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

"We're going to need guns - lots of guns" reminds me of one of the ways the Matrix is great - the rare film with an innovative schtick that has also thought about how to intensify its style and story in the last act rather than just do more, louder.

how is it a betrayal of the basic concept exactly?

calling something as deliberate as OUATITW "action" o_O

i said in the nominations thread that the term "action movie" will be forever coloured by the big 80s stuntfests that had better fill up the upper echelons of this poll or else. but there are films from earlier eras that really shd count as action movies even tho their pacing is more considered or sedate. having said that, Once is nowhere near Leone's actioniest picture as far as i'm concerned.

the big 80s stuntfests that had better fill up the upper echelons of this poll or else

cuz they need the help

how is it a betrayal of the basic concept exactly?

you control reality, what do you need a gun for?

it's similar to all the action movie nonsense in Inception, it's just conceptually nonsensical.

NONSENSE I say!

iirc they shot the basic concept with lots of guns

Yes, but they're only able to control reality up to a certain point.

gunpoint

also, it's just cool. Shut up

i love it when people who don't understand inception complain about inception

kind of wish there was a whole thread dedicated to it

or multiple threads

lol

xp I assume Shakey is mad at the idea that if we realise that our world is a consensual hallucination, we'll still try to solve things with guns & kung-fu.

Though of course it must be said that there is a considerable market segment that is receptive to the idea that you can beat people by thinking kung-fu faster than them - that next donut might be the key to victory! The intervening 13 years have probably not provided much to make the idea less attractive (pats belly).

i love it when we argue about whether nerd flicks are internally consistent enough

i love it when we facetiously say we love stuff

I never knew guns didn't make things louder

movies that "are just cool," like Ob*m*

and there it is, kudos

xp Now that you mention it, your tears are kind of delicious!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E586mYraTUs

old man hallucinates clouds indoors

I saw one of those science of Hollywood shows one time where they proved that if John McClane had done that abseiling with a firehose trick for real he would have been snapped in half. Die Hard: brainless

I wouldn't know, I've never seen Die Hard

oh wow i thought all the stunts in Die Hard were based on real life incidents

all Die Hard stunts were just part of Lenny DiCaprio's dream iirc

the point is it is about some endearing shmoe and not about goths who want to kill all the mean kids

basically if yr central protagonist does not have domestic problems and a boss who yells at them then bollocks you are not a proper action flick

thought morbs might appreciate the matrix's leninism *shrug*

Neo was considered a loose cannon by his boss, may have asked him to hand in his badge, not sure.

I thought the guns in the Matrix made sense, though it's been a while. It was a simulacrum of the real world, so the avatars (I guess?) worked with real world solutions, however malleable. I had more probs with Inception, which was a subconscious dream world where in theory anything could happen, but instead we get ... the Matrix and more guns.

THE BOURNE SUPREMACY - this was the only bourne i voted for. h4a already pointed it out but the chase sequences in this are incredibly visceral and really well executed

Morbs, even when I agree with you, you make it hard for me to want to agree with you.

Inception, which was a subconscious dream world where in theory anything could happen

argh

Save it for when it comes in at #1, folks

there is no fucking way it shd be placing at all above what we've got already

movies that "are just cool," like Ob*m*

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:53 AM (24 minutes ago)

oh god damn, dude, get out of this thread

thread needs more Morbs imo

i like the bourne movies a bunch, but i didn't vote for them cuz i knew everyone else would. i voted for OUATITW and warriors though. cuz they are in my heart 4ever.

(fingers itching to start the "what's the rest of the poll" speculation, but I'll wait until 25)

a/v club weighs in on demolition man today, coincidentally
http://www.avclub.com/articles/demolition-man,69379/

i think The Morbz Superiority is gonna crack the top 10

serious question; you know the deranged wife/ romantic subplot aspect of Inception? well i LOVED all that (the stuff in Paris etc) much better than all the action shizzle. is there a movie that's like that *all* the way through?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_(1981_film)

^ just came on TCM Underground a few weeks ago, btw.

ooh!

MORRICONE

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#27

BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA

John Carpenter
1986
United States
(354 points, 12 votes, 1 first place)

this movie rules. total classic.

― chaki

this is one of the best movies of all time. this thread needs to be overrun with great quotes from this great movie.

― f. hazel

this movie was so much better on re-viewing it than i thought it would be! the whole premise that the sidekick is the actual hero is so great and something i probably was completely oblivious to when i saw it as a kid!

― s1ocki

I really feel like BTiLC deserves respect as a genuinely good film! There's probably some really good detailed defense of the Carpenter aesthetic out there, but it seems to me that a lot of what could be perceived as bad about this and other films of his is really in the service of art. I don't know if it's Camp, but it's something akin to it, right?

― Dan I.

BIG TROUBLE in little china: C/D?

Yeeeees.

I LOVE THIS MOVIE

Yes, it's great. And fun.