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

now if only friedkin had directed it

man, Friedkin-Speed wd be amazeballs

oops theres a section of the freeway missing guess we gotta jump it

vegemite you gotta watch CRUISING now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x3infcAtfs

that car chase is one of the best ever

― ⚓ (gr8080), Sunday, February 19, 2012 9:36 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

if not thee best ever, though crap tarantino flick comes awful damn close

i hope you don't mean Death Proof
>:(

gr080 I will def check out Cruising

i do! death proof is a shit movie, but the chase scene is all time

cruising is a different kind of "action movie"

Kind of wish that Michelle Yeoh clip wasn't sped up so fast. :I

what about sorcerer?!

btw blues bros. made my ballot

Death Proof is great, I will defend it til..well, til always bc it rules. The talky part at the beginning is kinda annoying, yes...but otherwise it's my dream action movie. Kurt/cars/chicks/stunts

Blues Brothers hell yes :D

i think the only mostly bad part about death proof in retrospect is probably the roundtable conversation between the second group of ladies. the climax of the first half is just about the best and most tense thing QT ever did and the car chase in pt 2 is def epic.

the crash/beheading/dave dee dozy beaky mick & titch in pt1 is all-time.

the crash & buildup to in death proof pt 1 is amazing, but so ruthless, i mean fuck. i kinda had a problem with it. and this is insane:

i think the only mostly bad part about death proof in retrospect is probably the roundtable conversation between the second group of ladies.

"character building" conversation between the first group of ladies is a thousand times more horrible. includes a QT cameo, for god's sake...

xp to amateurist
not sure if your post about sorcerer is an endorsement or smth else. haven't seen sorcerer but it's def on my to watch list and has been for a long time. i love the wages of fear (made my ballot for this poll) and have to say love most of friedkin's stuff that i've seen (french connection on my ballot, tladila almost made it too), so i'm pretty sure i'll enjoy sorcerer. actually, u know what, i've just launched a torrent of it, so tonight sorcerer's what i'm watching.

sorcerer sorcerer sorcerer... it's like i'm trying to summon that movie.

unfortunately i think the DVD is pan and scan. boo.

you know what sucks is RONIN

is pan-n-scan on netflix streaming

you have got to be shitting me

I saw Fong Sai Yuk when it came out, but if IIRC it spent too much time developing its silly plot that didn't work very well, so I didn't like it that much, even if it had some awesome fight scenes. Though TBH I can't remember anything about the plot anymore.

Btw, I watched Big Trouble in Little China last night for the first time in 15+ years, and while it was pretty much as good as I remembered, I wonder if I'm the only one who thought the ending was a bit anticlimactic...?

SPOILERS

I mean, the way Lo Pan was killed was cool, it went according to how they planned it (wait until he marries the green-eyed woman, so he turns mortal, then kill him before he kills his bride to gain superpowers), and Jack Burton's knife trick was actually foreshadowed earlier in the movie. But after that the movie still tried to build up momentum, like it hadn't reached its climax yet... So first you have Thunder blowing himself up, which looks funny but makes little sense (if he was so upset over Lo Pan's death he wanted to die himself and take heroes with him, wouldn't there have been a more effective way to do that?). And then you have Lightning attacking the heroes, and you're like, wow, he's clearly the strongest of the three magical warriors, now there's gonna be a climactic kung fu fight. But instead of that he just flashes his lightning bolts, slowly walks towards the heroes but never manages to catch them, and is defeated by dropping a statue to his head! And if that wasn't big enough an anticlimax, the editing and music still try convince you the suspense isn't over, and the final climactic scene is... the good guys driving away in Jack's truck. Seriously?

I mean, I know it's a half-comedy, and rest of the movie is awesome, but I was a bit disappointed that out of the three magical warrior bad guys, only the first one was defeated in an actual fight. Funnily enough I remember liking the ending more when I first saw BTiLC as a kid in the 80s. Back then, seeing Thunder explode in a funny way felt like a good enough climax; kids obviously don't care as much about proper narrative structure as adults too.

missed out on the oscar for that very reason iirc

I'm completely baffled by the praise for Death Proof's car chase. It's one idea (stuntwoman on the hood of the car) drawn out for a seemingly endless amount of time, and it's in the middle of nowhere so it doesn't even offer any off the traditional thrills of a classic chase sequence.

also i was desperate for her to be squashed after that diner scene.

Furious speculation!

Locks: Aliens / Die Hard / Escape From New York / Heat / Inception / Raiders / Robocop / Ronin / Terminator 2 / The Seven Samurai

Pick 5 from: Bad Boys / Children of Men / Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon / Face/Off / The Good, The Bad & The Ugly / Gladiator / Hard Boiled / Independence Day / Lethal Weapon / Men In Black / Taking of Pelham 123 / Top Gun / Transporter / Under Siege

What I think - I have no fucking idea. Children, Crouching, Face/Off, Men in Black and Transporter? Though that's just "these are my favourite five films" of that lot.

no way Inception shows up

Lethal Weapon and CoM way more guaranteed than Inception imo

What is the mysterious quality that bars it from the top 75 action films? It's a lot more comfortable in the genre than nearly anything from the pick 5 list.

it eats farts, for one thing

i was gonna list other reasons but dayotm

I remain... unconvinced.

ok well how abt taking a look at the inception thread where... most of ilx cops to not really caring for it after the hype

i'd advise against opening that thread tbh

it just links to another one

BWONG

Inception was on my ballot, but I wouldn't want it showing up this high on the list.

I liked that movie.

My "action films" I rewatched over the weekend: Die Hard With a Vengeance, Hanna.

wow so i should watch Ronin then? was it a big hit? i'm baffled as to how i missed this when i've seen and loved pretty much every other one of the big 80s/90s films mentioned on the thread. i don't even remember it coming out here.

but makes little sense

Hence the title of this thread.

wow so i should watch Ronin then?

Absolutely!

ronin, the ilx top-5 action movie? ya it's prob worth a go.

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#15

THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY

Sergio Leone
1966
United States/Italy
(423 points, 13 votes)

I once saw a very very early matinee of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (with ice cream and everything) and I have rarely ever been so truly truly happy.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla)

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly may be my all-time favorite movie, the more I think about it.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole)

Leone > EVERYONE ELSE.

― Alex in SF

The title sequence is for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is one of my favorite things ever (the rest of the movie is up there too!).

― Spencer Chow

Sergio Leone!

watched the whole trilogy recently, for a few dollars more is my fav, very elegantly done

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (with ice cream)

great start! The s/track has everything in it (including ice cream truck music)

i like it but i think it goes on a bit..

For a Few Dollas More def the best of the trilogy, but you can't beat the music from this one.