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

Those masks were awful and then there was this part where they had to swim in like caves or something iirc.

fortress is intense. and amazing. and i think it was just an aussie t.v. movie, right?

I am looking for something to watch on demand and Last of the Mohicans is under "Action". Would you guys consider that an action movie?

Fortress is awesome. I watched it SO much growing up, but I havent' seen it in years. Is it based on the Chowchilla kidnappings?

lol i forgot about rapist jeff goldblum in death wish

Scott, 13 Assassins is BAD.ASS. You should def watch that.

The kid getting shot in Assault => surely nastier than anything on MM?

I don't remember tbh

the thing with one of the convicts playing a key role in the defense of the precinct thankfully muddies the politics of the movie considerably

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do not use fucking "romcom" unless it's referring to Nora Ephron and that swill

liked this when released:

http://www.gq.com/images/entertainment/2010/11/tony-scott/tony-scott-the-last-boyscout.jpg

(but it is not among the 2,000 best films I've ever seen)

^^^pollthread i would bookmark

Last Boy Scout was in my top ten. Feeling some affinity with Morbs

it's okay. we've all been there. it passes.

Wow, the cashier in that Death Wish clip is Maria from Sesame Street!

Michael Winner said, "(Dino) De Laurentiis said 'Get a cheap English band.' Because the English bands were very successful. But I had a girlfriend who was in Sesame Street, a Puerto Rican actress (Sonia Manzano), who played a checkout girl at the supermarket (in Death Wish), and she was a great jazz fan. She said, 'Well, you should have Herbie Hancock. He's got this record out called Head Hunters.' She gave me Head Hunters, which was staggering. And I said, 'Dino, never mind a cheap English band, we'll have Herbie Hancock.' Which we did."

Fucking Fortress! I had totally forgotten that. Man, between that and Testament, watching HBO went a long way towards fucking me up in elementary school.

i voted last boy scout but doubt itll place

voted for it too but yeh top15 def not a place for it to show up.

it's the forgotten one in the Shane Black canon

I really dig Last Boy Scout. Black is great.

What's the consensus on Long Kiss Goodnight? Is it worth seeing?

Tom Hardy in Mad Max 4? that's a shame, old mel as mad max would be kinda intriguing tbh.

okay, there are two zu movies on netflix. do i watch them both?

zu warriors and zu warriors from the magic mountain.

― scott seward, Friday, February 17, 2012 7:34 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you watch the 2nd of those, the one from 1983

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, February 17, 2012 7:35 PM

*adds to instant queue*

they've been trying to make thunder road (mad max 4) for years. they were in discussions with gibson in the early stages iirc.

Yeah I'd been following along on and off, but I hadn't heard about Tom Hardy.

Maybe it'll be like a cool Star Trek reboot. Maybe. But ugh. Just...George, buddy: please don't make this movie if you're going to take a giant steaming crap on everything before it. Let Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull be your lighthouse.

lol thunder road.... I mean fury road

ha thunder road!

wowee yeah watched first half hour of zu with the kids. very cool. they had to go to bed. we'll watch the rest tomorrow.

briefly put on a richard gere/topher grace vehicle about russian spies but it was too horrible. now i'm checking out statham cop/serial killer movie.

might switch over to tokyo gore police though.

this thread makes me want to see all kinds of action.

oh also checked out some weird animated thing with woody harrelson doing voices. kind of a cross between sin city and moulin rouge or something. i couldn't take it. bunruku? something like that.

i was actually too lazy to go upstairs and read books so i read the subtitles for Zu to the kids. that counts, right?

i interviewed the star of tokyo gore police and she gave me one of my favourite inty quotes ever:

“Through many unreasonable incidents and battles, Ruka’s mental state was something I tried to keep as the core of this film,” she says. “Otherwise, the message of this film would not reach the audience, because there are many visually shocking scenes. If so, I did feel it would be meaningless. Ruka was alone yet strong and beautiful as a lull in the wind, and so was I when I played Ruka.”

xxpost Scott: the Gere/Topher movie is BAAAAD, I'm glad you bailed. And Bunkraku is not great. It's a good idea, but it's just...awkward.

