Action movies are all about movement.

Fights, chases, high adrenaline all around the world.

As such, they’re typically one of the genres with the least amount of dialogue.

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Among the many things that make it so great, of course, is Cameron’s script.

It’s one of the main reasons why this is one ofthe best sci-fi films of the 1980s.

You take the red pillyou stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."

Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) points a gun while holding Newt (Carrie Henn) in Aliens

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All in all,The Matrixhas dialogue as great as any sci-fi fan could possibly hope for.

There are many Arnie films that one might call highly quotable, but few as much asPredator.

“Get to the chopper!

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Whether it is or isn’t a Christmas movie is irrelevant.

The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club!”

Politically complex and cleverly satirical, it’s one of action’s most unique entries.

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These two masterpieces have lots of strengths, and their dialogue writing is typically one of the most underappreciated.

From great quotes like Yoda’s “do or do not.

Never has the action genre been more full of quotable lines.

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Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) offers Neo a blue pill and a red pill in The Matrix (1999).

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‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ (2010)

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Predator-Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) looks through a telescope as Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) looks on in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl’

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Bruce Willis as John McClane crawling down a vent while holding a lighter in Die Hard.

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A shirtless Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden, surrounded by men in Fight Club

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Heath Ledger as The Joker sticks his head out the window in The Dark Knight.

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The Terminator, played by actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, in a police station lobby in ‘The Terminator’ (1984).

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