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

Someone post a recap list plz

felt for sure that top gun would have placed. guess ILX has no love for tom cruise. sucks!

it is pretty weird tbh

i feel like top gun and rambo just arent on the ilx radar i guesswwww

uh, i pressed w by accident there sorry

no Lethal Weapon wtf

lol s1ocki did u have a stroke

I don't have any particular love for Top Gun or the Rambo franchise tbh

Lethal Weapon franchise either

ILX's anti-mullet sentiment?

if this doesn't get your blood pumping

http://youtu.be/5HPrIeQFHaw

you're just not an AMERICAN, I guess

Top Gun could still place? I guess chances are slim though.

but

action movie poll

cmon

Lethal Weapon is fun & great

I would've expected 'Minority Report' to place as it made top 100 of the 2000s poll not so long ago, but not going to happen now.

I find not many people like the fourth Die Hard movie as much as I do. It's OTT on so many levels , but in a completely knowing way. The whole thing is a wink at the audience. I guess it turns some people off.

x-posts I thought it did?

75 APOCALYPTO
74 INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM
73 GOLDFINGER
72 VANISHING POINT
71 DIRTY HARRY
69 (TIE) THE HURT LOCKER
69 (TIE) DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE
67 (TIE) CON AIR
67 (TIE) BRANDED TO KILL
66 ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
65 SIN CITY
64 INFERNAL AFFAIRS
62 (TIE) DEMOLITION MAN
62 (TIE) TAKEN
61 MAD MAX
60 JAWS
59 THE FUGITIVE
58 CASINO ROYALE
57 COLLATERAL
56 THE INCREDIBLES
55 ENTER THE DRAGON
53 (TIE) MIAMI VICE
53 (TIE) KUNG FU HUSTLE
52 GET CARTER
51 AKIRA
50 LA FEMME NIKITA
49 DISTRICT 9
48 TOTAL RECALL
47 THE WILD BUNCH
46 THE GREAT ESCAPE
45 COMMANDO
44 THE KILLER
43 THE FIFTH ELEMENT
42 SPEED
41 BULLITT
40 YOJIMBO
39 LE SAMOURAI
38 DAWN OF THE DEAD
37 TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.
36 THE MATRIX
35 INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
34 CRANK
33 THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
32 THE BOURNE IDENTITY
31 THE WARRIORS
30 THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
29 THE BOURNE SUPREMACY
28 ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
27 BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA
26 THE DARK KNIGHT
25 PREDATOR
24 POINT BREAK
23 BATTLE ROYALE
22 THE THING
21 KILL BILL VOL. 1
20 POINT BLANK
19 THE TERMINATOR
17 NORTH BY NORTHWEST
17 STARSHIP TROOPERS
16 THE ROAD WARRIOR
15 THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
14 THE FRENCH CONNECTION
13 THE SEVEN SAMURAI
12 ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
11 HARD BOILED
10 BLADE RUNNER
9 LÉON: THE PROFESSIONAL
8 HEAT
7 RONIN
6 CHILDREN OF MEN

Minority Report sucks

Wait so no Crouching Tiger? /shakes head

I like Minority Report a lot, but I've seen it so many times that it's kind of like wallpaper at this point. :(

no Hero either

Never mind. I was thinking of Collateral.

the first Lethal Weapon is a stone cold classic. i didnt think it would place high, but i did think it would be on the list

"but still a legitimate choice unlike blade runner because at least its viscerally exciting."

I thought LW would place too and said as much the other day. Somehow I doubt it'll be in the top 5 though.

yeah scott that chase is alright. its not great but its alright. the one at the end is mondo boring and drags on way too long though. and thats it, thats all the action in the movie. get outta here with that shit

Considering what we've put together as the likely top 5, it most definitely won't place.

pretty sure I will have a childish tantrum if there's no LW

tantrum = ie stompy little girl in Goonies "I want my bike! I want my bike"

The absence of First Blood is gonna be a bummer.

Nor House of...

FLYING DAGGERS.

The lack of Zhang Ziyi up in this poll is a solemn grievance.

i dunno, i always found blade runner viscerally exciting. even when people weren't doing anything. just the whole vibe is exciting to me.

man, i can't imagine watching one of the lethal weapon movies. the same with top gun. i was thinking of beverly hills cop and it occurred to me that i really don't need to see any eddie murphy movie ever again. unless i had never seen them. then i might watch one. and then never watch it again.

I don't like LW or Top Gun, at all, but I'm surprised they missed the list. I like the first Rambo a lot, but I'm not surprised it's not here.

Almost think '80s action deserves it own poll: LW 1+2 Beverly Hills Cop, Rambo II, etc. Lots of Arnold and Sly and Dolph and JCVD, and Jackie Chan, et al.

If no LW / First Blood: what kinda commie-pinko action poll is this anyway? :)

Give it up, grrl. It's not looking good.

i really don't need to see any eddie murphy movie ever again.

48HRS is pretty good. The rest of his movies I don't feel the need to see again.

Trading Places and Coming to America are ALL TIME, but neither is an action film

Coming to America rules.

do you really feel the need to revisit trading places or coming to america though?

Yeah, typically once a year or so.

Children of Men is a movie about what happens when people find out they really are going to experience the end of humanity, only there's no rapture and no bombs.

xp a million times to the CoM comments

Actually now it's been mentioned, I feel like watching Coming To America again.

I could stand to see Trading Places again - I have never felt that Coming to America had much to offer me.

i would totally watch any marginal bruce willis or arnold or sly movie if it were on t.v. the sight of arsenio and eddie would make me switch the channel really fast.

IMO the worst parts of BLADE RUNNER are the action sequences.

CHILDREN OF MEN is pretty great. it's so visceral. a lot of my students said they could barely finish it they were so upset. i saw it with my mom and she was really upset and mad at me that i made her watch it. (in my defense, i had no idea how visceral it was going to be.)

this is hypothetical. we no longer have cable. just netflix...

it's my own fault for not voting.
*kicks dirt*

Noooo, Scott!!! I mean, I don't own CtA but every couple years or so I'll watch it if I happen to click past it on tv. It's still pretty funny.

Guys, I somehow forgot that Samuel L. Jackson had been in a Die Hard film and watched that one yesterday, and I think we need to revisit this premise and make it more over-the-top

i liked children of men a lot. very good at capturing that panicky feeling i get when i'm having a nightmare while sleeping. being chased. being somewhere unsafe.