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

Yeah I feel bad for all the previous movies now.

mickey rourke only reason to watch sin city imo

also drew d otm

i was astonished that SC was a huge hit. that was a big 'i guess i dont know what the public REALLY wants' moment

i will never forgive sin city for all of its gross copycats

and for the spirit

everything on this thread is coming thru a smeary haze of "got more points than Dirty Harry" right now. what the fuck is wrong with proper action movies with cops and real locations and totaly realistic gun battles ffs?

For me personally, what is wrong with them is the presence of cops and gun battles.

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COOL DUDES

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#64

INFERNAL AFFAIRS

Wai-Keung Lau & Alan Mak
2002
Hong Kong
(179 points, 6 votes)

Infernal Affairs: slow burning, Hong Kong set cop thriller; (no kung-fu or much John Woo'esque gunplay, so "progressive"; interesting concept of police mole in gang/ gang mole in police / identity crisis; looks good; leads all very sexy; 6/10

― Nik (Nik)

Infernal Affairs was good, if confusing at times. wait, is he the undercover policeman or the criminal mole? does the one know about the other? oh, he didn't realise who it was because he could only see the back of his head...

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs)

nothing cool about being in some wanky goth cartoon imo

the "both dudes discover each other" scene in IA is so, so good. departed kinda blew that part.

not many good comments on this one unfortch

i wonder what the literal translation of the title is

Warming to Sin City now Action Movie Rockism is a thing.

IA also has excellent "technology as magic" scene.

according to google the literal translation of 無間道 is "No secret passage"

infernal affairs > the departed

I really need to see IA.

i amn't rockist about much but i am mad rockist about Action Movies and about comics being for 10 year-olds

and for the spirit

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 10:23 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha this was one of those movies where u wonder if the people who made it had ever seen a movie before

infernal affairs is p cool

they had, they had seen one movie, and that movie was sin city

hah

Anyone ever see the other two Infernal Affairs? I have the three-movie boxed set, but I've never felt the need to see the sequels.

i have it too and have not seen the sequels, ha

one is a prequel right?

yeah, the second one

infernal affairs is dope and more set-piece-y than the departed but it never occurred to me to even consider it for this poll

^^^

its more of a thriller tho isnt it

haha that Sin City thread is great

im trying to remember if i voted for it? did i? it would be kinda silyl, cuz i dont remember any of the 'action' in it at all

infernal affairs 2 is arguably better than the first.

haven't seen IA3

it had some shooting, maybe an occasional running

Ô_o

we should do a thrillers poll, thrillers is the best genre

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#63

DEMOLITION MAN

Marco Brambilla
1993
United States
(184 points, 6 votes)

I saw this in the theater and thought it was probably the worst movie I had ever seen at that point in my life. It probably is not that bad but I really don't think it had a lot of wiggle room for improvement.

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta)

totally a classic - has aged really well too - anyone who doesnt love it has no soul

― My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Princess TamTam)

I love this movie! I was reading online somewhere where it was being called an awesomely bad movie, but I would argue that this movie is just straight-up fun.

― Peyton Flanders (Nicole)

C/D: "Demolition Man" (1993)

okaaaaaay.

sorry those should say #62 (TIE)

i had demo man on my initial ballot but took it off after some soul searching, because the action in it is pretty perfunctory. it's a sick movie though, love it

i couldn't bring myself to see spirit. despite my long boyhood love for eisner. just couldn't do it. sin city LOOKED cool. and that was about what it had going for it. and that's it.

lmao i forgot all about this movie, sorta wish id put it on my ballot.

John Spartan: Hey Luke Skywalker, use the force.

hahahaha this poll is turning awesome

i like the premise of Demolition Man but i don't think it fully delivers

What is wrong with you people.

infernal affairs is a slow burn, it seems kind of low key and procedural but by the end I was all invested and amped up

don't know how much that experience gets soured by knowing all the twists in a post-departed world

Kind of surprised Demolition Man's not higher - I think of it as the kind of movie that ILX helped me feel good about loving. Also, it's great.

Demolition Man is the unfrozen caveman cop movie, right? I more or less conflate this and Judge Dredd.

i haven't seen demolition man since 1993! well, maybe once or twice on t.v. since then. will watch any sly at any time day or night for the most part. would watch this right now if it were on.