The Action Movie Scene Draft with Chris Ryan | The Big Picture | Ringer Movies
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 พ.ค. 2024
- We are drafting again! Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins, and Chris Ryan reunite for a draft of the coolest scenes in action movie history.
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This was my favorite draft y'all have ever done. Do more scene drafts! Or maybe a character draft or best monologue draft (you can talk A Few Good Men)
I am the collective audience pulling it's hair out waiting for Saving Private Ryan to be mentioned. Just unbelievable
Omaha Beach and the climatic town battle are two of the best action scenes of the last 30 years! It’s unbelievable they didn’t mention either of them.
Absolutely absurd
I’m loyal to the podcast but actually watching Amanda playing den mother to CR and SF is even funnier than I imagined it.
Opening scene Saving Private Ryan.
Stunned it wasn’t even mentioned
It's so shell-shocking, rather than exhilarating like heist 'action', that i think selecting it would just not feel right. It's clearly action packed but it seems they were reflecting and choosing action that exhilarated them.
Some unmentioned ones -
Omaha Beach - Saving Private Ryan
Neo v Agent Smith - The Matrix
Finale Showdown - Predator
'Inside the Room' scene - Aliens
Chariot race - Ben Hur
Car Chase - The French Connection
Destroyer attack - Das Boot
Chariot battle - Gladiator
Train Fight - Spider Man 2
Ninja Attack - The Last Samurai
King Kong vs T-Rexes - King Kong
Highway fight - Cap America: Winter Soldier
Mansion fight/Highway chase extended sequence - Matrix Reloaded
Motorbike sequence - Mad Max: Fury Road
Nightclub fight - Collateral
French connection and Bullitt stuck out for me
I think Saving Private Ryan is so shell-shocking selecting it for it'd action feels, crude? I think you could argue for it being a selection in a horror scene draft.
@@A_O_Leary For sure
yes the motorbike scene I would have took from fury road I like to call it the brothers in arms sequence
Stunned CR did not mention the Sorcerer bridge scene
I came here to say the same thing. I'm genuinely flabbergasted that nobody wild carded Sorcerer. Simply one of the greatest scenes in movie history
That’s a deep cut! Totally agree. Sorcerer is the movie that people should bring up instead of French Connection when it comes to Friedkin. The French just remade the book (Wages of Fear) into a low budget Netflix dumpster fire (came out Apr 2024) so the IP is not in a good place right now.
Two striking omissions are:
Saving Private Ryan - Omaha Beach Landing, and
Zero Dark Thirty - Bin Laden Raid
You could organize the Best Kills Draft by genre: best horror kill, best dramatic kill, best comedic kill, best time kill (death by old age) and so on and so forth.
Surprised Sean didn’t pick the oil derrick explosion from There Will Be Blood for action set piece!
They must have Van in attendance. Another category best attempted kill prevention aka "don't you die on me".
The opening and ending of Police Story are so good
The playground fight in the sequel is so fun, too
And the last 15 minutes of Police Story 3.
People need to put more respect on Jackie Chan’s name…
@@BJFelder he's the best. tho I think the awe comes less from the overall filmmaking than the amazing and imaginative choreography-same with the darth maul duel of the fates scene, which I also love-and might be closer to how musical numbers work than set pieces
Not enough Asian cinema mentioned.
100% keep the video content coming, loving it thus far! my favorite pod has gotten even better.
It’s more than just the tunnel sequence in the fugitive. Set piece starts when he steals the ambulance and ends with the jump. Thrilling 5-8 minutes of film.
Great ep, love it. Thank you guys so much.
The French Connection train chase not getting mentioned is an unforgivable oversight
“I think what we’re talking about is big action set pieces” saying this after why he didn’t pick anything from Fury Road makes my head spin
It's nigh impossible to have grabbed everything essential with so many good options. But I really don't know how they dismissed the movie as a whole based on their logic. In the same way they took multiple scenes from Mission: Impossible movies, there are multiple set pieces in Fury Road worth taking. The motorbike chase, the sand storm escape, running from the bullet farmer, and my personal favorite: the hand--to-hand fight with Furiosa and Max with Nux still chained to Max where they are fighting for the gun Furiosa keeps encased in a skull underneath her truck. I don't know how to watch that entire sequence without holding my breath knowing full well what the outcome is.
