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Welp, we're at the Top 10, if you have any predictions, now's the time.
Having done this Countdown now, I feel like I should've done things differently, namely favoring nominations over points. In a Countdown concerning genre it makes the most sense to consider the movies that most people think of when the question is put to them, rather than simply gauge their collective favorability towards specific movies.
I'll come clean here and admit my biggest complaint with the list, which some of you may be able to predict: Jackie Chan doesn't make a single appearance. Some of his movies were nominated, he was wildly underranked and largely ignored despite being an undisputed staple of the genre. That Segal makes the list, but Chan doesn't is pretty disappointing (others like Jean-Claude Van Damme is also conspicuously absent save an honorable mention).
To be fair, many of Chan's movie's are dramatic slogs, but the diamonds in the rough are more than worth including. Legend of Drunken Master (or Drunken Master 2) got a mention and it probably features his best fight and Rumble in the Bronx was also relatively high, but if a single on of his movies made the list, it would have to be the original Drunken Master, it's almost entirely fight scenes with all of the fast pace and creative choreography you can expect from Yuen Woo-ping directing without all of the dramatic and visual vomit of Crouching Tiger and Grandmaster YOU NOMINATE THOSE MOVIES AND NOT A SINGLE JACKIE CHAN MOVIE!? COME ON!!!
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2. Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
3. Dragon Tiger Gate
4. Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
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7. Hard Boiled
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9. Iron Man
10. Above The Law
11. Commando
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15. The Legend of Drunken Master
16. The Protector
17. Drunken Master
18. Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow
19. Police Story 2
20. Fist of Legend
21. Wing Chun
22. Gorgeous
23. Rumble in the Bronx
24. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
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