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

tons of old war movies and westerns i love. and that are action-packed. but you guys didn't nominate any of them and i'm too lazy to think.

i was considering that, got hung up on whether it was action or not, either way its in my top 10 of all time

everyone knows action wasn't a genre until 1971 doy

man morbs the cut off is 1960 not 1970 come on, movies before 1960 legit suck

13 Assassins was a superior 'action film' that came out last year. It's not about "old things."

everyone knows action wasn't a genre until 1971 doy

there's an argument for that.

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#53 (TIE)

KUNG FU HUSTLE

Stephen Chow
2004
Hong Kong
(217 points, 8 votes)

I liked that bit where the landlord and lady were watching Chow kick ass, and the one goes "who'd have thought being beaten by the Beast would have purified his chi?", and the other one just sort of shrugs.
― Michael Philip Philip Philip Avoidant (Ferg), Sunday, July 31, 2005 9:08 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love this movie so much. The musicians were unbelievably frightening.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, July 31, 2005 6:37 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I really liked the explicitly Buddhist moralism of the ending, which actually resulted in a walkout at the screening I attended. I thought there was lots of other good stuff in it, too. Way better than Shaolin Soccer, IMHO.
― Chris F. (servoret), Sunday, July 31, 2005 9:04 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Definitely top five of the year material. I want this guy to make two films a year until i die, please.
The visual flourishes were so dead on; personal fave was the cat shadow leaping then dividing in two perfect halves.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, July 31, 2005 9:06 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Have we had a thread about Kung-Fu Hustle yet?

too low

rules

why is KFH in this at all, I want to know

Shoulda nominated Shaolin Soccer. Hustle rules though obv

because it rules, that's why

I really liked the explicitly Buddhist moralism of the ending, which actually resulted in a walkout at the screening I attended.

i don't remember the ending!

Put this in my top 20 of the decade. Fogot the Beast going all bullfrog in the last fight.

Chow supposedly in pre-prod with sequel.

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Monday, January 4, 2010 12:50 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

voted for shaolin, not kungfuh

the recurring theme of deformed girl who stephen chow humiliates until she somehow becomes beautiful and he falls for her in all of his movies is really weird imo

yah shaolin is clearly better than KFH (still not an action movie)

my two favorite stephen chow movies that are not SS or KFH: from beijing with love (spy spoof) and forbidden city cop (china spoof)

wait Shaolin was nominated? I was sure i checked for it

realizing last night that the netflix instant shaolin soccer was pan & scan (and miramax-chopped) was not good

good choice, and quote! xxxxxxxp

prime B Keaton / J Chan to come, I presume.

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#52

GET CARTER

Mike Hodges
1971
United Kingdom
(219 points, 8 votes)

do you think ian hendry would have been better than caine in the main role in get carter? hendry was originally going to be cast, until caine showed an interest in the film? now, of course, its difficult to imagine anyone but caine in ut, but its arguable that caine doesnt have that effortless aura of violence, and had to work at it? perhaps that makes him in the role better though?

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, January 28, 2005 5:40 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I like the idea of Performance, but the last time I saw it it seemed to be kind of a mess. Get Carter however, is an extremely effective little piece of filmmaking. Oh yeah, Poor Cow is good too. I heard Terence Stamp tell a funny story about making it once.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, January 28, 2005 6:07 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Taking Sides: Performance vs. Get Carter

never seen get carter :(

year zero for action movies

wow when did youtube start letting you upload full movies

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

forever ago.

1971

http://tubedubber.com/#aoa3OTJfWIY:pbKCWBTgTR8:0:100:0:0:1

get carter owns bones. great fucking vibe to that movie. i need to watch again, havent seen since i was like 13. the stallone remake was horrible conceived from the start, because sly ultimately cant stand to play unsympathetic characters

You know what's a cool old movie nobody talks about? Hit Man, the blaxploitation remake of Get Carter.

Get Carter is so great

I've never seen Get Carter. :/

not really a ton of action tho, really

xp

I went on a Mycocaine bender recently and watched that, the Italian Job, What's It All About Alfie? etc. he was a load of fun in the 60s.

a... "mycocaine bender"?

hahahaha

all the kids are doing it

lol thats not even on google, what are you talking about dude

think phonetically

say it out loud, lol

genius

homonyms yo

xp

oh jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFIQIpC5_wY

lol @ thats not even on google

What's It All About Alfie? etc.

Did you just watch Alfie or pull out all the stops on the theme a la Cilla Black and Cher?

it's a helluva drug

i was assuming "mycocaine" was some sort of streaming video site, lol

Did you just watch Alfie or pull out all the stops on the theme a la Cilla Black and Cher?

lol just the movie. abortion subplot was a bit 0_0

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#51

AKIRA

Katsuhiro Otomo
1988
Japan
(225 points, 8 votes)

the comic helped but the film was huge, i remember seeing it with a friend and then afterward the two of us deciding we would get 'tetsuo' and 'kaneda' (sic?) vanity tags (we were fifteen, very very ready to drive, and had heard vanity tags were only like fifteen bucks more and hence couldn't figure out why EVERYONE didn't have vanity tags) and then arguing who whould get what. i haven't seen it since high school so i have no idea how well it's held up but it was huge at the time.

― j blount (papa la bas)

i agree that it's a plus when anime doesn't take itself too seriouly. i've lost my tolerance for retarded cosmology and convoluted hierarchies in my shit. i just want laffs n dope animation, maybe a wee bit of the old ultraviolence. which reminds me--watching Akira last night on dvd it was significantly gorier than what i remember from my youth.

― ian

Akira: Classic Or Dud?

the music in akira is so dope