Best Overall Action Movie Franchise???

[CZAR]

Ok this is a lil different then voting best action film. I listed movie franchises with atleast 3 entries. U have to vote based on every movie in the series in order to form which one is the best. So for example just because Rambo may be your fav movie of all time, if u dont like the sequels then u may not want to vote for the Rambo films as the best overall Franchise of films. Make sure u weigh all the films in the series before u choose the best one. Let the great ones weigh in with the weak ones in the series then come up with a decision. I didnt list any horror/sci-fi/fantasy/superhero action films as I wanted to focus on str8 action films without the other elements. Also list the worst franchise listed and even a couple of your favorites also. My take:

Best: Beverly Hills Cop Franchise

Favorites: Rush Hour & The Fast & the Furious Franchises

Dont have a worst franchise. Got Em!!

[Steve]

The Bourne trilogy is the first one that pops up in my head, but I'm not sure you would consider it "str8 action".

EDIT: When I posted the poll hadn't shown up yet. My vote goes for Bourne.

[ajvdbg]

Easy for me:

Best: Bourne Trilogy

Favouite: Bourne Trilogy

[pickfair]

Die Hard for me

[master_8ball]

Rambo for me, Die Hard would be close though... I love Indiana Jones but always saw it as more of an adventure series than an action series...

[BluRayTim]

Originally Posted by master_8ball

Rambo for me, Die Hard would be close though... I love Indiana Jones but always saw it as more of an adventure series than an action series...

In your opinion, where do the Dirty Harry movies rank master_8ball?

IMO, Dirty Harry rules (and is vastly superior to the First Blood movies)!

[Al_The_Strange]

"Indiana Jones," my fourth favorite film franchise of them all (and what the heck, I think it's the best)!

[kpkelley]

Best: Bourne Trilogy. Tough choice, but IJ2 and IJ4 are both worse than Bourne Supremacy.

Favorite: Indiana Jones.

Least Favorite: The Fast and The Furious -fist was ok, second was terrible, stopped watching them at that point.

[seeweda]

Originally Posted by CZAR

Ok this is a lil different then voting best action film. I listed movie franchises with atleast 3 entries. U have to vote based on every movie in the series in order to form which one is the best. So for example just because Rambo may be your fav movie of all time, if u dont like the sequels then u may not want to vote for the Rambo films as the best overall Franchise of films. Make sure u weigh all the films in the series before u choose the best one. Let the great ones weigh in with the weak ones in the series then come up with a decision. I didnt list any horror/sci-fi/fantasy/superhero action films as I wanted to focus on str8 action films without the other elements. Also list the worst franchise listed and even a couple of your favorites also. My take:

Best: Beverly Hills Cop Franchise

Favorites: Rush Hour & The Fast & the Furious Franchises

Dont have a worst franchise. Got Em!!

Czar, I think you do these list and make your selections just to rile people up sometimes or at least rile me up.

Seriously out of all the actions series out there Beverly Hills Cop is your choice for best? It's good and all the last one sucked but I still like them it's more comedy than action though. The same could be said of Rush Hour.

To me I would list in no particular order these franchises above the 3 you mentioned.

Die Hard
Lethal Weapon
Bourne
Mission Impossible
Rambo
James Bond

I would also list franchises like Indiana Jones, The Matrix and Terminator but while they have a lot of Action sequences they fall more under adventure or sci-fi for me to call them Action films.

[Chordata]

Crap, I voted for Die Hard without realizing Bourne was listed.

[Astrakan]

You're missing some pretty major franchises:

James Bond
Mad Max
The Matrix (or would its primary genre be sci-fi?)
Robocop (or would its primary genre be sci-fi?)
The Terminator (or would its primary genre be sci-fi?)
Blade (or would its primary genre be either comic book or horror?)

Even if you leave out those whose primary genre is questionable, I'm sure James Bond would receive a crapload of votes if it was included.

[CZAR]

Originally Posted by Astrakan

You're missing some pretty major franchises:

James Bond
Mad Max
The Matrix (or would its primary genre be sci-fi?)
Robocop (or would its primary genre be sci-fi?)
The Terminator (or would its primary genre be sci-fi?)
Blade (or would its primary genre be either comic book or horror?)

Even if you leave out those whose primary genre is questionable, I'm sure James Bond would receive a crapload of votes if it was included.

Well if u wouldve read the opening to this thread u would realize I didnt miss any of those with the exception of Bond. The only reason I didnt list Bond as yes its an action franchise but there are a bunch of sub Bond franchises as different people played Bond so to me its not 1 franchise that goes together. Got Em!!

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by CZAR

Well if u wouldve read the opening to this thread u would realize I didnt miss any of those with the exception of Bond. The only reason I didnt list Bond as yes its an action franchise but there are a bunch of sub Bond franchises as different people played Bond so to me its not 1 franchise that goes together. Got Em!!

I have to disagree there Czar-- the Bond series is 1 franchise regardless of different actors playing Bond.
Going by that arguement then the Robocop and Terminator series should be gone as well since a different actor was in Robocop 3 and different actors were in Terminator Salvation....

[Astrakan]

Originally Posted by CZAR

Well if u wouldve read the opening to this thread u would realize I didnt miss any of those with the exception of Bond.

Mad Max is not any of those other genres. As for Bond not being one franchise but several (which is a logic I don't agree with, but whatever) why not include it as James Bond (Connery), James Bond (Moore), James Bond (Brosnan)?

[CZAR]

Originally Posted by seeweda

Czar, I think you do these list and make your selections just to rile people up sometimes or at least rile me up.

Seriously out of all the actions series out there Beverly Hills Cop is your choice for best? It's good and all the last one sucked but I still like them it's more comedy than action though. The same could be said of Rush Hour.

Why would I waste time to rile u up? I havnt seen all those franchises to be honest I so I was basing off what I saw. I like all 3 Beverly Hills Cop movies! U have to remember we all arent gonna agree on the same franchises. Thats the beauty of this. Got Em!!

[AKORIS]

no contest!


THE JAMES BOND SERIES

[Rz_Samurai]

BAD BOYS & BAD BOYS II

[CZAR]

Originally Posted by Rzone_XI

BAD BOYS & BAD BOYS II

If there were 3 of them I wouldve listed it. Got Em!!

[Dexter Morgan]

I would label Indiana Jones as more of an adventure series, and I think if you included this, you should have also included the Mummy series.

It was my favorite of your choices though, by far.

[seeweda]

Originally Posted by CZAR

Why would I waste time to rile u up? I havnt seen all those franchises to be honest I so I was basing off what I saw. I like all 3 Beverly Hills Cop movies! U have to remember we all arent gonna agree on the same franchises. Thats the beauty of this. Got Em!!

Man, I know I just find it funny that looking at our collections we share similar tastes in films but every once in awhile you throw something out there that makes me go huh?!