You mean John Carpenter the guy who made Escape from New York? I like that movie but come on now his movies got nothing on James Cameron's eye for action direction. Nothing he's got is as memorable as stuff like the Terminator 2 truck chase scene or even the final battle in Avatar.
When I mean those types of movies I am talking about stuff like Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Die Hard or more recent stuff like Mad Max Fury Road or Casino Royale. That's what I mean by blockbuster action movies.
On the other end of the scale of that we have crap like the Transformers movies or Spider Man 3/Amazing Spider Man 2.