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

Fuck yeah, Point Break. This will probably be the most relieved I will be to see a movie post that I didn't vote for.

hope you guys voted for alien and planet of the apes in the action adventure movie poll too

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Just had a look at the noms thread, and I didn't participate so I can't really say anything, but I'm sorta surprised Buckaroo Bonzai didn't get nommed. Not that I think I would get this high, but I could have seen it placing in the lower numbers.

dying @ kerry gif

if the thing is an action movie, so is The Third Man

I had a compelling urge to watch the beginning of the thing on youtube the other day, it was dope

what about scanners? there are chases and gun battles, they even crash a van into a record store! action!

tracer otm

when I watched 'the thing' I don't remember it being that tension driven ... it's basically kurt russell with a flamethrower, an alien that eats your head

Given the number of dudes of a certainage voting in this, it's hard for me to imagine Top Gun not placing. I remember thinking bleh, but that was after years of getting the vibe that it was the kind of movie assholes liked. Of course, that's probably true of First Blood, which I eventually saw and was all fuck yeah. Wait, that's probably true of most of these movies.

I would have strongly considered voting for Scanners, tbh

eXistenZ :D

I voted for Top Gun, more movies need jet dogfights

if a movie has a jet dogfight I will watch it why because target lock

My work has filters. Did someone post an awesome gif of some heads being scanned?

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I probably would have voted for this if I had remembered to tbh

I am pro target lock. Love dogfights, but Pearl Harbor. WOOF amiright?

Pearl Harbor is the WORST FUCKING MOVIE

The Thing could poll as a musical and it would still be awesome

Beardo Kurt is awesome, the practical effects are still killer, and I hope that one day they release the MacReady tape, revealing his drunken late night karaoke version of Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)

Have we made it this far without war movie=action movie? No war movies yet, right?

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hurt locker placed xp

Yeah, almost walked out of the theatre because Pearl harbor was so long, but instead I fell asleep. It was a little expensive for a nap.

you guys keep scaring me by arguing about movies that don't belong on teh list and i have to frantically scroll up to make sure Pearl Harbor or Gremlins didn't make the list

I dunno if the Thing really belongs here but tbh even if this were a romcom poll and it was inexplicably placing I would still say: TOO LOW

omg you saw Pearl Harbor in the theater

WHY

the Battle Royale movie is okay - I don't remember too much about it tbh, aside from Beat Takeshi - but DJP def OTM about the book, which is incredible.

xp

I rated The Thing at least halfway up my list. Don't understand the hate. Some people are just flat out wrong about some awesome movies.

I don't think anyone hates The Thing, they are just arguing it isn't an action movie

btw I have never seen it

omg you saw Pearl Harbor in the theater

WHY

― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Friday, February 17, 2012 10:31 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I blame my ex.

xps - I don't think anyone has said they hate it. I just think there is some question of whether or not it is an action movie.

I rated The Thing at least halfway up my list. Don't understand the hate. Some people are just flat out wrong about some awesome movies.

― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Friday, February 17, 2012 11:32 AM (39 seconds ago) Bookmark

get out

not hating on the thing, just don't get in what way it's an action movie.

lol xp

didn't vote for The Thing which i love, cos not action movie. ditto Battle Royale, which is closer to an action movie, but no.

maybe if they had guns and a long chase scene across the arctic tundra

WE NEED MORE RIGOUR ON THE NOMINATIONS THREADS TO HELP THE WEAK-WILLED AND CONTRARIANS

Dan, you will like The Thing. Kurt Russell & John Carpenter can't go wrong.

I haven't seen Battle Royale either but how is it not an action movie? The book comes across like an action story.

The Thing is prob my all time favorite movie, but it doesnt belong & 'its awesome' is no rationale for its inclusion

still not down w/ The Thing as action (or Jaws, for that matter), but a minor quip b/c so far each placement has been a film that I love dearly! Surely this cannot continue unabated but there are such riches ahead that, you know, it just might

i feel like BR's action sequences are cruel and random but not really heroic like an action movie shd be - it's a satirical inversion of an action flick, if anything.

if your movie consists of ppl hunting and shooting each other in epic gun battles for 90 minutes I'm giving you the action movie banana, there's really no other way for me to evaluate battle royale. it's science fiction only in that it takes places in some dystopian future.

also the DC of battle royale stinks, much prefer the hard-to-find theatrical cut. less talk more shoot.

WE NEED MORE RIGOUR ON THE NOMINATIONS THREADS TO HELP THE WEAK-WILLED AND CONTRARIANS

― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Friday, February 17, 2012 10:35 AM (15 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Guys, when this is all over, I'm considering starting a nom thread for romcoms that will accept any nom that has at least an amusing argument. This is moving in the opposite direction of what NV is demanding, but it is for a genre/marketing term that I suspect is not sacred to anyone.

Should I?

yeah

don't get me wrong AP, i accept the rules of this thread as long as me impotently yelling about it is one of the rules

impotently yelling is listed as a synonym for the internet

both battle royale and the thing are movies i really like but i didnt vote for either of them because i didnt feel like they 'fit' ::shrug::

I haven't seen Battle Royale either but how is it not an action movie? The book comes across like an action story.

im not sure how well i can defend this but i feel like battle royale is essentially j-horror, the action is meant more to shock and sicken rather than excite? obv the thing is just horror

there's no way a movie where a helicopter chases a wolf isn't a romantic comedy

AP - yes.