# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/21 "2001-10-19T15:12:11Z")
The Jean-Claude Van Damme hockey movie _Sudden Death_. ---
**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, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/22 "2001-10-19T15:49:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by notcynical \* > \*\*_Vanishing Point_, I believe. \*\* You’re forgetting the part where he hugged his dash. ---
**Author:** ![Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/0ea827/32.png) [@Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zaphod_Beeblebrox)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/23 "2001-10-19T15:59:18Z")
Can we think of _Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels_ and _Snatch_ as action movies? Or at least action-comedies? In that case, they both qualify. ---
**Author:** ![Biffer\_Spice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Biffer\_Spice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffer_Spice)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/24 "2001-10-19T16:02:04Z")
AWOL Quite a few Van Damme movies listed here, you think he bats for the other team? ---
**Author:** ![Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/0ea827/32.png) [@Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zaphod_Beeblebrox)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/25 "2001-10-19T16:04:51Z")
Can we think of _Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels_ and _Snatch_ as action movies? Or at least action-comedies? In that case, they both qualify. ---
**Author:** ![ScriptAnalyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@ScriptAnalyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScriptAnalyst)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/26 "2001-10-19T21:41:40Z")
SOUTHERN COMFORT has no love scenes (although Powers Booth’s character does talk about his wife back home). TWLIGHT’S LAST GLEAMING has not love scenes (in fact, no major female characters), but it may be more of a political thriller than an action movie. FULL METAL JACKET has US soldiers bartering with prostitutes and pimps over price, but there is nothing that could really be called a love scene. I haven’t seen most of Chuck Norris’ movies, but I understand he was very uptight about performing romantic scenes with women, so you probably won’t find many there. (There is sort of a love scene in LONE WOLF MCQUAID, if you count a scene of the lead characters cavorting outside with a garden hose spraying in slow-motion – supposedly, the only way the director could inject a bit of romance, considering Norri’s aversion to it.) Steve Biodrowski [http://www.thescriptanalyst.com](http://www.thescriptanalyst.com) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/27 "2001-10-19T23:56:21Z")
John Carpenter’s The Thing has an all-male cast. And no love scenes. ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/28 "2001-10-20T00:27:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by watsonwil \* > \*\*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) \*\* Yup. This woman prefers action films to love films any day of the week. I’m not a “chick-flick” kind of girl. Sheri ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/29 "2001-10-20T02:35:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ethilrist \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*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… > \*\* Ethilrist, I think you’re thinking of Mad Max. Road Warrior (aka Mad Max II) took place in a blasted, post-apocalyptic wasteland. There was no ice cream. There was an “ice cream” scene in Mad Max between Max’s wife and the evil Toecutter-definitely not a love scene. There were, however, several tender moments between Max and his wife in this first movie. The second movie, as AlbertRose remembers, had only the most fleeting references to mutual human attachment, mostly people grieving over lost loved ones. I don’t know if that would fit WBs definition of a “love scene”, and I guess we will never find out (not on this board, anyway!) ---
**Author:** ![Diesel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Diesel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diesel)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/30 "2001-10-20T06:28:42Z")
Air Force One Mission: Impossible Men In Black Executive Decision The Matrix (unless you count Trinity and Neo’s single kiss as a love scene) Broken Arrow Memento Blade (unless you count the vampire getting head at the begining, but that lasts for only three seconds) X-Men (unless you count Rogue’s coma-inducing kiss) Rush Hour ---
**Author:** ![Maple\_Syrup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@Maple\_Syrup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maple_Syrup)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/31 "2001-10-20T07:30:14Z")
If it has an asian lead, it probably don’t got a love scene. 1. Replacement Killers 2. Rush Hour 1 (but not 2) 3. Romeo Must Die (The lesbians in the beginning don’t count. I don’t quite think they were in love with each other. They sure did like each other though!) 4. The Corruptor 5. Kiss of the Dragon Just things I’ve noticed. Also I just noticed that if it got an asian lead, it’s probably an action movie. If it has a black lead, he’s gonna be talking slang. Finally, if it has a white lead, then it’s every movie in America (ha ha). Take 3 sociology classes in college and all a sudden I’m Hollywood’s racial conscience. Anyways, sorry for going off topic there. I would also be willing to say that Fight Club contained no love scenes as it was merely “sport fucking”, but I suspect that’s what you meant anyways. So maybe I’m wrong. ---
**Author:** ![GoldenGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8edcca/32.png) [@GoldenGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoldenGael)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/32 "2001-10-20T15:32:11Z")
**The Great Escape** is one of the all-time great films, guy films, escape films, war films, buddy films (there are a lot of buddies and other pairings), action films – whatever you want to call it. I don’t remember any women in the picture, except for the train station scenes. And I don’t remember anything that even my lurid imagination would call a love scene. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/33 "2001-10-20T21:09:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Maple Syrup \* > \*\*I would also be willing to say that Fight Club contained no love scenes as it was merely “sport fucking”, but I suspect that’s what you meant anyways. So maybe I’m wrong. \*\* Debatable. Edward Norton was in love with her, even if it was Brad Pitt who was in bed with her. The relationship between Norton and Helena Bonham Carter is central to the movie’s plot, even if it is a highly atypical romance. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/34 "2001-10-20T23:00:23Z")
The Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle _Commando_ had no love scenes, even though Arnold’s costar was the luscious, delectable, legs-up-to-here Rae Dawn Chong, whom I would do in a New York minute. My only guess as to why not is because they’re cross-race leads, which Hollywood remains skittish about, and because no one trusted Arnold with a love scene at that point in his career. I’d cut off a foot for Rae Dawn Chong. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/35 "2001-10-21T03:15:00Z")
**The Professional** (aka Leon). Which is a damn good thing since the female lead was only 12 or 13 years old at the time… ---
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/36 "2001-10-21T05:12:30Z")
Most of Steven Seagal’s movies. Go Stevie! ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/37 "2001-10-21T05:30:53Z")
**I’m gonna get you, sucka!** It’s been a while, but I don’t think there were any :eek: ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/38 "2001-10-21T18:50:04Z")
Rambo I - XVI Using “action” and “movie” in the loosest sense, of course. Demolition Man. Come to think of it, was there ever a starlet that could be paid enough to agree to kiss/make out with/emulate copulation with Stallone in any movie? ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/39 "2001-10-21T19:16:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elfkin477 \* > \*\ ***The Professional** (aka Leon). Which is a damn good thing since the female lead was only 12 or 13 years old at the time… \*\* Ahh, someone has not seen the international version! There is indeed a very freaky love interest thing going on there, but for US release they edited the movie down to an action movie rather than a drama. Obviously there is no sex, but there’s beyond a doubt sexual tension. LC ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290/40 "2001-10-21T20:32:24Z")
Quoth **Diesel** : > [@](#): > > The Matrix (unless you count Trinity and Neo’s single kiss as a love scene) You’re kidding, right? Trinity was destined to fall in love with The One, remember? That’s how she recognized him? I might also point out, by the way, that there was definitely romantic tension in the American release of _The Professional_, if a bit one-sided. Quoth **soulmurk** : > [@](#): > > Come to think of it, was there ever a starlet that could be paid enough to agree to kiss/make out with/emulate copulation with Stallone in any movie? Obviously, since his first movie was a porno. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-an-action-movie-without-a-love-scene/88290.md?page=3)