Bad boys 2 “they throwing cars”
I love love lovee all the video content coming out for the pod, keep up the good work!
Some of my favorite action scenes that they forgot to mention: Interstellar Docking Scene, No Country For Old Men Street Shootout, Dark Knight Rises Plane Hijack, and Gladiator Colosseum Battle
Was sure they would mention the plane hijack as its the best set piece in Nolan's trilogy.
@@neogeo9371The scene made absolutely no sense, and it's Nolan's worst movie by a country mile.
@@dy120481 I agree the scene made no sense but its still a great action set piece. Following and Tenet are worse films than The Dark Knight Rises with Tenet being his worst film "by a country mile", the whole film makes no sense.
@@neogeo9371 Tenet was unnecessarily overcomplicated for the sake of being overcomplicated (even by Nolan standards), but TDKR was the most disappointed I've ever been in a movie. I thought it was legitimately awful.
@@neogeo9371how does it make no sense? Asking for real.
Much love from Trinidad 🇹🇹 Great podcast.
Best podcast ever. Love you all.
having the clips, excellent, thank you
Been listening for years. Big CR Head. The Northman pick was unreal. Idk if youtube will ever be my preferred method of big pic intake but man this was fun to watch with the clips.
How do i live in a world where Titanic gets drafted in an action set piece draft before the church scene from Kingsmen or anything featuring Jet Li?
Multiple set pieces from Gladiator. The final sprint in 1917. Storming the beach in Saving Private Ryan.
Love these video pods. The drafts are always great, next one of the non-movie drafts could/should have more drafters (read, Van)
0:54 ‘Not-movies’ has indeed been done before. The David Fincher draft included advertisements/music videos (Vogue - Madonna, Leave Nothing Commercial), scenes/sequences (Ending scene of TGWTDT, Ending of Fight Club) and wildcard (Ben Affleck interviewing Fincher, Mindhunter S1).
love having these on video
Great episode! Just to throw another out: the oil rig fire from There Will Be Blood
Major shoutout to CR for including the Wind River shootout. Also I was waiting for someone to mention the shower room massacre from The Rock, but it was not to be 😢
25:09 As a Finn, this section hurt deeply. My dreams of randomly bumping into CR in a Finnish sauna are destroyed now...
Also, technically Finland isn't part of Scandinavia, so that might be the reason why it was omitted from the book.
Love this draft. Great Amanda episode too.
I love the Pod, long time listener first time commenter...I thought there were some amazing takes on this draft and easily one of the best overall. Thank you! Honorable mentions: Ronin car chase scene(s), Saving Private Ryan Omaha Beach Landing, Unforgiven (final set piece), Braveheart (surrender set piece after his wife is killed), Predator (old painless) Scene, Zero Dark Thirty (Final Set Piece)
Isnt the highway chase/knife fight from winter soldier THE standout sequence from that movie? I haven’t watched it but I feel like that’s the scene everyone points to. The elevator fight looks cool but that one kinda seems to pale in comparison to the other one.
Also, Chris picking Oldboy in the 2003 draft and now here makes me happy.
The highway/knife scene might be a better ‘action’ scene but the STANDOUT scene from The Winter Soldier is the elevator scene. Which is why there was a callback to it in Endgame
Great draft again, Amanda getting Titanic so late is unreal. This draft is built for "What did we miss?" So much that could be spoken about, loved it
Thought for sure Amanda would take The Thomas Crown Affair bowler hat end of movie sequence. Not your typical action scene but still thrilling.
For me:
80s: Terminator - police station assault; Robocop: ed209 in the boardroom
90s: The Martrix - Morpheus rescue (lobby shootout thru to Dodge This), Saving Pvt Ryan - Omaha Beach
00s: Ip Man - 1 vs 12; Children of Men - escaping the refugee camp
2010s: John Wick - red circle club; Mad Max Fury Road - going back to the citadel (the last act)
Wildcard: Last of the Mohicans - promontory finale; Conan the Barbarian - Prayer to Crom and final battle
It was a Fiat in Dead Reckoning. Mini Coopers were in The Italian Job.
The entirety of Crank
SF looking more serial killer-ey than usual.
