In the 80s/90s Arnold was a huge movie star, playing huge men in both serious and comedy roles.

I guess that what I am asking is; what actor today could occupy the same kind of decade defining place as Arnold did in the 80s/90s?

They don’t have to be a massive bodybuilder, but they should be the first name that anyone would think of when someone say “2010s/2020s”.

  • swordsmanluke
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    8 months ago

    I wanted to disagree with you, but checking the data almost all of the best action flicks I could have sworn were fairly recent actually came out in the early-mid noughts. Seems like after The Matrix blew up the genre, nobody ever figured out how to put it back together.

    Even if I wanted to quibble and argue for the best my personal favorite action flicks within a precise “2 decade” window… it’s a depressingly short list:

    • 2004

      • Hellboy (technically a comic movie, but I’m keeping it because Doug Jones and Ron Perlman just rocked)
      • Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Vol 1 missed the cutoff)

    • 2006

      • Crank

    • 2007

      • Hot Fuzz

    • 2009

      • The Bourne Ultimatum
      • District 9

    • 2017

      • Baby Driver

    … Almost every single other action flick I thought of came out between 1998 and 2004. (Also, 2000 was a weirdly good year for action fans in retrospect)

    Sigh. I’m gonna go bemoan the world getting lame and shake my cane at the kids out on my lawn.

    Edit: JOHN WICK! How TF did I forget those? But yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s it now.