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

I was too much of a snob about ST when it came out, like 'omg giant bugs and guns, ugggh this is so stupid' and it took me a long time to just chill and enjoy it.

That being said, I still hate Independence Day with the force of a thousand suns. It's just toooooo corny for me.

i love all the future-details in starship troopers like the fact that the main characters have south american names and come from buenos aires but speak american-accented english, so much little stuff like that in it

Always wondered if this was a nod to South American-style fascism. I still need to read the first volume of that giant Heinlein biography that came out last year...

to me it's just a funny way of implying a homogenized global monoculture

1) if i drew up a top 75 i think at least 50% would be hong kong movies

2) tsui hark's the blade is the best action film ever IMO and i'm guessing it won't appear on this list :(

3) if these don't appear on the list, dey was robbed:

- white heat (seriously dudes?!)
- the driver
- across 110th street
- where eagles dare (totally ridiculous fun)
- rolling thunder
- duck, you sucker
- darker than amber

4) other than halloween assault on precinct 13 is so much john carpenter's best movie it's not funny. the thing is impressive but i think it suffers from a script that kind of peters out.

Well, Independence Day was directed by Roland Emmerich, one of the dumbest filmmakers ever. So comparing ST to ID is kinda like comparing apples and oranges that someone peed on.

where eagles dare (totally ridiculous fun)

yeah no doubt. the dynamic between richard burton and clint eastwood is hilarious.

you will find plenty of ID, sorry "ID4" defenders on ilx i think!

I voted for Rolling Thunder.

That being said, I still hate Independence Day with the force of a thousand suns. It's just toooooo corny for me.

The best way to view Independence Day is not as a homage to Earth vs. The Flying Saucers and Pal's War Of The Worlds but as the real thing. It *is* a movie from the 1950s, only with millions of dollars in the budget.

Rifftrax's version of Independence Day is as funny as classic MST3K.

5) i mean, king boxer/five fingers of death is gonna be in the top ten, right?

6) what about the new one armed swordsman?

7) legendary weapons of china?

8) fong sai-yuk? once upon a time in china? zu: warriors of the magic mountain?

9) jeez, people.

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yeah where eagles dare, once i realized what it was gonna be like, is just incredibly entertaining

and duck you sucker is also one of the most entertaining movies ever made

Escape From NY is still in this poll, right?

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, February 17, 2012 2:12 PM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I ranked it high on my list, but I'm a little nervous it won't place at this point. VegemiteGrrl, if you had voted, I think a lot of our pics would have been reinforcing.

also:

10) the french connection? the french connection 2?

11) is something wild an action movie?

12) i kind of like the resident evil movies

yeah no doubt. the dynamic between richard burton and clint eastwood is hilarious

The cable car scene alone is one of the best combos of action, suspense, and HFS moments. Burton and Eastwood are basically commando vampires.

the best way to view ID4 is to lol at Vivica A. Fox's stripper with MOXIE character

also that the alien ships apparently support USB

No one here really like ID4, do they?

Also, Independance Day. I can sit back and enjoy some schlocky un-ironic shit blowing up junk food, plus I r like Will Smith. WWWest & Hancock were painful, but I had some smiles and did not turn them off. Should I see ID?

yeah

YES

also Hancock wasn't painful, wtf

the best way to appreciate independence day is to view the white house destruction in a animated gif

Hancock >>>> ID4. But they both suck.

Hancock had a really shit script. WS was enjoyable as a cynical fuck up super hero, but it's getting harder to play that in a new interesting way.

DON'T DO IT

oh yeah another one that y'all NEED. TO. SEE.: PLAY DIRTY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaPBf7dk8hA&feature=related

I think the only Emmerich I can stand is Stargate, which I usually forget was directed by him. Because lol, Stargate

this is pretty much everything you need to know re: Independence Day:

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

If you enjoyed this, you will enjoy the movie.

also:

- zulu

- the four feathers (1939 version)

Action movies are so much more my jam than I ever realized. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY didn't I vote.
(repeat ad nauseum forever.)

how could you not enjoy that Independence Day clip?

well by extension, how could you not enjoy Independence Day? and yet, there are people who hate it!

can't wait for independence day to place

ID4 is sorta OK... There's an absurdness to it (Randy Quaid saves the day?) that's pretty WTF, but it lost all charm for me when Emmerich followed it up with the ultra-shit Godzilla movie.

It's easy to hate because there are other actors in it than Will Smith. And even then ...

also what about NEAR DARK?

Godzilla is the ultimate slam-dunk turned shit-dunk.

Near Dark is no action movie, not even barely.

itt post things Bill Pullman says in Independence Day

Near Dark is no action movie, not even barely.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, February 17, 2012 2:35 PM (35 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

huh? really? what about all the shooting and throat-slashing?

hahahahahaha I did not realize 2012 was Emmerich, that explains SO MUCH

this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aABT-FjR4_M

shit gets going at :26

One thing I'm curious about re: the top 15...is only The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly likely to place from the Leone trilogy? It seems a little off that neither of the other two would place in the top 75, but it also seems off for two of them place in the top 15 while the third doesn't place at all. And I highly doubt all three will place at this point.

Stars:Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport and Nigel Green

OK I will watch this

I placed ID4 as like number two or three on my ballot. if it doesn't place, I BLAME ALL OF YOU.

i thought i voted for it but i seem to have left it off my final list

I can't see youtube at work but I am guessing the ID4 video upthread is Will Smith punching an alien?

RE ID4 clip. Hahaha OK I will watch with a giant bowl of popcorn and some raisinettes and sour patch kids

will smith punching an alien face, forever

Action movies are so much more my jam than I ever realized. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY didn't I vote.
(repeat ad nauseum forever.)

^This. If nothing else, this poll has opened my eyes to my relative snobbery towards action movies. So many dumb and useless ones get made that I tend to forget how many great ones there are. I hardcore love about 90% of the movies in this thread that I've seen, and I'm totes looking forward to seeing the rest.

also this one, also starring rod taylor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rf_vulEuSw

Just watched a couple of clips of Darker Than Amber on youtube -- really wish this would get a DVD release.

Just watched a couple of clips of Darker Than Amber on youtube -- really wish this would get a DVD release.

― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Friday, February 17, 2012 2:42 PM (9 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the cut version, with a radically edited down climactic fight scene, is sometimes broadcast on TCM.