Category "action"

Why look and shake your gun after ammo runs out?

This has always amused me. A lot of times, while in the heat of battle, after the gun ammo runs out, the character looks at his gun giving it a slight shake. As

In one episode of this cartoon series some copying slime appeared with a real creepy scene [closed]

I watched this episode around ten to fifteen years ago in Germany. I'd describe the cartoon style as classical American. I think the setting

Do they really crash super cars in action movies?

Many action movies show supercars (i.e. $200k+) being completely totaled during the action. I can imagine that some scenes are not CGI because they look overly

Movie set in scotland or somewhere up north [closed]

I am trying to find the title of a film I watched a few years back but never caught the ending. It was set in Scotland or somewhere up north.

Has the length of action scenes changed over time?

It could just be me getting older but I feel like action movies these days have action scenes that just go on for an eternity. (I don't know w

Why are so many American (spy) movies set in Europe?

I watched Jason Bourne yesterday and I was wondering why do so many American-made (especially spy) movies take place in Europe. I have some theories (as a Europ

When did the lighter to the spilled gasoline scene begin?

In several movies there's a repeated scene. Someone wants to start a huge fire, or burn something, or make stuff explode. So they spread some kind of fuel aroun

Looking for a movie of about futuristic city and alien society [closed]

I can't describe the title well.So, maybe it's a bit confusing. Anyway, I am looking for this movie. I watched it maybe around 10-15 years ago

ID a scene where a woman shoots a man on a boat without flinching [closed]

Many years ago I saw a scene from a movie or a tv show and I can't identify it. There is a woman and two men on a boat. One man is sitting on

Did John Woo invent the flying-double-pistol-jump?

As an example of this stunt, see the image of Chow Yun-fat performing the stunt in Hard-Boiled. Did John Woo invent the action movie stunt of a person doing

Origin of Killing-Attacker-A-with-Attacker-B's-Weapon?

My friend at work and I are action-shooter movie fans, going back to our childhoods in the 80s. We have noted recently that in modern action movies, there is o

Identify a movie featuring a mechanical spider [closed]

I would like to know this movie title. Unfortunately, I only remember a little about this movie plot. I watched it around 2008. I think it's

Action movie which shows the story of a terrorist attack on the US president from different characters' perspectives [closed]

Time frame (approx) I have watched this movie around 2008-2009, not sure of actual release date though (maybe 2006-2007 rough guess), watched

Two giant men fighting in the middle of a fake city [closed]

Based only on this scene I'm trying to remember a movie: Two giant men are fighting in the middle of a fake city, with fake buildings and stu

80s/90s TV show with hero with abilities similar to Unbreakable? [closed]

When the movie Unbreakable came out, it triggered so many memories of a show I saw as a kid in the 80s/early 90s, but I can't remember the nam

Spy movie where recruits are tested by flooding their dormitory [closed]

There was a movie I watched a couple of years ago, I can not remember the name of it but I remember the following: There was middle aged man

Name of this somewhat sci-fi but also fantasy movie based on people on bikes with walls coming out behind them? [closed]

There was this one movie I watched ages ago and here are the points of interest: Necessary points of detail not related to any plot: It was

Name of this movie that was filmed as a terrorist attack/civil war on an unknown city in the USA? [closed]

My parents watched a movie and I caught glimpses of it...they wont tell me the name of the movie, and it was on netflix...not anymore: Points

TV movie where an inconspicous truck transporting valuables is intercepted by terrorists in a dead radio spot [closed]

Timeframe: 80/90s Country: USA The two protagonists are transporting a MacGuffin in an inconspicous truck which approximately looked like thi

Movie or TV show with a flamethrowing badguy and a deathtrap car that raises taunting signs [closed]

I was three or four years old (late 1980s) and had been left unattended with the television. Something was on, probably from within the last