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

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.

xpost How old are your kids? I'd suggest ... 10 and up.

iirc underwater corpses are the scariest things in big trouble but the kids have prolly seen scarier things in yr record collection scott

yeah maybe i'll wait a year or two. they liked goonies i think. you never know what might freak them out.

wanna watch gremlins with them too but i might wait for that too.

gremlins is pretty gory but also has major santa spoilers if that's a concern

I'd equate Goonies and Big Trouble, as far as viewing age goes. A little bit of violence, a little bit of sex, but still mostly innocent. Gremlins I'd wager is too intense.

phoebe cates' whole "here's how I found out there's no santa" story might be more troubling to kids than a gremlin exploding in a microwave

cyrus got freaked by kung pow last week. rufus got mad that we couldn't finish watching it. i remember it being tame and silly but there is stuff like the hole in the guy's chest and stuff like that...

gremlin exploding in a microwave

Action movie!

^ ha, my life

tho usually it's the 10 yo boy getting freaked out while the 7 yo girl takes stuff like coraline and ghost rider in stride

xp

ooh forgot about the santa thing! man, its been awhile since i've seen some of these. i was happy that they liked flash gordon so much. cyrus got a little scared by the part with the hand in the tree stump tree people scene. but not too scared.

every time I watch Thunderdome on tv I get so crazily IA, it's SUCH a steaming pile of not-awesome. And being marketed to kids was just, WHY. I get the childhood nostalgia for it (I still love the Tina song) but it was a cinematic crime, pure and simple. Hmph.

*fist bump*

cyrus - who is younger - loved coraline and rufus got SERIOUSLY feaked by it! we had to hide the dvd box from him. he couldn't even look at it.

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

Oh, we didn't have the cassingle, we had the piano sheet music.

we all loved Gremlins as litlte kids. it's almost completely bloodless iirc and i was always baffled by the '15' rating, although i guess the-dog-tied-up-with-the-fairy-lights is a bit of a jolt if you're 10 or whatever.

rufus otm

Along with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, also rated PG, Gremlins was one of two films in 1984 to influence the MPAA to create the PG-13 rating, with Red Dawn being the first film given the new rating in August 1984.[9] The scene in which a gremlin explodes in the microwave was particularly influential to the idea that some films too light to be rated R are still too mature to be rated PG.

have only recently convinced my boy to watch spirited away, the old lady in the trailer freaked him out for years

So glad I was already 14 when PG-13 came into being.

Gremlins is not bloodless. The Gremlins are mean and violent and have claws and stuff! But then ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN16Wgp48MI&feature=fvwrel

I wasn't allowed to see Gremlins as a kid because Ghostbusters scared the crap out of me to the point where I wouldn't watch it all and had nightmares for weeeks. My mom realized that if I couldn't handle that there was no way I'd be able to handle Gremins which is how I wound up seeing The New Batch way before OG Gremlins and didn't see Ghostbusters in it's entirety until I was a teenager.

hm yeah some blood then.

they cut the chest scene in the UK for Temple Of Doom! drives me mad that kind of shiz. can't believe it took the doofuses another few YEARS to come up with the '12'; the UK version of 'PG 13' which is what Gremlins/ Temple.. should have had all along.

I want to say Chris Columbus lives less than a mile away from me...

The story I've always heard, once from Dante himself, was that the original Columbus Gremlins script was totally vicious and violent, even more than the finished version, and that the studio had him tone things down. But Spielberg personally lobbied on behalf of Dante to have some of the more grisly bits reinstated! Between Poltergeist and Gremlins, Spielberg sure got away with some nasty stuff by proxy.

the more I think about gremlins the more I can see why it would freak out kids, there's an almost apocalyptic feel towards the end when 99% of the town's population has been wiped out

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omg i love the Snow White watching gremlins so much

it's almost as good as when they sing NY, NY in TNB which is one of the best things ever imo

Been trying to figure out when to let my older daughter see Ghostbusters (another action movie!).