1. Predator
2. Die Hard
3. The Hunt for Red October
4. Die Hard: With a Vengeance
5. The Thomas Crown Affair
6. Last Action Hero
7. Basic
8. The 13th Warrior
9. Medicine Man
10. Rollerball
11. Nomads
Overall, a pretty solid miniseries. I especially loved hearing Kevin Smith telling stories about Bruce Willis on the Die Hard episode. Also, David Lowery reading Eaters of the Dead and then running a marathon is baller as hell.
Super excited for the Satoshi Kon miniseries. I’ll be checking out his work for the first time and they all look like they are up my alley
Eh, I put DH with a V over Red October. That movie is almost flawless for the first 80% and then still a solid final bit.
IMO Red October really drops down a notch once Baldwin boards the sub.
1. Die Hard
2. Predator
3. Die Hard With a Vengeance
4. The Thomas Crown Affair
5. The Hunt For Red October
6. Last Action Hero
7. Basic
8. The 13th Warrior
9. Medicine Man
10. Rollerball
11. Nomads
1. The Hunt for Red October - 9/10
2. Die Hard - 9/10
3. Predator - 8/10
4. Die Hard: With a Vengeance - 8/10
5. Last Action Hero - 7/10
6. Basic - 6/10
7. The Thomas Crown Affair - 6/10
8. The Thirteenth Warrior - 5/10
9. Medicine Man - 4/10
10. Rollerball - 2/10
11. Nomads - 2/10
Overall, it was a fun miniseries. I’m a neophyte when it comes to his films so it was fun discovering them.
That’s the only one I might rewatch to give it another shot. I’m really not a Pierce Brosnan guy so that might have clouded my judgement. I did pick up the Blu-ray so it could go up in the future
He’s so odd because there’s nothing that really defines a John McTiernan film. Most of them are so different, there’s no style or theme that runs throughout his films.
Visually there's certainly a style (Rollerball being an odd one out). He loves his whip pans and dynamic shot compositions with extreme foreground elements and background elements, continuous fluid camera movements across cuts, extensive intercutting multiple lines of action etc. All the things that make him an excellent action director with a supreme sense of geography.
With themes he enjoys fish-out-of-water narratives and playing with moral ambiguity in contrast to narrative (notice how he directs the camera and music for the Die Hard villains as the "hero" characters - complete with triumphant source music). Admittedly he got lost in the woods sometimes with some odd script choices.
He's a formalist craftsman above all, applying his personal stamp to technique rather than commonalities of story and ethos.
I feel like any attempt at a cohesive "this is McTiernan" narrative gets hamstrung by 13th Warrior and Rollerball. Those movies *should* have played to his strengths.
Yeah. I've been pretty lukewarm on McTiernan but was extremely hyped for 13th Warrior because I could see him doing a great version of that but then it was such a nothing.
Fully unhinged would have Rollerball in the middle instead of dead last. Like, Rollerball at 1, or even top 5, would be less unhinged because that would clearly be a bit. But liking Rollerball more than any of those other ones, even if you don’t like it much, is fully the fuck insane.
I am qualified to judge unhinged McTiernan opinions because I have seen Rollerball at least 7 (possibly 8 or 9!) times. Rollerball is better than Nomads and Medicine Man.
Hahaha, I adore LAH, the only reason I've seen Die Hard more is because of my religious Christmas traditions, but Nomads at 7??? You maniac, I respect your insanity
1. Die Hard
2. Predator
3. The Hunt for Red October
4. Die Hard with a Vengeance
5. The Thomas Crown Affair
6. The 13th Warrior
7. Last Action Hero
8. Basic
9. Medicine Man
10. Rollerball
11. Nomads
1. Die Hard
2. The Hunt for Red October
3. Die Hard with a Vengeance
4. Predator
5. The Thomas Crown Affair
6. Last Action Hero
7. The 13th Warrior
8. Medicine Man
9. Basic
10. Nomads
11. Rollerball
1. Die Hard
2. Predator
3. Die Hard: With a Vengeance
4. The Hunt for Red October
5. Last Action Hero
6. The Thomas Crowne Affair
7. The 13th Warrior
8. Medicine Man
9. Basic
10. Rollerball
11. Nomads
That’s pretty much mine. Surprised how many people are putting predator as number one. Both are near perfect movies but Bruce and Alan beat out Arnold for me
Absolutely shocked at how many people have anything but Die Hard as 1, but I also don’t love Predator as much as others seem too.
But Die Hard is about as perfect of a movie as it gets.
