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

hah, I like that definition! Death Wish, Oldboy, maybe Kill Bill vol 1?

gr080!!! YOU NEED TO SEE BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA. u/k.

yeah that's such a gr80 movie

You really, really need to see Big Trouble in Little China. Like, now. Or tonight, whatever.

i can remember it being in theaters and sounding like the greatest movie ever but not being allowed to see PG-13 movies ;_;

i basically hadnt seen anything ledger had done between monster's ball and TDK when it came out, so i still kinda thought of him as a lame-o when i heard about the joker casting. wz glad to be wrong, and after seeing it i caught up on stuff like brokeback and im not there & found out that yeah, he was legit. the moment in the TDK trailer where he goes '...like me!' in that chipper clown voice was when i was first like whoa, is this gonna own?

i think my first PG-13 movie i saw in the theater was Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. i went with like 12 bros for my 12th birthday party then we had a sleep over at my house it was awesome.

lil' gr80 adventures

Commando, for example, is a gravity movie, because it's just an expanding cast of increasingly powerful bad guys for John Matrix to effortlessly destroy. Also, they kidnapped his daughter, so... he has a bulletproof vest of morality to justify killing like 3000 dudes.

suggest big trouble little china / warriors double feature

An expanding cast of powerful bad guys + Dan Hedaya tbf

the dark knight is the best batman movie, prob my favorite superhero/comic book movie (maybe tied with ang lee's Hulk)

[1]suggest big trouble little china / warriors double feature

― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, February 16, 2012 9:39 AM (26 seconds ago)[/1]

doing this.

Kudos to you, Dan Heyada, for being in both Commando AND Clueless.

lol oops on formatting there

otm warriors/big trouble dbl feature.
gr080, ilx has planned your weekend viewing

Commando AND Clueless AND Alien: Resurrection!

damn now I wanna have a big trouble/warriors dbl feature

my fave Dan Hedaya moment is the espresso scene in Mulholland Drive

just wanna warn everyone that when the road warrior places it will unleash a flood of quotations from moi

was Big Trouble.. PG-13 over there? it was PG over here. they musta cut bits out of it for the UK cause usually U.S. PG-13s were 15 rated over here (Gremlins) or hacked to bits (Temple Of Doom).

damn now I wanna have a big trouble/warriors dbl feature

― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, February 16, 2012 2:43 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Road Warrior better be top 10.

Per Dave Kehr:

The dialogue, by W.D. Richter (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai), has a loopy originality, but because it bears no resemblance to any known form of human expression it just works as a barrier: everyone seems to be sharing a private camp joke, and we can't identify with anyone the way we need to for the action to have any real sense of exhilaration.

Wrong, but interesting.

think big trouble was pg-13 for combo of violence and f-bombs, nothing too intense in it iirc

xxxpss

xx-post lol Australian

should we call it mad max 2

Also, not only does Rosenbaum consider "Big Trouble ..." a "debacle," but he also implies Carpenter lost creative control over the film. As per Rosenbaum, this is both the first and only time I've heard this.

Hell, I love the shit out of "Thunderdome," which shares with "Big Trouble" this incredible giddiness.

FUCK THUNDERDOME

oops sorry caps

When we were kids we just figured the way Wang Chi, for example, talked... was some sort of Chinese thing and also awesome and necessary to emulate at all times. Like, how can saying something like "my destiny rests in your capable hands" as his friend gets out of the car not be the beginning and end of cool diction?

Thunderdome is awesome, and the car chase at the end is ace.

I mean, come on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmlTGeKL4os

This movie is at least as good as Last Crusade, and prolly as good as ToD.

Thunderdome is fine as an oddity, but it's just....ugh it's so stagnant & huge & contrived & sooooo dated compared to Mm1 and 2. Miller-Kennedy are key for Max, & I think the loss of their involvement really shows in Thunderdome.

a big trouble/warriors dbl feature

^^^I have done this and will confirm that it is a right and good thing to do.

And those fucking little ewok-lost boys kids are the woooooorst (xpost)

Miller directed the action, though.

i can remember it being in theaters and sounding like the greatest movie ever but not being allowed to see PG-13 movies ;_;

Hi my life.

i think my first PG-13 movie i saw in the theater was Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. i went with like 12 bros for my 12th birthday party then we had a sleep over at my house it was awesome.

Yes, my little brother did this, too. Then he sang the theme song 70x a day for three months.

i wish i would have voted in this. i guess i always feel intimidated by the movie threads so i don't feel qualified to vote in them or something.

but i guess it's kinda silly to feel unqualified to vote in a poll where con air and demolition man end up in the results

^^ I am going to C&P that into a word doc and read it to myself every time a poll comes up and I feel that way which is pretty much every movie poll.

Don't feel to bad. Dr Morbius was intimidated too.

thunderdome has a lot of missteps. max's relationship w/ the feral kid i road warrior was touching but still hardnosed, the lost boys stuff in thunderdome felt like diet spielberg bullshit. and for a guy who made some impeccable casting choices (how many bit players from road warrior have their mugs emblazoned in yr memory?), tina turner was a huge mistake.

Yeah, Miller made the cage fight at least funny...but overall I just hate the non-max feel of thunderdome. It's so far from the first 2 in almost every possible way.

Did she have horns or am I making that up. I sort of remember her riding around the desert with big-ass horns.

Yeah, but as far as PG-13 Mad Max, I couldn't ask for anything more. And if ever there were a movie designed for 13 year olds, it's "Thunderdome." Tons of fun, and sends you back to the first two. Where your childhood ends.

Thunderdome had American financing, so more hands in the pie, more "you know who would be grebt, Tina Turner"

love Frank Thring tho

i keep wanting to put big trouble on for the kids but i can never remember if there is anything too scary in it.

I've come to appreciate it more over the years, but as a massive max fan who saw thunderdome in the theater at the first available moment, it felt like a huge betrayal

still waiting for miller's written apology to me tbh

Yes, my little brother did this, too. Then he sang the theme song 70x a day for three months.

― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Thursday, February 16, 2012 10:02 AM (6 minutes ago)

looool the bryan adams one? p sure that was the first cass single i owned.