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

(Which answers the question: no, it's not)

nonin

i've no idea why i've never seen that. i bet it never came out in the UK maybe. Taschen too.. man.

i've never heard anyone non ILX rave about Ronin much.

I really just like it for the scene where sean bean gets coffee spilled on him

sean 'coffee' bean

actually ronin is kind of interesting because a great deal of the "never-explained" references aren't about made-up space wars, theyre about actual real geopolitical conflicts. its a sort of reverse move -- in blade runner the obliqueness of the references gives the universe weight and heft, but in ronin that same obliqueness kind of abstracts the real world out into these gangs of pseudonymous ex-spooks stealing empty briefcases. what do they call the cold war? "recent troubles"?

if I had voted I woulda added a #1, I'm too lazy to make lists anymore tho

man i would love a coffee table book about the coffee ambush scene in ronin

actually ronin is kind of interesting because a great deal of the "never-explained" references aren't about made-up space wars, theyre about actual real geopolitical conflicts. its a sort of reverse move -- in blade runner the obliqueness of the references gives the universe weight and heft, but in ronin that same obliqueness kind of abstracts the real world out into these gangs of pseudonymous ex-spooks stealing empty briefcases. what do they call the cold war? "recent troubles"?

― max, Monday, February 20, 2012 12:17 PM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is kind of a spy movie thing i feel

cryptic allusions & raised eyebrows

i am such a sucker for oblique never-explained references to events outside movies

― max

yup

man i would love a coffee table book about the coffee ambush scene in ronin

― omar little, Monday, February 20, 2012 12:18 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just tried fruitlessly to find the lego playset somebody made of that scene

I spent some of the movie trying to figure out how Sean Bean would come back, what his angle really was - he's one of the big name stars, surely that wasn't just it?

Pretty okay with both the DeNiros being outside the top 5 - resigned to Inception not showing up - curious as to whether it'll be Children of Men or Lethal Weapon.

i've never heard anyone non ILX rave about Ronin much.

Robert De Niro, action man

6. Iron Eagle

I would totally stab someone for The Good Thief.

Robert De Niro, action man

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, February 20, 2012 12:20 PM (41 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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yeah ilx totally turned me onto the Miami Vice film in the Mann poll, when everyone else still seemed to hate it. since then though a lotta folk have jumped on board and recognised how amazing it is.

RONIN!!!!! :D

That fucking car chase owns me. And I love that this movie holds up to regular rewatching. It's got a really raw, naturalistic, almost 70's quality to it, that so much of it's intensity is just story + character

Man today's list is giving me a sugar rush like a kid at a birthday party.

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yes, watched Miami Vice last night, finally. thx ilx boosters, it was great.

fwiw there is a chance top 5 will have to wail til tomorrow. will let you folks know later~~

#6 shortly...

<3 Omar thank you!!

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#6

CHILDREN OF MEN

Alfonso Cuarón
2006
United Kingdom/United States
(628 points, 20 votes)

"Harrowing" is the best word to describe those action sequences. Plus, I love how arbitrary the series of events are: companions you think are going to help Owen are rubbed off sudddenly, wrenchingly, while characters you assume are peripheral suddenly step in. I also admire how Owen isn't given any cute character tags other than that he once had a kid who died young: he's a smarter-than-average guy suddenly thrust into a situation beyond his control.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn

the long tracking shots are unreal. the action sequences are great because, while they owe a slight debt to Saving Private Ryan, they aren't indulgent; they aren't Michael Bay'd to death.

― don weiner

It has a badass opening (EXPLOSION! GO BOOM!) And all the action is pretty awesome: the ambush in the car, the refugee camp. At one point there is blood on the lens which isn't new but it's still a cool device (for me). The thing that works in it's favor the most is that no one spends any time languishing over the deaths of everyone. It could have been one I-will-always-miss-you scene one after another but instead it opts to distract me with more violence.

― earinfections (Nick Twisp)

i loved this but my audience was TERRIBLE - laughing at any halfway funny or surprising line, APPLAUDING when anything bad happens to anybody in the second half like its some fuckin die hard type action/revenge flick, and one frat-lookin dude started laughing really hard during the long awful shot of clive owen in the building, when dude was running up the stairs, and when his girlfriend gave him a wtf look he said as explanation 'there was chickens'

― and what

'Children of Men', the new Alfonso Cuaron sci-fi flick

terrific movie.

still waiting for him to make that gravity flick

there were so many surprising moments in it, the first time i saw it, that just blew me away

what color is the boathouse at hereford?

how the fuck should i know

lol

children of men is so good. so good!!! SO GOOD

I really need to watch CoM.

would love to see a movie where ronin teamed up with the children of men

The Wages of Fear is totally going in my queue. Diaboliques is pretty wicked.

He has made that gravity flick

he has?

children of men is one of those movies that is legit politically interesting. right wingers freaked out about about the obvious stuff (the hooded 'abu ghraib' prisoner, general visual level of sympathy for people in internment camps) but i feel like there's plenty of easy ways to explain what's going on in this movie from a conservative pov

It's out in November

off to work! will let you know about the top five shortly.

nice.

see, I like CoM, but I was happy just seeing it once. The action sequences are fab but it just never felt like a long-term keeper to me.

com, ronin and blade runner are probably my favorite movies of the 00s, 90s and 80s respectively.

love the no shoes bit in COM. Possibly a nod to Die Hard?

bit late on catching up with today's films but i was busy watching sorcerer (fucking awesome btw). also in my quest to see other movies by directors whose movies how up in ilx's top 15, i watched y tu mama tambien yesterday. it's kind of lol to think this guy is also responsible for CoM which is great too.

i'm sure i've mentioned this before but one day i locked myself out of my flat and my roommates had gone to see a movie so i went to the theater and actually paid for a ticket so that i could go in and get the keys. it had just started. it was called "children of men", and i had never heard of it. i figured well, i paid for the ticket, might as well see it. o_O

did u like it

Cuaron's filmography is kind of all over the place

see, I like CoM, but I was happy just seeing it once. The action sequences are fab but it just never felt like a long-term keeper to me.

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, February 20, 2012 12:33 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

does seem true insofar as once you know the 'gotchas' it doesn't seem as worthwhile to watch

Children of Men is the best new movie I've seen in a decade. Confession: also one of the several movies I didn't vote for that placed today because I knew it would have strong support. I did this so I could promote all-time-awesomest movies I thought had less of a chance.