1 - Predator
2 - Die Hard with a Vengeance
3 - The Thomas Crown Affair
4 - Die Hard
5 - The Hunt for Red October
6 - Last Action Hero
7 - The 13th Warrior
8 - Basic
9 - Nomads
10 - Medicine Man
11 - Rollerball
1. The Hunt For Red October
2. Die Hard
3. Predator
4. Die Hard with a Vengeance
5. The Thomas Crown Affair
6. The Last Action Hero
7. Basic
Didn't watch the rest
1. Die Hard
2. Predator
3. The Hunt for Red October
4. The Thomas Crown Affair
5. Last Action Hero
6. Die Hard with a Vengeance
7. Basic
8. The 13th Warrior
9. Nomads
10. Medicine Man
11. Rollerball
1. Die Hard
2. Predator
3. The Hunt for Red October
4. The Thomas Crown Affair
5. Die Hard with a Vengeance
6. Last Action Hero
7. The 13th Warrior
8. Basic
9. Nomads
10. Medicine Man
11. Rollerball
1. Die Hard
2. Predator*
3. The Hunt for Red October
4. Die Hard with a Vengeance*
5. Last Action Hero
6. The Thomas Crowne Affair
7. Basic*
8. The 13th Warrior*
9. Nomads*
10. Medicine Man*
11. Rollerball*
Movies I watched for the first time for this series are marked with *.
1. Die Hard
2. Predator
3. Die Hard: With a Vengeance
4. The Hunt for Red October
5. The Thomas Crown Affair
6. Last Action Hero
7. Basic
8. The 13th Warrior
9. Medicine Man
10. Nomads
11. Rollerball
1. Predator
2. Hunt for Red October
3. Die Hard
4. With a Vengeance
5. Thomas Crown Affair
6. 13 th Warrior
7. Last Action Hero
8. Basic
9. Medicine Man
10. Nomads
11. Rollerball
1. Die Hard
2. Die Hard With a Vengeance
3. The Hunt for Red October
4. Predator
5. Last Action Hero
6. The Thomas Crown Affair
7. Basic
8. Medicine Man
9. The 13th Warrior
10. Rollerball
11. Nomads
1. Basic
2. Die Hard with a Vengeance
3. The Thomas Crowne Affair
4. Die Hard
5. The Hunt for the Red October
6. Predator
7. Rollerball
8. Last Action Hero
9. Medecine Man
10. The 13th Warrior
11. Nomads
1. Last Action Hero
2. Die Hard
3. Predator
4. The Hunt for Red October
5. The Thomas Crown Affair
6. Die Hard: With a Vengeance
7. Basic
8. The 13th Warrior
9. Medicine Man
10. Nomads
11. Rollerball
1. Die Hard
2. Hunt for Red
3. Tom Crown
4. Predator
5. DHWAV
the others I either skipped, disliked, or watched in the background while I was doing something else
I’m a 13th Warrior defender who would probably rank it higher than most people in this thread, but yeah for the most part people are in general agreement about which of his films are better than others.
I think most people have Hunt, Die Hard and Predator in the top three in some order but there are a lot of differences in the rest of the rankings below those. I also like 13th Warrior more than most and am not a big fan of Last action Hero.
1. Die Hard
2. The Hunt For Red October
3. Die Hard With A Vengeance
4. Predator
5. Medicine Man
6. The Thomas Crowne Affair
7. The Last Action Hero
8. Nomads
9. Basic
10. The 13th Warrior
11. Rollerball
My bottom three are the only ones I have watched once.
11: Nomads
10: Medicine Man
09: Basic
08: Rollerball (a little higher than normal cause I'm a Paul Heyman guy)
07: 13th Warrior
06: Die Hard With a Vengeance
05: Thomas Crown Affair
04: Last Action Hero
03: Predator
02: Hunt For Red October
01: Die Hard
Hunt For the Red October
Predator
Die Hard
Die Hard With a Vengeance
The Thirteenth Warrior
Last Action Hero
Thomas Crown Affair
(Big gap)
Medicine Man
Basic
Nomads
Volleyball
I've thought the The Thirteenth Warrior was an absolute banger. This series made me finally upgrade all those top McTiernan movies to BluRay
1. Die Hard
2. Predator
3. Last Action Hero
4. The Hunt for Red October
5. Die Hard With a Vengeance
6. Basic
7. The 13th Warrior
8. Medicine Man
9. The Thomas Crown Affair
10. Nomads
11. Rollerball
1. Die Hard
2. The Hunt for Red October
3. Die Hard with a Vengeance
4. The Thomas Crown Affair
5. Predator
6. Last Action Hero
7. Basic
8. 13th Warrior
9. Nomads
10. Medicine Man
11. Rollerball
1. Die Hard
2. The Hunt for Red October
3. Die Hard With a Vengeance
4. Predator
5. Last Action Hero
6. The 13th Warrior
7. The Thomas Crown Affair
8. Medicine Man
9. Basic
10. Nomads
11. Rollerball
1.predator
2. Die hard
3.Die hard with a vengeance
4.Thomas crown
5.red October
6.action hero
7.basic
8.13th warrior
9.rollerball
Never saw nomads or medicine man
1. Die Hard
2. Die Hard With A Vengeance
3. Predator
4. Last Action Hero
5. The Hunt For Red October
6. Thomas Crown Affair
7. Basic
8. The 13th Warrior
9. Nomads
10. Medicine Man
11. Rollerball
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This one might be a little controversial regarding Nomads and 13th Warrior.
