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

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.

CoM great for the mycocaine

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I watch LW at least once or twice a year, always watch Beverly Hills Cop & 48 Hrs if they're on tv...haven't seen First Blood in a while tho.

or sly movie if it were on t.v.

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would watch.

:D

CoM great for the mycocaine

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Die Hard, Raiders, Robocop, Aliens, T2

Even if I didn't vote for Raiders (for reasons stated upthread), I'm totally okay with this top 5, the other 4 were in my top 20. It's worth noting that they were all made within a 10 year period. 1982 - 1991 (from Conan to T2) is probably the most "classic" era of modern Hollywood action (and unsurprisingly it roughly coincides with the Reagan/Bush era), when the conventions and cliches of the genre were set in place. T2 could be seen as the last big Hollywood actioner of that era, after that the most successful 90s examples of the genre were either deconstructions (The Last Action Hero) or comedies (True Lies, Bad Boys), until The Matrix reconstructed action from a different point of view.

the most successful 90s examples of the genre were either deconstructions (The Last Action Hero)

whaaaat

You don't think The Last Action Hero is a deconstruction of action movie cliches?!

kinda funny that jean reno will likely have more movies in the top 10 than arnold or bruce

lol like The Last Action Hero wasn't a comedy

I don't think The Last Action Hero is successful.

maybe the question is whether that film was successful!

never mind, beaten to punchline

Somebody used the term "actioner" and made the bile rise, and then it wasn't even an American, and that made the bile go all over my monitor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgrLI5XbgYY

I don't think The Last Action Hero is successful.

Sorry, maybe "successful" was a bad word, what I meant was that after T2 80s style action began to seem passe, and most of the big action movies of the 1990s (i.e. expensive movies made by big studios with big stars) weren't "straight" action in the Commando/Rambo/Die Hard mold anymore.