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

most Statham films are pretty empty, but he's got to do something to keep busy until Neveldine & Taylor win $113,000 on a scratch-it and make Crank 3 in a weekend with an iphone

ten years since we polled Statham!

hey, this guy knows what's up:

also, Crank 2 is in no way worse than Crank 1 - it just simply couldn't exist without the former, and is openly a distillation and exaggeration of the wondrousness of its predecessor. It is truly a tragedy that this was a box-office flop, and that we shall be denied the otherwise inevitable glory of CRANK 3-D.

― oh sh!t a ¯\⎝⏠___⏠⎠/¯ (sic), Thursday, July 15, 2010 10:35 AM

also day and knight is an unofficial mi imo

Fair.

I have seen most of Jaws, but I think it was something I was paying sporadic attention to as a callow youth, so I missed most/all of the build-up and only remember the gorier later bits.

Possibly similarly with Commado, or tbh I may just have watched a lot of "100 best Arnie lines!" Youtubes. My Arnie shame is clearly Total Recall, made all the worse by the fact that I have seen the remake (on a plane, mind).

I have a to-do item (on the "this list may see me out" list, mind) to catch up on all of these - I'm far more likely to get to it than the Comedy poll, for sure.

this is crazytalk, Chelios is adorable (and tbh more of a real person than almost any Statham character). Spy is probably the only film he's better in?

statham is an absolute fucking treasure in spy, i unironically love that guy

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many xposts to Dr C but posting vmic I will say that Mad Max is a must-watch.
Especially if you have seen and/or enjoyed Fury Road.
If you’ve seen Fury Road then it is worthwhile bc Mad Max pulls off a similar level of vehicular intensity & creativity with absolutely no money & no cgi, just pure gonzo creativity. And Immortan Joe = the same actor that is Toecutter in Mad Max.

Though caveat: Mad Max is a no-budget 70’s movie and is paced as such. Lotta weird sidetracks (saxophone!) so it does have a bit of an Mst3k-fodder feel at times.

if i may counter in the interests of balance

mad max 2 is the movie you will recognise in fury road

mad max one is just an australian dildo biker gang documentary with little enough action

i'd always avoided it because i'd heard it starts with some horrible act of violence against his family or something?

yes, also SPOILER SPOILER a dog ;_;

ah no that doesnt happen til like an hour in

nothing at all happens before that

srsly its an interesting movie but it really isnt as marketed

it's true that max's family don't make it out alive (spoiler alert) but it's not a particularly graphic end iirc?

veg very much otm that mad max is both fantastic and also a bit of a victim of the circumstances of its shoestring production

mad max is kinda the proof-of-concept, mad max 2 is a phenomenally exciting sharpening of miller's vision, thunderdome is an odd, charming but undeniably inferior quasi-kids-movie and fury road is takes all the good parts of the previous three and turns them into the gleaming, machine-tooled apex of the whole thing

yep

also lotr villains spotting iirc

Touchez pas au Grisbi
Classes Tous Risques
The League of Gentleman
The Silent Partner
The Anderson Tapes
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Milan Caliber 9
Cash on Demand

Wrong effing thread!

yeah bizarro otm

MM1 does show some pretty awful violence against women. Partly because it is an exploitation movie and partly because the story is intended to push Max beyond sanity in the worst ways imaginable. but it’s def not entirely a “fun watch”

i just dont like ppl skipping 1 and going straight to 2. it bugs me.

Has anyone put together a reel of all the scenes in Wild Bunch with the bunch just collectively laughing maniacally?

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, February 15, 2012 11:10 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i believe sam peckinpah did, it was called "the end of the movie the wild bunch"

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, February 15, 2012 8:15 AM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i lol hard every time i think of this post

I finally watched Red Dawn over the break (it's on Amazon Prime). Back when I was an actual spasming 6-year-old, I had seen tv commercials for the network premier of Red Dawn and gotten all worked up about it and my parents agreed to let me watch. But within the first few minutes when the teacher and all the students started getting killed, I was horrified and made them turn it off. This time around I made it all the way through! A very stupid movie, but kinda a blast.

it’s so bananas but a deep favorite

pour one out for William Friedkin #14 and #37 in our action poll, #1 in our uh hearts?
or cars, maybe.

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