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

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

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

there are british people on this board so i'm respectful. they need one cool thing at least. otherwise they are just left with dr. who.

that brit statham cop killer movie pretty bad by the way. what was the last great u.k. action movie? that didn't involve james bond.

Someone who loves me bought me the DVD of Long Kiss Goodnight a long time ago, and I have watched it many times. Love so much. The same person bought me Under Siege 1 and 2, come to think of it.

KKBB just hit my radar maybe 3 years ago? And provides hysterical quotes for DAYS. JUST DAYS.

oh and do i need to watch the red riding miniseries thing on netflix? 70's britain can be cool.

re: bond - i like a lot of the bond villains, and the films where there are a lot of good action setpieces and what not. i've just never been that taken by the whole 'rakish debonair/playboy' aspect.

there are british people on this board so i'm respectful. they need one cool thing at least. otherwise they are just left with dr. who

lol fu scott

does 'the descent' count as an action movie? i kind of hate it but it's p visceral

was In Bruges british?

btw i think the red riding books are p dumb and whenever i saw any of the tv shows they were worse - lots of fairly empty Arty Crime Movie signifiers. too many shots of rain out of the windows in cars in motion. conspiracy underneath every interaction, like you never went to the shops just to buy a packet of damn crisps. it's grim up north.

if Dawn of the Dead can make this list, then The Descent can be counted as an action movie by any reasonable rationale

I'm _really_ into Bond, and I know others. It's not that weird. We're not deadly serious about it - I wrote something about why Bond is always fun and still relevant, and one of the points is the many ways it's been involuntarily entertaining through the years. There's a lot to like about Bond, from comedic aspects to the action to the IKEA-assembly formulaic tradition itself. Being _really_ into Bond isn't saying each, or even any movie is a masterpiece, in isolatino. The core thing, for me, is seeing the series evolve - what's done right with the next one, what's done wrong, how it reflects on the times, on the series, the producers, the character. It's a whole lot of fun nerding over that.

oh god right the descent. that movie counts for a lot. and i do love the 28 days movies. even if they did start the controversial fast zombie conundrum.

i love the descent. i voted for it here. sorry action purists.

okay i won't watch the red riding shows. all i need is one thumbs down.

28 Days Later = Not zombies.

Would argue that Dawn of the Dead remake is an action movie while original is straight up horror. Remake would have made my ballot for this poll.

was In Bruges british?

― Jurgis Rudkus // Dick Butkus (Pillbox), Saturday, February 18, 2012 4:47 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, but it only has action in the final reel. I'd call it a black comedy.

xp - yeah, one of my favorite aspects of the original DOTD is how slow and ponderous much of it is! it captures the sense of isolation and dread perfectly.

i voted for original dawn of the dead in this poll and in my head i was voting for the long directors cut and not the theatrical version. just so you know. long version is top ten alltime for me. and yes it makes a difference to me.

i love the descent. i voted for it here. sorry action purists.

― scott seward, Saturday, February 18, 2012 10:51 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Me too. I am one of the weak-willed who pulled some questionable choices from the nom list due to wanting to marry them.

see, I would raise my hand right now & say "The Descent is easily my favorite horror film of the last ten years." But ask me if it is also my favorite "action movie" and all of a sudden my brain starts short-circuiting.

imo we should decide to do

1) ROMCOMS
2) COMEDIES

so ppl know to nominate for one or the other

― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, February 17, 2012 5:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is kinda old now, but i think the interesting thing in these two polls is the meta qn of where certain movies placed on each!

the 'definitional questions' are fun to fight about anyway, and as a matter of consensus they kind of come out in the wash anyway

my 2c

anyway

the 'red riding' novels are kinda going for some brit 'l.a. quartet'-era ellroy, at least from what i've read, and the films try the same thing w/diminishing returns. they're supposed to be sort of a single story over the three films but they don't hang together very well and the grimness is a bit much and the depiction of 'the north' seems to be the depiction of the south in a lot of american cinema, as this place where you go to die violently at the hand of basically anyone you is not you if you have morals of any kind. the bad guys are so evil is almost comic.