Leaving out massive set pieces like the opening of SPR or helm’s deep is wild.
I enjoyed this conversation so much, thank you!
I found myself stopping on my walk halfway through the pod to think about what I’d pick, and landed on:
80’s: Predator final battle, Temple of Doom bridge scene
90’s: The Matrix subway station fight, Goldeneye pre-credits scene all the way from bungee jump to plane jump - just the greatest!)
00’s: Gladiator first Colosseum fight, The Two Towers Helm’s Deep OR Fellowship Mines of Moria
10’s: MI Ghost Protocol Burj Khalifa, MI Fallout Helicopter chase through to clifftop fight
20’s: Tenet reverse freeway chase, Dune pt2 riding the sandworm
Wild cards: Safety Last (1923) clock scene, Drunken Master (1978) final fight
For me, notable omissions include: Children of Men (final sequence); Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Jade Fox/sword thief scene); Cabin in the Woods (shit hits the fan final sequence); Saving Private Ryan (beach sequence); Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Burj Khalifa scene); Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom ("Anything Goes" opening); The Departed (final elevator scene); Silence of the Lambs (basement finale); etc etc etc
The first time I saw Chris was when I googled Chris and Andy & when I tell you I was surprised Chris was the guy with the hat shook me!
The lack of love for Ridley Scott in this draft hurts my soul.
This draft was made for Bill. Missed opportunity.
Do we really need another opportunity for him to try to get us to watch Blackhat? Never gonna happen Bill!
Bill should've been in here because they went off topic for like 1 hour in total
“Alright my first overall pick is the heist scene from Fast 5 where they somehow steal a bank vault with two cars” when absolutely nobody else would pick this scene.
It seems like it was made for the people on the pod episode, since they're there
Yeah ditch the chick
I’m glad CR gave John Woo an honorable mention for Hard Boiled, but the shootout at the church from The Killer would have made my list for top scenes.
Other commenters mentioned Ridley Scott and I agree. My list might include the evacuation sequence near the end in Ridley’s Alien. And the German forest set piece in the beginning of Gladiator
Revenant. When the camp was raided escaping to the boat.
Sean's "Vidiots" laptop sticker is such a rad Los Angeles deep (film) cut.
This podcast is top tier, also CR as the third is S tier, indeed! *tips cowgirl hat
Amanda, thank you for picking a scene from The Town 🫡
“I’ll only give them your first names”
I would like to add any sequence from the first Police Story. Justice for Jackie Chan! And the giant wheel sword fight in Pirates 2.
Yep - heat … knew it lol
1) Matrix = Neo stopping bullets
2) The Raid: Redemption = Machete Gang Fight
3) Hero = Chess Courtyard Fight
4) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon = Jen vs Shu
My Top 5 Best Action scenes are:
#1 Predator - All guns firing aimlessly in the jungle
#2 Heat - City fire fight after the bank robbery
#3 Enter the Dragon - Mirror scene with Bruce and Han
#4 Rambo 3 - Opening scene (stick fight)
#5 Bloodsport - Last fight with Dukes and Chong Li
The first one I thought of was the hammer hallway scene from Oldboy. Good pull from CR!
Snubs: From “Back to the Future,” Marty in the DeLorean catching lightning from the clock tower, plus final act of “Mission Impossible Fallout,” from the time the crew arrives at the science camp in the mountains.
Some good picks.
Although, I feel you left out/forgot the guy who set the tone for pretty much all 90’s action flicks.
Luc Besson:
”Nikita” and/or ”Leon”
Pick a set piece, any set piece.
Unloading all ammo on the forest in Predator. Never seen anything like it before. Still get chills.
Putting forth the bath house knife fight from Eastern Promises for consideration. Otherwise was very pleased that the Oldboy hallway fight got drafted 👏
Hope you do top monologues in movie history , you better include a Meryl one too
I think the Omaha Beach set piece in Saving Private Ryan should have been picked
I love this show btw
My five favorite are
1. Spider man 2 - clocktower to train battle with Doc Ock
2. The Dark Knight - Joker vs Batman car chase/night time fight sequence.
3. Jurassic’s Park - T-Rex vs. flares and flashlights
4. Mad Max Fury Road - the opening sand storm scene
5. Inception- Joseph Gordan Levitts and random hence man zero gravity fight.
For Spider-Man 2, I’d go with the sudden horror sequence in the hospital lol. Raimi’s the GOAT for that one. MCU would never allow it.
