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

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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?

?

some other films that might have been in my list:

-manhunter
-firefox
- emperor of the north

and some HK ones:

-fighting ace

-jet li's fearless
-a chinese ghost story III
- painted faces
- yes, madam

I was just rejecting the whole 'politics aside' business.

manhunter is great

just rewatched point break movie is str8 fyre beautiful i broke down twice

am watching Dirty Harry :D

as an aside, I love that there were always helicopters in 70's & 80's movies. "Technology! Innovation! Whooosh!"

Also we just realized Scorpio = Garak from Deep Space Nine

Oh yeah. Plain simple Garak.

If anything the moral of Incredibles is a fairly standard Disney "don't let social conventions limit your true potential" type thing. I mainly just like the bitching action scenes and amazing retro design and music myself.

Ooo, has there been an ILX poll on animated movies similar to this one? I would certainly be down. It would result in much less genre controversy as well (probably).

I think we did Pixar ones, not sure about others.

Oh actually that was a poll poll not like this one iirc

i would totally do an animation poll. (i feel like i'd need to sub-contract the stills out to omar though.)

xpost I never said Incredibles was libertarian, just oddly neo-con, is all.

sexually ambiguous psychopathic gang boss

Road Warrior has one of these, too! Hmm...

I want to watch the Road Warrior, but I am worried it will be tainted by annoying Bellflower vibes.

humungus swung both ways.

I sometimes wonder if sexually ambiguous villain codes as homophobic

see: to live and die in la

see: baron harkonnen

xpost Gukbe: the only thing that made Bellflower remotely tolerable was the Road Warrior stuff. There's no way Bellflower's terribleness could flow backwards. At least I goddamn well hope not.

God that movie.

I sometimes wonder if sexually ambiguous villain codes as homophobic

see: to live and die in la

― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 (dayo), Saturday, February 18, 2012 4:55 PM (44 seconds ago)

all TLADILA fans need to watch Cruising. NEED not "should"

hey dayo time for a new DN

when i watch macgyver with my kids i revel in all this is Murdoc:

http://www.angusmacgyver.fr/photos/galerie/saison4/4x09%20(5).jpg

you have my permission to use this for your dn dayo youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI

I'm keeping it in protest of I Miss You-gate

thanks ade but I would feel bad covering a classic

http://www.angusmacgyver.fr/photos/saison6/6x19%20(1).jpg

lol speaking of that limp bizkit video and TLADILA,

i've always wondered if someone's ever compiled every film/tv show/music video shot in tht LA River, and the wiki has a lengthy but by no means exhaustive list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_River#Filming_location

would make for a great youtube fan vid

Dirty Harry was pretty awesome! comments upthread about it being the perfect police story is otm. Racism ahoy though, wow.

- Scorpio's scream when his leg gets stabbed was A+, it was like a kettle whistle!
- I was so completely O_O that they wanted Harry to do the money drop alone, with NO backup. wtf. whatta buncha jerks!
- <3 mayor's gold phone
- kinda wanted one of the bad guys to just pick up their gun and take a shot at Harry when he's rattling off his 'do you feel lucky' speech. "Yeah yeah yeah whatever Shakespeare. POW"
- lols @ kid fishing right next to the quarry

the money drop scene is pretty intense IIRC

yeah Harry running across the city from payphone to payphone was so tense, it was really well played out.

Weird that the "Go ahead, make my day" line doesn't show up until Sudden Impact. Weird that there were four or five Dirty Harry movies.

Hey, speaking of which: "Nighthawks!"

i found the definitive post on 'the matrix'

This isn't even a question.

ha i watched dirty harry for the first time tonight too. it was really fun though pretty ridiculous (the mayor wants harry to be the money carrier AGAIN after he loses scorpio on a technicality the first time!?!). harry himself is so over-the-top - eastwood plays him like he constantly has the potential for violence (see the hateful looks he gives his lieutenant during the first mayor's office visit, or how he reacts to the DA who says they have to let scorpio go) and so it's a good thing he's a cop because at least he can channel that violence against creeps. the score is amazing, really like the weird stop-start drumming during the opening scene. and the guy who played scorpio was great too.
even though i hadn't seen it before, of course i knew the famous "do you feel lucky?" speech from cultural references etc. but i imagined it to be in a scenario where it provided some psychological leverage for harry. but the first time he says it, with the bank robber, the dude's bleeding out on the sidewalk in broad daylight with harry literally standing over him. harry could have just kicked the gun away. it was pretty weird in that context, he's just taunting the dude for no reason. makes a little more sense in the climax, kind of wished they had just saved the speech for then because it's distracting how he says literally the exact same thing, word for word.

Also re: Dirty Harry - that Lalo Schifrin score is on POINT. Holy shit how much do I love that music?

xpost n/a: yeah the "do you feel lucky" speeches kinda make Harry more psycho-seeming. Like he's thought about it so much he has a little theatre for his takedowns.

