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

late 90s lol

They'll save that for the 6th one, surely. xps

scott, how many times have you seen Mortal Thoughts? Sunset?

you know what movie is insane, although not strictly an action film, is "Romeo Is Bleeding"

sources at FOX Studio's indicated that Patrick Stewart is under strong consideration for the film's main villain

HOLY SHIT

mortal thoughts is great. one of demi's finest moments. i haven't seen it too many times though. would watch it today. i might not watch north today though.

They'll save that for the 6th one, surely.

Hope so, it's too good to waste. Willis be about 60 by the time it comes out so title will fit even more snugly.

yeah i admit i got stoked when i read that re: p stew. i hope they give him some fun shit to do/scenery to chew

would like more bruce like in country bruce and nobody's fool bruce but thats okay.

i still haven't seen Red and there is already a Red 2 coming out.

I'm not going to be an apologist about the movie or whatever, but the promos for Fight Club were pretty great at not letting you know anything about the movie

Actually, out of all the ones that didn't make it, the one that I was most legit surprised about is Independence Day.

I will be an apologist for Fight Club.

Yeah, I kind of suspect there might be a few apologists around!

Damn why wouldn't First Blood be in the top 5, that would be a really surprising result.

I guess that and LH => the sequels are all that ppl remember now?

Forgot about Mel in "Ransom" and "Payback," two OK remakes, one a remake of a movie that placed.

GIVE ME BACK MY SON

I guess perhaps "apologist" is the wrong word. I think it's a good film and I'm a Fincher fan overall, so..

I was nutso for Fight Club when it came out and a few years afterwards, but I tried to watch it recently and got bored.

http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Entertainment/images-8/mel-gibson-the-beaver.jpg

I fucking hate Fight Club.

Payback great for Maria Bello. Speaking of which, would any Cronenberg make the cut as an action film? He's so much more body horror or suspense than action, but A History of Violence definitely has some amazing scenes.

Fight Club == parody of the mindvalley thread

it certainly has some action scenes...

after halfway point its just a ride

i liked seven and panic room. didn't like the game or fight club. did not see zodiac or ben button. alien 3 is my fave of his.

zods is totes a great flick

yeah people like it

i wish Judgement Night was nominated

adventures in babysitting was robbed.

Is The Goonies an action movie?

action/adventure/goonierific

if blade runner fits in here, history of violence should too. that movies is for all time.

so i think if i read it correctly i voted for 29 movies and 12 are on the final list. that's almost half almost. so far.

HoV fits a lot more, and it is awesome as hell.

i lied. 13 have made the final list so far.

history of violence is scary! i liked it a bunch. i'm kinda good with 90% of all cronenberg.

"what is an action movie" is a beautiful wittgensteinian conundrum btw. everybody uses the term but it's difficult to define what it means. if i had to pick a textual definition it'd be a film whose major appeal (to whom? implied by marketing only? actual audiences?) is its scenes of violent destruction and aggressive movement.

i also wonder if what we mean when we talk about "action movies" in the american sense has something to do with technology (cars, guns, etc.) which would rule out a lot of hong kong films which are more about hand-to-hand combat, the supernatural, etc.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language-game)

Fight Club is too gay for you guys

OR IS IT

IT IS.

I wish it was much, much gayer.

fight club is one of those films i'd be inclined to revisit if the nature of its appeal to so many folks didn't seem so dubious. i'd need some distance from it (in the form of time) before i could probably assess it fairly.

TBQF i'm not a big fincher stan anyway. we've been through this before, but although i'm not really sold on the auteur/metteur en scene distinction, i think explaining fincher as a metteur en scene makes a lot of sense. he applies a lot of creativity and craft to scripts which run the gamut from pretty great to pretty bad.

Fight Club just annoys the hell out of me. Needs more gay.

feel the same way about scorsese btw

xpost ha

also true

fight club is dumb. unless you are a stoner college student. then its friggin' brilliant.

What's a "metteur en scene"?

i kinda wanted my money back after i saw The Game. i was conned. i should have called the cops.