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

it really is special

just director's cut unfortunately

Nicholas: They are vertically intergrated, they're...
Det. Ricardo Tubbs: You mean they walk around with constant erections?

really? that rankles. rankles!

I saw Miami Vice this beautiful summer afternoon. During the movie the projector flickered once. When I came out, there had been this massive storm that passed through, with downed trees and power lines and stuff. It was totally disorienting.

True story.

whoa

it was the movie that did it

i dont care much for MV as a movie but i do appreciate its filmmaking and as a collection of 'mann moments' (as omar put it). like most of his recent efforts, its incredibly frustrating for tantalizing you with visions of the film it could've been.

really? that rankles. rankles!

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

lol sorry...

the character actors make Miami Vice - John Hawkes, the kingpin and his evil henchman, the weaselly guy who gets the hooked into the cartel

i need to sit down and have a long think about public enemies one of these days

I hated the night-time gunfight scenes in Public Enemy - the way Mann shot them on video just didn't look right

more later, folks. work calls....

Public Enemies was even less of what it could have been than Miami Vice was, but I enjoyed it. Perhaps the only Mann I've seen only once, though.

At first I thought you were talking about the Cagney flick.

You dirty rat.

the gong li love sideplot was AWFUL

i still think farrell was channelling george w bush in MV

those little sour looks on his face, the slightly over-drawled american accent

the thing that kills me about mann is - he's an incredibly thoughtful, intelligent guy who does the legwork for all his movies, he understands the milieu of the characters like a real expert would, hes in the characters heads completely, and he does very little cinematically to convey that expertise, we're always on the outside looking in - its like for him the details just inform the work, but he should be letting us in on that stuff too

underrated perf in MV: tom towles as the AB leader

one-inch punch did 0/11

i like these bits from outlaw vern's MV review:

There is one scene where Sonny is with Gong Li and unless I misunderstood something, he tells her that his dad listened to the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd. This, to me, is hilarious, because as I’ve pointed out before, Mann goes into an insane monologue about Tom Cruise’s character’s off-screen dad’s love for jazz music on the commentary track for COLLATERAL. Michael Mann is kind of a weird guy and apparently that’s one of his obsessions, he for some reason thinks that to give depth to a character you have to figure out what type of music the character’s dad listened to.

and then later

Jamie Foxx is real good as Rico, mixing a little Jamie Foxx swagger with the quiet sensitivity of my man P.M. Thomas. Also he can fly a plane. Rico gets the one joke in the movie, which I gotta assume Jamie Foxx improvised and then he must’ve convinced Michael Mann that his character’s actions came from a song his father used to listen to. Otherwise I can’t think of any reason why Michael Mann would leave a funny part in a movie.

i saw thief when it came out and visually even then as a kid i was like wooooowwwww what the hell am i watching? i had never seen anything that looked like that or sounded like that. tangerine dream plus dreamsequence safecracking. thing was intense.

INFERNAL AFFAIRS - this kept getting taken off my ballot because i felt it wasnt really an 'action' movie but then snuck back on every time i thought about how important the threat of action is to the movie, the loaded gun always in sight. also its just a p rad movie

THE FUGITIVE - didnt vote for this but i wish i had since a) CHASE and b) any movie that got parodied by the simpsons probably deserved a vote

COLLATERAL - i just really like the way this movie looks. but all the weird little parts of this movie really add up to something greater for me, like its less about anything than just everything. i remember i snuck into this movie with a friend on a whim after we saw something else, and the xp of seeing this enough to make me completely forget what we had gone to the movies to see in the first place

MIAMI VICE - i think i really came around to this after i rewatched it when it placed in the ilx films of the oughts poll. there are a bunch of good posts itt

I took collateral off my list precisely because of the 'way it looks' - mentioned in the collateral thread I think but it really is just michael mann making love to LA at night, the action is, well, collateral to that ; )

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

― scott seward, Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:58 AM (1 hour ago)

I'm with you except I loved toy story 3, inexplicable because I didn't like the first two

I honestly cant remember anything about 'miami vice' except the beginning scene in the nightclub. v. dissapointing, im going to give another watch though

I freaking love MIAMI VICE. kinda fits my dream of Terrence Malick making an action movie.

I don't have anything good to say about TAKEN but i once took a class on "captivity narratives" and it's kind of an apotheosis of the form.

JAWS is like half horror, half action (tension and release), and that structure is one of the reasons i love it.

miami vic seem cool. u guys like the rock?

That reads like small talk re: drugs.

miami vice and the fugitive were both p high on my ballot.

the fugitive was one of the first for-grown-ups movies i remember really enrapturing me in the way that things like ninja turtles and back to the future had only a few years earlier (i was 13 when it came out)

missed the bond clusterfuck but iirc "the spy who loved me" is for better or worse one of the most action-y of bond movies

i won't hear a bad word about TLJ in the fugitive

"i didn't kill my wife." "i don't care." << he found such a great mixture of pity, humor, resignation, and pride-in-office in that one reading

at this point i will see any movie with TLJ in it

it's no secret that i think Men In Black is top notch cinematic entertainment

Pretty much is. I recall it crossing some sort of threshold for costing a million dollars a minute, too.

remember when he was two face

i do remember

#90skid

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

― lag∞n, Tuesday, February 14, 2012 5:35 AM (5 hours ago)

this is totally OTM. this thread and the voting thread made me realize i like thrillers prob 10x more than action movies.

we should have done 2 polls w/ a rule that a movie could only be nominated in one or the other

I wonder how many pre-1971 movies wd make that one

none

not a single one

ya, because no one here has ever seen any old movies. and if they did, they would hate them, because ilx posters are stupid and ignorant. good call

But it's a scientific fact that movies did not get thrilling until the '70s. Until then they were merely suspenseful.

that's true too

old movies more like ::plays violent videogame::

it's no secret that i think Men In Black is top notch cinematic entertainment

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 3:43 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

co-sign, but I took it off my ballot cause it was more about the humor than the action imo

most old movies are just people like... talking

they aren't even in colour so many of them

"I wonder how many pre-1971 movies wd make that one"

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/4/A70-2159

they aren't even in colour so many of them

― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 4:03 PM (13 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what?? really?? bleh!

ya, because no one here has ever seen any old movies

fukkov

and if they did, they would hate them

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