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

maybe they just like good ones!

People who love Con Air will watch anything if it is on.

branded to kill's been on my need-to-see list for more than a decade, wtf am i waiting for

is Con Air the Dirty Dancing of action movies?

I don't...know. I genuinely like Dirty Dancing, so I want to say that it's not.

People who love Con Air will watch anything if it is on.

no wai, i will not watch eg armageddon or independence day

(Con Air my 24)

Independence Day is exactly the same type of movie as Con Air!

this next one will be the last one for at least awhile, gotta head in to work. will try to get 61-65 out around midday if i can.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/assault13.jpg

#66

ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13

John Carpenter
1976
United States
(172 points, 7 votes)

the music, the creepy "silenced" bullets, the totally shocking ice cream scene, the fact that the plot is straightforward & scary (as opposed to the shitty twist the remake has--also the remake opening is so zzzzz, it's exactly the first 10 minutes of bruce willis's "hostage"! EXACTLY)... the weirdly unpretty '70s actors... the genuine tension... the fact that it's awesome!

― s1ocki (slutsky)

i don't hate the carpenter versh, but it's very 'film buff' in that it has zero 'content', kind of. i *like* that the new one has a (very stock) 'police corruption' story. i've thought about the remake a bit, and i've decided it's more hawksian, or explores the hawksian problematic(!), much more thoroughly than the '76. it's about the possibility of moral action. the central conflict: why should hawke protect the crims when the cops are in cahoots with them -- is sharp. i don't think carpenter aims for that.

but otoh i thought the first 10mins of the '05 one were skill. i haven't seen 'hostage'.

― N_RQ

Love it. Like "Night of the Living Dead" with a sense of humor.

Con Air was totally fun and watchable. Not sure why it didn't make my list.

Omar needs to do all film polls -- he picks great stills.

Stills in this thread are perfect so far.

(Though fittingly they should all be gifs)

Independence Day is exactly the same type of movie as Con Air!

nah! the cast is thinner, and there's less human-scale business.

or rather yes, it's the same type, but…

i omitted precinct cuz i havent seen it since i was like 13 and i tried to keep it to movies ive watched in the last 10 years, but there's a few other carpenters on my list.

wmc otm

One of the best things about Assault on Precinct 13 was the fact that there was just this faceless brutality coming down on these dudes. It was just this is happening and it is horrible.

con air is eh okay. doesn't need to be on any best-of list though. i never saw hurt locker. assault is the first one i voted for!

oh and i never saw branded to kill. i'll write that one down.

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oh and i didn't vote for any die hrds but yeah you gotta give props there.

I like that I don't really know anyone in Assault - slightly awkward, likeable non-stars.

Also the absurd gang bodycount - goes from 'hmmm I am interested in these revolutionary looking dudes' to oh ok they are a zombie army (with the capacity to carry their corpses away).

And the music of course. Yeah, the ice-cream scene too. Maybe should have put this higher.

No die hards? But this franchise is king of the late 80s/early 90s big-budget action movie.

i dig the die hards a bunch, but i guess i don't love them. as in i don't want to marry them. i voted only for movies that i would marry.

scott, this is a "top" list, that it has nothing to do w/ the word "best" is pretty obv

<3 scott

i hate everything fuck tha world

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, February 13, 2012 12:36 PM

it was the 'best' in the noms stage!

I wd marry Time & Tide. I think it would marry me back, it's a marrying kind of movie.

I'm looking back at my list and finding some curious and disappointing omissions. I have several RC movies, but no AP13. This one should have been at least midway up my list.

the hurt locker and jarheads just jumble together in my mind to make one overloooong 7/10 movie where not much happens but soldiery lyfe is just so ~deep man~

Fuck why did I not vote for precinct 13 after my brilliant defense of it above

THL is way more fun than jarhead!

"... the fact that it's awesome!" is such a great way to describe all of carpenter's best flicks

^otm

Also lol at "hostage" and its opening scene, literally have no memory of that and the precinct remake now

its cool how i saw both of those movies only, like, 5-6 years ago, and can barely remember them in any way

I wd marry Time & Tide. I think it would marry me back, it's a marrying kind of movie.

― one little aioli (Laurel), Monday, February 13, 2012 12:39 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

i really fucked up by not voting for any tsui hark.

MORE, GIVE US MORE.

That was to omar.

He said he had to go to work!

I wish I had voted. I never vote in any of these things and then always regret it.

Dirty Harry at 71???? Fuck all y'all

have 2 agree

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

that wd be me iirc

it's a bummer cos i haven't got time to chew the fat right now. i'll be back.

man this is weird i think i voted for almost everything thats shown up so far

i didnt vote for any of these :|

maybe that means all of yours are in the topsies

APOCALYPTO - i only started to really vibe this after tombot posted about it on ilx. lush and lurid.

VANISHING POINT - looking over my ballot i think chase movies are the type of action movies i like the best. something about the way it focuses the narrative i think i find it easy to identify with the pursued, the glorious recklessness of it.

CON AIR - this is a trashy movie in p much every way. what i think distinguishes it from more contemp over the top action films is how
straight the movie plays it, how it never really winks or stops to acknowledge how gratuitous and sometimes reprehensible it is. its view of criminals, woman, gays, humanity is terrible but it has the attraction of uncensored id before uncensored id was all you could get, i guess

BRANDED TO KILL - my #3. just owns.