However, the notion of such cinematic feats spans back far further than the turn of the century.

However, the storys transition to feature films reaped instant rewards.

The original series ran for five films that, admittedly, did vary in quality quite dramatically.

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Vin Diesel and Paul Walker as Dom and Brian looking to their left from inside a car in the film The Fast and the Furious

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Grant lures a T-Rex away from an overturned jeep using a signal flare in Jurassic Park.

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Keanu Reeves as John Wick walking in a Church lit by dozens of candles in ‘John Wick: Chapter 4.'

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Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) in the ring fighting Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) in Rocky (1976)

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Arnold Schwarzenegger as T800 firing a minigun in Terminator 2: Judgment Day

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Bruce Willis as John McClane looking down from a broken window in Die Hard.

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The crew of the Enterprise look perplexed in ‘Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan’.

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Jason Bourne walking down the street and turning to his right in The Bourne Identity

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A bloodied and sweaty Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) holds up a shotgun as he searches, wide-eyed, around a cabin in ‘The Evil Dead’ (1981).

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Caesar (Roddy McDowell) gives a surprised expression as he is backed up by his fellow apes in ‘Battle for the Planet of the Apes’ (1973).

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