The 2010s are a golden age for action movies. Do you agree?

Really? Ip Man was bad? Ok.

2010s can be the golden age, as long as you make room for other decades to be platinum and diamond, above it. The 80s and 90s come first.

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Ip Man 1 is AMAZING, the sequels are BAD.

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I guess I've officially gotten old because I can't even bring myself to call Mad Max Fury Road a movie. I call it a 2 hour chase scene with some cool old school explosions. There is NO story there whatsoever.

I also found 2 hours of John Wick going around shooting people in the head to be plotless and repetitively boring.

I don't know if I agree with that. There are good action movies, all throughout the 90s till now. The 80s they were just getting started, and still developing into something better... Unless we count James Bond, cause then we are going back to the 60s.

I don't know if I agree with that. There are good action movies, all throughout the 90s till now. The 80s they were just getting started, and still developing into something better... Unless we count James Bond, cause then we are going back to the 60s.

Sorry my post, posted twice. Although after thinking about it, Runaway Train (1985), just might be my favorite action of all time, if I were to pick just one.

The 80s remain the gold standard.
The 2000s were the pits, with a tedious reliance on fake CGI that still lingers on today, but the 2010s have improved to a degree.

One other thing I've been thinking about (aside from the fact that "golden age" is quickly approaching peak uselessness as a descriptor on the same level as "overrated" or "pretentious") is that, since the 2010s aren't done yet, we shouldn't hold completed decades against them. The 1980s looks a little weaker when you cut out Die Hard and The Killer and RoboCop and Predator. I just figure that's worth considering - there's no telling if the best action movies of the decade won't actually come out in the next couple of years.

I think this raises a good question as to how much of an action movie's strength comes from its plot (or lack thereof). I would definitely contest the idea that Fury Road has "no story" - rather, it streamlines its storyline so efficiently and threads it into the action in such a way that people perceive it as being "a 2-hour chase scene with no story". It's not a bug, it's a feature. Too often, you get these action movies that get a little too bogged down in interchanging scenes of action with scenes of exposition and character development in a way that makes the story suffer as a whole (I'd argue that, for all its strengths, Terminator 2 is a prime example of how it loses a lot of momentum after the mental institution breakout, especially in the director's cut). Fury Road still has its fair share of downtime where characters interact with one another and we learn about them in the process, but they are handled in such a compact way that viewers may not register them because they're not as drawn-out as non-action scenes are "supposed to be". The same goes for John Wick, which I'll grant has a very simple revenge plot but works because it creates this weird underworld full of colourful characters and byzantine rules that add some much-needed dimension to what could have been another been-there-done-that thriller (to say nothing of how its actual action takes more craftsmanship than the likes of, say, Taken). It's almost a shame how these films involve so much effort in order to look so effortless that the effort can get so easily disregarded.

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I think the '00s were a little better, but in either decade, the Korean output is enough to make the quality higher than anywhen else.

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Thanks again, Mr Portridge.

Of course, just like the period from 2003 to 2009 was a golden age for science fiction.

We can add Baby Driver to the list of amazing action movies from this decade. I've been hearing good things about Atomic Blonde as well.

It's more sci-fi/comedy than action, but The World's End has some solid fight scenes.