[Protoclown]

Good action movies = Die Hard, Aliens, The Terminator

Crappy action movies, but still enjoyable if thought of as comedies = XXX, The Transporter, anything by Jerry Bruckenheimer

See the difference here is that the top three movies, while not exactly "thinking man's films" don't REQUIRE you to turn off your brain to accept what's going on. The bottom three examples do, or else you're just going to find them too hilarious to take seriously. There is nothing funny about the first three examples that isn't intentionally meant to be.