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

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

― valleys of your mind (mh), Monday, February 20, 2012 2:24 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

irl lols

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.

That's a fair point. All the 90s action films had some angle about them.

baffled to hell by no Lethal Weapon. is it because the sequels/ pisstakes of it have rendered it cartoonish? the original is warm in places and has gags but is also tough and often cold and full of torture and whatnot. it's a fantastic action picture.

I'd like the idea of a Hong Kong comes to Hollywood poll - Rumble in the Bronx / Rush Hour / Lethal Weapon 4 / Romeo Must Die / Double Team / Hard Target.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjhV1DavSRM

I would also like the idea of just sitting down and watching them all with some dhrink and perhaps adult brownies.

we all got tired of actual Mel Gibson

is that it though? has everyone changed their mind on early Mel bc of current douchebag-assholery?

for some reason 80s/90s Gibson films just don't really appeal to me that much anymore! I'd rather take any Mad Max film, or like Payback, than those

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

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 February 2012 19:16 (17 minutes ago) Permalink

voted ^^plus Red Dawn. I stabbed this poll in the face with an American flag.

galipoli 4ever

On a related note, has anyone seen that director's cut of Payback? Apparently it's more two-fisted action and fewer morals

sorry, gallipoli

and the year of living dangerously 4ever. they don't make 'em like that anymore. and obv. mad max/rw 4ever.

Where's an image of Mel impaling a horse with a flag when you need it.

http://handofgod.com.au/attachments/Image/PassionMovie_whipped5.jpg

did anyone vote for braveheart? only the bravest among you...

lol braveheart

after an adult brownie the other night i looked at strongo's new ilx name and thought to myself: jesus is the undead corpse of a dying god.

oh yeah, they are THAT good.

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

I kind of think of Bruce as someone who makes films, some of which are action films, while Arnie is an action star. I think this is largely because most of Bruce's action films are either Die Hard films or commissioned just after the first Die Hard. He doesn't seem to have that "Welp, this is what I do now" period when Arnie was churning out EG Eraser / End of Days / The 6th Day / Collateral Damage.

(Actually looking at Bruce's resume I'm completely wrong about this, it's just that his films (Last Man Standing / Bandits / 16 Blocks) have completely faded from my mind - unlike, unfortunately, the Whole Nine Yards.)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/How_i_spent_my_summer_vacation_poster.jpg

What was the one where Bruce was a boat cop?

i saw 16 blocks in the theater and cant remember a fucking thing about it