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

My #1. I love the Red Harvest plot -- it seems like an almost perfect narrative structure for maximum badass action.

A Comparison of 'Yojimbo', 'A Fistful of Dollars' and 'Last Man Standing'

oh MAN i knew i forgot to put something on my ballot

But his mass will increase as he gets closer to light speed, until he approaches infinite mass.

The problem with this is that you've disproved your own argument while making it. As Supes gets closer to the speed of light, his mass increases exponentially, so he can never actually reach the speed of light, just get closer and closer to it. He can make time slow down, but not actually go backwards. Also, the time dilation is from his perspective only.

red harvest is such an awesome title for anything i cant believe that none of the movie ripoffs have just used it

xp Whatever nerd shit anyone else posts in this thread, I think that's got it beat.

What you are forgetting is that he is Superman.

i was watching fistful recently, and while it's a solid flick with a killer climax, i spent most of it wishing i was watching yojimbo instead.

his costume is indestructible, you really think it doesn't have mass-resistant coating too? rmde

LA FEMME NIKITA - this was a lock for ballot if only because it seemed to epitomize a kind of artful european cool to me as a kid

THE KILLER - have been thinking about why i love this movie so much and i think it just this taciturn masculinity to it that elevates cliche - one last job, the code of the killer, the obsessed detective - to the level of myth

THE FIFTH ELEMENT - were gonna end up cartoons in cartoon graveyard

BULLITT - this is like bonercity right here

YOJIMBO - saw this p recently on netflix (lol) and it snuck into my top ten. just a bunch of iconic images perfectly distilled

Considerably better ending to Superman...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yavK0mnE3wI

that's a cartoon

It's a cartoon DEMONSTRATING A BETTER ENDING TO SUPERMAN
Don't make me go all Tuomas on you...

For one thing, you would not like to see a picture of me in just my underpants.

Toshiro Mifune is pretty much the coolest.

multiple xposts: H4A, I'm going to ignore your McQueen hate and focus on the Lee Marvin love. Dude is badass.

It's conceivable, if not likely, that Superman's physiology does not align with the rules of our own known universe; I know DC has been cagey about Krypton's location. In any case, Superman's powers clearly give him the ability to surmount/subvert several seemingly immutable laws of physics, so I suppose flying faster than the speed of light could be one of them. But again, paradoxes abound. It will take much more study of quantum physics/dark matter/dark energy to make sense of Superman's place in our universe.

ok ok

they dont make em like lee marvin anymore. wish they couldve cloned him

It will take much more study

If you don't have any actual Kryptonite to study, then, much like Gus Gorman, you're left just making things up.

son of a fucking bitch why did i forget to vote in this aghhhhh

My prediction: Ronin may just win this.

(I've seen every movie on this list so far, except for Taken)

lil late to the discussion but the 5th element owns, one of my fav movies, had no idea anyone in the world disliked it

yeah the idea of disliking the 5th element is so bizarre to me

seriously

Oh mna, Ronin.

It's really just a matter of where, exactly, Ronin places.

i watched 5th element recently on a friends lol home theater and was enraptured

now i wish i had vited in this poll and if we do a thrillers one i promise to vote

there's plenty to dislike about 5E! i like it, but come on

So I'm not the only one with the MULTIPASS stuck on repeat in my head now, right?

theres plenty to dislike maybe but the concept of disliking like the whole movie, i dunno, just doesnt sit right with me

t2, die hard, ronin will all place in the top 5. probably raiders otla too.

is ronin really that widely loved, feel like on the ronin thread its just the same five of us saying 'this owns' to each other over n over

i just think it's too late for me to watch the fifth element

5e has a lot of components that i feel like could/would be 'fun' but all together it's just deeply unpleasant for me

the only thing separating the fifth element from hudson hawk are some nutty visuals

i do love bruce willis, though

We all do lady, we all do.

Would think a Bourne film would go top 5 if they don't suffer too much from vote splitting.

also 5th element doesnt have bruce willis singing

a strike against it imo

hudson hawk, top 5

a tricky/bruno duet really would've turned around the movie for me

i just think it's too late for me to watch the fifth element

― horseshoe, Wednesday, February 15, 2012 1:56 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dude have u never seen this masterpiece

TROO FACT: when I ended up seeing SPEED 2 for free, it was because a buddy of mine and I were trying to catch "The Fifth Element" one last time before it went out of the theaters; it was preempted by some special event and it was the last day it was going to be in that theater. \Wwe convinced the ticket person to let us into the movie lobby to use the pay phone to look for another theater that was showing it. From there, we high-fived each other and sidled into the SPEEED 2 theater.

lmao joke was on you

I started watching 5th element once, said eh, turned it off

I am on record as being the only person on Earth who actually liked SPEED 2

If you like the bit in Raiders where Indy shoots the guy waving around the sword, then there are so many bits like that in 5E...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oKwg6W05MU

xp: I didn't see it as a failing that they had to include a scene explaining that the slow speed the boat was going at was actually really fast considering the boat's size; in fact, that is kind of the essence of the movie to me and if you don't find that hysterical, you're not going to enjoy SPEED 2