Memorable catch-phrases from action movies

If you love a little action and entertainment in your life, then you will love these action-packed quotes curated by the Actionlu review team.

“I’ll be back.”

Terminator in “Terminator”

“Say hello to my little friend.”

Tony Montana in “Scarface”

“Go ahead, make my day.”

Harry Callahan in “Sudden Impact”

“Do you feel lucky, punk?”

Harry Callahan in “Dirty Harry”

“Hasta la vista, baby.”

Terminator in “Terminator 2”

“That’s not a knife, that’s a knife.”

Crocodile Dundee in “Crocodile Dundee II”

“Say ‘what’ again!”

Jules in “Pulp Fiction”

“If it bleeds, we can kill it.”

Dutch in “Predator”

“I ain’t got time to bleed.”

Blain in “Predator”

“Dodge this.”

Trinity in “The Matrix”

“Get off my plane.”

The President in “Air Force One”

“This is my BOOM STICK!”

Ash in “Army of Darkness”

Marcus Burnett in “Bad Boys 2”

“Good, bad, I’m the guy with the gun.”

Ash in “Army of Darkness”

“Forgiveness is between them and God. It’s my job to arrange the meeting.”

John Creasy in “Man on Fire”

“You’re a disease… and I’m the cure.”

Cobra Cobretti in “Cobra”

“Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and here the lamentation of their women.”

Conan in “Conan the Barbarian”

“Put the bunny back in the box.”

Cameron Poe in “Con Air”

“Consider that a divorce!”

Douglas Quade in “Total Recall”

“Pain don’t hurt.”

Dalton in “Road House”

“Leave the limbs you lost, those belong to me now.”

The Bride in “Kill Bill”

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Fantastic Action-Packed Adventure Books for Kids

Get your children reading with an exciting adventure book curated by the review team at Actionlu.

Press Start! Game Over, Super Rabbit Boy! by Thomas Flintham (ages 5 – 7)

In a video game where evil King Viking and his robot army are trying to ruin everyone’s fun, Super Rabbit Boy must level up to save the town. Colorful cartoons show the pixelated game with simple text.

Battle Bugs #1: The Lizard War by Jack Patton (ages 6 – 8)

Max LOVES bugs — but he never expects to become one! Not that he’s a bug, he decides to help his new bug friends fight the invading lizards who want the bug’s island. Adventure, battles, and bugs make this a fun first read in a new early chapter book series.

Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot The Voodoo Vultures from Venus by Dav Pilkey, illustrated by Dan Santat (ages 6 – 8)

Ricky and his best friend, Might Robot, spend action-packed days trying to save the world and get their chores done. Full-color illustrations make this enticing series even more interesting to read.

Secret Agent, Jack Stalwart by Elizabeth Singer Hunt (ages 6 – 9)

In this action-packed new series, nine-year-old secret agent Jack Stalwart travels the globe searching for his missing older brother Max while solving international crimes for the Global Protection Force.

Ferno the Fire Dragon (Beast Quest #1) by Adam Blade (ages 7 – 9)

This is a short, early chapter book about a young boy, Tom, who gets to go on a quest just like his father before him. Tom’s quest is to free a dragon from an enchanted collar, making him destroy the kingdom. It’s a decent story –short, adventurous, and features a kid-hero. What could be better than that!?

Catnapped! Puppy Pirates by Erin Soderbergh (ages 6 – 8)

Calling all dog lovers! Read about the most awesome pirate puppies who are now prisoners on the pirate kitten’s ship with no escape due to an unfortunate prank. This is a charming and funny rollicking adventure and #3 in the new Puppy Pirate series.

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The Most Hardcore Big Screen Action Heroes

There are certain things that make the best movie hero completely hardcore. Here is our list of the best big scren action heroes ever created.

Wolverine

Logan is a fictional character from the X-Men series. He is a mutant who possesses animal-keen senses, enhanced physical capabilities, and powerful regenerative ability known as a healing factor.

John Rambo

John James Rambo is a fictional character in the Rambo saga. He first appeared in the 1972 novel First Blood by David Morrell, but later became more famous as the protagonist of the film series.

T-800

The Terminator, or T-101 —a cybernetic organism, initially portrayed as a programmable assassin and military infiltration unit, and then as a bodyguard.

Indiana Jones

Dr. Henry Walton “Indiana” Jones, Jr., often shortened to “Indy”, is the title character of the Indiana Jones franchise craetd by George Lucas.

John McClane

John McClane is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Die Hard film series. He is portrayed by Bruce Willis and is best known for his sardonic one-liners.

Jason Bourne

Jason Charles Bourne is a fictional character and the protagonist of a series of novels by Robert Ludlum and subsequent film adaptations.

John Wick

John Wick is a fictional character and protagonist of the John Wick film franchise. He was created by Derek Kolstad and first appears in John Wick (2014) played by Keanu Reeves.

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Action and Adventure in Space

When the standard dose of action and adventure just isn’t enough to get your heart pumping and your blood flowing, why not take it to space? Here are three action adventure novels set in space that are sure to satisfy and thrill every bit as much as they entertain.

The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold. Part of a series following the saga of Miles Vorkosigan, a disabled military man whose intellect more than makes up for his disabilities, The Warrior’s Apprentice is a particularly action-packed installment that thrills with every page, and a shining example of why the Vorkosigan Saga has earned Bujold multiple Hugo awards.

