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
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#69 (TIE)
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
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.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
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
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, it definitely faced a lot of commercial resistance for, y'know, not being much of an action movie (xpost)
― some dude, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
yeah hurt locker is a small and mean Man Movie, a very atypical BP winner imo
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
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??"
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
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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
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
that is weird!
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
not even ALWAYS?
lol
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
oh man, Die Hard With A Vengeance is such a great movie
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
― White 'Poop' Jesus (snoball), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
'with a vengeance' probably the best action sequel suffix of all time, too
― some dude, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
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#67 (TIE)
CON AIR
Simon West1997United 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
― omar little, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
No, please? Because that movie involves Cage saying "Put the bunny down" like 8 times.
― one little aioli (Laurel), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
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
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
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
― some dude, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
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
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
oh fuck The Rock was not on my ballot! was it even nominated? for shame
― some dude, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― one little aioli (Laurel), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
I think you all mean "Academy Award-nominated film 'Con Air'"
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
For me, The Rock is on the 'fun' side, Con Air is on the 'bad' side.
― White 'Poop' Jesus (snoball), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― one little aioli (Laurel), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
i don't know anything about action movies but con air is so bad, y'all! sorry to be that asshole invading the thread.
― horseshoe, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
Ultraviolet and Equilibrium aren't making this list, are they ;_;
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
wait a second, who gave con air a first place vote. i just noticed that!
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
equilibrium got on my shortlist but not the 50 but i think i regret that
― beware of greeks bearing petrol bombs (darraghmac), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
If Con air is on, I will keep watching. Gathering of crudely individuated villains, always like that; quite thoroughly cast, there are actors I can watch everywhere; absurd huge crashy sequences. It's no Rock, though, no.
― woof, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
Con Air is packed with so many women/children in jeopardy gags. Will she get raped by the rapist? Will she get molested by the molester? Tune in and find out!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
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BRANDED TO KILL
Seijun Suzuki1967Japan(170 points, 4 votes)
I just watched Branded to Kill last night and, jesus. I mean, hallucinatory. Crazy. I can't think of another movie I've seen recently -- and I've seen a lot of good movies recently -- where past a point I had no earthly idea what was going to happen next, and then what happened next always blew my brain apart. There are so many individual genius sequences in there, and they all kind of pile on top of each other. Goddam. I've heard about him for a while, but I guess I didn't really know wtf he was up to.
-- gypsy mothra
Branded to Kill is utterly great -- picked it up several years back and Sean from SF (who's doing well, last I checked) and I had a good time watching it and playing 'spot the moments where Tarantino bugged out.'
-- Ned Raggett
― omar little, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
i love die hard 3 and only just now read this which sounds amazing:
An alternative ending to the one shown in the final movie was filmed with Jeremy Irons and Bruce Willis, set some time after the events in New York. It can be found on the special edition DVD. In this version it is presumed that the robbery succeeds, and that McClane was used as the scapegoat for everything that went wrong. He is fired from the NYPD after more than 20 years on the force and the FBI has even taken away his pension. Nevertheless he still manages to track Simon using the batch number on the bottle of aspirins and they meet in a cafe in Hungary.
In this version, Simon has double-crossed most of his accomplices, gotten the loot to a safe hiding place in Nova Scotia, and has the gold turned into statuettes of the Empire State Building in order to smuggle it out of the country; but he is still tracked down to his foreign hideaway (this version is very similar to Alec Guinness's situation in the British heist movie The Lavender Hill Mob made some 45 years earlier in which the stolen gold was turned into Eiffel Tower paperweights).
McClane is keen to take his problems out on Simon whom he invites to play a game called "McClane Says". This involves a form of Russian Roulette with a small Chinese rocket launcher that has had the sights removed, meaning it is impossible to determine which end is which. McClane then asks Simon some riddles similar to the ones he played in New York. When Simon gets a riddle wrong, McClane forces him at gunpoint to fire the launcher, which fires the rocket through Simon, killing him. Of course, McClane had been wearing a flak jacket (which was the answer to the final riddle: "What could he have brought to the meeting to save his life?"), so even if Simon had pointed the launcher the right way, it is likely that the relatively low-velocity rocket would not have caused McClane enough injury to prevent him from shooting Simon.
― johnny crunch, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
People who hate Con Air hate action movies.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
maybe they just like good ones!
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
People who love Con Air will watch anything if it is on.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
branded to kill's been on my need-to-see list for more than a decade, wtf am i waiting for
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
is Con Air the Dirty Dancing of action movies?
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
I don't...know. I genuinely like Dirty Dancing, so I want to say that it's not.
― one little aioli (Laurel), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
no wai, i will not watch eg armageddon or independence day
(Con Air my 24)
― woof, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
Independence Day is exactly the same type of movie as Con Air!
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link