# Recommend a good action movie to watch tonight.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 30, 2017, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-action-movie-to-watch-tonight/803136 "2017-11-30T10:29:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-action-movie-to-watch-tonight/803136/21 "2017-12-01T01:07:48Z")

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> [@Kron](#):
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> Kingsman: The Golden Circle just came available Tuesday… I haven’t had a chance to sit and watch it yet, but it is on the list.

It’s just not very good.

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**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-action-movie-to-watch-tonight/803136/22 "2017-12-01T01:56:43Z")

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> [@xizor](#):
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> [Shoot 'em Up](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465602/?ref_=nv_sr_2) is non-stop action, but the humor is on the dark side.

Another Clive Owens flick with some terrific action sequences is [Children of Men](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/)

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**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-action-movie-to-watch-tonight/803136/23 "2017-12-01T03:55:00Z")

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It’s the most Die Haaard tiiiiiime of the year.

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**Author:** ![TwoCarrotSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twocarrotsnowman/32/15879_2.png) [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-action-movie-to-watch-tonight/803136/24 "2017-12-01T07:57:28Z")

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Heh, thanks everyone. There were, I think, three replies to this thread at 7pm last night when I was settling down to choose a movie. So thanks to \*\* Jack Batty, Prof. Periwinkle and pkbites \*\*, whose considerations I considered but ultimately rejected (I’ve seen most of them).

Thanks to everyone else as well. I’m on a train, posting from my phone; it’s not easy to comment on each suggestion individually, but I have read them all. All good shouts; I’ve seen many (but not all) of the suggested films (including Rob Roy), so I’m going to create a “films to watch” list on Evernote to avoid that choice anxiety next time!

In the end, I went for Logan. I realise this kind of misses my own requirements for something fun, and I knew it was much darker than the other X-flicks, but I realised Mrs Snowman isn’t likely to enjoy the violence in it, so this was my chance. I enjoyed it.

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**Author:** ![jerez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-action-movie-to-watch-tonight/803136/25 "2017-12-01T18:16:53Z")

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Next time: To Live and Die in L.A.

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