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

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.

Good results so far, voted for Die Hard 3 and Assault on Precinct

oh the first one in the series?

lol s1ocki too fast

monday with nothing to do iirc

~i'm back~

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

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, February 13, 2012 1:18 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I always open the voting thread look at how long the list is get scared and close the thread

i always never vote until max badgers me into it

Yeah if max hadn't ordered me to come turn in a ballot I prob would have conveniently missed the cut-off because lazy.

LOOOOOOOL xp xp!

I voted once in something

Good results so far, voted for Die Hard 3 and Assault on Precinct 13.

I thought putting Temple of Doom in my ballot, but in the end left it out. All three 80s Indy movies are great, obviously, but they feel more like historical adventure than action to me. They have some great action scenes, but IMO for something to qualify as a proper "action movie", the main conflict in it should be resolved through physical action, and that isn't the case with Last Crusade, certainly not with Raiders of the Lost Ark. Temple of Doom is actually the most actiony of the three, which is why I considered voting for it.

i'm never confident enough in my opinions to vote in these things. also feel like i'm not familiar enough will all the noms to be a 'good voter'

oh shit i didnt realize this was happening

if raiders isnt an action movie, i'm handing in my fedora and quitting

do you remember that scene where that big ball rolled after indy? what would you call that?

yeah i had only seen like 1/3 of the films on the noms list at best, and havent seen a ton of legendary HK flicks. but thats okay! fuck foreign movies anyway

(xp to goole)

my list is pretty all-american but fuck it, if there's one thing hollywood did well in the last 35 years it was that

man wish tombot was around to have voted in this :-/

this is the first time i ever voted in a movie poll. i used to get kinda irrationally pissed at ilx movie talk. now i'm too old to care. time works magic.