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

In retrospect, I should have voted for 300 and given it 50 points.

election, then marinate on it for a couple days w/a thousand yd stare b/c of the last five minutes, then election 2.

In retrospect, I should have voted for 300 Hobo with a Shotgun and given it 50 points.

fixed

shakey otm

Ha, I totally didn't vote for this poll, but mostly because I thought the nom list was too long. Too long, didn't vote. If there were a do-over, I would definitely do.

If I *had* voted all my votes would be for Mad Max, fyi

those weren't shown in theaters, Matt Fucking Asstrong

^still going!

like a Terminator

btw morbs: 5 movies pre-1971 today

ok, you got me. I never thought I'd see Kurosawa and Melville keeping company with John McTiernan and hallowed Commando auteur Mark L. Lester.

*breaks into heaving sobs*

Matt Fucking Asstrong

i knew you guys would be drawn to that one

like a moth to the flame, so drawn is the fucking to the asstrong

i like my ass like i like my coffee

hot, black and percolatin'?

2 out of 3 ain't bad

morbs what should the 74-39 best action films of all time look like

i am really happy with the results so far. like i didnt vote for speed because its been so long since ive seen it that i feel everything i remember about it comes from sitcom parodies of it rather than the movie itself but even if speed 2 made this list id be like 'yep, thats got a boat chase p sweet' i just cant hate any of these movies

i am torn by h4a's comments on steve mcqueen. i can see his institutional cool coming across as lame but i mean:
http://cache2.allpostersimages.com/p/LRG/27/2785/9IRTD00Z/posters/steve-mcqueen-bullitt.jpg

those weren't shown in theaters, Matt Fucking Asstrong

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:15 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

u know commercials are shown in theaters right?

sorry I mean short commercial movies

lol pwned

fucking ahistorical shithead

gr80, "action film" is not a genre, but a marketing term.

but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZSTM3knaao

thanks for the history lesson, gramps.

glad you didn't vote!

meeeee too! stay tuned for the 75 Greatest Romantic Comedies Poll.

lol pwned & excelsior

i love the great escape, but i also like the getaway and the hunter and tom horn and the magnificent seven and hell is for heroes and the thomas crown affair and papillon and le mans as far as action-y mcqueen goes.

i just always really liked the guy. since i was little. in the same way i always liked burt lancaster. man, i should have written in the crimson pirate. always loved that too.

if we're mentioning the car chases in bullitt and french connection the the 7-ups deserves the same breath- caught it based on nominations thread talk over the weekend and wheeeew

i like the 7-ups better than bullit. as a movie. but not more than the french connection.

about right imo

hey this thread is moving way too fast if you have a job but

i couldn't bring myself to see spirit. despite my long boyhood love for eisner. just couldn't do it. sin city LOOKED cool. and that was about what it had going for it. and that's it.

loving Eisner should be what STOPS anyone from watching this amirite

meeeee too! stay tuned for the 75 Greatest Romantic Comedies Poll

really want this to happen tbh

i'm down

lets just make sure everyone knows romcom is a marketing term, not a genre

I would vote in this, a personal first

Return of the Jedi ftw

ahistorical romcoms

Think I'll have to check out a copy of Demolition Man; http://www.avclub.com/articles/demolition-man,69379/

Also if Ronin's not in the top 10 I will cry actual tears

no way ronin isn't in the top ten, i mean come on how many movies have such lovefest threads as this one does? it has a shot at top 5 and maybe even first place i'd say.

otm

It only it were any good.

romcom is a marketing term, not a genre

you're banned from it for using "romcom", TVhead

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/dawndead3.png

#38

DAWN OF THE DEAD

George A. Romero
1978
United States
(288 points, 8 votes)

saw Dawn recently, and have to say, it doesn't hold up very well...part of it is the wooden acting (a staple of Romero flicks, it pains to say), but the vaunted make-up/special effects seemed cheap and obvious...(the undead all had blue skin, but red lips...they couldn't have used blue lipstick?)...

― henry s

i totally get the flaws in dawn but i could probably watch it once a day for the rest of my life

― da croupier

I read an article by Alex Garland where he talked abt how Romero's 'Dawn of the Dead' being an amazingly moving experience for 'boys of a certain age' - ie ME! I really like the way that both DOTD and Knightriders (Romero's other great movie) are abt ways you can build fragile, imperfect 'communities' - it's like a metaphor for ILX, or something...

― Andrew L

the original is so beautiful and so sad and i just know that the new one won't be as beautiful or sad. especially the long version of dawn of the dead which is just so perfect and staggering.i didn't even bother watching the texas chainsaw remake cuz i knew there would be no way they could capture the brilliance of the original. they should have just put the original back in the theatres. Or just remade Tobe Hooper's Eaten Alive which is a great creepy movie, but one that could be improved upon with a remake.

― scott seward

I could make a movie where balls-out ridiculously insane people chop up girls in hot pants that scream and stumble everywhere they try to run. It's not scary. I can't imagine people in the 70s thinking it was scary, either. I spend the whole time watching these movies going "well if i was in that situation its obvious that i could get away. All these people are dead because they're idiots dying for the plot." But i can come up with a million scenarios where an average joe protagonist can be pitted against an antagonist they might not be able to overcome and make it as scary as all get out. To me it seems almost like the people who create most horror movies are more students of the genre looking to recreate past cliches rather than pursue anything original with the goal of creeping people out.

― Stuart (Stuart), Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:36 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why haven't they done a movie of stephen king's "the mist"? it's a great play on that scenario...

― s1ocki

oh they have they have slocki!

Slocki is happier in 2004.

lol u dicks, "The Mist" was fun

Yeah the ending was especially hilarious!

I enjoyed the mist v much

This is another one I wouldn't consider at first glance an "action movie," since so much of it is dedicated to inaction. And rather than "resolving conflicts through action," it's generally the case that taking action makes things monumentally worse for everyone involved. But chacon ses gouts I guess.

okay "fun" != "funny"