What are some good adventure films?

FaxModem1 · Post by **FaxModem1** » 2003-11-20 06:00pm

Ok, I want to know what some adventure films are, just give a title and a short summary of the story(a couple sentences would be nice). So what are some good adventure films?

btw,m here is what I'm looking for: a collage of characters, moments of humor, a journey, and a good fight at the end.(maybe even a few twists)

LXG is a prime example(of the genre, I don't care if you hated the film)

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2003-11-20 06:07pm

Indiana Jones triology. No summary required....right?

Jawawithagun · Post by **Jawawithagun** » 2003-11-20 06:11pm

Surely the Indiana Jones films have to come up first.

FaxModem1 · Post by **FaxModem1** » 2003-11-20 06:34pm

Yep, got those, any more?

Darksider · Post by **Darksider** » 2003-11-20 06:36pm

Indiana jones trilogy.... nuff said.

I rather liked "The Mummy Returns" as an action adventure film

Slightly off-topic.

I havn't heard any rumors in quite a while.

They aren't actually making a 4th Indy film are they?

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-11-20 06:40pm

Ice pirates?

Excalibur is awesome....LoTR, of course...umm....hmm...can't really think outside the context of Sci-fi...sorry, there's my suggestions, anyway.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-11-20 06:46pm

Darksider wrote:Slightly off-topic.

I havn't heard any rumors in quite a while.

They aren't actually making a 4th Indy film are they?

Yes, they are.

zombie84 · Post by **zombie84** » 2003-11-20 07:01pm

Conan the Barbarian if you want some mythology in your adventure.

Romancing the Stone is really fun too--kinda like a pop 80's version of Indiana Jones.

The Goonies is always one of the great adventure flicks, even if it is aimed at children. And of course the mighty Army of Darkness.

Lesse, recent films...depends on what your definition of "adventure" is (theres a fine line between an all-out "action" film and a so-called "adventure" film...and of course some so-called "adventure" films have little in the way of chases and explosions)... Bourne Identity and Italian Job come to mind as fun, adventurous flicks. Punkette & Macleane is always an underrated movie that far too little people have seen...damn cant really think of any good examples right now. Jackie Chan's Shanghai Noon is always a great watch.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-11-20 07:05pm

The first mummy was way better than the second one, it had all sort of good adventure stuff and humour etc in it...excellent stuff....hmm, does James Bond count?

Personally, i think they could do a new Indy film right...perhaps it would be difficult, but i do think it'd be possible.

Army of Darkness...Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-11-20 08:27pm

How about these
7th voyage of Sinbad(1958)
Golden voyage of Sinbad(1974)
Sinbad and the eye of the tiger(1977)

Good plus some comedic moments.

Dorsk 81 · Post by **Dorsk 81** » 2003-11-20 08:35pm

Rye wrote:Army of Darkness...

HA!! I don't know why, but it just can't be an action film, not being from Evil Dead!

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2003-11-20 08:38pm

Out of just this year's crop I would say two movies:

1) Pirates of the Caribbean. This movie had some absolutely hilarious moments and is quite possibly the first movie with pirates that does justice to everyone's favorite class of scum and villany. Its a Disney movie which garuntees a cheesy happy ending but it doesn't detract from the film

2) The Rundown. Now I know what poeple are thinking: The Rock as a lead character? This time it works and with Christoher Walken doing a comic impersonation of himself from every other movie he's done you just get some great chemistry. Add in the exotic locale, the neat fights (as a nice bow to adventure vice action The Rock's charcter doesn't use guns...suppossedly), and a quest and you have all the ingredients you need for a plain ol' fun time.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2003-11-20 09:19pm

The 13th Warrior, starring Antonio Banderas. While it is chock full of action, it is mainly adventure. It is also really cool.

zombie84 · Post by **zombie84** » 2003-11-20 09:28pm

Stofsk wrote:The 13th Warrior, starring Antonio Banderas. While it is chock full of action, it is mainly adventure. It is also really cool.

