The story of a fighter who needs to get drunk to fight made for the perfect action comedy , because the joke engine of the comedy is driven by action. The fights are masterfully choreographed and performed by experts, but it has a slapstick approach. As usual, Chan’s stunt work is impecca
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’ work on Raiders of the Lost Ark , harking back to the pulpy adventure serials of the 1930s, resulted in one of the most timeless, unique, and entertaining entries in the entire ge
Some zodiac signs don't really mind if you already know how a story ends, but it's one of Cancer's pet peeves. Our crabby friend likes surprises - although preferably pleasant ones - and happy endings. We know from the title that's not going to happen here, and so does Cancer, which is why they won't waste their t
That doesn't mean that Cancer likes everything that falls under this category. Remember, this is our moody and wavering sign with nary a constant focus, so to say that Cancer likes everything under the period drama banner would be wrong. A few of the entries on this list may surprise you. Here are some ideas for period dramas that Cancer will love, along with a few that they will h
Spielberg’s filmmaking has all the hallmarks of great action cinema: inventive setups, increasingly raised stakes, well-constructed suspense , clarity of movement in the framing and editing, and most importantly, a palpable sense of
Ever since Harrison Ford strode onto the silver screen with a fedora on his head, a bullwhip at his side, and a satchel slung over his shoulder, Indy has been one of cinema’s most beloved and recognizable ico
This turned out to be one of Woo’s greatest movies, Hard Boiled , starring Chow Yun-fat as badass cop Tequila Yeun. The climactic hospital shootout is one of the most iconic action sequences ever s
Inspired by the classics of the martial arts genre – particularly the blood-drenched productions of the Shaw Brothers’ studio – Quentin Tarantino made his stamp as an action director in his fourth film, Kill Bill . Uma Thurman stars as the Bride, an ex-assassin who seeks vengeance against the former colleagues who left her for d
When George Lucas came to Steven Spielberg with the idea for a rollicking action-adventure about a globe-trotting explorer locking horns with the Nazis over an ancient Biblical artifact, the Close Encounters director saw an opportunity to give American cinema its own version of the James Bond franchise . The result was Raiders of the Lost Ark , one of the greatest movies ever made and undeniably the best adventure movie of all ti
With explosive cinematography and action-driven storytelling and characters who never have to worry about reloading, John Woo has become arguably the most revered action filmmaker in the world. After making a few movies that glorified gangsters, Woo decided to make a movie that glorified the pol
John Huston’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is the definitive cinematic portrait of the corrupting power of wealth, as a pair of hotshot young hustlers journey out into the desert with an aging prospector in search of a fortune in g
The script for Raiders of the Lost Ark classes Ark went through various different drafts, in which a number of scenes and concepts came and went. A lot of those ideas would later be reused in the second movie (which was technically a prequel ), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom . These include Indy traveling the Shanghai and avoiding machine gun fire by hiding behind a gong and a high-speed chase on mine carts. Originally, in Raiders , the trip to Shanghai was to recover a piece of the Staff of Ra and the mine cart pursuit followed the opening of the
The whole melee is shot in a single long take tracking back and forth through the hallway. The fight doesn’t end because Dae-su manages to kill all the bad guys; they all just become too exhausted to keep getting back up, which is much more realis
After the first Mad Max movie presented a bleak dystopia in a somewhat recognizable near-future, the second one dived head-first into a barren post-apocalyptic wasteland ruled by gas-guzzling villainy. Mel Gibson returns to the role of Max, tearing across the desert in his V8 Interceptor, looking for a fight worth fight
When Pixar released a trailer for a movie in which an old man makes his house take flight with a ton of balloons, skeptical audiences thought that the studio had finally jumped the shark. And then Up hit theaters and left that skepticism in its dust by using the story of a flying house as a giant visual metaphor for a widower dealing with gr
One of the most iconic moments in Raiders of the Lost Ark sees Indy facing a swordsman with ostentatious choreography. Indy just shoots the guy and moves on. This wasn’t in the original script. Initially, Indy was supposed to use his whip to yank the sword out of the guy’s hand, but since the entire cast and crew was sick from a bad case of food poisoning during the shoot in Tunisia, Harrison Ford suggested simply "shooting the sucker," to cut down on how long it would take to film. Steven Spielberg loved the idea and decided to use