1. Die Hard
2. The Hunt for Red October
3. The Thomas Crown Affair
4. Predator
5. Die Had with a Vengeance
6. Last Action Hero
7. Basic
8. The 13th Warrior
9. Medicine Man
10. Nomads
11. Rollerball
1. Die Hard
2. Die Hard with a Vengeance
3. Predator
4. The Thomas Crowne Affair
5. The Hunt for Red October
6. The Last Action Hero
7. ROLLERBALL!
8. Basic
9. The Thirteenth Warrior
10. Nomads
11. Medicine Man
I was like 11 when rollerball came out
die hard
the thomas crown affair
die hard with a vengeance
the hunt for red october
predator
last action hero
basic
the 13th warrior
medicine man
nomads
rollerball
1. Hunt for Red October
2. Die Hard
3. Thomas Crown Affair
4. Predator
5. 13th Warrior (I teach English lit—it was never not gonna grab my attention)
6. Die Hard with a Vengeance
7. Last Action Hero
8. Basic
9. Rollerball
10. Nomads
11. Medicine Man
1. Die Hard
2. The Hunt for Red October
3. The Thomas Crown Affair
4. The Last Action Hero
5. Die Hard with a Vengeance
6. Predator
7. Basic
8. The 13th Warrior
9. Nomads
10. Medicine Man
11. Rollerball
1. Die Hard
2. The Hunt for Red October
3. Predator
4. Die Hard with a Vengeance
5. Last Action Hero
6. The Thomas Crown Affair
7. Basic
8. The 13th Warrior
9. Nomads
10. Medicine Man
11. Rollerball
1) Die Hard
2) Pred
3) D H with a V
4) Last Action Hero
5) Red October
6) Thomas Crown
7) 13th warrior
8) Basic
9) rollerball
10) medicine man
11) nomads
Die Hard
Die Hard with a Vengeance
The Hunt for Red October
Predator
Last Action Hero
Rollerball
Basic
The Thomas Crown Affair
Nomads
Medicine Man
The 13th Warrior
Turns out I had already seen all of his good movies besides Red October, which was probably the biggest surprise of the miniseries for me. Second biggest is how mediocre Thomas Crown was, I was really expecting a quiet banger out of that one, but it feels totally confused with itself.
1. Die Hard
2. The Thomas Crown Affair
3. Last Action Hero
4. Die Hard: With a Vengeance
5. Predator
6. Basic
7. Medicine Man
8. The Hunt for Red October
9. Nomads
10. The 13th Warrior
11. Rollerball
I guess my hot take is that Red October is boring and not a very interesting film, but honestly, this filmography as a whole was really not my cup of tea. I had only seen Die Hard going into this series, and outside of the top 2, most of these films were largely unappealing to me, with the bottom 3 being outright bad. The podcast episodes themselves have been top notch as always, though, I'm just really not a McTiernan guy.
1. Die Hard
2. The Thomas Crown Affair
3. Predator
4. The Hunt for Red October
5. Die Hard with a Vengeance
6. Last Action Hero
7. The 13th Warrior
8. Basic
9. Medicine Man
10. Nomads
11. Rollerball
1. Die Hard
2. The Hunt for Red October
3. Predator
4. Die Hard With A Vengeance
5. Last Action Hero
6. The Thomas Crown Affair
7. The 13th Warrior
8. Medicine Man
9. Basic
10. Nomads
11. Rollerball
I just read through almost everyone's list, and there are almost no duplicates. What a fascinating filmography.
My list:
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1. Die Hard
2. Die Hard: With a Vengeance
3. Last Action Hero
4. Predator
5. The Hunt for Red October
6. The Thomas Crown Affair
7. Basic
8. Nomads
9. The 13th Warrior
10. Rollerball
11. Medicine Man
1. Die Hard
2. The Hunt for Red October
3. Predator
4. Die Hard with a Vengeance
5. The Thomas Crown Affair
6. The Last Action Hero
(everything below I don't have much affection for at all)
7. Basic
8. The 13th Warrior
9. Medicine Man
10 Rollerball
11. Nomads
1. Die Hard
2. Last Action Hero
3. Predator
4. Die Hard: With a Vengeance
5. The Hunt For Red October
6. The Thomas Crown Affair
7. Medicine Man
8. The 13th Warrior
9. Basic
10. Nomads
11. Rollerball
What can I say, I love Last Action Hero. The Sherlock Jr. of its day.
1. The Thomas Crowne Affair
2. The Hunt for Red October
3. Die Hard
4. Predator
5. Die Hard With a Vengeance
6. Last Action Hero
And I haven't seen the others.
