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

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

i know i shouldnt be lol ilx and all but i am LIERALLY SHOCKED at all the 5th element naysayers on this thread, a wag of the finger to all of you

talk to the hand

i love that District 9 and Avatar came out in the same year and are like bizzaro-world versions of each other.

they should be shown in double features together 25 years from now imo

Did Speed 2 have boats?

its like speed on boats

speed 2's set on a runaway cruise ship iirc

SPEED 2 was all boat! Going slowly, yet somehow... fast!

but not speed boats if u follow

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncR2_pnzngM

Speed 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avaSdC0QOUM&ob=av3e

granted it's just a clip, but what snoball posted reminds me why I didn't like alien resurrection, it's like french directors think sci-fi style requires campy bad acting and dumb joeks

not a big besson fan in general, le femme nikita was good but I don't think I've liked anything else he's done, also had no idea he bothered to direct 2 sequels to arthur & the invisibles

Speed2 short version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8T095mFdW8

Who are those guys? I keep seeing stupid videos with them in it. xxp

dunno if it will place (hope so!) but the conan the bargarian comments are similarly amazing

er commentary track

conan the bulgarian

conan the bargain hunter

omg I am dying at the Arnold commentary. Literally anything that mans says is funny but especially when he's just telling you exactly what's happening in the scene play-by-play.

lol whoops

conan the bulgarian

― lag∞n, Wednesday, February 15, 2012 2:16 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Would watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86-vveE9DI4

the fact that you corrected "comments" is what's really killing me

This is me Arnold S. This is me on the screen here, riding towards the camera.

omg THANK YOU GOOLE

Oh shit, why didn't I vote Conan? Also, I see that Point Break is not on my list. Let's delete this thread and start over.

"I was getting laid a lot in this movie. It was amazing."

he sounds like hes on pills in the conan track

I never saw Conan. I tried to read one of the books at some point (there were like a million of them, right?) and it was so rapey and snuff-filmy and awful that I never looked back. Although it occurs to me now that maybe it was a Conan imitation series trying to cash in but being worse than the original. Anyway. Too bad. Couldn't deal.

i saw conan a few times when i was a kid, feeling like maybe i need to rescreen

it's a great movie. i could talk about it forever. will wait to see if it even places tho!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/lesammm.png

LE SAMOURAI

Jean-Pierre Melville
1967
France
(284 points, 9 votes)

see Le Samourai, but be prepared to be slightly dissapointed. At least i was. I dont mind it being all about style, but the style wasnt too interesting or imaginative to me. I cant think of any reason why that film is admired more than, for a random noir example, "Out of the Past." but i need to see it again.

Melville's films seem to portray a 15 year old's sense of "existential cool" (as the critics say) but i find them a little shallow. as draining a standard noir story of all incident or action somehow makes it philosophical? i dont know, maybe it does.

― ryan (ryan)

just don't think JPM is at his best with Army of Shadows, he does the existential gang thing best, and I like that when it's most stylized (hence, LE Samourai).

― Dr Morbius

yeah there are a million Conan books. some of the comics are allright. but yeah it's pretty heavy on the misogyny/racism/ultraviolence

xp

I watched conan for the first time a few years ago and loved it.

Conan is fucking amazing

Conan has a giant bowl of soup with human body parts in it. Does Yojimbo have that? Does Citizen Kane? I don't think so.

I'm actually asking, I don't know if they do or not.

ilxors, tell me about le samourai

Yojimbo has a dog with a human hand

... for a head?