Movies That Were Probably Made By a Spasm of Six Year-Olds on Acid: The Top 75 Action Films Poll Results Thread

psychomania. that's what they played late at night on t.v. all the time when i was a kid.

And that one, yes!

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#71

DIRTY HARRY

Don Siegel
1971
United States
(165 points, 7 votes)

I have decided I need to see about adopting Inspector Callahan's no-cursing policy of dry sarcasm and cruel disregard for vanity as opposed to my usual sailorstyle shit fuck piss ass bitch banter (starting with muttering "swell" and "marvelous" when receiving, uh, new information).

― El Tomboto

Robinson couldn't fire a gun without screwing his eyes shut and flinching, so they had to stop filming and send him off to a shooting range for a couple of days. Even after that you can still see him blinking whenever he fires. His performance is excellent though, just the simple bit where he's walking across the rooftop tearing up the piece of newspaper does so much to establish that the character is evil.

― snoball

the first "dirty harry" at least is fantastic. i love that shot where the camera just flies back when harry finally confronts scorpio on the football field.

― J.D.

DIRTY HARRY

everyone h8s temple of doom is my understanding

― lag∞n, Monday, February 13, 2012 11:14 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe i was the only one to vote for it

i went to the same school as andrew robinson! for a year. they had a framed picture of him in the school library. he's awesome. now and then.

o damn, its startin already! temple of doom i havent seen since i was a p small kid, but it was real scary to me back then...

i voted for two bond movies, but goldfinger wasnt one of them, but it's a good'un

you're picking great shots for the pics!

i had to check to make sure i didn't vote for all of the first three indiana jones movies but nope no temple, i can breathe easy

surprised that temple of doom placed so low... also surprised to find myself voting it so high on my ballot. i guess when you have an opening like that the rest of the movie could have feature garfield and i would have voted it high

haha this is so OTM

sorry for not voting ;_;

it never clicked with me until now, but looking at that dirty harry pic its clear that harry callahan is the most badass sweater vest-wearer in cinema history

it was your #3, AP!

― omar little, Monday, February 13, 2012 11:13 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha! Just went back and reviewed my list. Wild Bunch & Seven Samurai got top billing, so my votes are less cracked out than I remember.

it never clicked with me until now, but looking at that dirty harry pic its clear that harry callahan is the most badass sweater vest-wearer in cinema history

suddenly Santorum makes sense

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#69 (TIE)

THE HURT LOCKER

Kathryn Bigelow
2009
United States
(167 points, 8 votes)

There were a bunch of times that Bigelow's choices in Hurt Locker had me muttering to myself "100% pure adrenaline" or other quotes from Point Break. Especially the drinking scenes. She loves to shoot scenes of dudes hangin' out.

― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic)

lemme just say that all other merits aside there are some really stunning shots in this pic

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.)

Finally saw the Hurt Locker, which I really liked.

I do wonder if Jeremy Renner's character ended up leaving his family again because the way his wife cleaned mushrooms was beyond the pale. Who soaks them in a tub of water?

― ô_o (Nicole)

kathryn bigelow

finally, someone running away from an explosion

not my bigelow of choice, but def a dope, tight little movie. also, a really cool title

I voted Raiders and left out Temple. I found myself selecting the best and only voting for one of any series.

hurt locker is one of those movies that i think of as not very good but also the rare intersection of oscar bait and ilx bait

i cant pick only one when it comes to like indiana jones and og star wars cuz when they are literally the best-directed action movies of all time it would be silly to just pick a token choice

I agree with you, slocki. In retrospect it was a weird choice.

are you saying you voted for jedi and crystal skulls?

is it really oscar bait? i still find its win kinda mystifying, only past winner i'd really compare it to is like The French Connection (or i guess Platoon)

the irl guy who it was based off of is apparently even more unhinged in reality, and is really notorious in the EOD community

are you saying you voted for jedi and crystal skulls?

― some dude, Monday, February 13, 2012 10:33 AM (6 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

obv I voted for phantom menace

are you saying you voted for jedi and crystal skulls?