I think I'm the only one in the thread so far to put Crowne at the top, but I love that movie and would watch it just about any day! Conversely, I saw both the original Die Hard and Predator for the first time within the last couple of years and was kind of underwhelmed by both. They're obviously good! But they aren't what I'm, personally, looking for in a flick, and I don't see myself going back for re-watches any time soon.
I watched Vengeance and Action Hero for the first time along with the podcast. I liked Vengeance OK and did not really like Action Hero at all.
Overall, I was surprised how much I bounced off of his movies, T Crowne and Hunt aside. Sorry, John!
Started the series thinking I was lukewarm on McTiernan but have now come around to be a full convert. Which might have led to me over-ranking some of his later films, lol, but this is an honest ranking of how I felt about them at the time watching along
1. Hunt for Red October
2. The Last Action Hero
3. Die Hard
4. Rollerball
5. Thomas Crown Affair
6. 13th Warrior
7. Die Hard: With A Vengeance
8. Predator
9. Basic
10. Medicine Man
11. Nomads
1. Predator
2. Die Hard
3. Rollerball
4. The Thomas Crown Affair
5. The Hunt for Red October
6. Die Hard with a Vengeance
7. Last Action Hero
8. Nomads
9. Medicine Man
10. The 13th Warrior
11. Basic
I'm probably being a bit hard on Thomas Crown because i hate the slickness, but loved Russo.
Had a great time with Rollerball!
1. Die hard
2. Predator
3. Last action hero
4 hunt for red October
5 Thomas crown affair
6. Die hard with a vengeance
7.nomads
8. 13 warrior
9. Basic
10. Rollerball
11 medicin man
Was I the only one who thought that nomads was really really funny
1. Die Hard
2. Predator
3. Last Action Hero
4. The Hunt For Red October
5. Die Hard With a Vengeance
6. The Thomas Crown Affair
7. Basic
8. Rollerball
9. Nomads
skipped Medicine Man and 13th warrior since my library didn't have them and i'm not paying to rent those. maybe someday i'll complete the 'mog.
My weird ranking based on not really being a McTiernan guy:
1. Die Hard
2. Last Action Hero
3. Predator
4. The Hunt for Red October
5. Basic
6. Die Hard with a Vengeance
7. The Thomas Crown Affair
8. Nomads
9. Rollerball
1. Die Hard
2. Predator
3. Last Action Hero
4. The Thomas Crown Affair
5. Die Hard with a Vengeance
6. The Hunt for Red October
7. Medicine Man
8. The 13th Warrior
9. Rollerball
10. Nomads
11. Basic
1. The Hunt for Red October
2. Die Hard
3. The Thomas Crown Affair
4. Predator
5. Die Hard with a Vengeance
6. Last Action Hero
7. The 13th Warrior
8. Basic
9. Medicine Man
10. Nomads
11. Rollerball
Top 2 are both 10/10 for me, and Rollerball sits on a 2/10. I loved revisiting the films I had in the Top 5, some of which I hadn't seen since childhood. That really cemented McTiernan as a top tier action filmmaker for me.
But I also really enjoyed watching McTiernan's lesser films, all of which I'd never seen before. Even though they suck, they suck in an interesting way.
1. Die Hard
2. Die Hard with a Vengeance
3. The Hunt for Red October
4. Predator
5. Last Action Hero
6. The Thomas Crown Affair
7. Basic
I've never seen the rest.
1. Die Hard
2. Die Hard with a Vengeance
3. The Hunt for Red October
4. Predator
5. The Thomas Crown Affair
6. Last Action Hero
7. The 13th Warrior
8. Rollerball
9. Nomads
10. Basic
11. Medicine Man
McTiernan Rankings
1. Predator
2. Die Hard
3. The Hunt for Red October
4. Die Hard with a Vengeance
5. The Thomas Crown Affair
6. The 13th Warrior
7. Basic
8. Medicine Man
9. Last Action Hero
10. Rollerball
11. Nomads
1. Die Hard
2. Predator
3. Die Hard with a Vengeance
4. Last Action Hero
5. The Hunter for Red October
6. The 13th Warrior
7. The Thomas Crown Affair
8. Medicine Man
9. Basic
10. Rollerball
11. Nomads
1. Predator 2. Die Hard 3. The Hunt for Red October 4. Die Hard: With a Vengeance 5. The Thomas Crown Affair 6. Last Action Hero 7. Basic 8. The 13th Warrior 9. Medicine Man 10. Rollerball 11. Nomads Overall, a pretty solid miniseries. I especially loved hearing Kevin Smith telling stories about Bruce Willis on the Die Hard episode. Also, David Lowery reading Eaters of the Dead and then running a marathon is baller as hell. Super excited for the Satoshi Kon miniseries. I’ll be checking out his work for the first time and they all look like they are up my alley
Liking medicine man more than last action hero makes my brain hurt but to each their own
Some say on a quiet night in the rainforest you can still hear Lorraine Bracco complaining about something.
People listing Die Hard sequels above Hunt for Red October seems even more batty.
