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

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!

full reports plz

I'm trying to think of movies that do the "unreliable narrator" thing better than the Usual Suspects... Kubrick's "Lolita" springs to mind

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

Same here! A lot of these are among my favourite movies ever
My absolute favourites so far out of those already listed are
Con Air
the Die Hards
District 9
King Fu Hustle
T1 and T2
Dark Knight
Total Recall
There's a fair few I haven't seen (but actually less than I would've thought) which is why I didn't vote but wish I had.
Except... don't hate me... I watched Mad Max for the first time not long ago and did not like it.

kind of want to start a pollthread to decide which genre marketing term we should poll next

• ROMCOM
• SCI-FI
• FANTASY
• COMEDY
• THRILLERS
• HORROR (this is already happening year-by-year, right? has anyone done an all-time poll?)
• ANIMATION
• SPORTS

i think it would be cool to decide ahead of time so a romcom thread can truly be romcom and a comedy thread can truly be comedy but idk

thoughts?

sci-fi poll's been done iirc

and yeah horror's well-trod

Because the movie (or any Chan?) won't make it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOGLk-DzomM

romcom seems like the most fun to me because it will also probably be the most combative/obnoxious/trolly

WESTERNS
WAR MOVIES

romcom def

The Thing for best romcom starts here.

I watched Mad Max for the first time not long ago and did not like it.

Mad Max is pretty lame. Road Warrior is a huge improvement/completely different kind of movie.

For that matter (back to action):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSQVT8wUK6Q

I'm trying to think of movies that do the "unreliable narrator" thing better than the Usual Suspects... Kubrick's "Lolita" springs to mind

― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, February 17, 2012 6:21 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A Clockwork Orange
Fight Club
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Fight Club is only marginally better than the Usual Suspects... but I still sort of hate it

good call on the others tho

I guess at least one version of Bladerunner lol

Memento?

ooh! yes! duh

How are you using "unreliable narrator" here and would "The Sixth Sense" qualify under that usage?

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.

― scott seward, Friday, February 17, 2012 6:17 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoa, this is a real kaufman-avant-la-lettre thing

How are you using "unreliable narrator" here and would "The Sixth Sense" qualify under that usage?

― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Friday, February 17, 2012 6:37 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's dead in that one

gotta say: no jackie chan, no credibility.

is there any actual narration in "Sixth Sense"? I've never seen it.

I watched Mad Max for the first time not long ago and did not like it.

Mad Max is pretty lame. Road Warrior is a huge improvement/completely different kind of movie.

― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, February 17, 2012 3:29 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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lame? LAME? awesome bikers terrorising a town and steve bisley dying a horrible death and a tiny little baby being smeared all over the highway?

im betting there was a ton of vote splitting with jackie

imo we should decide to do

1) ROMCOMS
2) COMEDIES

so ppl know to nominate for one or the other

romcoms and comcoms then

/sorry