Omar Sharif quit acting because he thought the film was so terrible. Good for action scenes--i'm a sucker for films featuring armor-clad barbarians decapitating people with swords. But a rather poorly scripted film.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-11-20 09:48pm

Oh, I totally forgot an absolute CLASSIC adventure film, arguably one of the greatest of all time.

Clash Of The Titans

Beautiful princess, MEDUSA(!), Perseus, A mechanical owl! and a KRAKEN! You just don't get better end-fights than that.

(that's if you like mythology.)

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2003-11-21 06:40am

zombie84 wrote:
Stofsk wrote:The 13th Warrior, starring Antonio Banderas. While it is chock full of action, it is mainly adventure. It is also really cool.
Omar Sharif quit acting because he thought the film was so terrible. Good for action scenes--i'm a sucker for films featuring armor-clad barbarians decapitating people with swords. But a rather poorly scripted film.

You do have a point about the scripting; it does seem a bit "funny" at times. As for Omar Sharif, he was in the film for what, 2-3 scenes? He really quit acting based on what was essentially a cameo role?

As for the OP, I can't really think of any other adventure movies. Unless you count sci-fi, which includes pretty much all of ST, SW, FarScape etc.

Hidden Fortress is an adventure movie, of sorts (it's a samurai film done by Kurosawa). It has more "adventure" than action, at least. I'd include Seven Samurai as well. They're both adventures in feudal Japan. Don't watch them, however, if you can't stand b/w movies that have subtitles. Both are of considerable length as well (SS if I recall approaches 3hrs or over, while HF is over 2hrs long).

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2003-11-21 06:45am

Here's the top 50 Action movies from http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Genres/Action/average-vote

1 Shichinin no samurai (1954) 8.8/10 (19771 votes)
2 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) 8.8/10 (60549 votes)
3 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) 8.7/10 (106940 votes)
4 Star Wars (1977) 8.7/10 (102058 votes)
5 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 8.6/10 (78595 votes)
6 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 8.6/10 (68950 votes)
7 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 8.6/10 (17624 votes)
8 Apocalypse Now (1979) 8.4/10 (45929 votes)
9 Matrix, The (1999) 8.4/10 (104431 votes)
10 Great Escape, The (1963) 8.3/10 (13806 votes)
11 Saving Private Ryan (1998) 8.3/10 (73906 votes)
12 Léon (1994) 8.2/10 (34815 votes)
13 Yojimbo (1961) 8.2/10 (5528 votes)
14 Wo hu cang long (2000) 8.2/10 (39383 votes)
15 Braveheart (1995) 8.2/10 (67949 votes)
16 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 8.2/10 (18108 votes)
17 Aliens (1986) 8.1/10 (47576 votes)
18 Blade Runner (1982) 8.1/10 (57453 votes)
19 Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938) 8.1/10 (4898 votes)
20 Mononoke-hime (1997) 8.1/10 (12265 votes)
21 Red River (1948) 8.1/10 (2563 votes)
22 Lola rennt (1998) 8.1/10 (22902 votes)
23 Salaire de la peur, Le (1953) 8.1/10 (1886 votes)
24 Wild Bunch, The (1969) 8.1/10 (7792 votes)
25 Full Metal Jacket (1987) 8.1/10 (33320 votes)
26 Ben-Hur (1959) 8.1/10 (15274 votes)
27 Stagecoach (1939) 8.1/10 (3923 votes)
28 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 8.0/10 (56782 votes)
29 Lady Vanishes, The (1938) 8.0/10 (2918 votes)
30 Spartacus (1960) 8.0/10 (11925 votes)
31 Ying xiong (2002) 8.0/10 (4429 votes)
32 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 8.0/10 (61332 votes)
33 Platoon (1986) 8.0/10 (24534 votes)
34 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 7.9/10 (44475 votes)
35 Die Hard (1988) 7.9/10 (43218 votes)
36 Henry V (1989) 7.9/10 (6603 votes)
37 Die xue shuang xiong (1989) 7.9/10 (6433 votes)
38 Aleksandr Nevsky (1938) 7.9/10 (1180 votes)
39 Gladiator (2000) 7.9/10 (66193 votes)
40 Terminator, The (1984) 7.8/10 (43249 votes)
41 Per qualche dollaro in più (1965) 7.8/10 (4866 votes)
42 Minority Report (2002) 7.8/10 (32953 votes)
43 Kakushi toride no san akunin (1958) 7.8/10 (1898 votes)
44 Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (1986) 7.8/10 (2253 votes)
45 French Connection, The (1971) 7.8/10 (8457 votes)
46 Planet of the Apes (1968) 7.8/10 (14472 votes)
47 Lashou shentan (1992) 7.8/10 (4867 votes)
48 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 7.7/10 (25321 votes)
49 X2 (2003) 7.7/10 (19906 votes)
50 Heat (1995) 7.7/10 (30651 votes)