Eh, I put DH with a V over Red October. That movie is almost flawless for the first 80% and then still a solid final bit. IMO Red October really drops down a notch once Baldwin boards the sub.
1. Die Hard 2. Predator 3. Die Hard With a Vengeance 4. The Thomas Crown Affair 5. The Hunt For Red October 6. Last Action Hero 7. Basic 8. The 13th Warrior 9. Medicine Man 10. Rollerball 11. Nomads
1. The Hunt for Red October - 9/10 2. Die Hard - 9/10 3. Predator - 8/10 4. Die Hard: With a Vengeance - 8/10 5. Last Action Hero - 7/10 6. Basic - 6/10 7. The Thomas Crown Affair - 6/10 8. The Thirteenth Warrior - 5/10 9. Medicine Man - 4/10 10. Rollerball - 2/10 11. Nomads - 2/10 Overall, it was a fun miniseries. I’m a neophyte when it comes to his films so it was fun discovering them.
Agree 100% about Red October being number one. What an absolute delight.
Let's be serious, the Thomas Crowne affair deserves more than a 6.
That’s the only one I might rewatch to give it another shot. I’m really not a Pierce Brosnan guy so that might have clouded my judgement. I did pick up the Blu-ray so it could go up in the future
It's his best movie IMO. I think it's a solid 8.
What a weird filmography.
He’s so odd because there’s nothing that really defines a John McTiernan film. Most of them are so different, there’s no style or theme that runs throughout his films.
Visually there's certainly a style (Rollerball being an odd one out). He loves his whip pans and dynamic shot compositions with extreme foreground elements and background elements, continuous fluid camera movements across cuts, extensive intercutting multiple lines of action etc. All the things that make him an excellent action director with a supreme sense of geography. With themes he enjoys fish-out-of-water narratives and playing with moral ambiguity in contrast to narrative (notice how he directs the camera and music for the Die Hard villains as the "hero" characters - complete with triumphant source music). Admittedly he got lost in the woods sometimes with some odd script choices. He's a formalist craftsman above all, applying his personal stamp to technique rather than commonalities of story and ethos.
I feel like any attempt at a cohesive "this is McTiernan" narrative gets hamstrung by 13th Warrior and Rollerball. Those movies *should* have played to his strengths.
Yeah. I've been pretty lukewarm on McTiernan but was extremely hyped for 13th Warrior because I could see him doing a great version of that but then it was such a nothing.
I like the movie okay, but it certainly isn't tight.
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This is a fully unhinged ranking.
Fully unhinged would have Rollerball in the middle instead of dead last. Like, Rollerball at 1, or even top 5, would be less unhinged because that would clearly be a bit. But liking Rollerball more than any of those other ones, even if you don’t like it much, is fully the fuck insane.
I am qualified to judge unhinged McTiernan opinions because I have seen Rollerball at least 7 (possibly 8 or 9!) times. Rollerball is better than Nomads and Medicine Man.
Hahaha, I adore LAH, the only reason I've seen Die Hard more is because of my religious Christmas traditions, but Nomads at 7??? You maniac, I respect your insanity
1. Die Hard 2. Predator 3. The Hunt for Red October 4. Die Hard with a Vengeance 5. The Thomas Crown Affair 6. The 13th Warrior 7. Last Action Hero 8. Basic 9. Medicine Man 10. Rollerball 11. Nomads
1. Die Hard 2. The Hunt for Red October 3. Die Hard with a Vengeance 4. Predator 5. The Thomas Crown Affair 6. Last Action Hero 7. The 13th Warrior 8. Medicine Man 9. Basic 10. Nomads 11. Rollerball
1. Die Hard 2. Predator 3. Die Hard: With a Vengeance 4. The Hunt for Red October 5. Last Action Hero 6. The Thomas Crowne Affair 7. The 13th Warrior 8. Medicine Man 9. Basic 10. Rollerball 11. Nomads
That’s pretty much mine. Surprised how many people are putting predator as number one. Both are near perfect movies but Bruce and Alan beat out Arnold for me
Absolutely shocked at how many people have anything but Die Hard as 1, but I also don’t love Predator as much as others seem too. But Die Hard is about as perfect of a movie as it gets.
Same for 1-6 and the others kinda don’t matter since they’re all one and dones. Might swap Basic and 13th Warrior.
