{"id":24510,"date":"2020-09-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=24510"},"modified":"2020-09-08T11:01:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T15:01:39","slug":"the-best-action-film-for-each-year-of-the-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=24510","title":{"rendered":"The Best Action Film for Each Year of the 1980s!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2020\/z091020best80s_actionmovies.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ben Sherlock at ScreenRant decided to take on the task of determining <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/best-80s-action-movie-by-year\/\">The Best Action Movie From Each Year In The &#8217;80s<\/a> and then he ranked them.\u00a0 Ben&#8217;s list is a good one and it got me thinking about the best action movie I&#8217;d choose for each year in the 80s.\u00a0 So here we go&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">1980:\u00a0 <em>The Empire Strikes Back<\/em>.\u00a0 This one surprised me since I&#8217;m not a big <em>Star Wars<\/em> fan.\u00a0 Truthfully, there wasn&#8217;t a lot of competition for the 1980 title and I ended up going with Ben&#8217;s choice.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">1981: <em>The Road Warrior<\/em>.\u00a0 Ben selected <em>Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/em>.\u00a0 1981, was for me, one of the toughest years of the decade because we had so many films in the running.\u00a0 I considered <em>Raiders<\/em>, of course, but I also looked at <em>Escape from New York<\/em> and <em>Nighthawks<\/em> before deciding on <em>The Road Warrior<\/em>.\u00a0 All of the others had merit and are great films, but for pure action, give me <em>The Road Warrior<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>1982: <em>First Blood<\/em>.\u00a0 Ben and I agreed again.\u00a0<em> First Blood<\/em> it is<br \/><br \/><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">1983: <em>Sudden Impact<\/em>.\u00a0 Again, Ben and I agree.\u00a0 I was surprised because going in, I didn&#8217;t think that <em>Sudden Impact<\/em> would be my top action film for the year, but 1983 wasn&#8217;t a strong year for action films.\u00a0 <em>Sudden Impact<\/em> is good, but not great, yet it still got out votes.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">1984: <em>Terminator<\/em>.\u00a0 Again, Ben and I agree.\u00a0 The only other contender in my view was <em>Red Dawn<\/em> and <em>Terminator<\/em> is so much better.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">1985: <em>Rambo: First Blood, Part II<\/em>.\u00a0 Ben went with <em>Jackie Chan&#8217;s Police Story<\/em>.\u00a0 I considered it as well as <em>Commando<\/em> and <em>Runaway Train<\/em> but ultimately went with Sly Stallone returning as John Rambo.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">1986:<em> Aliens<\/em>.\u00a0 Ben and I are back on the same page.\u00a0 <em>Aliens<\/em> was so amazing, how could any other film get the nod?<br \/><br \/><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">1987: <em>Lethal Weapon<\/em>.\u00a0 Ben went with <em>Robocop<\/em>.\u00a0 I considered that and <em>Predator<\/em>.\u00a0 1987 was a tough year with three great action films but ultimately I went with <em>Lethal Weapon<\/em>.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\n<li>1988: <em>Die Hard<\/em>.\u00a0 Ben and I agreed that <em>Die Hard<\/em> was the best for 1988.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\n<li>1989: <em>Lethal Weapon 2<\/em>.\u00a0 Again Ben and I were on the same page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 So Ben and I agreed on 7 of the 10 films.\u00a0 I&#8217;d be curious as to how many you agreed with and were there films you would have picked that I didn&#8217;t even consider?\u00a0 Comments below!<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Sherlock at ScreenRant decided 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