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

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.

Anyway, I gotta agree that Fincher's movies shine or stink on the strength of their scripts (which IIRC he doesn't write). For example, Benjamin Button looked gorgeous and was masterfully directed, but the plot was just boring and pointless, so it was not a good movie.

i guess i need to watch ronin again. oddly, I have no memory of it - though I did see it in lolcollege, so there is probably a good reason for that.

fincher's like the nu-ridley scott but i think rids is better, like even the past decade he's made a couple of stone-cold epics that i oft view w/a strong drink in hand followed by a post-screening rumination. kingdom of heaven should have found a place on my ballot (and maybe this poll!)

The fact that Fight Club became this aspirational message movie that supposedly tapped into some huge feeling of disenfranchisement was just a huge facepalm to me. Like, really? THAT movie speaks to you?
And the whole unreliable narrator thing annoys the fuck out of me, at least with this movie.
I'd rather something that's ballsout batshit right-wing crazy aspirational, like Red Dawn, than some made up 'maybe it is real, maybe it isn't' crap. the wishy-washyness really bugged me. the whole thing bugged me.

all of it annoyed me except meatloaf, basically.

end rant.

yeah, fight club seemed crazy dumb to me when it came out. i think sometimes i don't understand movies, though.

I love Fincher, so hating Fight Club should pain me. but it so doesn't.

What's a "metteur en scene"?

― Tuomas, Monday, February 20, 2012 3:28 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It means he's like Michael Mann

you guys are breaking the first rule abt fight club