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

the only one that im really pulling for that im sorta worried wont make it is point break

i hate that forecasting stuff. just let the results wash over you

can't you see i'm trying to boost my ilx cred

Given the number of insanely awesome films on that hypothetical leftovers list, there's going to be a whole bunch of A+ action left on the cutting room floor.

I might've maybe should have put Hero on the list, it kind of passed me by. Though it and KFH are only really comparable on the broadest of terms!

The one that I've heard people repping for that I actually wouldn't be surprised if doesn't make it is Children of Men - it obviously has a bunch of guns, but I just really don't consider it an Action Film, even considering the wiiiide net cast on this thread.

I'll be happy if Ronin doesn't make the top ten - I really didn't get on with its Blokey Honor and Honorable Blokes. I'll be esctatic if Heat doesn't, but not holding my breath. Maybe I just don't like Robert DeNiro?

so children of men is an ilx classik? i must have been absent that day. don't get me wrong, i dig it a ton, but i never would have thought to nominate it.

i definitely DO remember ronin and heat being ilx canon. both of which i also like a bunch, neither of which i voted for. cuz i wouldn't want to marry them. maybe a second marriage...

was the untouchables nominated? i can't remember.

if starship troopers isn't top five then this isn't the ilx i know and mostly love.

I want SST to be in the top 5 but I don'tw ant to set myself up for disappointment

untouchables was def nommed. I said your friend... died like a stuck Irish pig.

The forecasting stuff is purely a tension device, it increases the awareness that each new name on the list is tightening the noose on the others. Ideally we'll get to the end of tomorrow and there'll be 11 top ten films - in all likelihood it'll be dayo's list + a Terminator or two and maybe Starship Troopers, and then a loong drop off to say Bad Boys - stuff that I might think could be top-25 but no-one thinks will be top-10.

jeez, under siege. too bad you couldn't vote for one dude instead of a movie. like, segal could be his own vote. the van damme vote, etc. cuz i feel like bronson won't be repped here and if he got his own vote, then all would be good.

I'm terrified that votes were split between under siege/under siege 2

Bronson. Knew I should've voted for Death Wish 3.

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

Under Siege needs to get all the Under Siege votes because #2 is dummmmmmm.

eric bogosian hijacks a train w/a cynical monologue iirc?

seagal movies you may have missed:

2002 Half Past Dead Sasha Petrosevitch
2003 The Foreigner Jonathan Cold
Out for a Kill Prof. Robert Burns
Belly of the Beast Jake Hopper
2004 Out of Reach William Lansing
Clementine Jack Miller
2005 Into the Sun Travis Hunter
Submerged Chris Cody
Today You Die Harlan Banks
Black Dawn Jonathan Cold
2006 Mercenary for Justice John Seeger
Shadow Man Jack Foster
Attack Force Cmdr. Marshall Lawson
2007 Flight of Fury John Sands
Urban Justice Simon Ballister
2008 Pistol Whipped Matt Conlin
The Onion Movie Cock Puncher
Kill Switch Jacob
2009 Against the Dark Tao
Driven to Kill Ruslan
The Keeper Roland Sallinger
2009– Steven Seagal: Lawman (himself)
2010 A Dangerous Man Shane Daniels
Machete Torrez
Born to Raise Hell Samuel Axel
2011 True Justice Elijah Kane
Skin Trade

I don't see First Blood getting mentioned much. Is it falling off people's radar because it doesn't have Rambo in the title or because they don't think much of it as an action film?

I swear Half Past Dead is a Troy McClure movie.

I watched first blood recently and I wasn't that impressed, predator was the better 'dudes in a jungle' movie

first blood is legend. i should have voted for deliverance. and southern comfort.

I really like First Blood.

Also a multitude of xxxposts to Josh In Chicago, re Conan: oh Conan's important. I don't remember seeing ET punch a camel. Any severed heads in ET? NO. I REST MY CASE.

Conan peaks with the camel punch. The rest is bad snake FX, iirc.

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i keep missing the end of omar's daily countdowns cos they end at 3-4am local time and opening up this thread every morning when i get to work is always a pleasure. except for the part where time & tide doesn't show up. and while it is an awesome movie i feel like it's not getting into the top 25 ;_;

i am v tempted to start watching these from the first i have not seen to the last

i enjoy morbs's 'action is not a genre' stance - in some way that's what makes this list so interesting, i think, way more so than a list of 'best sf movies' or whatever. (the formal definitions proffered upthread are pretty neat, tho -- 'action' a genre like 'lyric poetry' is a genre, not like 'crime' is a genre)

you know this is the most fun big poll i've read by miles and miles. so many great memories shared, so much warm nostalgia, so may lols! i really appreciate the work that Omar has been putting into this.

... just sayin.

also, hero's not on that list? hero's not gonna place? KFH places and not hero? ;_;

oh dude that would have been on my ballot, sorry for not voting

I really didn't get on with its Blokey Honor and Honorable Blokes.

Awwwwww! For me, this is one of the necessary components of an action movie.

I like that we can both love the genre while needing opposite things from it, though.

Action movies: bringing ppl together since forever

Bronson. Knew I should've voted for Death Wish 3.

I spaced on voting in this poll, which I deeply regret. I may have thrown a vote to DW3 - esp. for the whole extended deluge of gunfire at the end, b/w the sub-Troma 'street toughs' & the fed-up old dudes taking them out w/ gatling guns & bazookas? I mean..

Still, prob would have had to be sparing w/ allotting TOO many votes for OTT 80s camp & I would have chucked DW3 in favor of Road House & Commando if it came down to it.

I certainly hope First Blood places. It's much better than, say, T2, which will definitely place.

I don't know if it would've occurred to me to consider Children Of Men an action film, even though it has probably one of the top ten best action sequences in any movie ever.

I mean Die Hard has got this, right?

Haven't thought about that Walt Simonson Alien comic for years, but it was fantastic.

I was not aware of that one, and shall have to acquire it.

btw the Blade Runner adaptation is pretty cool and easy to buy on ebay

i had this too of course. again, before i saw the movie, i think.

http://img3.etsystatic.com/il_570xN.262027315.jpg

Seagal better get some love.

And i refuse to believe Hard Target won't make it.

Watching Commando for the first time on my ipod on the way to work. Don't know how I missed this one as a kid.

Matrix: [after killing a man in the plane] Don't disturb my friend, he's dead tired.

t2 is all-time but maybe only ilx top 20

http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/gifs/letoffsomesteambennett.gif

if ive learned anything from this poll, its that i have to see 'commando' again. its been too long!

oh, I've totally seen this shopping mall scene before! Love this stewardess girl.

steel drums and saxophones. you can't beat this.

rae daw chong is absolutely my favorite in this.

Matrix: [Comes out from hidden place] Come on Bennett, throw away the chicken shit gun, you don't just want to pull the trigger, you want to put the knife in me, and look me in the eye, and see what's going on in there when you turn it, that's what you want to do, right?

Such a weird fight.

with a chicken shit gun, yeah i'd imagine.