I think a lot of HK and shaw bros stuff suffers from vote splitting... fer instance my fave shaw bros is the gritty urban revenge movie, the delinquent

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

I added a whole bunch of old noir films to my instant queue based on their titles alone

cophater
big house USA
plunder road
short cut to hell
crime against joe
cage of evil

I can't believe I made a shortlist and forgot to vote. Was Last of the Mohicans nominated? Love that film. Won't place now obv.

Plunder Road: really should be the new title of Mad Max 4

I really dig Last Boy Scout. Black is great.

What's the consensus on Long Kiss Goodnight? Is it worth seeing?

YES YES YES YES YES YES

so that's a yes

it's a wonderful movie.

i stanned hard for Shane Black and put LKG, Lethal Weapon and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang on my ballot. am bummed that KKBB won't be placing.

KKBB is alltime. Goddamn I love that movie.

ladies and gentlemen, thanks for your patience. i actually planned to unleash the poll this week because i assumed my job was starting next week, but whaddya know. and i don't have monday off, so we'll see if i can get all 15 out. might have to start a bit earlier...

omar we <3 you, you are awesome

http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/2/nicholas_cage.gif

HORROR (this is already happening year-by-year, right? has anyone done an all-time poll?)

This needs to happen. I know the idea has been batted around before, but it never seemed to take hold. Hell, I'd be willing to do it myself, or at least assist, if folks are down.

omar, i like the graphics you have cooked up for this thread. a lot.

keep missing the results due to geography, no way can i load 2800 or w/e messages on phone can someone post a rundown?

why don't you people use COMPUTERS?

75 APOCALYPTO
74 INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM
73 GOLDFINGER
72 VANISHING POINT
71 DIRTY HARRY
69 (TIE) THE HURT LOCKER
69 (TIE) DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE
67 (TIE) CON AIR
67 (TIE) BRANDED TO KILL
66 ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
65 SIN CITY
64 INFERNAL AFFAIRS
62 (TIE) DEMOLITION MAN
62 (TIE) TAKEN
61 MAD MAX
60 JAWS
59 THE FUGITIVE
58 CASINO ROYALE
57 COLLATERAL
56 THE INCREDIBLES
55 ENTER THE DRAGON
53 (TIE) MIAMI VICE
53 (TIE) KUNG FU HUSTLE
52 GET CARTER
51 AKIRA
50 LA FEMME NIKITA
49 DISTRICT 9
48 TOTAL RECALL
47 THE WILD BUNCH
46 THE GREAT ESCAPE
45 COMMANDO
44 THE KILLER
43 THE FIFTH ELEMENT
42 SPEED
41 BULLITT
40 YOJIMBO
39 LE SAMOURAI
38 DAWN OF THE DEAD
37 TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.
36 THE MATRIX
35 INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
34 CRANK
33 THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
32 THE BOURNE IDENTITY
31 THE WARRIORS
30 THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
29 THE BOURNE SUPREMACY
28 ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
27 BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA
26 THE DARK KNIGHT
25 PREDATOR
24 POINT BREAK
23 BATTLE ROYALE
22 THE THING
21 KILL BILL VOL. 1
20 POINT BLANK
19 THE TERMINATOR
17 NORTH BY NORTHWEST
17 STARSHIP TROOPERS
16 THE ROAD WARRIOR

great thanks, little china otm

xp you can't bring a computer shopping

sci-fi poll's been done iirc

― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:25 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and yeah horror's well-trod

Don't think there's been a write in poll for either, though I may have missed it.

If you type 'Best Horror film' in the search you will see a series of polls per year.

xpost to Scott, belated: 13 Assassins is really exceptional. Basically Seven Samurai redux again, but really well made/acted/etc.

i will watch 13 assassins soon. i fell asleep watching this last night on netflix:

http://wherethelongtailends.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/caliber-9.jpg