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

Well, specifically in the handshake/arm wrestling scene when AS/CW first meet in the film.

Don't forget that Predator 2 is entirely responsible for bringing us the Pred ship debate, Predators vs. Aliens, and all that has resulted.

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Well I did think there'd be slashfic, but then there's Top Gear slash, so by itself it proves little.

predator 2 also gave us some great rave soundbite samples

I mean all of that all because some prop guy/set dresser was like "lol Alien"

http://images.wikia.com/avp/images/f/fa/P2-the_alien_skull-1-.png

I think I saw Predator twice in the same weekend.

"You set us up! It was all bullshit! The diplomats, the hostages, all of it!"

The broadcast edit of this "It was all BALONEY" became a meme among my friends and I in highschool.

i was just googling predator ship the other day b/c i couldn't remember if it was an ilx meme or general internet meme

...Top...Gear...slash?

*cries*

Rich4rd Hamm0nd embraces his confusing feelings for J3r3my Clarks0n; in particular, J3r3my's hands. ...Mild slash.

also,

Hamm0nd, Cl4rkson and M4y have to share a hotel room but what happens when their drink gets spiked?

;_;

noooooooooooo

i hate u snoball

we are slowly transitioning from action into "action"

The word 'top' in the thread title is taking on a new meaning...

and "gear" isn't????????

please talk about Predator again
please
please

Predator was badass, let's not forget Bill Duke in this.

YES thank you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAU8ikXeyow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1o7rmB7kC0&feature=endscreen&NR=1

Bill Duke does not get enough good parts. He's got such a great presence.

Bill Duke pretty much rules anything he's in.

lol IT WAS NOT A PREDATOR SHIP IN 1979 AND IT IS STILL NOT A PREDATOR SHIP TODAY.

no sense avoiding the obvious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mijy8fpdI5c

Governor of Minnesota, January 8, 1999 – January 6, 2003

I was hoping that someone would have found the "Turn around" clip.

Just watched Ronin for the first time (it was the only thing on On Demand besides Big Trouble that's likely to make an appearance in these results) and, um...fuck yes. That was on par with the Bournes. Hope it places high!

It's my alltime favorite car chase evvvver. EVER

Ronin is where it's at

Aussie sacrilege.

Actually, haven't seen Ronin since a pre-release screening. Maybe it is rad. But not Predator rad.

"She said the jungle, it just came alive and took him!"

"Bullshit! That's not what she said! What she said doesn't make any sense."

^from memory

Mad Max & Ronin

I dig Predator but I havent seen it in forever.

"If it bleeds, we can kill it."

Particularly if it bleeds the kind of stuff that's inside glowsticks.

Maybe don't reach for the lasers with that one.

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.

this was not the first PG-13 movie i went to, but i was 13 when i skipped my afternoon classes & snuck into a matinee screening. thing is i couldn't tell you much abt the show b/c i'm pretty sure i was french-kissing my girlfriend through literally the entire movie.

you ghostin us, mothafucka

actually, I prob did the same thing when I went to see ghost! i was like the disco stu of the mall cineplex back then..

I'm noticing my relative age on this thread... I was 16 when E.T. was released - right when those differences between a "kid's movie" and something that seemed more important and/or underground was hugely important. Consequently, I didn't like E.T. and still don't care for it now. Blade Runner, The Thing, Poltergeist, Conan, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Star Trek II, Endangered Species, and Tron were my faves that year.

i loved e.t. and blade runner and poltergeist and dead men don't wear plaid and tron that year. they were all the same year? wow. tron gave me a headache though. probably sat too close to the screen.

How can anyone possibly think that Conan is "more important" than anything? Makes ET seem like Tolstoy.

i don't think i actually saw the thing at the movies. probably wanted to and nobody would take me.

conan was kind of amazing!

i dunno, i was a metal fan...

I just saw Conan again a few months ago, and it was largely a weird combo of the ridiculous and dull.

So, the guesses for what's next, from the list of nominees. First, pouring out a 40 for

Brotherhood of the Wolf
Hard Target
Serenity
The Long Kiss Goodnight

All of which I love dearly, but I think their chance is gone.

Then the ones that seem guaranteed a slot. Unfortunately there's 30 for 24 slots, even counting vote splitting

A Fistful of Dollars / For a Few Dollars More / The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - I figure that at least one of these will place, Once Upon A Time In The West is good but surely not the only Morricone?
Aliens
Bad Boys
Battle Royale
Bullet in the Head / Face/Off / Hard Boiled - Much as above, I don't imagine The Killer will be the only Woooo

Children of Men
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Die Hard
Escape From New York
Gladiator

Heat
Inception
Independence Day
Kill Bill Volume 1 (Tarantino, 2003) - Vote splitting might kill this? I can't see anyone voting for 2 above 1, though?
Lethal Weapon

Men in Black
Point Blank
Point Break
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Robocop

Ronin
Starship Troopers
Taking of Pelham 123
Terminator
Terminator 2

The Road Warrior
The Seven Samurai
Top Gun
The Transporter
Under Siege

I guess there's a bunch where either we think the defintion of Action Movies is 80's led or not - maybe Predator is the high-water mark and there'll be no Lethal Weapon / Point Break / Top Gun / Under Siege.

Also one of the things I like about the poll results we're seeing is that it's not like you sometimes see where it's two polls superimposed on each other - the 70s America films have backers from the same pool as the Hong Kong action flicks and the 80s Classic Action and the modern films. It makes it harder to say "no that's defintely the high water mark of that genre", because they've nearly all crossed over out of any imagined contituency.

aliens will definitely be top 5 imo