I tried to talk to Mr Veg about how you could kinda draw a line from Dirty Harry to Taxi Driver...just that world where the protagonist is so clearly adrift from the rest of society
...dunno if it's a super-obvious or super ridiculous thought, I just got excited when it occurred to me.

Just watched Taken. This was kind of ridiculous and racist but also great.

Musicals! .. not many takers for that one though i'm sure.

I would be down for a musicals poll!

ditto

Watching Road Warrior again :D

did not participate in this because i am a dumb ass, but that will not prevent me from having OPINIONS FOR U:

APOCALYPTO - n/s
INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM - rad, not a patch on ROTLA
GOLDFINGER - bond movies are a separate universe, hard to mesh w my idea of the "action movie", but this is one of the best
VANISHING POINT - so fucking badass. according to sarafian, kowalski's wrecked car at the end "looks like a bent penis".
DIRTY HARRY - remember fragments from TV when i was a kid. assumed it was for dads. love the gauntlet though.
THE HURT LOCKER - cool, too serious by half
DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE - never loved a die hard
CON AIR - n/s
BRANDED TO KILL - fuck yes, so cool and crazy, my favorite s suzuki by far. more existential torpor than proper action.
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 - n/s
SIN CITY - playboy:sex = sin city (rodriguez):sin city (miller)
INFERNAL AFFAIRS - n/s, hated the departed
DEMOLITION MAN - completely vanished from my memory
TAKEN - n/s
MAD MAX - incredible movie, much darker and slower than the road warrior, but the chase/crash stuntwork is mindblowing, maybe the best i've ever seen
JAWS - eh, good movie
THE FUGITIVE - n/s
CASINO ROYALE - hate all bond post moore
COLLATERAL - n/s
THE INCREDIBLES - great! only randian in the most tangential, fourthhand sense.
ENTER THE DRAGON - one of the best pure action movies i've ever seen. sound design alone is magnificent. once taped off the intro flashback sequence, where his sister is murdered ("now you know the truth") - an amazing listen
MIAMI VICE - n/s
KUNG FU HUSTLE - one of my very favorite films, endlessly imaginative and diverting, never gets old
GET CARTER - n/s
AKIRA - so tied up in my mind w the alt 90s, "kaneda!!!!!!"
LA FEMME NIKITA - by far my favorite luc besson flick ("eglu eglu eglu"), way better than either the fifth element or the professional
DISTRICT 9 - action heavy and somewhat dubiously plotted 2nd half is a bit of a letdown after the much richer first, but still one of the best science fiction films of the last 20 years
TOTAL RECALL - never got the hang of this. love verhoeven, but this whole movie is a big, veiny gonad.
THE WILD BUNCH - n/s
THE GREAT ESCAPE - n/s
COMMANDO - fuck arnold fucking shwarzeneggar
THE KILLER - cool as shit, cops and crooks not separated so much by their aims as their tribes
THE FIFTH ELEMENT - despite not being la femme nikita, i do love this (chris rock and gary oldman aside). best airtight garage yet put on film.
SPEED - n/s
BULLITT - n/s
YOJIMBO - n/s
LE SAMOURAI - great interior design and a nice mood, otherwise a bit dull?
DAWN OF THE DEAD - best zombie flick ever made, opening raid on the apt building is assault on precinct 13 raised to psychedelic extremes
TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. - lot of people getting shot in the face, iirc
THE MATRIX - saw it twice the week of opening, will love the matrix til the day i die, fuiud
INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE - ass
CRANK - pretty good, better than the sequel
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - prefer star wars, but this is as good a sequel as anyone could have hope for, maybe the best "part 2" ever
THE BOURNE IDENTITY - n/s
THE WARRIORS - when i was a kid, we watched this at my friend todd's 13th birthday party. then we dressed up in karate gis (and fake karate gis made of towels and such) and went out into the night to smash up mailboxes. obviously leads to youth violence.
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM - n/s
THE BOURNE SUPREMACY - n/s
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST - the best western i've ever seen, NOT A ACTION MOVIE DUH
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA - loved then, love now, 2nd hand wuxia shit, but kurt russell was never better
THE DARK KNIGHT - barf
PREDATOR - cool enough, i guess
POINT BREAK - n/s
BATTLE ROYALE - kitano is the best thing in it, otherwise a lot of fun, but not a real favorite
THE THING - otoh, one of the best horror/sci fi/action movies ever made, probably seen it 30 times, only hope to see it 30 more (or well maybe 10)
KILL BILL VOL. 1 - easily my favorite tarantino, not as "good" as pulp fiction maybe, but much more rewatchable and fun
POINT BLANK - n/s
THE TERMINATOR - maybe the only schwarzeneggar flick i really love
NORTH BY NORTHWEST - cary grant and alfred hitchcock might be my two favorite people ever to have been involved with the making of films
STARSHIP TROOPERS - great, does not hold up
THE ROAD WARRIOR - gread, holds up just fine. maybe better now than it was then.

was princess mononoke nominated?