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

i always liked how clearly the moebius designs came through in 5E.

I would like Besson to be the winning director tbh! C'mon there's this and Le Femme Nikita already and Taken, plus Transporter, B-13, Kiss of the Dragon could still come up....

(Full disclosure: I saw Wasabi with Jean Reno over Christmas break. It's...it was a worse action movie than I expected, but more loveable overall. And funny, occasionally very funny.)

forgot leon laurel. and taken, transporter, b13, kiss of the dragon are movies producd by his company, europacorop, not ones he directed. but yeah he's good with good ol' dumb action flicks

aw, too low

xpost And the Gaultier costumes.

gah the scene where she googles WAR

i always liked how clearly the moebius designs came through in 5E.

this is the best thing about it. otoh I can just read the Incal, rather than sit through all the other irritating elements packed into 5E.

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love the fifth element. i suppose i 'get' why people dislike it but it's so big-hearted in a way and weird and energetic and colorful and has some kind of bizarre singular originality in its huge number of homages.

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#42

SPEED

Jan de Bont
1994
United States
(269 points, 10 votes)

i once had a dirty dream about keanu after 'speed' came out, and it was pretty awesome, so i don't care about his pudding brain (which i disagree with, btw).

― Rubyredd

(I hate True Lies so much, by the way, it's like the racism of ToD+the horrible misogyny of, um, something horribly misogynist all mushed together into an OTT shit-bomb. The scene with Arnold forcing JLC to strip to prove a point is all time low).

I think Besson's credited with writing some of them, though this is probably "... his name on the cheque".

Maybe The Lady will win the 2022 version of this poll!

:D

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Omar you're going so fast!

the bus that couldn't slow down.

Want to say I saw speed the same day as the OJ car chase.

I have never seen Speed!

ha yes, gaultier. orange rubber suspenders, always a hot look.

true story, i'm not a comics fan in the slightest but i did buy the first incal collection at a used bookstore why because it look intersting. so years later 5E comes out, and i'm like... hmm these spaceships and cities and stuff look pretty familiar.

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Which actor will have the most films place? Bruce? Arnold? Arnold, right?

fr ted milkfloat > Speed

I liked Chris Tucker in 5E.

fuck i should have voted for speed

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Harrison Ford maybe. Indy+Bladerunner+Fugitive+Star Wars, maybe Air Force One or the Jack Ryan movies even.

feel like "is Chris Tucker's character in 5E" racist/homophobic could be it's whole own thread

I'm just going to pretend the speed votes were a practical joke or a conspiracy or the equivalent of a third party protest vote.

speed is a great action movie

way better than the fifth element (and now it's scientifically proven)

I'm reading your words, but I'm still pretending.

Yeah Speed is terrific, u mad

I wonder where They Live falls on the Tuomas action/scifi continuum

hmm these spaceships and cities and stuff look pretty familiar.

yeah there's things that are lifted straight off the page. Heavy Metal did that too, 5E probably more successful tho.

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Omar you're going so fast!

― wolf kabob (ENBB)

if i post a film every ten min or less i won't explode

Speed's great, Sandra Bullock doing Evil Knievel jumps in a bus while bug eyed Dennis Hopper does his creepy psycho schtick. What's not to like?

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#41

BULLITT

Peter Yates
1968
United States
(275 points, 9 votes)

bullitt owns and strangely enough i think it's elevated by the quieter scenes which are fairly basic and workmanlike (bullitt goes to the grocer's! bullitt looks through a suitcase! delgetti uses an archaic flip book to create composite sketch!)

― omar little

The hottest man in the world drinking a glass of milk.

― I have a paranoid daughter and a son who is addicted to internet (Laurel)

ok that's all for now! back later...

even i know that speed is great

for some reason i remember the 'date' scene in bullitt really well

Guess I should rewatch this. Car chase aside, which along with French Connection set the gold standard for car chases, I found it pretty boring. Though it's been a long time since I last saw it.

saw bullitt quite recently and was struck by how clueless the scenes of policework & basic law are. like sub-A-team. decades of law and order franchises have kind of drilled this into audiences maybe? you can't have a car chase ending in a death and then just... go home. idk maybe the 60s were a little more renegade-cop-friendly.

Yeah Ford for four (maybe 5 if The Last Crusade or more than one Star Wars rocks up), Ahnold has these two and Terminators and Predator and maybe... Conan?

Will Smith on 3? MIB, Bad Boys, Wild Wild West, Independance Day.

oh man Wild Wild West for #1

Bad Boys or BBII had better be on this list.

Hancock for #2

Bullitt was a pretty easy cut from my ballot. Aside from the car chase, it didn't seem very actiony. The airport foot chase at the end got downright boring after a while.

I remember Speed being pretty good (haven't seen it forever), but I don't really think you can call it an action movie because everyone is just sitting in a bus.

but the bus is SPEEDING

I am trying to come to terms with the incoherence in my wild swings between championing and condemning equally questionable movies.

Yeah, but I mean...the earth is constantly MOVING. Does that mean every movie set on EARTH is an ACTION movie? Ha. I think not.

I never saw Speed

I did, however, see SPEED 2

in the THEATER

for FREE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSzUBvwe6kg

.the earth is constantly MOVING. Does that mean every movie set on EARTH is an ACTION movie? Ha. I think not.

depends on whether the earth is about to blow up or not iirc