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

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

I LIKE BLADE RUNNER

im sure ppl will say blade runner isnt really an action movie but i dont care, its so good, i mean it should be one of the top 10 romcoms of all time too, you cant put blade runner on a list and tell me not to vote for it

never really think of it as an 'action movie' but wtv lol xp

Dayo what is your problem with Blade Runner?

i can kind of imagine an alternate universe where blade runner is a balls-to-the-wall actioner

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

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, February 20, 2012 11:40 AM (46 seconds ago) Bookmark

please, why would a badass drink a lilywhite drink w/ egg whites

ENBB I love BR! but it shows up in every poll, as max points out

our blade runner is sort of like the sadder version of that movie xxp

in case you guys havent seen it: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/12/blade-runner-sketchbook/

x-post Yeah, if it's that it's not action-y enough then Max otm.

Oh, OK but it should! Well maybe not every poll.

It's a tequila slammer surely? His nickname is Tequila

as a bunch of the comments omar posted point out, blade runner is like the gold standard for "perfect amount of world-building in a sci-fi flick." you learn exactly as much as you need to, and sooooo much more is hinted at in the most perfectly + beautifully oblique ways. which is, you know, exactly where deckard is at!

I love how, for all its scope, Blade Runner is ultimately sort of this compact "one night in the life of Harrison Ford" movie. Granted, it helps that there is no daylight in this movie, but still. Pretty modest in story for all it conveys.

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^ original title, poster treatment

lol

I voted aliens and T2, but I am kind of sad that James Cameron is a dude I voted for. Would like to see Ridley Scott up on the board again for Alien, which is an all time favorite, but aliens is the true action flick and it's balls-out awesome.

i watched termy 1 last night, it is a really badass movie. i so prefer grimy rugged low-budget cams

then i watched certified copy. well-rounded night.

re: Blade Runner. The books are just so much better than the adapations, incl this one which has really good effects and Sean Young going for it.

Hauer's speech is garbage tho'

Yeah, I like my narratives to generate mystery without resolution. BR does this v well. The universe is larger than what we could possibly know. Stories should reflect this.

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#9

LÉON: THE PROFESSIONAL

Luc Besson
1994
United States/France
(510 points, 16 votes)

One of the best movies in the "melancholy assassin" genre, and an amazing performance by Jean Reno.

― Tuomas

Cool story all the way out, then the last 30 minutes, pfft.

― Nichole Graham

What, you mean the fucking incredible action climax!? Increasingly over-the-top action, when well done (the professional, time and tide, the long kiss goodnight) has been the best thing about the movies in the last 40 or so years.

― Dan I.

Syd Mead's proto paintings that are featured in the DVD doc are just your proper actual most-breath-taking-movie-set-design ever. just gorgeous stuff that barely anyone saw for 20 odd years.

I probably need to see Blade Runner again. I've only seen it once, but, aside from the visuals, I was totally underwhelmed. Is there a particular version among the fifteen in circulation that stands out from the pack?

the ilx version

We should have a melancholy assassin poll for the benefit of those who will bemoan that Leon didn't place higher.

that Blade Runner doc is actually kind of heartbreaking as a farewell to practical effects

Leon, hell yeah! It's a great example of how a flick can be both an impressive character study and a thrilling action movie.

ya right leon the professional is better than like 90% of the movies that have already placed

xp yeah the 'Final Cut' is your man. it's basically the Director's Cut from 1992 with extra bits/effects/violence then added and the whole thing tarted up some more. makes the Director's Cut redundant. no voice over though and some people like that (i do too but not THAT much).

We should have a melancholy assassin poll for the benefit of those who will bemoan that Leon didn't place higher.

― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Monday, February 20, 2012 11:53 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

there's a thread for this iirc

If anyone wants to use the fact that I left The French Connection, Blade Runner and Leon off my speculation list to ignore anything I have to say ever again, I'm okay with that.

* extra bits put back in i should say not 'added' (although there is a tiny bit of that too i guess; effects made better etc).

the Final Cut is where it's at, for sure

I love Leon, but ... too high.

Wtf, looks like that for some reason I forgot Seven Samurai from my ballot. That one would've definitely been in my top 10.

Even though Blade Runner ends with an epic action scene, the rest of the movie is so non-actiony I never even considered voting for it. And even that final action scene ends with pacifism triumphant.

Tuomas, I think you will agree that the story of Leon could have been told without action sequences. Plus, the plot was resolved with an orphan planting a houseplant.

kinda agree on the ending of leon not really fitting, tbh

Blade Runner is perfect, and prob even actiony enough (if only just)

Hahaha!

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Tuomas! You're short-changing things again. I don't think of it as an action film, but the film opens with a shooting, has a chase scene and shooting followed by a second shooting, an assault/eye gouging, and then FINALLY that long action end.