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

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

headdesk.gif

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

i like that they had to re-dub mad max for an american audience b/c the australian accents (except for mel) were so gnarly.

i know

it took me a long time to move past that..

all that nasalness, gone

Feel like comedies (maybe even romcoms) would have to be broken down by decade. There are so many!

Mad Max is more of a Death Wish/hardass 70s cop film, a genre I don't have much interest in/sympathy for

the whole "I am the last bastion of law and order in an evil wasteland of amorality" theme is just ugh whatever do not care

i. just. don't. CARE. DAD!!!!

zu: warriors of the magic mountain?

amateurist you realize this movie, like some of the others you mentioned, was basically unseeable until a few years ago. i'm not real surprised it didn't make this list. but it is just big and dumb enough to be an ILX cult favorite. it should be. it's so overwhelmingly crazy that after about 45 minutes you almost enter a kind of hypnagogic state, the most fabulous, impossible things happening before your eyes and you barely register them.

lol s1ocki

but yeah it's a reactionary/moralizing film that nonetheless revels in rape and gore, not really my favorite combination.

its a pretty bad combination when u put it like that

amateurist you realize this movie, like some of the others you mentioned, was basically unseeable until a few years ago.

What happened? Zu: Warriors was a staple of early 90s HK film retrospectives out here for a long time.

• ROMCOMS
• THRILLERS (imagine a lot of overlap w/ action poll)

xxpost it is a fine combination. it's just not a film for babies :D (runs away)

literally and figuratively, lol

*cries*

*watches romcom*

there's a girl called Bridget Jones I think you'll really like, Shakey

in seriousness though, I personally am the opposite with the revenge/Death Wish/bad ppl are mean and IMMA GET EM, I love that kinda stuff. And just seeing a dystopian Australia that looks *sorta* like where I grew up but not quite, but with all this crazy violence,I always found that exciting. Plus just with all the Aussieness it's become a very good homesickness tonic for me.

don't cry shakey <3

*eats tub of ice cream*

*cleans gun*

amateurist you realize this movie, like some of the others you mentioned, was basically unseeable until a few years ago. i'm not real surprised it didn't make this list. but it is just big and dumb enough to be an ILX cult favorite. it should be. it's so overwhelmingly crazy that after about 45 minutes you almost enter a kind of hypnagogic state, the most fabulous, impossible things happening before your eyes and you barely register them.

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, February 17, 2012 5:50 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a good description. my most vivid memory of that movie is the crazy neon lime green color they use for a lot of the costumes. not a color you see enough at the movies.

i saw this on your standard "midnight movies" HK series in boston ca. 2000, so it can't have been all that rare.

i mean if you lived in a big city in the 1980s and 1990s it wasn't that hard to see a lot of these HK movies. you could also rent the poor-quality VHS tapes if you wanted to.

Wasn't Mel's voice dubbed, too, when "Mad Max" made it over here?

Anyway, some revisionism going when when people compare "Mad Max" to stuff like Death Wish. Want to say Mel doesn't go rogue until close to 4/5ths into the movie. Then there's, like, 15 minutes of sadistic revenge.

VCD was an easy way to get a lot of cool HK flicks in the late 90s

the lead-up - gang of wild crazies terrorize helpless women and children, and the attendant rape/carnage/destruction - is straight out of Death Wish, come on now.

xp

i guess i'm not surprised but some of those rape revenge movies like 'thriller' probably deserve honorable mention in this poll.

xpost

oh man, VCDs. i had a ton of those.