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

Just saw Sorcerer not long ago. It's pretty great, but makes me wish "Wages of Fear" was in the running. But I guess that's more ... a thriller?

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#13

THE SEVEN SAMURAI

Akira Kurosawa
1954
Japan
(441 points, 12 votes, 1 first place

what does it mean that samurai once filmed as (mythical über-invincible warriors to) pragmatic professionals now filmed as mythical, über-elegant killers?

also, there is definetly a mythology of the samurai sword as well as of bushido.

― cºzen (Cozen)

Caught a screening of Seven Samourai last night. Perfect three hour film, but the NFT had a 5-10 intermission (a screen with a japanese character (which I suppose might have meant 'intermission') and music). The guy who introduced said it wasn't really a break as such.

People talking afterward was all a mix of 'this was great' but also 'three hours'!

― xyzzzz

I think Seven Samurai justifies its 3,5 hour length... Though apparently there are also 3 hour and 2,5 hour shorter cuts of it in existence, but I've only seen the original cut, so I have no idea how well the other versions work. And the intermission (along with the japanese text and intermission music) was part of the original version of the movie, or at least that's how it was introduced when I saw it at a local film archive. I love Seven Samurai, but I still think it was nice to take a break in the middle of such a lengthy film, I'm not sure why movies these days don't have intermissions any more. IMO every movie that lasts more than 3 hours should have one.

― Tuomas

I think Samurai films have trouble with endings because the genre already contains, in The Seven Samurai, probably the best ending ever.

― Andrew Farrell

#13.... what the fuck!!!

^ my first place vote

aw fuck i've checked my ballot and i left FC out, no idea how

Roy Schneider currently has more movies that placed than Bruce Willis or Sly.

scheiderman

i watched 13 assassins over the weekend b/c it was talked about itt -- its really fun and good but a lot of the time i was wishing that i was watching 7 samurai instead

seven samurai has more awesome scenes than you can count. and awesome characters. kurosawa's camera movement in the battle scenes is incredible. its the perfect movie imo

yeah same max

Just popping in to say thanks to Alfred for recommending 'Southern Comfort'. Was p cool, 'Warriors in the Bayou'. Good s/t too.

French Connection 2 ws an excellent sequel -- smacked out Popeye ws the only they could do to beat the car chase on the 1st. Not action tho'.

Loved that Fernando Rey was in it..

Adore SS, but I wouldn't have thought of it as an action film (Yojimbo I can kiiinda see) - all the scenes that come to mind (haven't seen it in ~5 years? Need to re-watch) are either the kind of idyllic dappled sunlight stuff Kurosawa can shoot in his sleep, or Toshiro Mifune chewing scenery, comic or otherwise. So so happy to see him and Takashi Shimura share screen time in this.

13 Assassins is p.great!

13 Assassins is still pretty much, hey, if you like Seven Samurai, here it is again, but newer.

and with 6 more

and with less character development and more boring scenes

and the blood is red, like real life!

i really loved 13 assassins but i mean, SS is just one of the best of all time.

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#12

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK

John Carpenter
1981
United States
(480 points, 16 votes)

John Carpenter totally has the mind of a twelve year old boy, which I intend as a sincere compliment. Remember being that age and making up stories that evolved as you went along?

― Dan I.

Most of Hollywood's best comic book movies were made from original material rather than adapted from actual comic books. Escape From New York is a classic of the genre.

― Aimless

great film! best viewed in a double-feature w/ the warriors.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen)

god i love this movie
and john carpenter
i feel like i have rediscovered something and it's changing my life all over again
and i'm not even a 12-yr-old boy!

― rrrobyn

"Escape From New York" - stupid film, but.... Classic or Dud?

