The Movies That Saved The Action Genre

[@TexYT]

John Wick or The Equalizer? 🐐🐐

[@firstlast9846]

For story : Equalizer. For action: John Wick.

[@jasontodd1226]

John Wick obviously!!! Nothing beats a simple revenge story with badass action and fight scenes.

[@elishawilson5342]

Both are awesome

[@kicknowledgesmith8608]

@@jasontodd1226 After part 1 it became repetitive.

[@KeiNakagawa7]

I’ll take both, thank you. :P

[@joaquingarcia2250]

Ong Bak and The Raid movies had a big influence on every action movie after

[@TexYT]

Not the same extent as John Wick but they did. I also mention the Kingsman in this video because they all dropped at the same time.

[@kicknowledgesmith8608]

Ong Bak no, the Raid I agree. Ong Bak started good but then took a turn. Ip man is better.

[@take2productions570]

@@kicknowledgesmith8608whether or not the movie is good, Ong Bak 2 has one of the craziest fight scenes of all time

[@boboboy8189]

the raid director (Gareth Evans) admit he grew up watching Bruce Lee and Jackie chan movie and before he wrote first draft for Dredd, he watch ong back. Although his Dredd script later on got rewrote by someone else but he did his first debut film called "merantau" which is similar to ong back and protector

[@boboboy8189]

​@@kicknowledgesmith8608Ip Man got wirework, ong bak has zero. Another thing is many thing Ip Man did many inaccurate thing for example remember karateka from first movie? Those People not using karate in this movie, there's karate sensei Who react to those video and said those style might be kung fu that similar to karate but its different from karate. The way they kick is not from any school in japan. I would said Ip Man romanticized the story and can be considered as propaganda movie, a good propaganda movie like every hollywood WW2 movies

[@ThePolkadotPresser]

I think so many people are missing the point in why he said Equalizer and John Wick specifically… both came out in 2014 within a month of each other with nobody knowing essentially anything about either one of them and each had a certain style to each that was unique and different each movie making each franchise more noticeable by the audience and each maintaining the same strength in formula with each installment and each movie of both franchises kept the same directors and creative team throughout all of the films .. something that is very rare with action trilogy’s modern day!

[@step2807]

An honrable mention is extraction 1 and 2. Both have great action and stories like john wick and equalizer

[@pradeepdungdung4379]

You can thank Paul Greengrass for pioneering shaky cam fight scenes

[@G59METH]

It's also ironic, the fact that John Wick even exists is a miracle, a $30 million budget with a somewhat dying star Keanu Reeves in the main role, directed by two stuntmen who never directed a movie ? Very unlikely a project like this will happen again...

[@master-of-mind5881]

Keanu reeves is a once in a lifetime type of action star. His ability to provide a spectacle that engages the senses, heightens your attention and fulfils your imagination whilst being ridiculously entertaining is unmatched. From the matrix to John wick, when it comes to action sequences, fight scenes, choreography, stunts and story this man never disappoints. The moment chidi kicks wick into the black van, unloads a combo of fists then roundhouse kicks him into the way incoming cars whilst waiting to join him is pure cinematic ecstasy. I love this film.

[@ciyoduhkriter]

Nice. I love The Equalizer.

[@AceTheBatHound99]

Kingsman is an action movie, in the Spy subgenre. Good video ❤

[@JosueAguilar_01]

Thanks for bringing up Nobody. It’s a little nostalgic to me, because it was the first film I saw in the cinema not only after the pandemic, but after moving back to the US from Mexico. I took a girl to see it. We had a blast.

[@take2productions570]

Redeemer with Marko Zaror from John Wick 4 is one of the craziest and most underrated action movies ever

[@deathmeter1109]

Good seeing you back tex

[@axelomorales]

It’s good having you back Tex

[@Sayajin3321]

The raid better be on here as well.

[@TexYT]

It's not. Good movie though. Only reason it's not cause John Wick and Equalizer had a bigger impact as a whole in Hollywood, especially John Wick. Though definitely a good movie.

[@Sayajin3321]

@@TexYT That makes sense, though personally I would have added it because it was the film that made everyone in the action movie industry in America go, "Wait, why can't we make films like this?", but this is not my KZbin channel lol.

[@armyofuno8196]

How do you feel about the new crow trailer? Personally it looks pretty fun.

[@TexYT]

You'll find out tomorrow (hopefully)

[@linewalker]

The action genre has evolved into many subgenres. All time favs are A Better Tomorrow, Dark Knight, Infernal Affairs.

[@jasontodd6779]

Jack Reacher movie with Tom Cruise is good too even thought it very different from the book and more of detective movie than action but still enjoyable.

