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

We should have a best thriller poll just to clear up any confusions earlier :-)

yeah i guess peking opera blues is an action movie isn't it?

best tsui hark movies OTTOMH:

1. the blade
2. peking opera blues
3. chinese feast
4. dangerous encounters of the 1st kind
5. shanghai blues
6. love in the time of twilight
7. a better tomorrow 3
8. zu warriors from the magic mountain (original version)
9. once upon a time in china
10. green snake

VG - right, exactly. I was just saying that it's different for me. I like those things and can def appreciate them but there has to be something else going on or I'm going to get bored and lose interest. No matter how cool those elements might be individually I don't get overly excited about them as stand alone things which is why I've never really thought of myself as an action movie person despite the fact that if I were to list out my top ten movies of all time (something which I've never done am not really sure I could really do) I'd guess at least 3 if not more could probably be considered as such.

tsui hark in particular i wanted to at least give one token vote to, but couldnt narrow it down

YOU GUYS ARE NO HELP AT ALL. It was Jibe, btw.

So I'm guess now that we aren't going down to 11 today? :(

*guessing

OL said he was done until Monday.

also

http://www.youtube.com/v/3bozxgVQ9m0&feature=related&fs=1&hl=en

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Man oh man great memories of watching that at like 1am when I was 14 or so.

hope Hard Boiled is top ten

who did tai chi master? i love that movie.

Now I'm gonna watch Godard's Le Petit Soldat over a burger so that Morbs doesn't scream at me.

^^There's some good action in that one.

I am loving this thread to death. And so happy that even though I didn't vote, I got quoted in the post about the movie I surely would have rated #1.

maria is going out tonight so netflix will be my mistress. thinking one of these:

the big bird cage
caged heat
grand theft auto
the way of the gun
women in cages
battle beyond the stars

although.....speaking of bruce willis, should i watch set up?

I've been wanting to see Way of the Gun forever...I really need to watch that damn movie

i tried way of the gun once. the first 10 mins were awful imo, that's all i got thru.

way of the gun is really cool & underrated lil flick

http://www.youtu.be/9w6UUkkOmgo

yeah idk man

i am sorry but that is garbage

thats not the whole movie m8, its a scene from it

its an intentionally unpleasant movie and it feels real try-hardy at times when its going for that effect, but theres some cool stuff in there too. its a mixed bag imo

ooh this is on netflix now. never seen it. rick ross fave.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/weirdposters/SOnGWnwF1AI/AAAAAAAAXnQ/cTULkqgTyjo/god_forgives_i_dont_poster_01.jpg

i remember being rly disappointed; the usual suspects is so tight and imaginative, and way of the gun read worse than the 90s tarantino clones like "love and a .45"

xp

netflix kind of a treasure trove for smelly dusty 60's westerns. there are a ton of them on there.

hah, i hate usual suspects. i think its one of those movies that seems like a better idea when you're not actually watching it

the fountain bit in Way of the Gun...that shit gives me the heebie jeebies

hah, i hate usual suspects.

really? it's the only 90s-style twist ending that's satisfying at all!

the twist is cool but the journey's tiresome to me. tbh i think of suspects as being way more tarantino cloney than way of the gun, which rips more liberally from leone and peckinpah

hah, i hate usual suspects. i think its one of those movies that seems like a better idea when you're not actually watching it

ugh yeah fuck that movie

I used to think Spacey was the shit but when I revisit usual Suspects or Seven or whatever he's very smuggy mcsmuggerton to me and I have a hard time not noticing him. It's annoying.

And I loooooved Usual Suspects for the longest time.

well all right, i'm not gonna peel your eyeballs back i guess. sth about the really ornate swearing and silly nihilism (he punches the *girl*, geddit?!) just felt really "screenwriting class fall semester 1994" to me

xp 2 H4A

i got much love for Way of the Gun. Opening scene linked above is an atypical gag that's really about the insane amount of swearing in 90s Tarantinoesque indie flicks. Beyond that it's a lot of fun and the gun sounds are great.

netflix kind of a treasure trove for smelly dusty 60's westerns. there are a ton of them on there.

I'd estimate that roughly half of Netflix Instant's pre-1970 content is westerns. I have no idea why that is.

Spacey's stardom has always been pretty baffling to me - he can be okay when used appropriately but he's incredibly limited and the smugness is so punchable

Spacey is good in Margin Call

i do like netflix's oddball 70's collection too. tons of stuff i've never seen.

the smugness is so punchable

^^^^THIS

There was a funny Usual Suspects joke on "American Dad" last week, wherein a character has to come up with a quick fake name and ends up with "Squirt Cinnabun," then remarks, "I Keyser Sozed It off the top of the file cabinet."

netflix kind of a treasure trove for smelly dusty 60's westerns. there are a ton of them on there.

I'd estimate that roughly half of Netflix Instant's pre-1970 content is westerns. I have no idea why that is.

― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, February 17, 2012 5:09 PM (38 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lots of dads sittin' around drinkin' beer and watchin' netflix?

I think it's because of all the Sunday matinee tv watching I did with my grandma, but I can only watch old 60's Westerns in the afternoon now, lol.

that's the perfect western watchin time

btw i am not a dad but i can basically think of nothing better than sittin' around on a saturday afternoon, drinkin' beer and watching like six westerns in a row.

I am not a dad either and that sounds awesome to me

The reveal in The Usual Suspects is roughly equivalent to tacking on a scene at the end of a movie where it turns out that a wizened septuagenarian has been telling his grandson a bedtime story the whoooole time.

i totally picked the best week ever to get my first DVR/Satellite TV hookup!!!!!!

i will have Mad Max & Road Warriors waiting for me when I get home tomite

the future rules

you guys ever seen fade in? that's what i'm talking about when i talk about oddball:

This unusual romance takes place during the real-life location shooting of Blue, a 1960s Western, when sophisticated film editor Jean (Barbara Loden) falls for Rob (Burt Reynolds), a charming local cowboy who's been hired as a driver. As the excitement of movie-making engulfs them, kindred spirits Jean and Rob worry if people from such different worlds can share a lasting future. The stars of Blue, Terence Stamp and Joanna Pettet, are featured.

kinda worth it to get netflix on demand just for the bizarro 60's and 70's stuff. i too could watch westerns all day.

Maybe for my birthday I'll get drunk and watch Shane, and Rio Bravo, and Stagecoach. Pretend to be a dad and watch mah westerns. lol

xxpost gr080 I'm so excited for u!