Amanda looks SO interested when CR is defining what a set piece is haha
CR brought up eastern promises boathouse fight scene as a joke but that would legit be on my list 😂
Ones I didn't see or hear mentioned:
Edge of Tomorrow - Beach Landing
Gladiator - Chariot Battle at the Colosseum
Eastern Promises - Sauna Fight
The Last Samurai - Forest Battle
Enemy at the Gates - Initial Stalingrad Charge
Saving Private Ryan - D-Day Landing
Amanda coming in clutch with the titanic pick. That was one of the first scenes I thought of
The Neo training scene should have been drafted. Not because it’s the best ‘action’ but because it does something super rare. It’s a kick ass action scene that also is probably the most important exposition in the movie. It literally teaches you the rules of the world (which is crucial for a ‘wait what’ sci fi movie like The Matrix). It’s the fulcrum of the whole movie. Either you buy in then or you don’t. And it’s an action scene. Glad it was mentioned but should have been at min a wildcard pick.
Duel of the Fates not even being mentioned is rough. I know Charles took Vader in Rouge One but objectively Duel of the Fates is a far more impressive and important scene when one considers the total package.
Going by decade was such a good call…
Ambulance over Den of thieves I expected more from Sean and Chris
I’m glad Hard-Boiled got the honorable mention. The whole draft I was wondering when Asian cinema would show up. Jackie Chan’s Police Story is one I love.
No love for the John Doe chase scene in Se7en?! It's absolutely kinetic, inside the apartment building, through long corridors, different apartments, staircases, levels, inside/outside, fire escapes, across a busy city street, on the roof of cars and ends in a dirty alley, all while buckets of rain are coming down. Art...Cinema...Fincher!
The car chase in Ronin with deNiro, any zombie chase scene in World War Z, Rocky vs Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, the massacre in the bar in Inglorious Bastards….etc.
Can’t believe they discussed The Matrix and missed the opening! From Agent Smith saying : “Lieutenant…..your men are already dead” until the truck hitting the phone booth is an AMAZING set piece. I’d also pick The ambush from Children of Men with the 360 POV from inside the car.
A crucial action scene that's missing is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - the sword fight scene between Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi. Perfect coordination, editing, choreography.
Loved this draft, but gotta say the 'Battle of Cathage' scene in Gladiator would have been my 1st overall pick
Saving Private Ryan going unmentioned is egregious!! I love this show and will always listen but the opening of that film, and the end for that matter, not even getting an honorable mention is so beyond the pale of acceptability in an ACTION MOVIE SCENE DRAFT. Also Black Hawk Down going unmentioned, while not as a bad as the disrespect shown towards Saving Private Ryan, is pretty goddamn close. DO BETTER! I'm just kidding about the do better, I love all three of you and y'all brighten my week. Keep doing what you do.
Whoa! Bobby! Who knew?
If murder draft happens we need Van and or Russillo. Also how did the Jerry maguire RW happen without Dobbs or Mal?
Van > Russillo.
the ending of michael mann's thief is the best ending ever
I agree with most of your picks! Sean's pick for Die Hard, the rooftop jump with the fire hose. But I would've picked the fight between John and Karl. I knew, Chris was going to pick the bank robbery from Heat. I don't think, anyone loves that movie more than him! LOL! Amanda's wildcard pick for Titanic. When the ship is sinking. (Nice!) I would've picked that one, too. I would've picked the fight between Maximus and Commodus in Gladiator, the shootout scene with Bud, Ed and the corrupt cops in L.A. Confidential and the Navy Seals raid at Bin Laden's house in Zero Dark Thirty.
There is this movie called Gladiator that has some pretty dope action scenes. You guys should check it out.
I thought of another good one! Miami Vice, the movie. When Sonny, Rico and the rest of the cops came to save Trudy at Paradise trailer park. And the female cop told one of the guys, I'll shoot you in the neck and only you will be dead. You believe that, sport? He started to say something and she fatally shot him! I jump every time, I watch that part. And I know, it's coming! LOL!