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I guess at this point, every thing that comes up is going to seem too low.

greatest tagline of all time:

1997. New York City is now a maximum security prison. Breaking out is impossible. Breaking in is insane.

:D

The Plissken role made famous by Russell will be re-cast with a yet-to-be named actor. Series creator John Carpenter has a deal with New Line which stipulates that the character "must be called 'Snake'"; "must wear an eye patch"; and "always be a 'bad-ass.'"

lol yess

Ryan Gosling, duh.

get out

shia

should've been top 10, but hey ho didn't vote

fat val kilmer

Don't you mean "bloated"?

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#11

HARD BOILED

John Woo
1992
Hong Kong
(482 points, 13 votes, 3 first place)

Mad Dog is one of the great henchmen of all time (love his scene after the warehouse shootout when he lights a cigarette by leaning into a burning car)

― Elvis Telecom

Hard Boiled, the first scene is unmatched acting wise, amunition wise and otherwise. No comparison. Hands down or hands up.

― Deadman

Hard Boiled, definitely.....the death count was outstanding.....Chow is the dapperest man to ever grace the screen.

― Ramosi

hard-boiled seems a lot less crazy and insane by today's standards

― ﾞ（ﾟ､ ｡ ７ (cankles)

hb is probably too contemplative too, that shit with the origami wouldnt fly in bad bwoyz 2

― ﾞ（ﾟ､ ｡ ７ (cankles)

too low

the hospital shootout in hardboiled is still pretty breathtaking

the breather they have in the elevator is p touching

haha and the 'breather' involves him realizing he just killed a cop ten seconds before iirc.

HB was my #1

I've always preferred the killer, keeps more in line with john woo's schmaltz

civil war stuff in TGTBATU is epic imo, i mean they have to scam their way through a war, both sides of it, to get to this gold. plus it brings out some interesting empathetic moments from each of the three characters.

― omar little, Monday, February 20, 2012 9:54 AM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cosigned

i never found out what that drink he makes is, the one that fizzes at the beginning

whiskey + soda?

that's the way I mix all my drinks btw

my #4 despite feeling weird about not having seen it in forever. i love that they only reload their guns when they have some dialogue to get through. probably woo's most accomplished action film, though you could argue that his best macho melodrama was something else

Ha! Today is all about my pics. Fuck yeah. Seven Samurai was my #2. Should have been my #1. This may be my favorite all time flick, competing with The Passion of Joan of Arc. Snake Plissken may be my all-time favorite action movie character.

just can't believe HB fell outside the top 10

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#10

BLADE RUNNER

Ridley Scott
1982
United States
(498 points, 14 votes)

these effects will ALWAYS hold up -- none of it's CGI, and all CGI still requires a bit of suspension of disbelief -- since this is all done with actual photography, actual light bouncing off of actual objects, it works

still confused by deckerd's roughness w/fembot sean young -- after seeing the doc, this thought: actual hostility?

― Tracer Hand

what a fantastic fuckin movie

― max

harrison ford is really great in this, perfect smirking wiseass

― max

'attack ships on fire off the shoulder of orion' grabs you but the thing is you can actually sort of visualize that... 'c-beams' glittering in the dark near the 'tannhauser gate'--i have no clue what that means and now im sort of sad that roy is going to die cause ill never find out

― max

assuming that the "c-beams/tannhauser gate" line is about war as well as "attack ships", what's great about those lines is that roy elides what he was doing when he saw those things. was he in one of the attack ships? did he shoot them down? were the c-beams shot at him? who won? what are the sides, even?

― goole

this actually points to something i really like about BR, how much of the replicants' back story is this enticing mystery.. you learn such sketchy details about them, what they did, what their obviously complex relationships with each other are...

― s1ocki

"a standard pleasure model"

― goole

I LIKE BLADE RUNNER

― Dr Morbius

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yuck

Hard Boiled my #1 too. Chow is just so incredibly cool, and Tony Lueng is not slouch either

perfect smirking wiseass

The expressions that Deckard pulls when Gaff is arresting him at the noodle bar...

it's just a whiskey and soda? i was imagining some kind of weird egg white concoction