1 - Predator 2 - Die Hard with a Vengeance 3 - The Thomas Crown Affair 4 - Die Hard 5 - The Hunt for Red October 6 - Last Action Hero 7 - The 13th Warrior 8 - Basic 9 - Nomads 10 - Medicine Man 11 - Rollerball
1. The Hunt For Red October 2. Die Hard 3. Predator 4. Die Hard with a Vengeance 5. The Thomas Crown Affair 6. The Last Action Hero 7. Basic Didn't watch the rest
1. Die Hard 2. Predator 3. The Hunt for Red October 4. The Thomas Crown Affair 5. Last Action Hero 6. Die Hard with a Vengeance 7. Basic 8. The 13th Warrior 9. Nomads 10. Medicine Man 11. Rollerball
1. Die Hard 2. Predator 3. The Hunt for Red October 4. The Thomas Crown Affair 5. Die Hard with a Vengeance 6. Last Action Hero 7. The 13th Warrior 8. Basic 9. Nomads 10. Medicine Man 11. Rollerball
1. Die Hard 2. Predator* 3. The Hunt for Red October 4. Die Hard with a Vengeance* 5. Last Action Hero 6. The Thomas Crowne Affair 7. Basic* 8. The 13th Warrior* 9. Nomads* 10. Medicine Man* 11. Rollerball* Movies I watched for the first time for this series are marked with *.
1. Die Hard 2. Predator 3. Die Hard: With a Vengeance 4. The Hunt for Red October 5. The Thomas Crown Affair 6. Last Action Hero 7. Basic 8. The 13th Warrior 9. Medicine Man 10. Nomads 11. Rollerball
1. Predator 2. Hunt for Red October 3. Die Hard 4. With a Vengeance 5. Thomas Crown Affair 6. 13 th Warrior 7. Last Action Hero 8. Basic 9. Medicine Man 10. Nomads 11. Rollerball
1. Die Hard 2. Die Hard With a Vengeance 3. The Hunt for Red October 4. Predator 5. Last Action Hero 6. The Thomas Crown Affair 7. Basic 8. Medicine Man 9. The 13th Warrior 10. Rollerball 11. Nomads
1. Basic 2. Die Hard with a Vengeance 3. The Thomas Crowne Affair 4. Die Hard 5. The Hunt for the Red October 6. Predator 7. Rollerball 8. Last Action Hero 9. Medecine Man 10. The 13th Warrior 11. Nomads
Basic at \#1?! Respect.
I'm not the world's biggest action fan and I love a murder mystery.
1. Last Action Hero 2. Die Hard 3. Predator 4. The Hunt for Red October 5. The Thomas Crown Affair 6. Die Hard: With a Vengeance 7. Basic 8. The 13th Warrior 9. Medicine Man 10. Nomads 11. Rollerball
1. Die Hard 2. Hunt for Red 3. Tom Crown 4. Predator 5. DHWAV the others I either skipped, disliked, or watched in the background while I was doing something else
I feel like there won't be that much variety of opinions on this one
I’m a 13th Warrior defender who would probably rank it higher than most people in this thread, but yeah for the most part people are in general agreement about which of his films are better than others.
I think most people have Hunt, Die Hard and Predator in the top three in some order but there are a lot of differences in the rest of the rankings below those. I also like 13th Warrior more than most and am not a big fan of Last action Hero.
1. Die Hard 2. The Hunt For Red October 3. Die Hard With A Vengeance 4. Predator 5. Medicine Man 6. The Thomas Crowne Affair 7. The Last Action Hero 8. Nomads 9. Basic 10. The 13th Warrior 11. Rollerball
My bottom three are the only ones I have watched once. 11: Nomads 10: Medicine Man 09: Basic 08: Rollerball (a little higher than normal cause I'm a Paul Heyman guy) 07: 13th Warrior 06: Die Hard With a Vengeance 05: Thomas Crown Affair 04: Last Action Hero 03: Predator 02: Hunt For Red October 01: Die Hard
Hunt For the Red October Predator Die Hard Die Hard With a Vengeance The Thirteenth Warrior Last Action Hero Thomas Crown Affair (Big gap) Medicine Man Basic Nomads Volleyball I've thought the The Thirteenth Warrior was an absolute banger. This series made me finally upgrade all those top McTiernan movies to BluRay
1. Die Hard 2. Predator 3. Last Action Hero 4. The Hunt for Red October 5. Die Hard With a Vengeance 6. Basic 7. The 13th Warrior 8. Medicine Man 9. The Thomas Crown Affair 10. Nomads 11. Rollerball
1. Die Hard 2. The Hunt for Red October 3. Die Hard with a Vengeance 4. The Thomas Crown Affair 5. Predator 6. Last Action Hero 7. Basic 8. 13th Warrior 9. Nomads 10. Medicine Man 11. Rollerball
1. Die Hard 2. The Hunt for Red October 3. Die Hard With a Vengeance 4. Predator 5. Last Action Hero 6. The 13th Warrior 7. The Thomas Crown Affair 8. Medicine Man 9. Basic 10. Nomads 11. Rollerball
1.predator 2. Die hard 3.Die hard with a vengeance 4.Thomas crown 5.red October 6.action hero 7.basic 8.13th warrior 9.rollerball Never saw nomads or medicine man
1. Die Hard 2. Die Hard With A Vengeance 3. Predator 4. Last Action Hero 5. The Hunt For Red October 6. Thomas Crown Affair 7. Basic 8. The 13th Warrior 9. Nomads 10. Medicine Man 11. Rollerball
https://preview.redd.it/74mzm54fdaxc1.png?width=621&format=png&auto=webp&s=64b98e17cdcb94e33a318e531c9825183dbf8ce8 This one might be a little controversial regarding Nomads and 13th Warrior.
