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

why?

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, February 18, 2012 1:14 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i can't figure out if its a backhanded compliment to the red riding series, a dis of the social network, or a meditation on andrew garfield

a dis of Andrew Garfield, who's a cute kid.

his voice is my text message alert sound, you know

(him angrily yelling "MARK!!!" in the social network)

anyone want to come over and eat adult brownies and watch westerns tomorrow? i can't hardly wait.

like... porn brownies?

my kids can't leave town fast enough!

yes, they are laced with porn.

*raises hand* I would like to do that

seconded!

god I would so do that

The suggestion earlier involving a pile of coke, nine packs of cigarettes, and a week off is now tantalizing to me. I think those days are past, for me, but goddamn.

i would so be in for that, scott, if not for the matter of 3000 miles of ocean, etc

right?

i had a cookie from the same, um, baker, and it was quite a cookie. almost psychedelic. i wasn't driving or anything. i don't really "do" you know "drugs" anymore. but sometimes its fun to indulge a little in something as harmless as an innocent brownie. and watch netflix. children safely whisked away by my deranged parents who are constantly hopped up on prescription medicine.

the last time i ate a baked good like that i ended up stuffing $1000 down my pants and running home in a snowstorm

nice!

what was the last great u.k. action movie? that didn't involve james bond.

Attack The Block? (if we're calling John Carpenter "action")

xpost No amount of drugs ingested while watching "Commando" can possibly match the amount of drugs surely ingested making it.

http://dvdmedia.ign.com/dvd/image/RedHeat_pic4_1100292371.jpg

COCAINUM!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKAURFR2a2E

wow, ravenous. i haven't thought about that movie in a while, it's really good!

Ah - what's the name of the arnold doc that scene is from. I keep meaning to watch that and forgetting.

LOL Laurel I like how you added 9 packs of cigarettes to the week of films and debauchery. Coke is dumb and I just quit smoking (mostly) but I could sure do with a week off.

pumping iron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HJs4Ztm28Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuNylxOHbvI&feature=related

uh

Screenwriter Jeph Loeb states that the film was originally conceived as a vehicle for Gene Simmons (who passed on it), and later scripted with Nick Nolte in mind to play the lead as an out-of-condition former commando struggling with the demands of his mission. Walter Hill was originally involved in the development process.[4]

gene... simmons?

is there another gene simmons i dont know about

Well, he starred in Runaway.

I wonder what was in Alyssa's sandwiches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9zzHnRYxtc&feature=related

Saved you 90 minutes.

Simmons was also the villain in Never Too Young to Die

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvOvVtE4rgI

Oops, I forgot that we're trying to not include Youtube embeds here. Apologies.

TRANSPORTER 3 is on TV right now and normally i'd never decide to watch something like that but because of this thread I am-- noty as good as the first two but loooooooooool @ this chase scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1omNcm-OPo

also last nite i watched:

MAD MAX: i'd imagine this movie is a lot easier to appreciate if you first saw it in the 80's... i wasn't really feeling it at all, but i def appreciated the stunts and action and the way you could tell they were being as creative and pr0 as they could on a low budget

TAKEN: this movie is so fucking awesome. already know i'm going to be re-screening this a lot. if you like this movie please please please see HAYWIRE (feel this would have placed if it were a year or two old instead of a month or two old)

looking forward to ROAD WARRIOR tho

Road Warrior is awes.

Haywire is awes.

Taken is amusing but obv pretty racist.

Bummed that you weren't feeling MM, but I kinda get it. I forget what it would be like to see it for the first time. I grew up with it, it seemed like THE coolest movie for a long time to me. The stunts/low budget steez are def worth seeing

I can't wait for you to see Road Warrior!

I have never seen Taken.

Toecutter was such a weird villain in all the wrong ways imo

wrong how

i dunno i just wasnt feelin it. i admire the attempt at creating a sexually ambiguous psychopathic gang boss but i don't think it really worked

;_;

otm; omar should run all film polls, maybe the world.

― horseshoe, Friday, February 17, 2012 1:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

totes

i would pay cash money for a show or bløg w/omar, slocki and cankles talking about movies

also the choice of still has been topshelf radical

So I watched Dirty Harry today

Kind of racisty in spots

Jumping into this late, but the hand-wringing about the politics of <i>The Incredibles</i> is pointless, because it doesn't offer a coherent libertarian politics; if anything's Randian about it, it's an incredibly diluted, anodyne version where what's most important to the Parrs are familial bonds (e.g. the end where they're having a blast watching Dash come into second place). So, rather than vicious social/cultural norms or, gasp, <i>federal regulations</i> reining people in, Dash limits himself voluntarily. But then, you can argue that having superpowers more than compensates for this kind of self-limitation, but the moral of the Dash plot arc is something like being sufficiently mature that you don't need triumphal recognition. On a level, it's insular, but it doesn't have an anti-regulation, ur-capitalist soul; remember where Bob works -- a private insurance company that's bent on ripping off its customers. And the one governmental presence -- you know, the not-TLJ fed -- is portrayed unambiguously (imo) positively; he's weary but well-meaning, sympathizes with Bob, etc.

So: ok for liberals to like!

xpost re dirty harry:

yeah a bit. although it gives him a cool latino partner so everything's cool, right?

politics aside that movie is kind of amazing. it's like a perfect cop movie.

so its not 'perfect' then?