[@SA1NT53]

Listening to Tex while playing Red Dead

[@BatesKrisbates]

Lest we forget Olympus Has Fallen, which came out a year before The Equalizer and John Wick. Same director as The Equalizer, too.

[@boboboy8189]

Olympus has fallen and its rip off White house down 😂😂😂😂

[@eduardomoreno4196]

While I agree, I think Tom and the mission impossible series should be up there with John wick and the equalizer. Though they were popular before it wasn't till ghost protocol and the 2010s where they truly popped of along side JW and TE that showed that what practical big budget stunts/set pieces could accomplish...

[@boboboy8189]

Mi got a lot of CGI...... Even they did practical FX, but they did swap place which is annoying especially if you watch MI8

[@wickdaline8668]

Let Chad Stahelski direct a Cyberpunk movie. An excuse to work with Keanu Reeves outside of John Wick.

[@calebwright640]

Have you seen guardinas of galxy vol 3 its great

[@Darkseidsolosfiction]

Ong Back is so underrated, grew up on it

[@narem1092]

Nobody, Beekeper, Wrath of a man,

[@TexYT]

Guy Ritchie holds it down with his Sherlock Holmes movies, the man from UNCLE (guess technically a spt film again) and Wrath of Man 😤

[@armyofuno8196]

Beekeeper is underrated

[@Samanosuke1138]

You haven't lost your touch.

[@izkar3637]

none of this movies would've been made without the success of olympus as fallen that went on the formula of a die hard knock off but very violent

[@JJahdiel]

I hope we get more action movies like them moving forward, action focused. Roadhouse remake is looking good (thanks for the heads up on that one) and Monkey Man might be good, but I'm not really hyped after seeing the trailer tbh

[@boboboy8189]

I prefer story with action, not action with basic story.....

[@JJahdiel]

@@boboboy8189 that would also be fine and it'll probably be more memorable that way too, but personally I've started to prefer action movies where the story is an excuse for the (creative and cool) action

[@brocksrocks9012]

These movies saved Western action cinema in my opinion, the East ever since the boom of The Raid in Indonesia, the Korean action thrillers of the 2010s and the recent surge of Japanese return to grounded actioners ala Re: Born, Bad City and The Fable films, never needed any saving. The only market that arguably died is sadly HK cinema which pioneered and innovated much of the action cinema we know and love today only to die at the hands of a government that cares more about product placement and soulless cash grabs much like its Western counterpart.

[@boboboy8189]

HK action movie died right after China got Hong Kong. Meanhile Ong Back trilogy, the protector duology and chocolate still can't penetrate western audiences like HK movies does.

[@theartist8291]

That last bit😂😂😂

[@yuujiaung5572]

I was gonna comment about The Raid but I guess I don't need to 😂.

[@TexYT]

😂 I knew I should've mentioned it but I guess I always considered The Raid a Martial Arts movie and for how good the movie is, it didn't have the same impact on Hollywood as John Wick. So that's why I left it out. Though probably should've at least mentioned it.

[@FoxtailCinematics]

I'm more of a story/substance over style kinda guy, so I prefer The Equalizer over John Wick.

[@Gamingawesomeness121]

The raid movies. Then all the others in this video came after

[@boboboy8189]

1) Bruce Lee movies in 60's and 70's 2) Jackie Chan movies in 80's, 90's and 00's 3) Ong Bak movies in 00's 4) The Raid movies in early 10's 5) John Wick and Equalizer in mid 10's Each movies were influenced by previous one

[@jothishprabu8]

bro howdyu forget tom cruise????

[@TexYT]

I didn't. His Mission Impossible movies have been carrying spy films for years now. I said that in the video.

[@eddy9615]

Ok

[@HopeReviews]

W

[@tootriggered802]

Wat R you talken bout? The action genre was poppin in the early 2000s. Fer example, the Twilight series

[@boboboy8189]

First twilight movies released in 2008, i remember because of Paramore

[@thematiasmadness7010]

I know what you mean…..mad max is awesome

[@eddy9615]

OK

[@PichaPiProjects]

Nobody deserves a mention too.

[@Man-of-Steel674]

Not single shoutout to action movie legend and extradinaire Steven "THE GOAT" Seagal. You are better than this Tex.

[@TexYT]

His legend goes without saying

[@Man-of-Steel674]

@@TexYT haha

[@boboboy8189]

His bullshido can beat Jeet Kun Do

[@Mohamad-m7md]

Nobody

[@v-rex6262]

Most spy movies are action movies. Are you going to say the James Bond films aren't action?

[@Bane520]

The Equalizer looks so painfully generic and boring