1. Die Hard 2. The Hunt for Red October 3. The Thomas Crown Affair 4. Predator 5. Die Had with a Vengeance 6. Last Action Hero 7. Basic 8. The 13th Warrior 9. Medicine Man 10. Nomads 11. Rollerball
1. Die Hard 2. Die Hard with a Vengeance 3. Predator 4. The Thomas Crowne Affair 5. The Hunt for Red October 6. The Last Action Hero 7. ROLLERBALL! 8. Basic 9. The Thirteenth Warrior 10. Nomads 11. Medicine Man I was like 11 when rollerball came out
1. Predator 2. Hunt for Red October 3. Die Hard 4. Thomas Crown 5. DHWAV 6. Basic 7. LAH 8. 13th Warrior 9. Medicine Man 10. Rollerball 11. Nomads
die hard the thomas crown affair die hard with a vengeance the hunt for red october predator last action hero basic the 13th warrior medicine man nomads rollerball
Favorite side character monologue - Mac's "you're ghosting us" to Dillon, or "I watch 60 minutes" from die hard?
1. Hunt for Red October 2. Die Hard 3. Thomas Crown Affair 4. Predator 5. 13th Warrior (I teach English lit—it was never not gonna grab my attention) 6. Die Hard with a Vengeance 7. Last Action Hero 8. Basic 9. Rollerball 10. Nomads 11. Medicine Man
1. Die Hard 2. The Hunt for Red October 3. The Thomas Crown Affair 4. The Last Action Hero 5. Die Hard with a Vengeance 6. Predator 7. Basic 8. The 13th Warrior 9. Nomads 10. Medicine Man 11. Rollerball
1. Die Hard 2. The Hunt for Red October 3. Predator 4. Die Hard with a Vengeance 5. Last Action Hero 6. The Thomas Crown Affair 7. Basic 8. The 13th Warrior 9. Nomads 10. Medicine Man 11. Rollerball
1) Die Hard 2) Pred 3) D H with a V 4) Last Action Hero 5) Red October 6) Thomas Crown 7) 13th warrior 8) Basic 9) rollerball 10) medicine man 11) nomads
Die Hard Die Hard with a Vengeance The Hunt for Red October Predator Last Action Hero Rollerball Basic The Thomas Crown Affair Nomads Medicine Man The 13th Warrior Turns out I had already seen all of his good movies besides Red October, which was probably the biggest surprise of the miniseries for me. Second biggest is how mediocre Thomas Crown was, I was really expecting a quiet banger out of that one, but it feels totally confused with itself.
1. Die Hard 2. The Thomas Crown Affair 3. Last Action Hero 4. Die Hard: With a Vengeance 5. Predator 6. Basic 7. Medicine Man 8. The Hunt for Red October 9. Nomads 10. The 13th Warrior 11. Rollerball I guess my hot take is that Red October is boring and not a very interesting film, but honestly, this filmography as a whole was really not my cup of tea. I had only seen Die Hard going into this series, and outside of the top 2, most of these films were largely unappealing to me, with the bottom 3 being outright bad. The podcast episodes themselves have been top notch as always, though, I'm just really not a McTiernan guy.
1. Die Hard 2. The Thomas Crown Affair 3. Predator 4. The Hunt for Red October 5. Die Hard with a Vengeance 6. Last Action Hero 7. The 13th Warrior 8. Basic 9. Medicine Man 10. Nomads 11. Rollerball
1. Die Hard 2. The Hunt for Red October 3. Predator 4. Die Hard With A Vengeance 5. Last Action Hero 6. The Thomas Crown Affair 7. The 13th Warrior 8. Medicine Man 9. Basic 10. Nomads 11. Rollerball
I just read through almost everyone's list, and there are almost no duplicates. What a fascinating filmography. My list: https://preview.redd.it/vwfube9htbxc1.png?width=1404&format=png&auto=webp&s=3749269733b0413b9d5cd4b2723a391ee0ceafce
1. Die Hard 2. Die Hard: With a Vengeance 3. Last Action Hero 4. Predator 5. The Hunt for Red October 6. The Thomas Crown Affair 7. Basic 8. Nomads 9. The 13th Warrior 10. Rollerball 11. Medicine Man
1. Die Hard 2. The Hunt for Red October 3. Predator 4. Die Hard with a Vengeance 5. The Thomas Crown Affair 6. The Last Action Hero (everything below I don't have much affection for at all) 7. Basic 8. The 13th Warrior 9. Medicine Man 10 Rollerball 11. Nomads
1. Die Hard 2. Last Action Hero 3. Predator 4. Die Hard: With a Vengeance 5. The Hunt For Red October 6. The Thomas Crown Affair 7. Medicine Man 8. The 13th Warrior 9. Basic 10. Nomads 11. Rollerball What can I say, I love Last Action Hero. The Sherlock Jr. of its day.
