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THERE’S NO ESCAPISM quite like a good (or even a laughably terrible) action movie.
For every classic Schwarzenegger or Stallone film, there were a dozen more made in Hollywood trying to capitalise on their success.
This quiz is on some of the more obscure action films that have hit our screens in recent decades.
Best of luck.
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The Last Boyscout is not obscure, it’s hugely quotable is what it is
@Xanadu Marmalade: gonna watch that tonight! Sorted!!!!
@Colm Walsh: “- Joe Hallenbeck: This ain’t no game, flash. Real guns, real bullets. It’s dangerous.
- Jimmy Dix: Danger’s my middle name.
- Joe Hallenbeck: Mine’s Cornelius. You tell anybody, I’ll k1ll you.”
I really wish Carl Weathers starred in a 1988 action movie called ‘No Shįt Jackson’.
Are you ever going to fix the your sports app the 42???
@nope: what’s the craic with it like, send me the URL
Was the 2nd one not ‘deadly pursuit’
@Karl Mc Cauley: Yeah it was called Deadly Pursuit in the UK, I believe because of the Hungerford town shooting that had happened around that time. Shoot to Kill was thought to be a little insensitive.
@Bloodysam: Bloody millennial skowflakes censoring people that early….
10 out of 10 for me! At least my day wasn’t a complete wash-out, lol.
@Sean May: This day no, but you may just have proven many other hours in your past were wasted on dodgy films ;-)
@Sarah-J. Mc Hugh: hahahaha
I wouldn’t have called The Thin Red Line or Escape From New York obscure. The Thin Red Line was a big budget affair with an impressive ensemble cast & several Oscar nominations, and Escape From New York is now a well-regarded cult classic.
9. Train to busan is a belter of a movie. Part 2 is scutter.
@Darragh Brennan: it’s more of a spin off than a sequel I think? But yeah it sucks :(
@Darragh Brennan: it’s like the boondock saints, 1st movie just fantastic from start to finish but the sequel is so bad it’s probably radioactive
10/10 completely guessed the Christopher Walker one
@Richard Cronin: You didn’t even know his name!
Last Boy Scout is hardly “obscure”
So is the 42 app just gone now? How will we ever find out about womens netball over real sports stories like canelo split from DAZN.
@will stamp: sounds more like something that belongs in the business pages. It’s a rare case when boxing qualities as a sport these days.
@Shane McGettrick: consistently biggest box office draw bar none. Id say it qualifies as a sport. Although i accept the shady side of too many promoters/sanctioning bodies/dodgy judges can turn people off its still an exceptional sport in its purest form
@will stamp: professional boxing has been a bit of a farce for decades, and the amateur game isn’t much alot of the time. No doubting the skill or commitment involved but the whole things is subverted by promoters and governing bodies. Where else is it so rare to have the best fighting the best?
Anyway, no issue with either boxing or netball coverage, I say bring it on
The Sidney Poitier/Tom Berenger film was called Deadly Pursuit on its cinema release here. Shoot to kill was its US title
9/10. Someone should do a live-action version of the Simpsons’ McBain:
9 / 10
Tom berenger let me down
Passenger 57 up there with worst films ever made
@Pat O’Leary: I liked it. Don’t tell anyone… After seeing it for the first time when I was 15, I thought Wesley Snipes was so cool, I went out and bought the clothes he wore in the movie. Baggy jeans, a black polo neck and an oversized blue shirt to go over it. I got slagged so bad by my friends.
@Peter Cavey: Did you get done for tax evasion in later life?
But are we ever going to see an adaptation of the Korean classic and call it; Train to Bré?
@Paul Cunningham: Destination Greystones to the air of ‘Destination unknown’ as the theme tune? It’s a winner.
The Tom Berenger and Sydney Poitier movie was called Deadly Pursuit.
The Thin Red Line isn’t an action film.
I seem to have missed all this action. Still, I chanced the quiz and got 5/10. I might pass Advanced Physics in the Leaving Cert if all the questions were multiple choice.
7 out of 10!!! Well done me, if I do say so myself!
7/10 bloody immigrant cyclists in govt
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