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

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

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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

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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

xxp,

I'm aware of the yearly polls, having voted in a few of them. There's not been a big all-time write in poll like this one.

I watched KKBB earlier this year and really liked it but wouldn't expect it to show up in an all time poll. I started thinking about True Romance yesterday and now think I need to watch it this weekend. Was that nominated?

Gubke - I was asking about LotM last night. I don't know if it was nomed though. Let me look . . .

Last of the Mohicans was and deservedly so. True Romance was not which I guess isn't surprising but there's certainly some resolution through insane and awesome action esp at the end in there.

you talking about KKBB makes me think ENBB stands for eat nougat bang bang or something

Well I do like nougat.

KKBB is like a weird linchpin film that represents both Robert Downy Jr's, comeback, Shane Black's comeback, and Val Kilmer's rebirth as weird character actor.

Black has taken his time following it up though. And when he does it seems it'll be with Iron Man 3 :/

did anyone ever see a.w.o.l. the movie shane black wrote under another name? i never have.

iron man 3 is gonna rule imo

this thread inspired me to watch HEROES OF THE EAST last night. i had forgotten how insanely great the editing in those shaw bros movies was.

If Iron Man 3 is half as good as Iron Man 2 ... it'll be truly terrible.

morbz will be happy to know that i went over to the cd pit across the street cuz i was bored and was gonna pick up some discount action movies and ended up getting a four-disc set of old musicals for five bucks. thought that was pretty good value for the money. 20 musicals. all-american co-ed! black tights! royal wedding! and so many more! plus lena horne in the duke is tops. and cab calloway in hi-de-ho.

also includes Killer Diller from 1943, an all-black music and comedy revue. excited to see that.

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

seconded. and this thread makes me wish a) the netflix/lovefilm in the UK streamed pretty much any of the movies mentioned herein and b) that i had hours to spend watching them.

my parents are taking the kids up to their place sunday and monday. i just bought a dozen heavy duty, uh, adult brownies. and i'm considering taking president's day off and closing the store and netflixing my way to enlightenment. i work pretty hard. i think i deserve a two day netflix holiday.

at the risk of jeopardizing whatever cred i probably don't actually have anyway, i will admit to not having seen the following:

73 GOLDFINGER
72 VANISHING POINT
67 (TIE) BRANDED TO KILL
66 ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
64 INFERNAL AFFAIRS
62 (TIE) DEMOLITION MAN
53 (TIE) KUNG FU HUSTLE
52 GET CARTER
51 AKIRA
50 LA FEMME NIKITA
40 YOJIMBO
39 LE SAMOURAI
37 TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.
20 POINT BLANK

actually, though, i think that is the best take-home aspect about polls like these, b/c now I am essentially C&Ping that same list into my nf queue

except for Goldfinger. Never been big on 60s Bond, for whatever reason..

did you ever meet anyone really into james bond? it's a concept i do not understand, to be fair

i just realised for years i've had to live and die in and escape from l.a. confused

i think every bond stan i've ever encountered has immediately defaults to a shitty sean connery impression whenever their favorite subject gets brought up