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

what's the 'for dads' bullshit in the first Dirty Harry film?

Scorpio has Harry running a lot in the ransom scene...
http://second-reel.blogspot.com/2011/03/dirty-harrys-race-for-life.html

in shoes.

Thunderdome:Mad Max1/2::Babe 2: Pig in the City:Babe

Not really, just bcz Ronald Reagan's puppeteers loved it doesn't mean it was part of the original; he didn't need it while he was governor.

Morbs, this is both pedantic and nonsensical at the same time (the bifecta?). Like, I truly don't understand your point. Anyway, it is strange that one of a character's iconic lines does not show up until the third film in a series. It is not strange that Reagan used it. Though it would have been strange had younger Reagan used the "do you feel lucky?" speech.

babe 2 is a pretty damn good movie, though. thunderdome is kind of a mess.

I believe that 98% of the line's "iconic" status is due to the Reagan co-optation. Waht else does this series have; "Do you feel lucky, punk?" HOW ASTOUNDING

xp

wait dude it's a really well made and gripping movie.

Babe 2 is a pretty damn good movie and kind of a mess.

I saw it in the theatre with my wife I want to say Christmas Eve the year it came out. There were six people in the theatre, total. Us, two weird loners, and a mom with her kid, who cried the entire time.

yeah, it is a mess -- major studio recutting i seem to recall. but the action sequences are fantastic.

it kind of anticipates toy story 3 in a weird way.

Morbs, Reagan used it because it was iconic. Like "I'll be back." I vividly remember the ad campaigns for the movie that used it, all the pop culture references, etc. I only know of Reagan's invocation in retrospect. Plus, Reagan used the line two fucking years after the movie came out!

AFI had it at #6 of their greatest movie lines list. That's not Reagan's doing, either.

it wasn't used until the 4th film was it, not the 3rd?

Yeah, that's right. Sorry if I confused them. Frankly, it blows my mind that there are five Dirty Harry movies.

i was amazed as a kid when i saw the first film and that line wasn't in it!

still remain unimpressed by dirty harry

AFI had it at #6 of their greatest movie lines list. That's not Reagan's doing, either.

It is in fact, but fuck all

ie, if Reagan hadn't used it pretty much only ppl like you would remember it.

"ppl like you"

http://a1.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/59/6735df4ee2da41d397abaa9276816c12/l.jpg

Lou Gosset Jnr on the left?

Dirty Harry is a wonderfully crafted, beautiful movie despite its fascist message.

Waht else does this series have; "Do you feel lucky, punk?" HOW ASTOUNDING
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, February 19, 2012 2:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's a great scene.

http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/images/michaelwalford/2006/10/06/triumph_of_the_will_stadium_shot.jpg

Literal Facepalms (Dr Godwin)

I didn't want to wade in because this thread was going so fast at the time, but gotta disagree with all the praise for Die Hard With a Vengeance. It's a VERY dumb movie, obnoxious and silly. Part of what makes the first film the greatest action movie ever is the well-constructed plot and the intelligent characters, so to end up with nonsense like moving hundreds of tons of gold in dumptrucks is pretty pathetic.

Irons shooting Sam Jackson in the leg was rad though.

I just watched Die Hard 3 for the first time since it was in theaters, and it was better than I remembered. Boilerplate, and nowhere near the first, but still solidly entertaining. At the time it seemed very going through the motions, but maybe a couple of decades of going further through the motions have cast it into more favorable relief.

I don't get excited much about it past "Hot Time Summer in the City".

Well, it is all downhill from there, tbf.

'Southern Comfort' is on Britishers TV tonight. Worth watching?

yes!

Is that the Deliverance knockoff with Powers Boothe and one of the Carradines?

man this thread has me going through a few of my favorites. especially hk stuff. rewatched the mission this afternoon, the blade yesterday, time & tide in the next few days (still pissed at ilx that this is not gonna place, has some of the most impressive & best action scenes of all time). i know ppl here love johnnie to's election too and it is quite great (that's gonna be for this week), but everytime i think of him i think of that great tracking shot at the beginning of breaking news.

xp Dunno who's in it but it's directed by Walter Hill. I will take Alfred's word and watch.

I'm not a fan of Election. I want to say I saw half of it, and by then it all felt like a year of a TV plot jammed into a movie. So many characters ...

oh yeah johnnie to. i forgot about him. running out of time, the longest nite, the mission, exiled all should have placed here. oh well.

btw can we move the "dirty harry = fascism?" conversation elsewhere?

a movie is either well-made or badly made, nothing more, etc

Harry's pretty blatant in its rugged individualism, this is the reason Magnum Force tries to paint Harry as not as bad as yer actual right wing nuts etc

tries.

but the first couple look absolutely beautiful, depiction of the city, clothing, jazz scores...beautifully crafted slightly racist paeans to gun law. like Conan, coming up.

can't wait for T2 to place. all shotguns should be 1. carried in a rose box and 2. reloaded by spinning them around your finger

Watched half of it with my kid before bed last night. He fell asleep when they were in the garage after they broke Sarah Connor out of "Pescadero" lol.

lol
http://www.theonion.com/articles/moviegoers-not-interested-in-hearing-what-is-isnt,27388/

can't wait for T2 to place. all shotguns should be 1. carried in a rose box and 2. reloaded by spinning them around your finger

― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 (dayo),

I know this is a little late, but dayo, will you be my valentine.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7FAsUT6FePU/SjSvD7oR06I/AAAAAAAAA1U/crWXr4EwNTo/s400/t2.jpg

~* tear *~

(of joy)

To Live & Die In LA just started on tv...yay! I've never seen it before!

prepare yrself imo

hope yr sofa has seatbelts

a movie is either well-made or badly made, nothing more, etc

The 'etc' is the key bit of the above.

Most films that make it to the cinema are 'well-made' in a boring kid of manner I suppose - but the types of content, for one, are of a variety: so w/Dirty Harry the good content are the action-y bits that are worth youtubing and the bad is the right-wing claptrap that surrounds it.

Not worth moving anywhere, its just some 'light' filler before the end of the poll tomorrow.

xpost Edward III - my collar is fully popped for this

take out the etc, then, go full wilde. A movie is either well-made or badly-made, and nothing more.