Action Movie Hall of Fame

Ten years ago, an action movie about a siege on the White House was released. Coincidentally, 10 years ago, an action movie about a siege on the White House was released. These are two different movies, and this week, Matt and Dereck kick off Part 1 of a Double Feature with Olympus Has Fallen. This week, they'll examine another Gerard Butler gem, and decide whether or not it will be able to sneak it's way into the Action Movie Hall of Fame. Then next week, they'll decide the hall-of-fame-fate of 2013's White House Down, then crown a White-House-Under-Siege-Action-Movie-Champion. 

With Kill Bill Vol 1 celebrating it's 20th anniversary, Matt and Dereck follow up last week's review with a review of Volume 2. How do the two movies work as one piece? Do they need to go into the Action Movie Hall of Fame together, or is one good enough to stand alone? Will the franchise be buried  once and for all, or will they be able to dig themselves out of a hole?

In 2003, Quentin Tarantino took a stab at his version of a martial arts revenge action movie. For it's 20th Anniversary, Matt and Dereck take a swing at reviewing it for the Action Movie Hall of Fame. Does the movie hold up well enough after 20 years, and does it still provide the kicks needed to make a one-way trip to the AMHOF? Or will Kill Bill join the heap of victims left out of the Hall?

Netflix's Drive to Survive series has brought F1 Racing into the mainstream. But did you know F1 existed before 2016? In fact, 40 years earlier, there was quite a rivalry between Austrian driver Niki Lauda and British driver James Hunt. It was such a fierce rivalry, Ron Howard made a movie out of it. This week, on it's 10th Anniversary, Matt and Dereck revisit this action/biopic. Will Rush have enough in the tank to finish in the Action Movie Hall of Fame, or is this movie worn out like a pair of 1976 wet tyres?

This week, Matt and Dereck review Snowpiercer on it's 10th anniversary. How does this genre-bending train-bound movie hold up? Will this version of Die Hard on a train have what it takes to infiltrate the Action Movie Hall of Fame? Or is this movie destined to be left out in the cold?

Last week, The Fugitive navigated its way into the Action Movie Hall of Fame. Tommy Lee Jones has a lot to do with that, so how does the sequel (1998's U.S. Marshals) hold up? Matt and Dereck join the chase for the second week, but this time, they're hot on the tail of Wesley Snipes. Will U.S. Marshalls be able to swing into the AMHOF, or will it be dead on arrival (RIP Newman)?

This week, Matt and Dereck hop on a bus, that gets derailed by a derailed train, that takes them back to 1993 to review The Fugitive. How does the action in this action thriller hold up 30 years later? How does the train crash look? What about Dr. Richard Kimble Peter-Panning off the dam?  Hopefully you care. But does this movie have what it takes to plunge into the Action Movie Hall of Fame? Or has the movie become disarmingly bad over time?

Hopefully we start season 3 of the Action Movie Hall Fame by putting a smile on your face as we review The Dark Knight for episode 1. So far, director Christopher Nolan has had a love/hate relationship with the AMHOF. Dunkirk easily made it into the Hall while The Dark Knight Rises got tossed in that hole from that movie. (You know, the one you can't escape from? It can stay there too). Will the Dark Knight hold up well enough to make it into the action movie hall of fame, or is it possible all of Nolan's Batman movies are fit for the pit?

Matt and Dereck, millions of movie-goers, and a number of sky-people return to Pandora after 13 years. But is this a place we want to be? Last week, 2009's Avatar was left out of the Action Movie Hall of Fame based on it's weak story, while acknowledging the impressive CGI. Here, the guys review Avatar 2 immediately after watching it in IMAX 3D. Does Pandora offer a deeper experience this time around? Or is it more of the same, just longer? WARNING: this episode contains spoilers starting at 16:40

This week, audiences will go back to Pandora, with the release of Avatar 2: The Way of Water. To prepare for this event, Matt and Dereck go back to 2009, and to Pandora, to review the original Avatar. And this episode poses a lot of questions:  How does this movie hold up in the 10 plus years since it's release? Are the visual still as groundbreaking as we remember? Is the story better than we remember? How excited should we be to watch the sequel? And finally, will Avatar be able to find it's connection with the Action Movie Hall of Fame, or will it's entry into the HOF be unobtainable?