Action Films Part 2 – The Near Perfect
The second tier. Nolan, Peckinpah, Carpenter, Milius, Verhoeven and Chan, plus the franchises that ran exactly as long as they had ideas.
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Fiction WritingAction Films Part 3 – The Excellent
The third tier of the action ranking. The Wachowskis, Miller, Scott, Favreau and McTiernan, plus the small films that beat their budgets and the franchise entries that earned their place.
Fiction WritingAction Films Part 4 – The Very Good
The fourth tier of the action ranking. Cameron, Verhoeven, Frankenheimer, Russell and Costner, plus the superhero films that built a franchise and the sequels that knew what they could not be.
Fiction WritingAction Films Part 5 – The Solid Craft
The fifth tier of the action ranking. Vaughn, Kosinski, Evans and Mangold, plus the Marvel entries that work and the remakes that understood which parts were load-bearing.
Fiction WritingAction Films Part 7 – The Watchable
The seventh tier of the action ranking. Nolan's trilogy conclusion, the Marvel entries that wobble, and the dystopias whose concepts outrank their execution.
Fiction WritingAction Films Part 8 – The Flawed
The eighth tier of the action ranking. Franchise machinery, sequels that undo their predecessors, and the remakes that removed the thing worth keeping.
Fiction WritingAction Films Part 9 – The Mediocre
The ninth tier of the action ranking. Franchise assembly, adaptations that lost the source, and the sequels that demonstrate what the originals were doing.
Fiction WritingAction Films Part 10 – The Poor
The tenth tier of the action ranking. The expensive failures, the franchise entries nobody needed, and the adaptations that had a good design and nothing to put in it.
Fiction WritingAction Films Part 11 – The Failures
The bottom of the action ranking. The films that failed at every level at once, and the negative ratings that record how far below zero a picture can go.
Fiction WritingHorror Films Part 1 – The Masterpieces
The top twenty horror films. Whale, Hitchcock, Tourneur, Demme and Aster, plus the creature pictures and the franchises that got their first entry right.
CrimeCrime Films Part 1 – The Masterpieces
The top twenty crime films. Lang, Huston, Wilder, Kurosawa, Polanski, Coppola and Scorsese, plus the modern entries that earned their place beside them.
CrimeCrime Films Part 2 – The Near Perfect
The second tier of the crime ranking. The Coens, Hanson, Fincher and Melville, plus the heist films that taught the form its grammar.