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

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.

signed, 'rick roll video' xp

rick roll is not the video in my dn!! >:|

s1ocki i loved it. i had no idea what it was going to be about, not even what kind of movie it was. i had never even heard of it. this is the way to see movies imo

ya i think i saw it with very little foreknowledge, just heard it was really good or something

VIENNA.

As I said somewhere way upthread, the Julianne Moore car chase scene in CoM (no spoilers!) is probably one of my favorite action sequences of all time. It was genuinely thrilling and shocking and logistically impressive.

spoilers: two people, one ping pong ball

no rules.

really don't like com!

lol the whole list is a sham now that blade runner's on it. it's a fucking inaction movie

leon is the shit. my #6. besson's best work - portman's and oldman's too. venus as a boy!

heat's great, nothing new to say about it

i didn't vote for ronin. when i was 13-14 it was one of my favorite movies on the planet, for pretty much the same reasons as everyone else. i rented it from blockbuster and dubbed a copy so i could watch it any time. watched it again recently and couldn't get into it at all. maybe i just saw it too many times. the music during the car chases irritated the shit out of me, and i think it drags on too long with some of the double crosses and shit. i got this vibe from it where i felt like the irl version of deniro's character would be some kind of libertarian blowhard who reads a lot of harry turtledove novels.

still waiting for him to make that gravity flick

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, February 20, 2012 12:29 PM (2 seconds ago) Bookmark

its in post-prod!

I have to go look at the thread to remember why tho

prob biggest downgrade on second viewing I've had in the last 20 years

After the midpoint, IT'S A RIDE

he Julianne Moore car chase scene in CoM (no spoilers!) is probably one of my favorite action sequences of all time

yeah, that motorcycle..

total claustrophobic panic

Car chase on CoM >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> its 'politics' but its been a long time since I've seen it. xp

oh no a ride

yes, films shd be films max

Rides are fun, max. Fun is the mind killer.

Ronin completely ruined Sean Bean for me. Every time I see him now in something, I just think of the loudmouth who pukes after getting into some raspberry jam.

Miffed that Heat ranked as low as it did, it is on my short-list of favorite films of all time, and apparently my #1.

Still holding out hope that The Thin Red Line makes its challopy appearance, but save for three films, my top 10 has been otherwise represented, though I'd say two of them have little chance of making it, and the third I am surprised is apparently going to rank this high.

PS Ugh, Hanna -- I knew there was a flick that I'd been meaning to go see in a theater, except now it's out in DVD already.

A NONSTOP ACTION THRILLRIDE amirite

It just occurred to me: is Saving Private Ryan gonna show up in the top five? The poll results thus far have largely and somewhat oddly eschewed war films, but that one must be a shoe-in for the opening sequence alone, right?

the car door into the motorcyle and resulting crash @ 2:12 is so amazing to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfBSncUspBk

spoiler screengrab

so I rlly am curious how many of you have seen this

http://www.criterion.com/films/370-the-wages-of-fear

(the Friedkin US remake bombed mightily)

the crunch of the motorcyle wheel hitting the hood

Eeeww get that Criterion talk out of this thread.

*raises hand* love Wages of Fear

wages of fear AND the remake have come up quite a few times in this thread already

I have seen and dearly love Wages of Fear. I wish there were more "action" movies like it.

i have seen 'warlock' not the orig. tho

guess i don't get my merit badge!

wages of fear just played at my local arthouse but i missed it :|

i saw wages of fear but it was not enough like a ride for me to enjoy it

wages of fear #8 on my ballot iirc. and yeah as slocki said it's not like it's a movie that's been ignored on this thread.

#1

http://www.joyrides.com/sfmm/photos/batman1.jpg

Man, am0n...I really wish that Children of Men imbed were a link. That's such a huge spoiler for people who haven't seen the movie.

MODS

waaaaaahhh a spoiler

i have seen 'warlock' not the orig. tho

guess i don't get my merit badge!

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Monday, February 20, 2012 12:55 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

its sorcerer mate! not a julian sands movie

The movie has been out for six years, I think we can avoid hand-wringing about spoilers tbh

Yeah, Amon! I don't really care. It's my fault for not having seen it yet but prob best removed in general.

lol I was confused by "Warlock". Don't knock it tho - <3 Julian Sands.