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

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.

i literally have not seen it since VHS

haha xp

Does this mean Tango & Cash is going to make the cut? And about 10 other Sly movies?

Infernal Affairs I&II are both straight excellent. IA III got bad reviews iirc, but I thought it was just as good, taking insane paranoia to a level where it becomes hallucinatory.

ah, xposts.

Also, didn't know we were voting for camp value itt.

i watched DM recently on tv, its p rad imho

I'm a little surprised only 7 of us voted Dirty Harry.

its a good movie, but i would say the action isnt just perfunctory, its kinda lame. its a tricky choice because its not a movie i appreciate for its asskicking elements (and really, snipes vs sly shouldve been such a no-brainer - they dropped the ball)

it was weird but also apt finding out that the director only did one feature and mostly just does video installations. i think the same guy did that crazy kanye Power video!

WAIT FUCK UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU DEMOLITION MAN

the spirit seemed confused about whether it was a note-perfect spoof of sin city or not, but i kinda loved it anyway.

i feel like camp, whilst not essential, is a key element of a lot of great action flicks

everything about that movie was pure shit

tied w/Demolition Man:

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#62 (TIE)

TAKEN

Pierre Morel
2008
United States/France
(184 points, 6 votes)

taken was pretty rad for a movie about how if you go to france u will be kidnapped by muslims and the french police wont help u

― max

yah idg why ppl like taken is it entirely for lols like i have said before the premise of this movie is that there are teenage girls who like u2

― plax (ico)

i loved taken's monstrous xenophobia so much

he just left that blonde chick from gossip girl chained to a bed in brothel needle in her arm dead

also he shoots the french cop's wife

so great

― WINNING. (Lamp)

i feel like 'taken' is a movie that might contain the most pimp of all his performances

― the gush of yesterday (omar little)

LIAM NEESON

still have to see this

im astonished that you havent!

now that's how you do a racist-action movie

me too :(

i have a v particular set of skills

taken is one of the greatest examples of the power of a badass speech. that speech sold the movie all by itself. the hand to hand action in it is pretty cool, but the car chase was draggy for me. i dig that its only like 90 minutes

they shouldve just called it neo-con bourne

I don't even know what Taken is.

yeah this movie is SWEET and SO RACIST/conservative/fucked up

i love movies with badass speeches :(

What, is that the Liam Neeson reboot as action star vehicle?

i will find u and i will kill u

taken was pretty rad for a movie about how if you go to france u will be kidnapped by muslims and the french police wont help u

― max, Saturday, February 14, 2009 7:34 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also the only way to not die at the hands of french muslims is to be a virgin

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Sunday, March 8, 2009 3:59 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you. I also cook.

i felt a bit dirty after it finished but i was laughing pretty solidly along the way and yes brevity is good

its a cool speech by itself, but combining it with neeson's trademark mega-intensity... damn. damn!!!

Man the apparent "let's not even bother to tell the other girl's parents and just have a happy reunion at the airport" thing (SPOILER ALERT) is like one of the greatest dropped plot threads EVAR.

tightest movie imo

I would like to know if it is popular in Albania.

neeson is really well cast. hes so tall, too, and sorta hunched over, like he just seems like a guy that would throw you out a window

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#61

MAD MAX

George Miller
1979
(196 points, 6 votes)

I think Mad Max probably affected me in the same way that Star Wars affected the people who were a few years older.

― walter kranz (walterkranz)

Great film. Really surprised me at how Hitchcock it is.

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

Mad Max is great but I only got around to seeing it last year. I love the way it doesn't strictly define the time and scenario, like you can tell civilization is on the brink of collapse, but it's never really stated directly, just implied by the scenery and dialogue.

I also like that it's a slo burn than a fever-pitched action movie...the slower development makes Max's transformation much more convincing.

And ending the movie right after the final gang execution with no formal denouement was also awesome.

― furious styles p diddy kong (San Te)

I read somewhere that this was one of the most successful films of all time as far as production cost:worldwide tickets sales is concerned.

It's a fucking badass movie.

― Trip Maker

"Mad Max".. the original...a surprisingly affecting, emotionally harrowing film, rich with pathos and genuine tragedy.

@ 2:55

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUl9CuL_mno

(He's a really good sport and leaves an outgoing msg for a crazy fan)

i think Taken is instructive because it gets you to think about how a little bit of what u might call badass magic can go a long way for involving an audience in a movie. its not just about the punchings and explosions, its about making u anticipate them. but for a shorter movie, it's pretty sloppy, neeson's guy kinda seems like a great character in search of a better movie, which is why i didnt vote for it

I've seen the end of Taken about 3 times and the beginning 0 times.

i posted about it in that thread, but i love the stuntwork in mad max. love the vibe of that movie. i decided i had to vote for either it or road warrior and not both so i went with RW, but tbh MM is more my style - nastier and less mythological. it kinda drags though, less of a superbly engineered thrillride