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

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'

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/03/04/PK146052.DTL&ao=all

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?

con air's dreck but its fun. i like it because its one of those movies where the protagonists fists are registered as deadly weapons or whatever

every time Con Air is on TV my wife and i have the same argument about how she thinks it's hilarious and entertaining and i'm like nah this is just bad

yeah i think its real close to bad for me. i kinda view it similarly to The Rock, which also straddles the funbad line, but i think with more entertaining performances

oh fuck The Rock was not on my ballot! was it even nominated? for shame

Is that the Edward Norton Alcatraz one? I just watched that last year at some point. I don't think I like guns as much as martial arts, so it was not a bad way to spend a Sunday hangover but did not make my list.

I think you all mean "Academy Award-nominated film 'Con Air'"

For me, The Rock is on the 'fun' side, Con Air is on the 'bad' side.

I don't even know if Die Hard with a Vengeance is the third or fourth one. Is it the one that really got the ball rolling as Samuel L. Jackson as permanently angry character actor?

I like The Rock OK, think Con Air is execrable/risible, but not in a good way.

To be fair to The Rock, had I thought of it in time, I would have had to ask myself, "Does this go on the list? Hmm. Not today." which is more than I can say for Con Air.

i don't know anything about action movies but con air is so bad, y'all! sorry to be that asshole invading the thread.

Ultraviolet and Equilibrium aren't making this list, are they ;_;

wait a second, who gave con air a first place vote. i just noticed that!

equilibrium got on my shortlist but not the 50 but i think i regret that