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

wonder if nickalicious' kid kept that up

you're right about that 'hey homie' scene, really great basic blocking, staging, timing, etc. i'd love to see tape of rehearsals of it.

xps re: collateral

<3 yo homie is that my briefcase scene

Zero chance Miami Vice is making it in here, right?

upper echelon bond is, i think:

dr. no
from russia with love
goldfinger
man with the golden gun

I bet Miami Vice does.

libertarian hero worship would be something people would have to seriously wrestle with if there were superheroes. unfortunately we argue about it now when there are just rich dweebs on the internet.

max, from russia with love is my #1

come on, you better believe bourne came up in the pitch for CR

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:43 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

definitely, but when they were executing it martin campbell clearly did his own thing! the priority was definitely to distance from Die Another Day with a back to basics bond, but they were pretty thoughtful about making it a bond movie and not trying to transform it into bourne. the only parallel i feel i can credibly draw is an equivalent conviction about making the protag really badass and serious, but even then they're still treated as distinct characters

just realized that die another day is an acronym for DAD

where's the thread where everyone muses thoughtfully about how The Incredibles is a Randian wank fantasy

xp: lol apparently goole remembers it too

Goldeneye is still my favorite Bond - Xenia Onatopp, Pierce Brosnan is really good, great action sequences, best video game tie-in

I really, really like all of Brosnan's Bond movies

hell, I'm trying to think of a Bond movie I dislike; the closest I get is You Only Live Twice

I like The Incredibles but have always had lots of problems with it, from the neo-con undercurrent to the fact that it's the only Pixar movie that could have been made live action without really changing anything.

(And then of course Brad Bird goes on to do MI4)

the Denise Richards/Brosnan Bond was the absolute worst, though

hell, I'm trying to think of a Bond movie I dislike; the closest I get is You Only Live Twice

― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:51 AM (34 seconds ago) Bookmark

you only live twice is legit my 3rd fav bond

who cares xxp

Though I don't think MI4 would have worked as a cartoon.

you're really holding it against the incredibles that its not about fish or something??

The Incredibles was such a bad turn for Pixar, from the shit politics to the shit being too long to the shit message

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

#55

ENTER THE DRAGON

Robert Clouse
1973
Hong Kong
(211 points, 12 votes)

naturally search Enter the Dragon, repeatedly, while drunk or even hungover. It is the all-purpose film.

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy)

i want to say more abt enter the dragon cos i do think it's an amazing film, but i haven't seen it in forever. i can't remember what its problems are with any detail. i remember LEE, bolo yeung, the mirrors, some architecture, fake blood, and john saxon's burgundy turtleneck.

― g--ff (gcannon)

In Enter the Dragon, John Saxon has a fight scene on a golf course in which he gets a IRL boner during (its real obvious too and hillarious), and thats a choreographed fight! Imagine how many boners pop when dudes fight for real.

― Green Manalishi (Viceroy)

awesome movie tho xp

xpost Not really. It just disappointed me at the time that an animated film with such pedigree, which could literally do anything it wanted to on screen, basically did the X-Men (with a good script). Just a relative failure of technology and imagination, I guess, however slight.

toy story movies are my least fave pixar movies. i didn't mind incredibles.

are all of disney's non-animal movies "failures of technology and animation"?

as a follow up to The Iron Giant, The Incredibles was a crushing disappointment

I think it's kind of hilarious that a movie mostly about a mid-life crisis creates all these "omg so CONSERVATIVE" responses, particularly when the most neo-conny character in the story is the villain

incredibles is stylized in a way that you could never, ever do in live action - or at least a live-action film even close to that would have to be like 75% cgi

enter the dragon is great because bruce lee is in it and bruce lee was one of the most phenomenal human beings who ever lived.

^ back on track

the agonizing over the 'politics' of the incredibles on ILX always felt overblown to me - there's much more reactionary pictures being celebrated in this thread alone

ha no kidding

I think it's kind of hilarious that a movie mostly about a mid-life crisis creates all these "omg so CONSERVATIVE" responses, particularly when the most neo-conny character in the story is the villain

OTM

actually my least faves are wall-e, the toy stories, cars 1 & 2. the cars movies are so fucking bad. and offensive even.

You misunderstand, I think. My thought was, you know, Hollywood churns out enough movies similar to Incredibles already - superheroes running around chased by people with guns - that I was let down that Pixar (the only company doing what it does at such a consistently high quality) went down that route.

incredibles is stylized in a way that you could never, ever do in live action - or at least a live-action film even close to that would have to be like 75% cgi

Is this meant to be ironic?

scott, why didn't you like the toy stories?

I hate the fucking Cars movies. I wish they were done live action, cost three times as much and flopped.

I still haven't seen the Toy Story movies

as a follow up to The Iron Giant, The Incredibles was a crushing disappointment

― Number None, Tuesday, February 14, 2012 4:56 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Indeed. They made the protagonists human instead of a robot.

i think the politics of incredible rankled because they were kinda different from the shitty politics of other films!

it's a big pet peeve of mine but using 'neocon' incorrectly drives me nuts. ayn rand is not irving kristol

everyone hates the Cars movies don't they? Apart from John Lassetter

toy story movies just seemed like toy/mcdonalds/cash-in movies. the tech is cool. but jesus a movie like findin nemo is like all time great and so much better.

i think we get more nervous about politics in "kids" films anyway

finding

i liked this line from a review of enter the dragon i read once, that said john saxon had a black belt in karate and a brown belt in acting

enter th dragon's cool cuz its directed by the guy who did gymkata, and bolo yeung plays himself in it

i liked ratatouille a bunch.

I need to see Enter The Dragon again

"john saxon had a black belt in karate and a brown belt in acting"

roffle

plus tim allen and tom hanks for two hours ehhh blah. and all those other t.v. losers.

everyone hates the Cars movies don't they? Apart from John Lassetter

― Number None, Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:00 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hate to break it to you but kids fucking LOVE these movies

fair/fair. i just think they are charming in spite of themselves. but i *get* the objection. ratatouille is (to me) a surprisingly complex movie. I saw it at hte lowest low point in my life and I loved it instantly. my gf despises it, has never made it all the way through tho... v. curious how polarized our reactions are.