Cheese. Some say it’s a delicious food product made from pressed milk curd left to ripen and age. And they are right; that is a fundamentally accurate description of what cheese very literally is. But literal cheese is for crackers. Figurative cheese? Well, that’s just the glorious, stringy goo that binds together some of the finest action films this side of 1967.
Cheesy action movies stand apart from regular action films; cheeseball action movies revel in their ridiculous plots, corny one-liners, and absurd stunt sequences. The following films may not share the same esteemed reputations as objectively great action classics like Die Hard or RoboCop or Terminator 2, but they are amongst the cream cheese of the crop when it comes to silly yet sincere, bicep-bulging brilliance. Sure, they’re not really on the same rung as important stuff like Aliens, and Lethal Weapon, and Raiders of the Lost Ark. And sure, those are the movies that have all the acclaim, and the influence, and the genre-defining legacies. But do you know what they don’t have? Ninja.
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Cheesy action movies stand apart from regular action films; cheeseball action movies revel in their ridiculous plots, corny one-liners, and absurd stunt sequences. The following films may not share the same esteemed reputations as objectively great action classics like Die Hard or RoboCop or Terminator 2, but they are amongst the cream cheese of the crop when it comes to silly yet sincere, bicep-bulging brilliance. Sure, they’re not really on the same rung as important stuff like Aliens, and Lethal Weapon, and Raiders of the Lost Ark. And sure, those are the movies that have all the acclaim, and the influence, and the genre-defining legacies. But do you know what they don’t have? Ninja.
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