My Top 5 Best Sex scenes are:
#1 Unfaithful (their last sex scene on the doorway of his apartment)
#2 Basic Instinct (first sex scene after nite-clubbing)
#3 English Patient (Merry X'Mas scene)
#4 Color of the Night (swimming pool scene)
#5 Wild Things (threesome scene)
Nearly everything from the 90s. Let me take a wild guess when you went through puberty!
@mikecat6291 I was thinking of including Fatal Attraction. Probably #6
Opening scene of The Dark Knight i always love, heists baby, and The Raid fight with the two of them against Mad Dog - maybe fight scene is a slightly different draft to action scene
So that’s what Bobby looks like.
Point Break foot chase over Speed bus jump. By a mile…
Come on CR.
I wish the train sequence from From Russia With Love had made it
I'm surprised Gladiator was not mentioned. Especially the Colosseum sequence.
Sean, please don’t shoot me, but everything spoken about why Fury Road and the Mad Max movies weren’t drafted at all is slander. Injurious slander to the George Miller school of action set pieces. Still a great draft though, and Sean and Chris showing up with twinning wardrobe colour schemes alone makes watching this on TH-cam worth it.
Also, Amanda calling Sean a cuck is an all-timer moment.
Yes I mean I love these 3 more than anything, but the trouble is they aren’t shameless action movie fans (like say Simmons , Russilo or Kyle Brandt) they’re film critics, and somewhat self consciously, want to be thought of as at least somewhat serious film critics. Whereas to be a shameless action fan you’ve kinda got to be “I don’t care what the internet says, that kitchen fight in RAID2 is the greatest thing ever filmed”
@@shanyc78 I take your point but I’m not sure if I agree totally-Sean and Amanda often talk about how what they do is really different from what film critics do, plus I’d argue they leaned more into being dorks and picking personal favourites with stuff like Ambulance. I feel think the bigger contention was a formalist thing on what makes a movie scene, which I personally thought was a bit silly
@@Cj7Pongs I agree with this read of those two. Although I still have to believe Amanda would rather have a mommy blog on Instagram than ever spend another minute talking about movies. And the times that comes through in her discourse are among the most grating, she has the best job in the WORLD. Meanwhile half the world's population can spit out a baby and then pretend they were the first to ever do so, it's so tedious!
Sean was getting his gun ready before you said "please don't shoot me"
Movie hair draft please!!!!
the disrespect towards Matrix and Fury Road is mind boggling
No mention of the car chase in to live and die in LA?
Missed opportunity
26:31
48:03
Time stamps for BP quote of the year noms
The French Connection (1971) car chase
1.DH Firehose Jump...2.SW Luke's trench run...3.Temple Mine Cart Chase...4.FRWL Grant v 007 fistfight...5.John Wick 4 overhead gun melee.
My 6 would have to be
80's -The movie Glory The Final Battle scene. Predator The Final Battle Arnold has with the Predator
90's Independence Day -The Final Air Battle Scene. Con Air when the plane crashes on the Vegas strip and the chase after that
Wild Card Equalizer 1 when Denzel takes out the Russians in their club after they deny his money.
And final wild card Tropic Thunder when they are being extracted from the village at the end
OK I need to have a "Old Man get off my Lawn" moment here. Love The Ringer and listen to The Big Picture religiously each week. Heard the main picks and the fact that not a single action sequence from The Matrix Trilogy made the main list kind of invalidates this entire exercise. How can none of these make the list ?!
The Dojo Fight between Morpheus and Neo.
The Neo and Trinity Hallway Shootout / Rooftop Sequence with the Agents.
Neo vs Agent Smith in the Subway.
The Highway Chase from Reloaded.
Guys :/
Carlito's Way "chase to the station"
The final sub fight in the Hunt for Red October
The tank battle in fury should've been mentioned
I think they should’ve picked senses ahead of time and drafted those and not just been able to pick whatever.
Wild that they didn’t mention Crouching Tiger and Matrix got an honorable mention.
The Avengers 1 sequence leading to the Original 6 panorama gotta be on there.
The Penguin car chase in The Batman.
1 vs 10 fight in Ip Man.
The Nightcrawler opening in X2.
Duel of the Fates in Episode 1.