Draft: ACTION SEQUENCES! Round 2  

In this round, we continue to pick the best action sequences from films.

1) Grimbil - Lobby scene from the Matrix. After forcing yourself through the 2nd and 3rd
installments, it's easy to forget just how ground breaking and amazing first
movie was. The scene of Neo running in slow motion with the stone columns
exploding under a hailstorm of gunfire is absolutely classic.

LD - I was going to pick this one at some point. The third act of the first
Matrix film was just amazing at the time. One of the best action sequences
ever. I don't know if I've ever been so excited during a movie. Luckily,
the following six hours of turgid dialogue and asinine symbolism disguised
as meandering plot have allowed me to sound rational when discussing it.

E - I saw the original Matrix THREE times in the theaters! That's how much of a
dork I was!
2) E - Casino Royale - opening chase scene
Parkour bad assedness that ends in the embassy with Bond facing down tons of
assault rifles. A joy to look at, ridiculous stunts on that crane, and Craig
being as Craig as he wants to be.

3) LD - B13 - Casino fight
I can't believe Bond is going to get drafted before B13. THIS is what an
awesome Parkour fight looks like. 20-foot long jumpkicks, men being thrown
through tables, just insane stunts and incredible sense of geography.

E - having only seen B13 once, I didn't feel like I could really pick it since I
barely remember anything specific about it other than it was just
awesomeness.

4) SN - Let's take it back a bit with the shopping mall sequence in True
Lies. First, there's the awesome shootout in the bathroom, with a bit
of humor in it as well. Then, Ah-nald follows the terrorist, who's on
a motorcycle, on horseback in an incredibly entertaining chase
sequence. For a second, you think he's actually going to jump from one
skyscraper to another on a horse. Wisely, he does not. In case you
haven't figured it out yet, awesome chase sequences give me a hard-on.

LD - Wow. What an obscure but awesome choice. That really is a fantastic
scene. Don't even get me started on the impossibly great SNES game.

5) N8 - The unfilmed Ewok genocide following the explosion of the Death Star
over the moon of Endor. No, just kidding. I want something a little more
interpersonal than some of the more recent picks. The action sequence
in *Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade* as Indy takes over the tank as they race they
Nazis through the dessert to the canyon of the crescent moon. Not only do
you have some of the great "shoot three guys at once" humor, but you also
have Indy being draged all over the tank treads before the groundswell of
Indy music bursts out and you get his triumphant ass-kicking, climaxing when
the tank goes over the edge. "Damn it, Saul, I said 'No camels! That's
four camels -- can't you count?'"

6) JC - Duel of the Fates - Episode 1.