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2003-11-21 06:51am

Sorry about that Chief, wrong genre. The best from all genres: http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Genres/

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-11-21 06:53am

Wow, LOTR is an "adventure" movie?

"Romancing the Stone" is a much much better pick.

h0rus · Post by **h0rus** » 2003-11-21 08:04am

Firewalker with Chuck Norris and Louis Gossett jr.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2003-11-21 08:08am

"Jewel Of The Nile", the sequel to "Romancing The Stone", is also pretty good IMHO.
C'mon, a car chase that involves an F-16? It doesn't get better than that.

Death from the Sea · Post by **Death from the Sea** » 2003-11-21 02:39pm

CmdrWilkens wrote:Out of just this year's crop I would say two movies:

1) Pirates of the Caribbean. This movie had some absolutely hilarious moments and is quite possibly the first movie with pirates that does justice to everyone's favorite class of scum and villany. Its a Disney movie which garuntees a cheesy happy ending but it doesn't detract from the film

2) The Rundown. Now I know what poeple are thinking: The Rock as a lead character? This time it works and with Christoher Walken doing a comic impersonation of himself from every other movie he's done you just get some great chemistry. Add in the exotic locale, the neat fights (as a nice bow to adventure vice action The Rock's charcter doesn't use guns...suppossedly), and a quest and you have all the ingredients you need for a plain ol' fun time.

gotta say I agree with your years picks here, good fun movies both of them. And to add my own from the Adventure category....
Adventures in Babysitting
Willow
The Lethal Weapon series (more Action than Adventure but still great)
The Thomas Crown Affair ~Pierce Brosnan not quite being Bond, but you get Rene Russo naked mmmmmm...
Labyrinth ~yes, with muppets and David Bowie in tights
Cutthroat Island~ Gena Davis fun action & adventure
The Long Kiss Goodnight ~ more Gena Davis action & adventure + Samuel L. Jackson has many great one liners in this one!
The Fugitive ~Harrison Ford movie
The Three Muskateers ~Disney version with Charlie Sheen
Ocean's 11 ~ either the Rat Pack version or the newer Clooney one both are favorites of mine.
Sneakers ~ it is a Robert Redford flick nuff' said.
and pretty much any 007 movie is great action & adventure.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2003-11-21 03:09pm

i can't believe nobody's mentioned Legend. (the tom cruise flick). it's an all-time classic. admittedly it's more along the lines of fantasy genre, but it's got a decent amount of adventure in it.

Bertie Wooster · Post by **Bertie Wooster** » 2003-11-21 03:16pm

Quest for Fire - good caveman adventure movie

Willow was decent too

Bertie Wooster · Post by **Bertie Wooster** » 2003-11-21 03:17pm

Chardok wrote:Ice pirates?

Excalibur is awesome....LoTR, of course...umm....hmm...can't really think outside the context of Sci-fi...sorry, there's my suggestions, anyway.

Ice Pirates is awful!

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