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey. Once labelled “as close as you’ll get to a Hollywood blockbuster in book form” by io9, Corey’s tale of space adventure offers a little bit of everything, from mystery to romance, with a whole lot of thrills in between. Oh, and did we mention vomit zombies?

Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks. The third novel in the critically acclaimed Culture Series, Use of Weapons offers all the thrills we’ve come to expect from Banks, but this time in the form of a biography of a man called Cheradenine Zakalwe. Nominated for multiple awards and topping many fan favorite lists, it’s well worth the read.

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Action/Adventure Books With Queer Female Leads

We’re about as sick of the stereotypical male action here as you are, so here are two great novels with queer women taking the lead! Who says boys should have all the fun?

Lethal Affairs by Kim Baldwin and Xenia Alexiou. Lethal Affairs follows our heroine Domino, aka Luka Madison, an operative who can fight terrorists with heavy artillery every bit as comfortably as she can class it up with the rich elite. James Bond, eat your heart out. When she’s assigned to investigate a suspicious journalist named Hayley Ward, she finds herself questioning her loyalties and wondering if the ends justify the means. The first installment in the Elite Operatives adventure series, each of which features a different lesbian spy/assassin, Lethal Affairs is loaded with the perfect combination of edge-of-your-seat action and steamy romance.

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Princeless: Raven the Pirate Princess by Jeremy Whitley. Pirates and revenge make for some excellent reading, and this graphic novel combines the treat for the mind with a feast for the eyes. In Princeless: Raven the Pirate Princess, the first installment of an ongoing series, we meet Raven Xingtao, a queer woman of color who’s captain of her own pirate ship with an all-female crew. Raven is on a quest for revenge as she seeks out her own brothers who have taken what’s rightfully hers.

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Our Deep Rooted Need for Adventure

It’s easy to fall into routine. We are, after all, creatures of comfort. Wake up, get ready for work, got to work, come home from work, relax on the couch with Netflix, lather, rinse, repeat. Perhaps there’s the occasional trip to the gym our outing with friends, maybe even a vacation thrown in every once in a while for good measure.

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Somewhere along the way, however, we lost something. Somewhere along the way we dropped the sense of wonder that came from childhood dreams of grand adventures, adventures where we’re heroes on a quest, out to explore or out to save the day. These days we content ourselves to live vicariously through our social media feeds and travel blogs, rather than go out and have experiences of our own.

We’ve become a generation of consumers. Not consumers in the material sense that our parents were, as more and more of us are adopting minimalist lifestyles, but consumers of content. On-demand streaming services give us our fix whenever we want it, and ebooks have made the written word more accessible than ever. This is not a bad thing, but it’s time to do something better with it.

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Rather than consume our content and let it haunt our dreams with adventures we can never hope to live through, it’s time to let that content inspire us! It’s time to make ourselves the heroes we watch, read about, and indeed dream about. It’s time to satisfy our deep rooted need for adventure. Let’s go out and make it happen!

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Fun Facts About Die Hard

While the arguments rage on as whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie, the fact of the matter is that it’s one of the most beloved movies of all time regardless of its status as a holiday classic. Here are two fun facts about Die Hard you may not have known.

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Die Hard is based on a novel. Yes, that’s right, Bruce Willis’s action packed portrayal of detective John McClane is actually based on the adventures of detective Joe Leland, the principal character in Roderick Throp’s Nothing Lasts Forever. Although an adaptation of Throp’s novel, Die Hard did include some significant changes to the original story, notably the age of the protagonist (Willis played a much younger character) and the ending of the story, which was considerably happier in the movie.

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John McClane is barefoot for nearly the entire movie. Early in the film McClane receives the following advice from a fellow airplane passenger: “You want to know the secret to surviving air travel? After you get where you’re going, take off your shoes and socks. Then you walk around on the rug barefoot and make fists with your toes. I know, it sounds crazy. Trust me, I’ve been doing it for nine years. Yes, sir! Better than a shower and a hot cup of coffee.” Little did he know that listening to that advice would leave him barefoot throughout a terrorist encounter. Even when McClane has the opportunity to lift some shoes from one of the terrorists they end up being too small. Sometimes you just can’t catch a break.

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Action Packed Shows Based on Books

With so many great movies based on our favorite novels released on a regular basis, it may be easy to forget that television often takes its inspiration from the literary world as well. Here are three of the many popular shows that take their inspiration from books.

Game of Thrones. It’s no secret to fans that HBO’s smash hit Game of Thrones was inspired by George R.R. Martin’s bestselling series A Game of Ice and Fire. Although substantial changes were made in later seasons by the show writers, the first season closely mimics the first book. Martin himself contributed some earlier scripts for the show before dedicating himself to finishing the last novel in the series.

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Altered Carbon. Based on the 2002 novel of the same name, Altered Carbon tells the thrilling tale of a dystopian future like only Netflix can. Already renewed for a second season, we owe the first to British author Richard K. Morgan, whose book was brought to life by screenwriter and producer Laeta Elizabeth Kalogridis.

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The 100. Action, excitement, and drama are to be found in abundance in The CW’s fan-favorite sci-fi show The 100. Although the show differs considerably form Kass Morgan’s series of young adult novels of the same name, The 100 nonetheless shares the basic premise of the novels: A scouting mission to earth to see if it’s still habitle manned by a group of teen criminals.

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