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

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

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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

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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?

Throw that in a pot with some vegetables, you got a stew!

but yeah it's pretty heavy on the misogyny/racism/ultraviolence

Seriously there was implied tentacle rape ending with the victim's murder at the hands of a subterranean monster. But it's not really rape because she liked it. At least up until the murder. I was like, this is writing?

Le Samurai is one of my favourite films of all time, but I thought of it when Tuomas said an action film is a film that uses action to resolve plot (or w/e) and I was going to say, really? Because Le Samurai is p much about inaction, invisibility, until he decides/is forced to take action, which brings about the end of the film. Action resolves it but you wouldn't call that an action film, surely.

(Feel the same way about this as Get Carter - love it, but not an action film.)

Well ok, but the metro chase scene is amazing.

havent seen le samourai in a really long time, barely remember

Is that the one where he lives in a hovel with a bird?

The original Howard Conan books were pretty tight, I was surprised to discover. I mean, they're pretty much what you would expect, but they're well done and straightforward. Kinda reminded me of, like, Barbarian Bourne. Man as pure expression of will, drilling his way through all obstacles. Pretty effing fascist, I guess. Ha.

Seriously there was implied tentacle rape ending with the victim's murder at the hands of a subterranean monster. But it's not really rape because she liked it. At least up until the murder. I was like, this is writing?

this exact same scene happens in the movie "Forbidden World" (aka "Mutant")

le samourai an example where action/thriller line getting blurred

ilxors, tell me about le samourai

Amazing existential film noir, where motives are completely obscure and can only be inferred by the action that Jeff (is it? Delon anyway) eventually takes. Full of coded ambiguous decisions and looks, and as a consequence the viewer is kept in a perpetual state of uncertainty. Great grey-green Paris.

the o.g. conan books are kind of energetic and fun but you can tell they were written in the 30s, a bit creaky and impolitic, yes.

(speaking of which, has anybody on earth seen the biopic of robert e howard??

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118163/

vincent d'onofrio and renee zellweger)

(this is my last derail i promise)

late to thread but here's Alex Cox on seeing The Wild Bunch as a kid
in Liverpool (he was sneaked in by masons!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2_JRTwP4J0

jesus christ i just almost downloaded the 2011 conan

i saw it a long ass time ago goole. i liked it but i was like 12 or something

Is that the one where he lives in a hovel with a bird?

Yes. Inaction movie is bang on

Yeah Forbidden World was pretty WTF.

Robert E. Howard was a weird dude. lived with his mom, shot himself when she went into a coma etc

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PS speed 2 probably would have benefited from an aelstorm soundtrack

^alestorm

speaking of which, has anybody on earth seen the biopic of robert e howard??

xp That's kind of an amazing film if you're familiar with REH's work and sad short life.

i am willing to bet that Speed 2 is a better movie than speed despite never having seen S2 because well at least it isnt Speed 1.

smh

well then yr nonvote cancels out mine

haha

i also talked myself down from the ledge of "if starship troopers doesnt make top 5 you are all filthy animals" rant by hey asshole remember when you didnt vote so stfuing myself so

jjj did you ever see Forbidden World? I know AP and I saw it together and I'm pretty sure you weren't there, but it also seems like the type of movie you would have seen on your own anyway

lemme chk imdb

it is aka "Mutant"

it's a ripoff of Alien with a lot of boobs in it, as well as the world's worst interspecies sex scene

Are there any good interspecies sex scenes?

On second thoughts don't answer that.

it is aka O.o

i have not!

xposts and maybe i wont! nah who am i trying to kid, thats like 10 levels less O_O then 90% of the stuff i choose to watch

human centipede 2 is now avail on dvd fyi

I'm irritated at myself for not voting in this either. Will probably slash my wrists if a Michael Bay ends up on this list.

Michael Bay movie that is.

imo le samourai is awesome because of how the blocking is central to the story above dialogue or action-y action

it was #5 on my list behind some wishful-thinking write-ins

its almost like watching a jacques tati movie w/ a tiny cast and unease instead of whimsy

I hate Michael Bay almost as much as I love Bad Boys & Bad Boys II, but I have already established that my taste in movies makes no sense.

le samourai & get carter are now top priorities. v excited

awesome music too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG1Pi_edC1o

If you haven't seen it Point Blank fits in that mode as well. Might as well put it in your queue before it (better be) is mentioned here.