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

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s1ocki, I could tell she was some NY Mag-reading arriviste who came to New York bcz she watched "Sex & the City," she and her friends bolted at the dinner break.

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, February 13, 2012 3:12 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is one of your all time greatest posts doc

p much everyone knows this subphylum of person in NY by now, they don't know ppl fart on the subway either.

i read ny mag fwiw

don't make me draw you a Venn diagram

wish I had voted

omar remains king of stills

max is a samantha iirc

oh totally

Morbs is more of a Miranda than Miranda

well, somebody finally said it.

me irl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHYA4eCbLkQ

ur a youtube clip

where are these other results, I hope omar didn't get in a car chase

also shouldn't it be the top 77 action movies

no

you've been gone for a while, old man

not long enough to forget that this ain't 77 and never damn was

maybe omar's heart will blow up if he doesn't drive a muscle car up an escalator and then have some public intercourse, but surely he could do that while posting form zing

You're an impatient lot. I think it's nice when the reveal threads take a while so people can talk about them. When they're posted too quickly it's all a blur and over too quickly and then I get sad.

Hthe fun of anticipation is the stimulation that causes the feeling of impatience.

e otm tbh more gaps btwn reveals

yeah we established in the noms thread that shots of the lead just sort of wandering about doing mundane stuff helped make 70s action films great, & this is the thread equivalent.

wandering around doing mundane stuff to random jazz horn riffs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3cmBnK-Izs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRbllqhjLXE&feature=related

randomly coming across the original Assault on Precinct 13 on late-night TV was like being ambushed

same but with They Live - easily the most significant running-across-a-random-movie-on-tv experience of my childhood

for me it was probably the flesh eaters. or don't look in the basement. or children shouldn't play with dead things.

'duel' was always on iirc

i hope #1 is 'inglourious basterds'

I just know omar is going to post the rest as soon as I leave the office, dammit.

unfortunately the rest will have to wait until tomorrow, i'm stuck in meetings all day and i'd hate to have my boss glance over and see me posting a still for *~SPOILER ALERT~* an action movie

could probably get a good fight scene out of it tho

thanks omar!!

by only beef tho is that you didn't bump the nominations thread w/ a link to this one so i missed all the fun today :(

http://www.redstaplerchronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/fight%20club.jpg

sorry gr80. i was being shot at, so i was pinned down in this thread and couldn't get over to the other one to bump it.

results will commence again tomorrow morning at 7 AM PDT, 10 AM eastern. going to try to get 20 films out before i head to work, to catch up to the pace.

you crazy bastard.

...good luck.

be sure to

http://gifninja.com/animatedgifs/440025/stick-around.gif

to see the rest.

ha

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

^^ best shot in the movie. Just watched this the other night and it really stood out as a spectacular shot.

I remember going to Gatorland in Florida, where they claimed they trained/sourced the alligators used in this movie.

Man, this is old, but really funny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aDFeFwxymA&feature=player_embedded

http://i.imgur.com/KlnUD.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1-oc8MHni8

Shit...voted in the nominating poll but not the actual one.

Temple of Doom is only the third best of the 80s Indys but still pretty damn good. Took me quite a long time to warm to, though. Didn't really get it til I started to see it as the "disreputable" Raiders. Like a tribute to those 40s serials with the racism and low taste in tact.

The Hurt Locker is awesome and definitely not Oscar bait. Every now and then the academy just gets it right.

Die Hard With a Vengeance is simply a joy. The ultimate ridiculous popcorn action flick. Really, only Raiders keeps it rom bing my fave action flick of all time.

I really need to finally see Branded To Kill and Con Air.

really sad that i'll miss all the countdown fun because of stupid time differences. awesome countdown, can't wait to see the rest. and glad to see far upthread that i wasn't the only tsui hark voter

For tht mattter need to see Apocalypto, Assault and Vanishing Point as well. Gotta emit tt the gay bashing scene excerpted in The Celluloiud Closet had always sorta scared me away from the latter.

*gotta admit

I voted Temple of Doom higher than the other 2 Indys because for whatever reason Temple of Doom was the one I had on tape when I was a kid and I would just watch it over and over. As an adult I can see that it's probably the worst of the three movies but it's hard to argue against 11 year old me.