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

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.

first time i saw Terminator i was blown away by the end, that ridiculous "it's dead...it's not dead..." dragged out finale which is the proper way an action movie shd be done. there's a slew of action flicks that are let down by limp or stupid endings, come to think about it.

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

#17 (TIE)

NORTH BY NORTHWEST

Alfred Hitchcock
1959
United States
(408 points, 15 votes)

The flirty dinner on the train, no question. People always talk about how actors not taking their clothes off onscreen can be the sexiest thing and usually it's not true but here, wow.

― Alba

The auction scene is genius. Hitchcock really forces the reader to do the impossible: feel embarrassed for Cary Grant. Then there's James Mason, at his most elegant and icy, casually putting him in his place.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn

I'm just remembering the auction scene. It is terrific. There are lots of similar scenes in other Hitchcocks, aren't there, where the hero escapes the baddies' clutches in a large crowd by putting on a big show. The 49 Steps at the party meeting and that party scene with the Nazis in Notorious.

― Alba

Favorite Scene in Alfred's Hitchcock's "North By Northwest"

I have never seen this Point Blank movie. :/

me either! want to now

also all the people with the super hilarious 'im going to nominate au hasard balthazar for a romcom poll since its really a love story lolooool' have shiny new suggest bans yr welcome

T2 is better in every way deal with it

THIS ONE'S FOR YOU, MORBS

one of these kind of polls for Hitchcock movies would be awesome

NxNW is just fucking great and the old cliche about it inventing Bond movies is mostly true

NORTH BY NORTHWEST - i just really really love this movie and it feels p right on this list

"Apparently the only performance that would please you is if I played dead."

I don't think I voted for NxNW and I have NO IDEA WHY!

The only action movie with Martin Landau playing a homo.

i know T2 is great and epic and all but i just don't think the original shd've been franchised up, i blame T2 for that fucking monstrosity i had to sit thru at the pictures last year or whenever

nxnw is one of the most entertaining movies of all time.

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.

― etc, Friday, February 17, 2012 12:08 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

'sudden bursts of violence' are not the same as action scenes - im sticking with that, because otherwise why not vote for ultraviolent Pulp Fiction

i voted for some keaton, ford, hitchcock and some of that stuff might make it - should've voted for flynn's robin hood too, so that was an oversight, but discussion about what should and shouldnt rank is part of the whole shebang here - if i 'anguish' over one thing it doesn't mean there's no room for talking about anything else

The very first band I was ever in was called North by Northwest. Probably my favorite Hitchcock, or at least a very close tie with Rear Window.

heh north by northwest ranks while i post that - i voted for it, and rightly or wrongly ive always thought of it as the most important ancestor of the 'action film' genre

Hitchcock ballot poll would be huge fun.

The very first porn I was ever in was called Rear Window.

of my top 10, 3 have placed already, 3 i'm certain will, 1's got no chance, and 3 i'm pretty worried will get missed.

Hitchcock ballot poll would be huge fun. meant to add "milo otm" to that.

RW is the best. Yeah, if it hasn't already been done someone do a H poll because then maybe I'll watch the ones i haven't seen like NxNW. :o

Yeah, a ballot one - a reg one has probably already been done.

yeah NxNW probably invents or at least standardises a bunch of action movie tropes, in a similar way to how Psycho wd stake out the slasher movie soon after.

yeah, you know, after thinking about if for a sec, NxNW is totally an action movie! I probably would have mistakenly overlooked it (even though I love it unreservedly - i go back an forth on this, but it might just be my fave Hitchcock) but it def belongs here.. good work!

E, you haven't seen nxnw? :O indeed

wha?

The very first porn I was ever in was called Rear Window.

― CANDY aka JUNK (some dude), Friday, February 17, 2012 12:20 PM (1 minute ago)

good thing it wasn't rope

saw nbnw projected on a summer night in a public park years ago. it was great, especially seeing it with a very large and knowing adult audience

Nope. I know. I should get on that, huh?

E, I wish I were you so I could watch NxNW for the first time!

ha! I just added it on NF.

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#17 (TIE)

STARSHIP TROOPERS

Paul Verhoeven
1997
United States
(408 points, 12 votes)

I keep wondering what Starship Troopers would be like if it did get all point-serious at the end -- if it was a tragedy, where all the fun jingoism and such wound up with the square-jawed children being universally massacred, or else dominating aliens that we turn out to be sympathetic toward. That would pretty much suck, I think, which reassures me that it really is about the aesthetics -- the aesthetics call for the triumphant ending (with all its attendant hollowness and satire and grotesquerie). Which, ha, means that right now Starship Troopers is like a future-vision of what people wanted to think the Iraq war would be like, at first ("U.S.Earth! U.S.Earth! ... It's frightened!"), whereas a real-world complexity-of-politics turn at the end would make it just a bad future version of what the Iraq war is actually like.

― nabisco

A lot of Starship Troopers is basically the same kind of humor as when South Park did the Braveheart battle against the evil turkeys, except with the added sick twist that the shit in Starship Troopers is kinda stuff some people will still go for in a non-funny way. (This is the other angle of the concept, which involves making this over-the-top camp thing knowing full well that some movie audiences would just swallow it whole.)

― nabisco

that is to say, i don't know that many directors besides verhoeven could put over the cartoonish elements of this film with such conviction, but also get the tone of the satirical passages just right. i think perhaps a slight confusion or ambivalence on verhoeven's part (concerning the somewhat elaborate meanings of the screenplay) functions nicely here. i also think it's important to remember how much a screenplay can dictate, or at least suggest, ways that a scene can be shot/staged/etc. neumeier's script is very detailed.

― Amateur(ist)

"Starship Troopers" - Verhoeven is a mad genius!

too low maybe

xxxp - would Morbs survive a surprise win by The Birds in a Hitchcock poll?

E, I wish I were you so I could watch NxNW for the first time!

What a thrilling experience.

Starship Troopers sincerely makes me wanna live in a fascist khakistocracy

Love that those two are tied tbh.

Also, if you haven't seen Charade, maybe you should queue that on Netflix as well. xp

The very first porn I was ever in was called Rear Window.

― CANDY aka JUNK (some dude), Friday, February 17, 2012 12:20 PM (1 minute ago)

good thing it wasn't rope

or I Confess.

or The 39 Steps