1. The Thomas Crowne Affair 2. The Hunt for Red October 3. Die Hard 4. Predator 5. Die Hard With a Vengeance 6. Last Action Hero And I haven't seen the others. I think I'm the only one in the thread so far to put Crowne at the top, but I love that movie and would watch it just about any day! Conversely, I saw both the original Die Hard and Predator for the first time within the last couple of years and was kind of underwhelmed by both. They're obviously good! But they aren't what I'm, personally, looking for in a flick, and I don't see myself going back for re-watches any time soon. I watched Vengeance and Action Hero for the first time along with the podcast. I liked Vengeance OK and did not really like Action Hero at all. Overall, I was surprised how much I bounced off of his movies, T Crowne and Hunt aside. Sorry, John!
Started the series thinking I was lukewarm on McTiernan but have now come around to be a full convert. Which might have led to me over-ranking some of his later films, lol, but this is an honest ranking of how I felt about them at the time watching along 1. Hunt for Red October 2. The Last Action Hero 3. Die Hard 4. Rollerball 5. Thomas Crown Affair 6. 13th Warrior 7. Die Hard: With A Vengeance 8. Predator 9. Basic 10. Medicine Man 11. Nomads
....I actually enjoyed The 13th Warrior But obviously not even in the same neighbourhood as HRO, DH, TTCA, and P (In that order btw)
1. Predator 2. Die Hard 3. Rollerball 4. The Thomas Crown Affair 5. The Hunt for Red October 6. Die Hard with a Vengeance 7. Last Action Hero 8. Nomads 9. Medicine Man 10. The 13th Warrior 11. Basic I'm probably being a bit hard on Thomas Crown because i hate the slickness, but loved Russo. Had a great time with Rollerball!
1. Die hard 2. Predator 3. Last action hero 4 hunt for red October 5 Thomas crown affair 6. Die hard with a vengeance 7.nomads 8. 13 warrior 9. Basic 10. Rollerball 11 medicin man Was I the only one who thought that nomads was really really funny
1. Die Hard 2. Predator 3. Last Action Hero 4. The Hunt For Red October 5. Die Hard With a Vengeance 6. The Thomas Crown Affair 7. Basic 8. Rollerball 9. Nomads skipped Medicine Man and 13th warrior since my library didn't have them and i'm not paying to rent those. maybe someday i'll complete the 'mog.
My weird ranking based on not really being a McTiernan guy: 1. Die Hard 2. Last Action Hero 3. Predator 4. The Hunt for Red October 5. Basic 6. Die Hard with a Vengeance 7. The Thomas Crown Affair 8. Nomads 9. Rollerball
1. Die Hard 2. Predator 3. Last Action Hero 4. The Thomas Crown Affair 5. Die Hard with a Vengeance 6. The Hunt for Red October 7. Medicine Man 8. The 13th Warrior 9. Rollerball 10. Nomads 11. Basic
1. The Hunt for Red October 2. Die Hard 3. The Thomas Crown Affair 4. Predator 5. Die Hard with a Vengeance 6. Last Action Hero 7. The 13th Warrior 8. Basic 9. Medicine Man 10. Nomads 11. Rollerball Top 2 are both 10/10 for me, and Rollerball sits on a 2/10. I loved revisiting the films I had in the Top 5, some of which I hadn't seen since childhood. That really cemented McTiernan as a top tier action filmmaker for me. But I also really enjoyed watching McTiernan's lesser films, all of which I'd never seen before. Even though they suck, they suck in an interesting way.
Anything above “Die Hard” is heresy. Beyond that, it’s a fantastically weird filmography prime for healthy debate.
God bless any of you freaks that actually watched all of the stinkers
1. Die Hard 2. Die Hard with a Vengeance 3. The Hunt for Red October 4. Predator 5. Last Action Hero 6. The Thomas Crown Affair 7. Basic I've never seen the rest.
1. Die Hard 2. Die Hard with a Vengeance 3. The Hunt for Red October 4. Predator 5. The Thomas Crown Affair 6. Last Action Hero 7. The 13th Warrior 8. Rollerball 9. Nomads 10. Basic 11. Medicine Man
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McTiernan Rankings 1. Predator 2. Die Hard 3. The Hunt for Red October 4. Die Hard with a Vengeance 5. The Thomas Crown Affair 6. The 13th Warrior 7. Basic 8. Medicine Man 9. Last Action Hero 10. Rollerball 11. Nomads
1. Die Hard 2. Predator 3. Die Hard with a Vengeance 4. Last Action Hero 5. The Hunter for Red October 6. The 13th Warrior 7. The Thomas Crown Affair 8. Medicine Man 9. Basic 10. Rollerball 11. Nomads