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

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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.

Die Hard to win romcom poll, tbh.

I will nominate both Die Hard and Point Break as romcoms jftr

lol xp

Battle Royale is funny! And social satire!

note: this movie is actually 2003, my bad.

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#21

KILL BILL VOL. 1

Quentin Tarantino
2003
United States
(381 points, 15 votes)

Anyway I thought it was a lot of fun. When the credits started rolling I was kind of surprised, it certainly didn't feel like I'd just sat through 120 minute film. I think Tarantino just watches lots of genre schlock and reads silly magazines with a notepad beside him and writes down all the goofy schtick things he wants to have in a movie and then writes whatever he can to tie them all in together, to be honest.

I thought the 5,6,7,8's (the Japanese girl band) should have stuck around for the Yakuza fight scene. Did anybody else get a vision of Phil Two wearing the Crazy 88 uniform after they saw this movie? I did. I imagined him just standing in the corner posing with his sword while the fight went on and trying not to get hurt, with a big grin on his face.

If Volume 2 doesn't have a robot in it I don't see how it can possibly match up to Volume 1. There's only so much to be mined - maybe he'll rip off some Bollywood next?

― TOMBOT

The only part of the movie that I couldn't take was the scene where she was slamming that dude's head in the door, partially because it was the only violent scene that looked real to me and, coming relatively early in the film and knowing the reputation, I was waiting for his eyes to pop out and his brains to shoot out of the top of his head. The way they handled that (plus the fadeaway from when she pulled out her rapist's throat) set my expectations for the rest of the movie, so when they had the disembowling scene I was completely shocked and didn't quite believe my eyes. Fucking excellent fakeout.

The anime sequence fit in pretty seamlessly because much of the rest of the movie was a live-action anime flick. The silhouette battle scene is one of the most gorgeous fight sequences ever filmed, matching the drunken battle outside of the restaurant in "Drunken Fighter II" and the Michelle Yeoh/Zhang Ziyi showdowns in "CTHD". I will be interested to see if I like Vol. 2 as much because I'm just not as into westerns.

― DJP

KILL BILL Volume One (SPOILERS YO)

crank for best romcom
xp too

Battle Royale might me a straight genre flick but, aside from that, it pretty much consists of nothing BUT action sequences, so there's that.

the KBs never did much for me but i should prob revisit em, havent seen them since they came out

oh wait, anchor bay is putting out a blu-ray with the battle royale theatrical cut in march! yay

er.. I meant to say that BR is NOT a straight genre flick.

KB1 was a genre-exercising scab on the wrinkled, sunbleached ass of KB2

oh man someone plz do a romcom poll

ronin for romcom, it's a total bromance between deniro and reno

I didn't like KB that much. Never saw the 2nd. Was there a 3rd? I don't even know. I have no idea why I didn't like it or had no desire to see any of the others but I didn't and I'm someone who like QT a lot in general.

KB1 is great, DJP otm about the silhouette sequence which, tbh, reminds me of nothing so much as some of Frank Miller's super-stylized fight sequences in Daredevil & Wolverine in the 80s

yeah I'm a tarantino apologist but the KBs are where I draw the line

I just bought a used copy of Battle Royale book the other day, psyched to read it now

eh KB2 is good too but it's pretty different tonally

xp

screw you guys, I love Kill Bill

xpost Kill Bill 1 is OK, but Kill Bill 2 is much better, and makes the former better in context, too.

kill bill is the movie that brought us swords on a plane lolz
also yeah, it's great

I still like 1 more than 2 but they're both pretty great

Find Kill Bill 2 mostly a bore, too many conversations, but the first one is terrific fun, Tarantino throwing cool stuff on screen at a good whack, & had my vote.

yeah I'm a tarantino apologist but the KBs are where I draw the line

― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Friday, February 17, 2012 10:49 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha! I am just the opposite. I LOVED KB, but I didn't vote for it because I had other priorities. Happy to see it place hight, though.

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#20

POINT BLANK

John Boorman
1967
United States
(385 points, 10 votes, 3 first place)

I like the decsription I read somewhere of Lee Marvin in Point Blank "moving like a black shadow through the California sunshine". Something like that anyway. I can't think of anyone much else who could've played the role with the same sense of simmering, almost pre-programmed violence waiting to be unleashed while showing virtually no emotion.

― Matt #2

Point Blank has one of THE great "WTF?" endings.

― General Doinel

iirc KB1>KB2

my preference for the latter may just come down to the fact that I like dirty talky western stuff more than slick well-cut ninjas (even if they are shot really, really well)

KB1 was a genre-exercising scab on the wrinkled, sunbleached ass of KB2

nonsense. the right one placed!

gonna just pretend that says Gross Point Blank

Kill Bill 2 lacked any of the manic energy that made KB1 fun.

oh score - I wouldn't have thought of Point Blank as an action movie, really, but it's fucking awesome. Even the Mel Gibson remake is good

i couldn't give a fuck whether anybody likes Tarantino or not anymore, i don't think any other QT flick counts as an action movie but Kill Bill 1 is a total classic, relentless inventive fight scenes in ever-changing (yeah ripped off) styles that ramp the odds higher and higher and past sanity but who gives a fuck so visceral, so satisfying

i kinda enjoyed the first KB, but i didnt love it. when KB2 came along i was just in a certain mood where all of tarantino's tics and conventions seemed totally transparent and boring to me. i thought it was a tedious movie, but maybe i didnt give it a fair shake

lets talk about how much lee marvin owns

OH HEY YOU GUYS HAVE PROBABLY NEVER SEEN THIS BEFORE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY4bL_bO8sA

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

Yeah will be an excellent way to keep avoiding Lubitsch, Wilder, and Sturges. I won't vote in it either.

I'm not saying I didn't like KB1 okay. But I think its ADHDness, coupled with my own ADHDness made it a bit ... overkilly? Gratuitous? Something, in a not-fun way. KB2 made me laugh more, and that counts for a lot in a patently silly movie. I'm certainly not defending one over the other – just realizing my personal preference.

KB1&2: I've always watched them back-to-back since they've both been available for such. At three hours or so, it's shorter than than plenty of 'epic' flicks that don't justify their longer runtimes as one feature!

Sturges > Lubitsch > Wilder

Lee Marvin - he's always drunk and violent. and he shd have done more contempo films like Point Blank.

i couldn't give a fuck whether anybody likes Tarantino or not anymore, i don't think any other QT flick counts as an action movie but Kill Bill 1 is a total classic, relentless inventive fight scenes in ever-changing (yeah ripped off) styles that ramp the odds higher and higher and past sanity but who gives a fuck so visceral, so satisfying

― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Friday, February 17, 2012 10:57 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This kinda sums it up for me. Death Proof is an action flick for sure, though.

point blank is great, but i think of it as a part of the man-movie/badass genre as opposed to an action picture, which is why i didnt vote for it. parker is one of those great not-sure-if-i-want-to-root-for-this-guy antiheroes

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

Yeah will be an excellent way to keep avoiding Lubitsch, Wilder, and Sturges. I won't vote in it either.

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, February 17, 2012 11:00 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's it. I'm gonna nominate The Apartment for the romcom thread.

I have never seen this Point Blank movie. :/

always forget Death Proof cos i'm still sulking that the Grindhouse movies got separated for UK release

The Apartment would def be high up on my romcom ballot, fwiw.

tho now im watching the trailer for PB and it sure looks like an action flick to me. i just havent seen it in a long time i guess