― some dude, Monday, February 13, 2012 11:33 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i did vote for jedi! (but rather lower on the list)
i didnt vote for crystal skulls though, it's not as bad as the star wars prequels but not nearly the level of the others. i'm not saying you HAVE to vote for ALL of them, but there's no reason not to vote for more than one in a series if multiple entries are dope

yeah i guess it's not fair to call any oscar winner an oscar bait although there are some ways that i think it's reasonable to call it that

there is a reason! to make room for other flicks!

hurt locker is SO not oscar bait

oscar bait is like, expensive studio bought & paid for shit like "chocolat"

yeah i feel you s1ocks -- i meant to vote for all three o.g. SW movies but somehow i left out SW itself

go away, baitin'

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#69 (TIE)

DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE

John McTiernan
1995
United States
(167 points, 6 votes)

Die Hard With A Vengeance is a blast. It's too damn long and episodic - they clearly hadn't worked out how to end the thing - but it's got too many classic Die Hard lines to be discounted. OK, it was a weird move for the series to become a chase all around town instead of a confined-space thing, but there are other ways in which it fits into the lineage - mainly the great fake-out by the bad guy. And possibly my favorite line ever by John McClane, over a truck CB: Attention! Attention! Nils is dead! I repeat, Nils is dead, fuck-head!

― Doctor Casino

did you guys know Die Hard With A Vengeance is kind of an amazing, amazing movie?

― TOMBOT

the "annoying criminal mastermind" thing is the only reason that Die Hard With A Vengeance was even remotely watchable

― bernard snowy

i struggled with the jedi question but i still think it, like temple of doom, has some pretty all-time stuff in it

haha of all the movies i'd cite as archetypical oscar bait i wouldn't have gone for 'that chick flick about the chocolaterie'

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juliette binoche, judi dench, general faux-foreignness, miramax...

but you can pretend i said 'the shipping news' or any other lasse hallstrom movie instead haha

Still bothered (from a realism standpoint and just because it didn't fit into the narrative) by the scene in The Hurt Locker where an EOD team turns into a sniper team.

Bummed I didn't vote - would have voted for the first three Indy movies and all three Bournes no doubt.

thing about hurt locker is, when the movie showed at toronto the year before it came out, they weren't even sure it was gonna get a theatrical release!

DHWAV is really cool, didnt vote for it but its a strong movie

yeah, it definitely faced a lot of commercial resistance for, y'know, not being much of an action movie (xpost)

yeah hurt locker is a small and mean Man Movie, a very atypical BP winner imo

Star Wars is great, but it didn't make my top 50. I think mostly due to going to the theatre to see the re-release of New Hope and being all fuck it I give up on this fucker.

true (shameless name-droppy story): after the first tiff press screening i went to the film's publicist office to try and book an interview with k-bigs and she was standing there in the hotel suite getting her hair done up by her pr rep. i told her i'd just been to the screening and she really nervously, charmingly, interrogated me on how it went.. "do you think people liked it??"

i struggled with the jedi question but i still think it, like temple of doom, has some pretty all-time stuff in it

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, February 13, 2012 11:39 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

you know whats weird is that i didnt vote for any spielberg even though i consider him the greatest action director probably ever to live

that is weird!

not even ALWAYS?

lol

oh man, Die Hard With A Vengeance is such a great movie

^^^

'with a vengeance' probably the best action sequel suffix of all time, too

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#67 (TIE)

CON AIR

Simon West
1997
United States
(170 points, 6 votes, 1 first place)

This movie is both awful and great, I would rather watch it than pretty much any other 90s action movie.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0

man 97 was a fantastic year for movies

this isnt even the best action classic to come out that year i mean

chapelle is pimp in this but then everyone is p much amazing

― "what a great post" - some (Lamp)

I like the part where Steve Buscemi, infamous child killer, wanders around for a few minutes in the desert, amid the ruins of an abandoned airport, and stumbles upon a pigtailed toddler playing innocently in her back yard.

― Heady Snobbin (Pillbox)

Let Us Civilly Discuss Con Air

No, please? Because that movie involves Cage saying "Put the bunny down" like 8 times.

Although Cusack as the fast-talking city guy in the cream linen suit A+++.

Why yes, I did see this movie twice in the theater (for free) (in college), why do you ask?

would be good timing with the furious leveling things and playing with the legacy of the raid (which is pretty old at this point, ugh)

ok so I think I'll be doing another one of these, just to account for the new wave of incredible action movies we've seen in recent years (both mainstream and B-movie, and the global explosion of this type of cinema), plus it'll be interesting to see what films have completely fallen out of favor and which ones which finished lower or completely out of the running will make it this time.

my dream would be for gr80, max, s1ocki, and some others to come back to participate, to take it to the limit one more time if you will, but we'll see.

i've got a busy few weeks ahead but i'm sure i can at least start a nominations thread next week and try to keep it updated.

wahoo!

I'll definitely vote in this. Iko Uwais for the win!

^^^^^^

Finally a chance to be snarky to people when The Night Comes For Us doesn't win

please let’s do this so i can make everyone mad by putting rush hour 2 as my #1

id be down