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

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.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/pointblank1.jpg

#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

x-posts I saw it here but the separate release in the UK was lame, yeah.

if you edited down The Two Towers and Return of the King to just the Sam and Frodo scenes, it's basically a love story

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/terminator.jpg

#19

THE TERMINATOR

James Cameron
1984
United States
(407 points, 15 votes)

very tough to find comments on this one for some reason. maybe i need more coffee.

OG Terminator is such a badass movie

too low

boormang's i have seen: zardoz, excalibur, deliverance.

need to see point blank, lee marvin is so colossal

Yeah will be an excellent way to keep avoiding Lubitsch, Wilder, and Sturges

if this poll happens I am totally voting for the Apartment fyi

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

The Thing has pretty great action sequences - helicoptors, flamethrowers, guns, w/e. Is Crank the, er, "purest" action movie on this list?
wrt/Battle Royale, "nasty stuff happening to people in quasi-woodland areas" seems fairly well split between Pred/Rambo-style action flicks and backwoods-US horror films, so it gets a pass.

I mean, it seems pretty likely there'll be no Douglas Fairbanks/Errol Flynn movies (or any OG swashbuckling, or Buster Keaton - the motorcycle sequence in Sherlock Jr is even better than the one in Akira - or etc etc etc) on this list; wringing hands over The Thing seems like the wrong avenue for anguish.

OK so hey guys I'll start the romcom thread next week after omar blows up ilx with the action top 10.

romcom poll would be fun

james cameron is some kind of proof that movie budgets need to be indexed to inflation over a directors career or something

Sweet!

Man, 1-18 better be absolutely phenomenal for the original Terminator to place at 19.

so 2 likely places above the OG Terminator, another fat slice of rong

love the horror movie vibe in the scene here from 1:20-1:35.

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

i'd class Point Blank as an action movie, just that it has a different pacing to the Platonic action movie i think

xp to etc
what is with the thing inspiring goofy remakes. i'll repost this cos i really like it :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT7AH4JyuNs

the terminator is magnificent. love the scene in the dingy motel room where he slices open his eye. love the grimy vibe to the whole thing. i think its a better movie than T2 but i voted for 2 on the basis of it being more of an action extravaganza and also being way more important to my childhood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcCJ24MozOg

"phased plasma rifle in a 40 watt range"
"just what you see pal"

so 2 likely places above the OG Terminator, another fat slice of rong

^ The pacing of the first Terminator is amazing, none of the sequels even come close

i voted for 2 on the basis of it being more of an action extravaganza

^this

I have never seen this Point Blank movie. :/

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, February 17, 2012 12:04 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me neither, but now I know what I'll be watching this weekend!

"phased plasma rifle in a 40 watt range"
"just what you see pal"

40 watt! that's lower than a light bulb.