got lots of statham love and all that. who doesn't? love lots of recent stuff.
my list of recent stuff would be all milla/statham pretty much.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/VANISHINGPT.jpg
#72
VANISHING POINT
Richard C. Sarafian1971United States163 points, 5 votes)
Vanishing Point set the standard for anti-establishment chase movies. In my opinion, Kowalski is one of the great anti-heroes in American cinema. The blind soul funk brother DJ, the open road in the American West, the Dodge Challenger into the bulldozers. Badass.
― bryan
In contrast, Vanishing Point is a grindhouse exploitation film that thinks it's Camus on LSD, and the gap between its intent and actuality is massive. I don't mind grindhouse exploitation, but Vanishing Point is pretentious in the worst way possible - stupid convinced that it's smart.
― Edward III (edward iii)
Taking Sides: Vanishing Point vs. Two Lane Blacktop
― omar little, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
Bond films basically ripoffs of Hitchcock's North by Northwest
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
ok
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
sadly that movie now just reminds me of the horrible band primal scream. thanks a lot, primal scream. i haven't seen it in years. existential road movies aren't really my thing anymore. though i really did enjoy deadhead miles recently.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/goldfinger.asp
Regarding the 'painted gold' thing: It's not true.
― Mark G, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not a good hipster cuz two lane blacktop always a bit boring to me. though yeah dennis and james look fab in it. the ultimate hipsters.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
Vanishing point was my number one pick! I remember talking with a friend about two different movies that had all these different moments that made no sense being in the same film, and then we realized we were both talking about Vanishing Point, and none of the other party goers believed that such a movie existed.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
Whenever I think that "TV wasn't actually that good back then", I remember I saw two lane blacktop, Vanishing Point and suchlike on good ol' ITV/BBC back in the days...
― Mark G, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
i should watch vanishing point again soon. it really has been since i was a teen.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
psychomania. that's what they played late at night on t.v. all the time when i was a kid.
Vanishing point was my number one pick!
Are you sure Omar got your ballot? He didn't include # of #1 votes in the results info.
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
yes, if at the same time u do not breathe through your mouth/nose
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
it was your #3, AP!
― omar little, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
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
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
― omar little, Monday, February 13, 2012 11:13 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
everyone h8s temple of doom is my understanding
And that one, yes!
― Mark G, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/dirtyharry.png
#71
DIRTY HARRY
Don Siegel1971United 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.
― omar little, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
― 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
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
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
― some dude, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
haha this is so OTM
sorry for not voting ;_;
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
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
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
suddenly Santorum makes sense
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/hurtlocker-1.jpg
#69 (TIE)
THE HURT LOCKER
Kathryn Bigelow2009United 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
― omar little, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
finally, someone running away from an explosion
― am0n, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
not my bigelow of choice, but def a dope, tight little movie. also, a really cool title
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
I voted Raiders and left out Temple. I found myself selecting the best and only voting for one of any series.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
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
― some dude, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
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
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
I agree with you, slocki. In retrospect it was a weird choice.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
are you saying you voted for jedi and crystal skulls?
― some dude, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
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
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
― some dude, Monday, February 13, 2012 10:33 AM (6 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
obv I voted for phantom menace
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
― 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
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
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
― some dude, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
there is a reason! to make room for other flicks!
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
hurt locker is SO not oscar bait
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
oscar bait is like, expensive studio bought & paid for shit like "chocolat"
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i feel you s1ocks -- i meant to vote for all three o.g. SW movies but somehow i left out SW itself
― some dude, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
go away, baitin'
― am0n, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/diehard3.jpg
DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE
John McTiernan1995United 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
― omar little, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
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, 13 February 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
haha of all the movies i'd cite as archetypical oscar bait i wouldn't have gone for 'that chick flick about the chocolaterie'
― some dude, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/03/04/PK146052.DTL&ao=all
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
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
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
surely statham career-best in snatch
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Sunday, 11 March 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
yeah but as Road Warrior, not Mad Max 2. outside the fold, there was no indication it placed
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Sunday, 11 March 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link
i had a lot of fun on this thread. back in the day.
― scott seward, Monday, 12 March 2018 00:37 (six years ago) link
i'm a bit Statham-agnostic, i think his brand of brute charisma has its charms but not all of the time. i'm completely down with any style or type of movie but Crank didn't work for me as well as it did on others, ultimately. my beef w/it is ultimately pretty limited, i won't argue much one way or another, not even for Crank: High Voltage which i just couldn't get w/whatsoever. i have no issues w/Crank placing, nothing in this poll for me is a total hard pass.
― omar little, Monday, 12 March 2018 02:12 (six years ago) link
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!
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Monday, 12 March 2018 08:54 (six years ago) link
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
― oh sh!t a ¯\⎝⏠___⏠⎠/¯ (sic), Thursday, July 15, 2010 10:35 AM
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:09 (six years ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 12 March 2018 12:12 (six years ago) link
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
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 March 2018 12:44 (six years ago) link
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 13:20 (six years ago) link
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.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 06:58 (six years ago) link
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
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 08:54 (six years ago) link
i'd always avoided it because i'd heard it starts with some horrible act of violence against his family or something?
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 11:23 (six years ago) link
yes, also SPOILER SPOILER a dog ;_;
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 11:24 (six years ago) link
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
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 11:28 (six years ago) link
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
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 11:34 (six years ago) link
yep
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 11:38 (six years ago) link
also lotr villains spotting iirc
Touchez pas au GrisbiClasses Tous RisquesThe League of GentlemanThe Silent PartnerThe Anderson TapesInvestigation of a Citizen Above SuspicionMilan Caliber 9Cash on Demand
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 11:49 (six years ago) link
Wrong effing thread!
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 13:58 (six years ago) link
yeah bizarro otmMM1 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.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
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
― omar little, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
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.
― ☮️ (peace, man), Monday, 30 December 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
it’s so bananas but a deep favorite
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 December 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
pour one out for William Friedkin #14 and #37 in our action poll, #1 in our uh hearts?or cars, maybe. https://imgur.com/dKJr4NVhttps://64.media.tumblr.com/848c880abe408d43287347f7fa586e82/tumblr_miwmsaYV5p1qg4blro1_500.gif
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 August 2023 23:46 (eight months ago) link