# Name an Action Movie Without a Love Scene? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 18, 2001, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290 "2001-10-18T20:05:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wildest\_Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Wildest\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildest_Bill)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/1 "2001-10-18T20:05:26Z")
I get so sick of little many love stories in my action movies. If I want to see that crap, I’ll watch a movie my wife pickes out. I mean why do they put that crap in almost every action movie? Anyway, I thought it would be interesting to name the action movies that are actually about action without any romantic encouters or subplots that you have fastforward to see more action. Saving Private Ryan except he(hanks) does talk about his wife back home. I believe “Kelly’s Heroes” too. But for the life of me those are the only two that come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/2 "2001-10-18T20:18:37Z")
**Hunt for Red October** **Dirty Harry** **Under Siege** Not only no romance, but you just gotta _love_ that gratuitous, totally implausible Erika Eleniak nude scene. ---
**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/3 "2001-10-18T20:36:26Z")
**Die Hard I** - John does kiss his wife, Holly, at the end, but it’s hardly a “love scene.” More of a joyful reunion. \*\*Die Hard II \*\*- Pretty much the same. Instead of surviving terrorists in a building, they survive terrorists at an airport. \*\*Die Hard III \*\*- Holly isn’t even in this one. Jeremy Irons and Sam Phillips do have some preliminary kissing, but that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Stupendous\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Stupendous\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stupendous_man)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/4 "2001-10-18T20:38:28Z")
Alien Aliens U-571 ---
**Author:** ![TheeGrumpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheeGrumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheeGrumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/5 "2001-10-18T20:48:43Z")
Most people would consider “love scene” in a Hollywood movie as referring to simulated on-screen copulation. You seem to have a different notion in mind, WB. > [@](#): > > **Saving Private Ryan except he(hanks) does talk about his wife back home.** I hope you’re joking, in an “Eww, girls!” kinda way. However, even by my definition, there are a surprising number of action movies these days where there isn’t enough time in the plot for romantic diversions. **The Peacemaker** with George Clooney and Nicole Kidman comes to mind. There are others. You see this pattern a lot in movies featuring interracial leads. For some reason, men & women of different races aren’t allowed to get it on. Say, **Eraser** (though there may have been some ersatz coitus by non-leads; I can’t recall). So I don’t know what you’re griping about. Besides icky girls. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/6 "2001-10-18T21:11:27Z")
Will you accept _Glory_ as an action movie? It stars Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman and no girls except as unspeaking extras. ---
**Author:** ![Wildest\_Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Wildest\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildest_Bill)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/7 "2001-10-18T21:11:46Z")
Don’t get me wrong. I like chics. Sometimes they seem like they shove a love scense for the hell of it. In Die Hard I think it was necessary for the plot but for alot movies it is just ok here is the love scene. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/8 "2001-10-18T21:15:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dooku \* > **Under Siege** Not only no romance, but you just gotta _love_ that gratuitous, totally implausible Erika Eleniak nude scene. \*\* I did, in fact, enjoy that nude scene. However, I must disagree that this film has no “love” element. I thought it had one of the most tacked on “love scenes” ever. After she put her clothes on, Eleniak spends the whole film in a role that either sex could have played. No sexual tension, no flirting. Just a sidekick. Yet at the end, Segal kisses her passionatley while the navy cheers on. I seem to recall a “bust a move” line. I thought it was out of no where. No build up. Nothing to indicate they liked each other. Worse than an Au-NOLD love plot. Was there one in Universal Solidier? Did he try to go back to a wife? I never understood love stories in hard action films. Women will not like them anyway (unless they like them for the action itself). Men will not like it (unless it is sophisticated or truly integrated into the plot like say Marion in Raiders of the Lost Ark) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/9 "2001-10-18T21:20:06Z")
Terminator 2. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/10 "2001-10-18T21:32:50Z")
I don’t remember one in Lethal Weapon, unless you count the kid’s crush on Mel Gibson. ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/11 "2001-10-18T21:47:35Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Stupendous man_ > Alien > Aliens Those movies had love scenes. It’s just that the humans involved didn’t reciprocate the “love”… ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/12 "2001-10-19T01:05:43Z")
I seem to remember no such icky lovey stuff in **The Road Warrior** , but I may have blocked it out. ---
**Author:** ![JDeMobray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@JDeMobray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JDeMobray)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/13 "2001-10-19T01:20:34Z")
There was no love scene in **The Relic**. One of the few positive things you can say about the movie. Within the script, there was no in-character romantic dialogue between the two leads. Someone must have forgotten to tell the director and actors, because the way the movie was done, I was continually expecting the obligatory romantic sub-plot. ---
**Author:** ![Spoonbender](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spoonbender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoonbender)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/14 "2001-10-19T01:58:55Z")
_Reservoir Dogs_. In fact, no women with speaking roles, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/15 "2001-10-19T12:29:16Z")
Damn, Spoonbender, I’d not realized that. And WB, “shove a love scense” ??? 😃 What was the movie about a runaway train starring Eric Roberts and Jon Voight? Runaway Train? I don’t remember any couple slapping uglies in it. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/16 "2001-10-19T12:58:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AlbertRose \* > \*\*I seem to remember no such icky lovey stuff in **The Road Warrior** , but I may have blocked it out. \*\* Well, there was the ice cream cone scene… Goonies. E.T. Pretty much any kid-based action flick. Also, most movies made before, say, 1970. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/17 "2001-10-19T13:10:03Z")
Predator - one of the greats…no nookie. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/18 "2001-10-19T13:13:12Z")
**The Thirteenth Warrior** (based on Crichton’s “Eaters of the Dead”) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/19 "2001-10-19T13:19:53Z")
_Hard Boiled_ was love scene free. However, there was some ‘tension’ between Tequila and his ex(?) girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/20 "2001-10-19T14:20:40Z")
_Vanishing Point_, I believe. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290.md?page=2)