at the end, but Arnold kicked so much a** in Commando, in true overblown 1980s fashion. You gotta love the one-liners, the hard-core machismo characters like 80's-era arnold and stallone. It's just so hard to choose a favourite.
I think action movies peaked in the 1980s. Modern action films rely too much on special effects and stupid CGI tricks. In the 80s, they didnt have all that, so they compensated with a higher body count and more violence so the audience wouldn't feel cheated, IMO.
(I'm thinking of the gurerilla camp fight from Predator in particular-- that was real fire and real explosions, according to the commentary on the DVD, if I remember correctly. There were explosives in the huts that blew up, and they were probably detonated remotely by a guy off camera at the right time, kind of like a fireworks show. That's why it looked so good and so convincing even today-- no CGI beats the real thing if you can safely pull it off. No one really got hurt during that scene, according to the DVD commentary, although the body count was at least 30 from what I can see. )
