15 Most Mindlessly Entertaining Action Movies Ever

6. Road House

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Required Action Hero Line: "Pain don't hurt."

If you have a sleezy, out of control bar and a villainous rich man that owns the town, then the only logical solution is to hire a bouncer from the big city to clean up your bar and save your community.

The closest we'll get to a western film on this list (I mean, it has freakin' Sam Elliot being the awesome old partner). Patrick Swayze is Dalton, the badass, martial arts practicing bouncer in quite possibly the greatest B-movie of all time: Road House!

This is the ultimate movie to catch while you're flipping through channels on a boring weekend. There isn't a person alive that would turn away from the king of "so bad its good" action movies.

Swayze chose to take on this role rather than one of the leads in the next entry...

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